I did this on purpose my dude, nothing is fucked. This plant didn’t produce male flowers because of stress, it did it because of the silver ions interfering with ethylene production. These plants and their seeds are no more prone to hermaphroditism than any other plant. This is how big-name breeders produce feminized seeds. I got my technique from Ryan Lee, he discusses it on this episode of Shaping Fire: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7wUxTmv23pVgQ6LbDqItg4?si=IWygb7AXSter6Wd8Wbp17g
It always cracks me up how much confusing slang terminology is used with weed growers.
Sex expression in weed is a bit convoluted. It has separate genetically controlled types: Dioecious (separate male and female plants) and Monecious (male and female parts on the same plant).
A plant can genetically be a male, female or a hermaphrodite to varying degrees. Dioecious plants can also have the genes for monecious and express it under stress adding to the confusion.
Silver Thiosulfate (STS) is an ethylene inhibitor that can be used to convert female or hermaphrodite plants to male expression.
There are ethylene promotors like ethephon that can convert male or hermaphrodite plants to female expression as well (with varying degrees of success).
These chemistries are used extensively in seed production of many species.
If you know what you are doing it’s relatively easy to make seeds that are genetically uniform and produce 100% female plants. Using traditional breeding techniques and a decent greenhouse, it would take 2-3 years. I am not sure if the species will respond to double haploid techniques, but that could cut the time down to around 18 months.
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I did this on purpose my dude, nothing is fucked. This plant didn’t produce male flowers because of stress, it did it because of the silver ions interfering with ethylene production. These plants and their seeds are no more prone to hermaphroditism than any other plant. This is how big-name breeders produce feminized seeds. I got my technique from Ryan Lee, he discusses it on this episode of Shaping Fire: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7wUxTmv23pVgQ6LbDqItg4?si=IWygb7AXSter6Wd8Wbp17g
It always cracks me up how much confusing slang terminology is used with weed growers.
Sex expression in weed is a bit convoluted. It has separate genetically controlled types: Dioecious (separate male and female plants) and Monecious (male and female parts on the same plant).
A plant can genetically be a male, female or a hermaphrodite to varying degrees. Dioecious plants can also have the genes for monecious and express it under stress adding to the confusion.
Silver Thiosulfate (STS) is an ethylene inhibitor that can be used to convert female or hermaphrodite plants to male expression.
There are ethylene promotors like ethephon that can convert male or hermaphrodite plants to female expression as well (with varying degrees of success).
These chemistries are used extensively in seed production of many species.
If you know what you are doing it’s relatively easy to make seeds that are genetically uniform and produce 100% female plants. Using traditional breeding techniques and a decent greenhouse, it would take 2-3 years. I am not sure if the species will respond to double haploid techniques, but that could cut the time down to around 18 months.
I didn’t know about ethylene promoters, it makes sense I’d just never heard of it before. What a fascinating plant!