Has anybody feminized seeds using Ethylene from Bananas...?

[Enstromentals]

I believe that percentages become more stable over time. With thousands of seeds you’re going to average close to 50/50. If you can change those results to 80-90% regularly over thousands of seeds it would be pretty conclusive. Nothing is absolute. I kind of think the banana think it’s bunk too, but I’m interested in other people’s thoughts and experiences. I have a buddy that swears by it. He even says if he had purrs ethylene he believes he could get a 90% female rate out of regular seeds.

[MadScientist]

@FeralA9X

What I’m saying is how do we know those 200 seeds were not destined to be male? how can you change a chromosome pair from XY to XX? hey a crazy question if it does actually work, do they still then carry that male chromosome?

Fair point, i was wondering myself.

@Enstromentals

Nothing is absolute. I kind of think the banana think it’s bunk too, but I’m interested in other people’s thoughts and experiences.

That is great to chat about it, maybe no one can prove it but as subject of study it really rocks…

[legalcanada]

reminds me of when i heard the reason men have nipples is because there was a chance they could be female. nipples form before sexual organs or gender is decided. so i like to think a seed is undecided. it may be leaning one way or the other, but i do believe it can be influenced thru environmental or other factors.

interesting theory, never heard of of banana peels producing ethylene. i imagine with a purer source of ethylene you could reverse a male to produce male “female” flowers (buds) much like a female could be reversed to produce female pollen sacs

i thought there was a product used for reversing males… i can’t remember the name now…

edit: it’s dutch master reverse. will stop male flower production. apparently it’s how they make seedless watermelons and stuff.

http://igrowhydro.com/blog/1793/dutch-master-reverse-2/

Dutch Masters Reverse Experiment

edit 2: it doesn’t reverse a male it will just stop a plant from hermie-ing so if you have known hermie genetics and spray this product it will prevent it from producing pollen sacs

[neogitus]

I have some notes somewhere saying Higher N , higher humidity, lower temps, more blue spectrum light and fewer hours of light can influence the rate of females.

Lower levels of N and higher levels of K, lower humidity , higher temps, more red spectrum light with more light can influence more males.

Not hundred percent where I read this but pretty sure it was in “Cannabis Encyclopedia” by Jorge Cervantes.

[Enstromentals]

@neogitus that was the popular opinion in the forums in the early 2000s. I followed that on my first grow. I got 3/4 males though.