Hi,Karma In reality I dont know,out of 50 Jacks I got 26 males.You dont have more males doing this tech ? As to being root restricted ?
I read all night, and there is not a single scientific proof that anything can change the gender of Cannabis which is determined by genetics, but all scientific research says that the gender is determined while the hemp is in the seed and is determined by DNA. So everything is just lottery and luck.Clone ore seedplant are 2 differnt things in this case.
Yes i found that with seeds when all planted in small pots and transplanted late the overall male count went up. Also overwatering.
Also with intersex same thing when rootbound ore restricted before and at sexing stage, gave higher percentage.
No Karma dont worry Im not the smartest or all know how being. I like to hear new opinions and take some critics for my account dont wory im not that kind of guy.You didnt find anything about roots prunning and cutting to reverse plants ? Ore the Hormones in the roots ?
Ore the special thing about cannabis that it can have hormone changes and polinate itself if realy needed. Also without human treatment.
(A natural way of making shure it has a new generation if no males around in the wild)
Well anyway me persenoly prefer to grow that way, as i had better succes al these years.
But thats the great thing about growing, you can do it anyway you persenoly like, dont expiernce my comment as critic on your way.
Nothing but good vibes.
I am so grateful to see a thread like this, honest open discussion, no cockiness, just pure interest in the plant
I like to add to the discussion, which is a long standing one way before this thread. In 1913 John H. Schaffner already looked into the influence of environment on sex expression in hemp, (1*) but yet it still is not fully understood to this day.
Research from the University of Padova (4*) shows how cannabis becomes male or female. It is controlled by specific genes located close together on chromosomes. For a plant to be male, it needs one gene that stops female organs (SuF) and another gene that encourages being male (M). Female plants have two copies of the genes that stop female organs and don't have the M gene for being male. This process normaly leads to a 50/50 ratio of males and females. male and female genes:
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However, they also stated that sex seems also to be affected by regular chromosomes, not just the X and Y ones. These genes, stay active throughout the entire life cycle. This means that environmental factors and chemicals can change sex later in cannabis!
As before mentioned in this thread, stress can cause a plant to pollinate itself, and stress can also induce flowering. Putting a lot of plants close together, or in small pots, or overwatering are all forms of stress which might cause the plants to flower sooner, and thus express sex quicker, but hence also increases the chances self pollination with some early ball sacks on female plants.
Hence, I do believe the roots also play an important role in the expression of sex. This has also been shown in research from MK Chailakhyan (2*). If roots were cut from young plants the percentage of males went up. He also showed that when applying growth regulators to young cannabis plants, they can change the sex (3*), which is another clue on the influence of sex change after germination.
Taking everything in account, I think chatgpt is wrong, and would rather agree with @Karma G 's points. Also not ment as bitching, just love sharing our insights and having this open discussion about it
Mentioned sources:
1. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2469863?seq=1
2. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24414015/
3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24414014/
4. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2020.573299/full#B4
Great example of the more you know, the more you realize you actually don't know.