Help!

[Pacaman]

Any product that contains a class of hormones known as Auxins will help with getting rid of male flowers from a Hermied plant.

 

Biohort Australia (SA based) make a range of products under the brand Budwise which contain this. You spray it onto you plants and foliage during lights out and it kills off the male flowers. You can either buy it as a concentrate (mix yourself) or as an Aerosol.

 

Other than this, you could simply pull the balls off.

 

cheers

 

Paca

 

PS there's nothing wrong with smoking hermie bud, it still gets you off the same as a true female.

[Kungfupurse]

Thanks for all the advice peeps! I had a feeling that I was getting my leg pulled (that's why I came here to ask the experts! )

 

Unfortunately this was the only one of our plants who made it through to budding. Hopefully we'll have better luck next season.

[Uncle Arthur]

I don't know if any of this helps but here goes!!

 

In the cell core of a marijuana plant are 10 couples of chromosomes present. One of these couples will determine if the plant will be a male or a female. When the plant has two X-chromosomes it will be a female and if it has an X and Y-chromosome then it will be a male. The sex of the plant will be determined at the moment of fertilization. On this moment the female chromosomes will link with the chromosomes of the male. If the male chromosome that determines the sex of the plant is an X-chromosome then the plant will be a female and otherwise it will be a male. But the development of the plant is not completely determined by the presence of X and Y-chromosomes. Also outsides circumstances can have an influence on this and because of these external circumstances a female plant can bloom like a male and visa versa.

 

From different sources it appears that the growth of a male or female plant from seed, except for the predisposition in the gender chromosomes, also depends on various environmental factors. The environmental factors that, according to different sources (possibly also anecdotic), influence gender are:

 

- a higher nitrogen concentration will give more females (at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks).

 

- a higher potassium concentration will give more males (at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks).

 

- a higher humidity will give more females (at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks).

 

- - a lower temperature will give more females (at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks).

 

- more blue light will give more females (at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks).

 

- Fewer hours of light will give more females (at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks).

 

- In later stage, as you increase the light, the plants grow faster and show more females/less males. Sixteen hours of light per day seems to be the best combination, beyond this makes little or no appreciable difference in the plant quality.

 

- Another idea is to interrupt the night cycle with about one hour of light. This gives you more females.

 

- Spray dilute Fish Emulsion (1 tablespoon per gallon). When the plants have three sets of true leaves, plus the top sprout, give them a wetting spray of Fish Emulsion. Do it once a day for three or four days. Top and bottom of the leaves.

 

- To achieve 100% female plants is to expose young seedlings for several hours to an atmosphere of Carbon Monoxide. It doesn't hurt the plants, but it could kill you.

 

- Treatment of hempseed with ethylene gas will increase the resulting number of female plants by about 50%. Ethylene is produced by certain plants (i.e., bananas, cucumbers and melons), and these can be used to treat hempseed in a simple manner. About two weeks before you plan to sprout the seeds, place them in a paper bag or envelope and put that in a plastic bag with the peels of a ripening banana or cucumber. Replace the peels after a couple of days, and change the bags to prevent mould.

 

- When hempseed is treated with the female hormone oestrogen, percentage of females that are produced will increase by about 10%. Dissolve a birth control pill in water and soak the seeds overnight in the solution. After the initial soaking, continue to treat the seeds by sprouting them on a paper towel soaked in the solution.

 

 

Ofcource you are dealing with a hermie so maybe none of this aplies !

 

Being the only plant you have start by removing all the male flowers you can find.

 

I have found in the past that with some hermies, if you keep this up for about two weeks, it may give up and just flower female. Hermies can be so unpredictable sometimes tho.

 

There are so many different forms of Hermie.

 

Can't hurt to stick in a couple of bannanas though.

 

Good luck with it.

 

Hope you end up with a decent smoke at the end.

 

Keep us informed.

Edited March 16, 2007 by Uncle Arthur