Anne_Fetamine
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My last attempt to grow a Lowryder #2 went great considering it was my first real grow. But it turned out to be male. Sadly I had to kill it yesterday as the balls were becoming more abundant every day. I had no clue you could influence the sex of your plant in the first 3 weeks of growth or even before germination & did almost everything wrong. Lesson learned.
I have two more unsexed seeds that I'm now desperately trying to push towards the female side of the spectrum. So with nothing to lose, I'm trying the "ripe banana" method. I've put a bunch of green bananas in a plastic bag (unsealed) with my two seeds where they can soak up all the ethylene. All of this is in a closed drawer in my room.
I don't eat fruit so I don't know anything about how bananas work, so please chime in if I'm ripening them wrong. Maybe I should crack the drawer or something? I know to check them regularly to avoid mold & other probs. My mom wants them back when they're ripe, lol.
Anyway, I'll definitely report back with the results. I plan to try all the other things that promote females, such as higher humidity, no heat stress & lots of blue light, so we'll never know which of those things affected the plants...if any. This certainly isn't meant as a "study" or anything scientific, lol. I just can't find much online about people who tried this & had luck with it. It seems kinda, uh, crazy. But harmless crazy.
And yes, next time I'll just buy feminized seeds.
I have two more unsexed seeds that I'm now desperately trying to push towards the female side of the spectrum. So with nothing to lose, I'm trying the "ripe banana" method. I've put a bunch of green bananas in a plastic bag (unsealed) with my two seeds where they can soak up all the ethylene. All of this is in a closed drawer in my room.
I don't eat fruit so I don't know anything about how bananas work, so please chime in if I'm ripening them wrong. Maybe I should crack the drawer or something? I know to check them regularly to avoid mold & other probs. My mom wants them back when they're ripe, lol.
Anyway, I'll definitely report back with the results. I plan to try all the other things that promote females, such as higher humidity, no heat stress & lots of blue light, so we'll never know which of those things affected the plants...if any. This certainly isn't meant as a "study" or anything scientific, lol. I just can't find much online about people who tried this & had luck with it. It seems kinda, uh, crazy. But harmless crazy.
And yes, next time I'll just buy feminized seeds.