New Grower Feminized seeds

[mojave green]

Has anybody created feminized seeds using collidial silver? I am trying right now by spraying female autos to get them to produce male flowers. Its been a couple weeks of spraying now and the buds are maturing very quickly but no sign of male flowers yet. Anybody with experience out there?

 

[GCase]

Mojave - this sounds intriguing. Needs to be in Breeders forum. Moderator out there can you move for Mojave.

 

[realcarlos]

Hello Moj
There's a couple of people who are giving C.S a go
http://www.autoflower.org/f2/califlower-feminized-seed-run-colloidal-silver-3814.html
http://www.autoflower.org/f8/question-about-pollen-sacs-4746.html
Did you make the generator yourself?
At what age did you start spraying at?
How many times per week/day do you spray?

 

[FullDuplex]

Hey Mojave, i moved this thread here to AF Discussions as it is more geared that way. The other section is for folks to say hello, thanks for the understanding mate.

 

[mojave green]

Here is the scoop on C.S. For feminized seeds....
I created my own c.s. using a generator I bought on amazon for $50 bucks.
I put the generator in 1 gallon of distilled water
I hooked the generator up to a 9 volt battery
I used three batteries 2 days each and reached a ppm of about 40ppm in 6 days
I started spraying when the plants started to flower
I sprayed every day once a day, heavily soaking the flowers.
It was about three weeks of spraying before I saw male flowers starting
Today I have major male flowers growing all over the place and still continueing to spray daily
I will probably stop spraying soon.
It works just make the c.s. strong enough!

 

[mojave green]

Here a pic of male flowers forming.



It might be about 4 weeks of spraying with c.s. to this point.

 

[La Buena Hierba]

and how do you colect the pollen from the Feminized male pollen it open up it zelf ore ?

 

[mojave green]

collecting pollen...

You can wait for the pollen sacs to swell and pluck them off and put them in a baggie to dry. once dry shake the baggie and the sacs should open up and release the pollen.

Or just wait for them to open put a trash bag over the entire plant and cut plant at base and shake the plant in the trash bag, remove the plant and collect the pollen.

 

[kpex]

Going from memory, but I recall you are supposed to start spraying the plant 2-weeks before it goes into flower (one to two times a day), and continue spraying for about 2-weeks more. Then the balls should show.

Spraying after she goes into female flower, might take longer for the hormones to switch gears and revert to male.

Hopefully someone with more experience will chime in.

 

[realcarlos]

I hooked the generator up to a 9 volt battery
I used three batteries 2 days each and reached a ppm of about 40ppm in 6 days

Thanks Mojave. Just trying to clarify. What do you mean by you used three days each? So did you use a battery until it died then put another one and then finally one more and had it going for 48 hours?
Was this the generator you purchased http://www.amazon.com/Atlasnova-Colloidal-Silver-Generator-1/dp/B002MG84ZS

and how do you colect the pollen from the Feminized male pollen it open up it zelf ore ?

LBH apparently some female pollen sacks will open automatically and some wont (so you would have to do them manually)