Silver nitrate was used to produce male flowers with female pollen…
silver nitrate and gibberellic acid seem to be the most popular ways to produce feminized seeds nowadays
i think in the old days breeders would use the pollen from female plants that hermed on themselves , made pollen and seeded itself
this pollen was collected and then used on female plants to make naturally occurring feminized seeds
Making Feminized Seeds Gibberellic Acid Cannabis
Gibberellic acid is also known as Gibberellin A3, GA, and GA3. It is a hormone that typically exists which performs a principal role in the life of the plant. It provokes the
seed’s germination by the plant.
Gibberellins are kinds of hormones that are produced by plants in order to manage the many stages of their growth. Numbers of gibberellins like GA3, 4, 5, and 7 breeds male flowers if they are sprinkled on the female plants prior to the onset of their flowering. Gibberellin’s GA3, in particular, is most frequently accessible commercially and it is seen to be the most efficient.
Cannabis growers are most of the time buying gibberellic acid to be applied to on the plants to promote the production of feminized seed. This hormone is commonly accessible in the form of powder.
Here are some guidelines when applying gibberellic acid:
- The powder is being mixed with water and either put to the root system of the plant or sprinkles it straight to the certain spots of the plant’s growth to make male flowers.
- Gibberellic should be applied carefully.
- The lower amount of dose will lead to lesser male flowers.
- A large volume has an inhibitory impact.
- Gently sprinkle on the top portion of the plant for five straight days and then impose the plants to flower through boosting the continuous dark period to twelve hours per day.
- The sprinkled portion will slightly stretch.
However, during the first two weeks, the first indications of male flowers will occur. They will turn ripe and set to produce pollen within the next two weeks. Commonly, this gibberellic acid is applied over the length of 10 days to stimulate the plant to make flowers which can be utilized to acquire seeds.
Gibberellic acid applied to the female cannabis plant will stimulate the plant to flourish male flowers. The hormone will typically make female
marijuana strains to a hermaphroditic plant which carries both male and female flowers. Male flowers may then pollinate the female flowers on one same plant.
The pollen coming from male flowers may also be gathered to pollinate other flowers on various cannabis plants because, despite the fact that the pollen originated from a male flower, it still has the chromosomes of a female.
