STS vs. CS Side by Side Comparison

i can give you a 2x2 tent, just for this operation…and whatever supplies i can offer to make this work…let me know…i am on board 100000000000000000000000%

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Wonderful jesture @GEMI-CONNECT616, personally I think cloning is the best bet, you can always try CS or STS on them.

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If your as lazy as I am CS will likely not be the best option as it requires daily spraying for two weeks. STS you’ve got to order chemicals and mix them at a specific ratio.
There are products you can buy that you just spray on a plant. Amazon.com
I don’t know how well that stuff works.

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Femming a plant with silver is still a stress hermie. It is just a hormonal stress brought on by chemicals.

If your plant doesn’t herm in normal grow conditions, but herms when you smash it with a brick and subject it varied light cycles, bad food, bad ph etc and bring it as close as possible to death Without killing it, the resulting seed are not going to have the same herm potential as a plant that herms for no reason.

But, I do still think it would be more herm prone than a plant that you couldn’t ever stress enough to herm with the grow conditions under your control, but were able to self it with silver.

I hope that makes sense haha.

Also there is the oldschool/old wives tale/bro science thing with a foliar spray of aspirin. Don’t knowing it works, never tried it, but I remember seeing it come up all the time back in the day. Might be worth looking into, might be bs though…

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OTOH it takes work to figure out whether your plant is only herming because you really stressed it in a serious way, and wasn’t simply prone to herming in the first place. It’s not clear to me OP is looking to put the work into distinguishing between those two things.

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Rodelization takes a long time. But, it will work. I use Silver Thiosulfate(STS) to reverse a female and it will produce pollen and self-pollinate. The seeds that it produces are called self’d(S1) seeds. Some people use colloidal silver. The pollen that it produces is feminized and can also be used to pollinate other plants.
I’ve made my own STS using the @Sebring method. Here’s several links on the topic. You can find other videos and tutorials for the making/application process. :wink:

Best of luck to ya! :slightly_smiling_face:

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I got you.

Get fulvic acid ASAP. It’s not too late at this stage.
And use the maximal dose of it that can handle the plant + the usual nutes. Take care, you need less nutes when using fulvic. It improve drastically the metabolisation, even in super soil.

You have to apply fulvic acid at each watering (for the nutes do it like usual) until it herm (early). You have enough tortured the plant to get a good amount of seeds splitted in all these shoots. When she’s taken, boost her in micros and amino, stop fulvic acid definitively until harvest.

Am i finding it a good idea ? No.

Better to keep a cut and to make a BX with a smart outcross. Specially if she don’t turn herm with this treatment lol

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Light poisoning.

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I’m not 100% but I believe it was Nspecta from CSI on the Potcast who said he will do stress testing on his females and only the plants that don’t react to rodelization he will select from for STS reversal.

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I can say that I’m AMAZED by this stuff.

I have had a half spray bottle of prepared elitexelite on a shelf in my basement for two and a half years. (Not refrigerated, not in a dark closet, just sitting on a shelf.)

I noticed the chemicals inside had propogated out of the solution forming crystals a few weeks ago, but still needed something to reverse a female Cap Junky plant in my flower tent. I gave the bottle a shake and sprayed down a female plant wondering if it would still work.

Two weeks later, more balls than a Limp Bizkit show from '99.

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Thank you everybody for the information dump sucking it all up like a sponge… we are going for the sets route with one of them and the other might try the stress route @everyone

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Hi,

Thanks a lot for this report. Now I know which kind of CS I will use and how.

Once openned I wonder for how long it still keep enough potency.

Now I understand why so many fails in other reports.

I wish that, when someone posted pictures of their succuess they would have tell details such as amount of PPMs , amount of sprays ; their frequence ; how long; …

Cannabicultury yours.

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If sts is applied to only 1 branch, will only that 1 branch throw balls?
I know this is the case with cs.

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This is supposed to be the case.
Though I’ve read reports of it working elsewhere also.

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Good to know…will only hit 1 or 2 plants with the sts, just to be safe. Thanks much.

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If you are just targeting one branch, might I suggest a brush instead of a spray?
I’m pretty sure @LoveDaAutos has done this with great success. :slightly_smiling_face:

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It’s only a 6 pack of seeds, so want to get the most seeds out of them as possible.

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Are you gonna have that branch pollinate that plant?

I wanted to only spray 1 branch of each plant, but let them all pollinate each other…but I don’t want to spray them all and turn them basically all male…lol.

Gonna be jibbered typing going on …I’m pretty medicated…lol

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Hehe, that’s funny. Is it a photoperiod plant?

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