influencing the sex of plants

[KAPOW]

Has any one herd of putting banana peels around the base of a pot plant to ininfluence it to be a female

[Tracybee]

I've read many many strange things on this Forum concerning cannabis.. But that one takes the cake !

I think you'd have to be a bit of a fruit cake to come up with that one

[MongyMan]

Has any one herd of putting banana peels around the base of a pot plant to ininfluence it to be a femail

 

Thers is some science behind this, just not much

 

Bannana peels release ethylene (also called ethene) into the air. Ethylene is a very important hormone involved in controlling cannabis sex. Silver works when reversing the sex of plants by blocking the ethylene pathway. A lack of ethelyne induces male flowers, an abundance of it induces female flowers. Bannana peels dont give off enough ethylene to make this of much practical use to growers in reality though. You can't make male plants female with them....it's possible you could use them to help stop bannanas forming on sex reversing prone female plants. But I doubt it.

 

Mongyman

[Phil Carter]

Wouldn't be doing that in a hurry!

Too much pseudoscience circulates the world.

[KAPOW]

Yeah thought it has no real merit. But my dealer reckons that cause banana's have potasium that the peels would have potasium & u use more potasium when buding. He was so convinced he thru me out in a rage when i tried to show him another opinion from the great 'Jorge Cervantes author of ' Marijuana Horticulture ' talks about an array of factors. higher nitrogen, more blue & white light, lower temps, more humidity & fewer hours of light, to grow more females. He was so mad he even said that female plants don't get seeds. Can't wait to be totally self supplying. Only 3 months away & luck getting the seeds i've ordered. WHOA what an afternoon.

[The Hash Nibbler]

...... Kicked you out cause ya didn't believe his banana peel shit....... ...... classic. Maybe if ya make the plant wear a lil dress it may appear more female...... but like thailand..... thats no gaurentee that its not a bloke.......

Mongys on the money. He knows a female when he see's one. Nibbler

[slysloth420]

Mongy is spot on. The ethylene produced from bananas will also ripen fruit a lot quicker. Put a banana in a bag with an unripe piece of fruit and it will ripen up in no time.

You would need far too many skins to be effective on plants.

[nitram]

Aye bananas are high in potassium - good if your short of PK-13 during fruiting (flowering).

 

The are slow to 'bio-de-grade', smell & BRING THE SMALL BLACK FRUIT FLYS.

 

Nitty.

[loylty gets u nothing]

everytime im with any unsexed seedlings

i say u are gunna be a bitch cause if u grow balls u die..

dunno how influential that is as just today i removed and killd a male

all the ebst

bil