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MAKING FEMINIZED PLANTS
ľm from Argentina and a newbie to growing cannabis. I’ve had two harvests so far: One was Paraguaya—the local compacted (not flower-style) marijuana—and the other was Super Skunk from Sensi Seeds. (My friend in Madrid sent me the seeds.) I bought your bible, and now I’m in lhe process of learning jeje. My question is this: Where can I find Stamen-It! hormone spray or a similar one to buy on the Internet? I want to try to develop some feminized seeds from an El Niño lhat a friend gave me.
Abram, Pablo H. Argenlina
Dear Pablo,
Feminized seeds have certainly swept the Euro-pean market during the last three years: Now more than 80% of all seed sold in Europe is feminized. These days, everybody is either making feminized seeds or wants to know how to make them!
You can chemically induce female plants to form male flowers with the application of prod-ucts such as eliteXelite (or gibberellic acid, which is dangerous and quite unpopular] or silver thiosulfate solution (STS), from chemicals used in photography. But your best bet is Stamen-It!, which induces male flowers. You can purchase it via this email address: plantaegenomiclalive.co.uk. Or you could go to cannabis.community.forums.ozstoners.com and search on the term „eliteXelite“: There you’ll find exact instructions on how to make STS, which is then applied to plants to induce sex reversal from female to male, and to create male pollen-bearing flowers on female plants. In general, preflowering female cannabis plants are sprayed with diluted STS and then induced to flower with the 12/12-hour day/night light schedule. Pollen-bearing male flowers can be harvested in 35 to 40 days with most strains.
If you don’t want to use chemicals and have a degree of patience, you can also practice master grower and breeder Soma’s “ Rodeliza-tion“ method. You will find the instructions at boards.cannabis.com/grow-faqs/34027somas-version-making-feminized-seeds.html.
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