Can CS induce Female flowers on a Male plant?

[googolsack]

Hello all, i have a new question.............

Can you spray CS onto a male plant and induce female flowers?

I just thought this could be handy if you only have a male of a certain strain, so that you could get new seeds of the same strain.
If so would the be all male, all female or mixed sex?
Thanks

 

[BlueGrassToker]

CS works by inhibiting the reception of ethylene in the plant. It does this by physically blocking pathways with silver. If ethylene is blocked, it entices the plant to put out male flowers. Ethylene is essential to the production of female flowers.
So the answer is no, CS will not induce female flowers.
I saw a thread that concerns enticing males to produce female flowers....you should probably find that one and read it.

 

[hippydan]

If you got a male plant to produce female flowers, all the seeds would be male. There's no easy way to change the genetics of the plant.

 

[Chimera]

If you got a male plant to produce female flowers, all the seeds would be male. There's no easy way to change the genetics of the plant.

hippyan is completely incorrect, you can absolutely get female plants from selfing males... male selfs simply do not produce only XY genotypes.

Males are genetically XY.

A simple and basic Punnett square reveals 3 distinct genotypes that can appear from an XY self cross:

XX, XY and YY.

As you can see both males (XY) and females (XX) result from the fertilization of phenotypically female flowers on a genetically male plant, by pollen derived from a male plant.

Due to the private nature of the ongoing research I`m not going to expand upon the YY plants, so don`t expect and answer if you ask about them.

You need to experiment with 2-chlorethanephosphonic acid.(sold as ethephon or florel in the US) to produce pistillate (female) flowers on male plants... the effect is not as long lasting as STS, so consider you`ll have to determine the application regimen to keep up the production of female flowers on your genotype.

There was a journal article written in 1970 by Mohan Ram that showed a dosage regimen you might want to look into if you have apprehensions with testing various concentrations yourself.

-Chimera

 

[googolsack]

Thanks for the replies, i will have a look for the thread you mention BGT.

Also, i thought that it sounded wrong that a male that grows female flowers will produce 'all male' seeds, as i have asked this before..... I had a male plant that was moved around a lot and had a lot of stress and it started to grow pistils, and pollinated itself.

 

[exploziv]

here you go bro:

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=99597