[Julian]

So what's the general consensus regarding schedule of treatment of AF's....

great stuff guys .. i like all the info!!! .. this is what this forum is all about .. education. yay

[budrunners]

Nice thread, great information.
Do you have to spray the whole plant with CS to induce pollen sacs or can you do a branch and still get pollen sacs ?

[WyattHerbShiva]

hopping in on the props here.

Very interesting thread - and very easy to do obviously,
with all the needed info in it.

I´d love to see a documentation of how u use the
CS u made on the plant and come up with female seeds
and then see them flower

...have never bothered with making female seed, as
i like to have males around...., but hey... if i had the spray....

thx.

cheers, Wyatt.

I will be trying this method this April. I will do a full thread with all my info I find out. I got a few plants I would like to female and what better way. Then to test them with this method.

One thing I didn't see or I missed. What was the spray method? How often do you spray the plant and how much?

Great thread,
BG

[PhenoMenal]

Mission accomplished. I now have some home-made feminised Cinderella 99 x Cinderella 99 beans .... plenty of them, and virtually free. :smile:

Again though can I just stress to anyone who makes their own colloidal silver to buy a PPM meter - theyre relatively inexpensive and can be found on ebay amongst other places. If the PPM isnt high enough then it won't be enough to reverse the sex of your target female plant

So that successfully concludes my colloidal silver experiment.

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My next experiment? Using light poisoning. The obvious advantage with that over colloidal silver is that there's no need to use any chemicals or make anything such as colloidal silver (not that that requires much effort!), in fact it requires no equipment at all, but the disadvantage is that each day instead of just spraying the plant you have to physically extract the plant from its grow chamber, expose it to light for a couple hours then physically put it back. It's a little bit more work, but doesn't require any chemicals or any other equipment.

Thanks to everyone who's helped to contribute to this thread, i see it has been viewed nearly eight thousand times now lol

The experiment journey continues .... :smile:

[NPK]

Awesome, Pheno, congrats! I've been wondering about your results--glad it worked out.

I made a silver generator based on the instructions here. When I made my first batch of colloidal silver, my PPM was the same as before I dunked in the silver--only 10 PPM, despite ample silverplating on the side of my Pyrex bowl and many visible chunks of silver floating throughout the solution. I ran less than a pint of distilled water for oh, around ten hours? I used a 9-volt, 850 mA adapter with two .999 pure silver bars.

I'm planning on doing all-female C99, too--growing the seedlings for it even now. Ditto Mummia.

[PhenoMenal]

NPK best of luck! :smile:
but you dont need to use much water at all and its best to make CS in small batches. There are other variables as well such as how much power youre supplying (you can use a lot more than i did), how far apart the silver electrodes are, etc - i notice they seem to be quite far apart in your picture, but im pretty sure youll get better results the closer they are - but without touching obviously, but ultimately all you can do is control how fast the reaction happens, which is why a PPM meter is the only thing that can tell you how far along its progressing.

One other thing ... when you stress a plant with CS its just like a boxer losing a fight - he'll be mostly ok in a couple weeks but for that period he won't be very healthy, its like giving them a kick in the guts. So i'd recommend vegging a plant for at least 3 weeks so as to give it a good start before exposing it to any CS.

[ninfan77]

How much water should you use?

So 1/2 oz coin will be used in how much water?

How long is the solution good for, shelf life?

so, 10ppm of silver is good?

Originally Posted by ninfan77

How much water should you use?

So 1/2 oz coin will be used in how much water?

How long is the solution good for, shelf life?

so, 10ppm of silver is good?

I was just wondering the same thing in regards to shelf life. How long is it good for? I made a CS generator back in August of this year and used it on my White Widow female. It worked very nicely reversing just the branch that the solution was applied to. I still have about a quart of the solution left. Pic's of my CS gen. are in my gallery. I ended up drilling and soldering my coin's. Good job on this PhenoMenal.