Ethylene priming

[EastCoastGambit]

Accidental Discovery: How a Whiff of an Unusual Chemical Transforms Seedlings Into Super Plants

Researchers have found that treating seeds with ethylene gas increases both their growth and stress tolerance. This discovery, involving enhanced photosynthesis and carbohydrate production in plants, offers a potential breakthrough in improving crop yields and resilience against environmental stress

scitechdaily.com

Found this interesting and figured I would share.

 

[BOMBAYCAT]

Very interesting. When Bananas ripen they give off ethylene gas but I don't know how much is there. This outdoors grow I am going to store the seeds in the plastic bag of Bananas for a while and see if it happens. Maybe I will put half the seeds with the bananas and half store as usual for a bit of a test. I wonder if it will really work?

 

[ChemDogLover]

 

[ChemDogLover]

Very interesting. When Bananas ripen they give off ethylene gas but I don't know how much is there. This outdoors grow I am going to store the seeds in the plastic bag of Bananas for a while and see if it happens. Maybe I will put half the seeds with the bananas and half store as usual for a bit of a test. I wonder if it will really work?

Please let us know how it goes. According to the article seeds were just briefly exposed to ethylene gas, but that resulted in much more
Vigorous growth.

 

[Tomatoesonly]

There's a liquid that was made called "sensa spray". I can't seem to find anyone carrying it now.
It is advertised as an ethylene gas provider for vegetable people. I've got some, but I've never really used it in any capacity.
Sounds like it's time to do some experiments.

 

[ChemDogLover]

Very interesting. When Bananas ripen they give off ethylene gas but I don't know how much is there. This outdoors grow I am going to store the seeds in the plastic bag of Bananas for a while and see if it happens. Maybe I will put half the seeds with the bananas and half store as usual for a bit of a test. I wonder if it will really work?

Check this out…

How to get Female's all the time???

do you wet the paper towel or do you just leave it in the dry paper towel in the sandwich bag? ] you wet the paper towl to keep it damp get like a spray bottle, with water.. have the paper towl, put a few sprays in it.. then put seed in it.. then fold it over and spray the top. then put it...

www.rollitup.org

materials:

fresh banana peels(the fresher dey r the more you can keep in em in the container)

air tight container(i use cannaing jars,some use ziplock bags,i reccomned the jars since theyr truly airtight

seeds( any good viable seeds,ive tested it on 30 mexican brick seeds,and it worked!!)

paper towel,napkin,or toilet paper





1.wrap seeds in a small ball of paper,leave a slight opening so they can abosrb the eythlene better

2.wrap the banana peels with the paper ,and place into the jar FIRST

3.place seeds on top of the banan method,just make sure to check for moisture on the seeds paper...they cant have any mositure...

4.close lid very tight,and leave in a dark,room temp place.....open the lid every day around the same time,to realse the stagnant air...the seeds can rot...

do this for 1-2 weeks..the long the more ethyelen they abosrb..no more than 3 weeks.....



germ,grow,and ENJOY

 

[Wolverine97]

Check this out…

How to get Female's all the time???

do you wet the paper towel or do you just leave it in the dry paper towel in the sandwich bag? ] you wet the paper towl to keep it damp get like a spray bottle, with water.. have the paper towl, put a few sprays in it.. then put seed in it.. then fold it over and spray the top. then put it...

www.rollitup.org

I'd try it during germination myself. Seems it would be more effective then.

 

[ChemDogLover]

I'd try it during germination myself. Seems it would be more effective then.

Did your plants seem More vigorous?

 

[mexweed]

This makes me wonder, one time I did the wet paper towel into a tupperware in the kitchen and I always have bananas on the counter or peels in the nearby garbage, I accidentally fell asleep when I meant to check on them and had a bunch of school work to do the next day so they ended up in there about a day and a half longer than I intended, when I got to checking them they had monster tap roots like 3-4 inches like you see on some of the seed company sites, only time I've ever had that happen

 

[So Hai]

Apples could be another option perhaps, or if you could saturate water with ethylene somehow like you would carbonating…

 

[Wolverine97]

Did your plants seem More vigorous?

I really couldn't say for sure, I've only played around with it once, years ago. Might try it again sometime, but I usually want an even male/female ratio so I haven't seen the value on my end.

 

[LndRcLvr]

Ethylene gas has been used for years to quickly ripen apples and other fruit ready for market. It increases the metabolic rate of whatever it is exposed to (even seeds). it would be interesting to stick a big bag of old bananas in a grow room - Just watch out for False Widow Spiders! they originally hitched a ride to the UK in bananas and now they are widespread in the UK. My whole house is covered in them, and some of them are properly chunky ( they seem to prefer to be outdoors tho' fortunately)

 

[Poptart Smoothie]

there is a product called Optic foliar switch. It's an ethylene foliar spray meant to reverse or prevent hermies. Sometimes its 30$ on amazon, sometimes 300 lol. I have never tried the stuff but I figured I'd share for people curious.

 

[Kaliherer]

Il existe un produit appelé Optic foliar switch. C'est un spray foliaire à base d'éthylène destiné à inverser ou à prévenir les hernies. Parfois, il coûte 30 $ sur Amazon, parfois 300 $ mdr. Je n'ai jamais essayé ce produit, mais j'ai pensé que je le partagerais pour les personnes curieuses.

Bonjour, je l'utilise actuellement pour faire des tests sur Fanta Sea (Ethos) et Tropimango (graine Philosopher)...une plante de chaque a produit 2 à 3 "bananes" la 2ème semaine de floraison, je les ai légèrement pulvérisées. ..on verra si ça marche, je suis un peu sceptique...

 

[Nannymouse]

Back in the olden days, for a brief amount of time, some folks had different terms than we have today.

Feminized seed was reg seed that was put into a paper bag with ripened bananas, which was said to push the female ratio to about 70%, rather than the usual 50%.

Female seed was when different females were crossed with each other.

Selfed seed, same as today, a form of Female seed.

It didn't take long for most of those terms to change, and people forgot the banana method.

Now, they are willing to pay three hundred bux instead of trying a couple of bananas, first. Kids, these days.

 

[Wolverine97]

Yeah, I still do the banana thing sometimes. But then sometimes I want more males, so I only do it here and there. I usually leave the banana in there while the seeds germinate, not sure how much ethylene penetrates the seed husk. so I always leave them together until I get true leaves. Usually I have to swap out the banana for a fresher one at some point.