[Shevek]

Franco or other experienced scientific type growers,

I am curious about trying a flower inducing hormonal spray on a couple Himalaya Gold plants. I prefer this over force flowers due to convienience/

Should I use a gibberellic acid and/or ethylene spray?

If this does work, could one of you lead in me in the correct direction as to where I could order a synthetic or naturally occuring compound?

If not I will have to email one of my plant biology professors.

I will have pictures up in the test grow thread very shortly, I just need to get my hands on a digital camera.

Thank-you,

Shev.

[Capt. Crip]

2 most common methods of inducing male flowers on female plants is to use Gibberelic Acid and Silver Thisulfate(spelling?)
You can also stress females into producing male flowers and one other way is to let a plant flower much longer than the mature stage and many plants will produce a few flowers in desperation to reproduce...Soma uses this method as it uses no chemicals and he is an earth grower...
Hope that helps......................... ........CC

Good info Capt :-) knew about the first 3 methods but not the last one

Always good to learn something new, thanks Capt :-)

Originally Posted by Shevek

Franco or other experienced scientific type growers,

I am curious about trying a flower inducing hormonal spray on a couple Himalaya Gold plants. I prefer this over force flowers due to convienience/

Should I use a gibberellic acid and/or ethylene spray?

If this does work, could one of you lead in me in the correct direction as to where I could order a synthetic or naturally occuring compound?

If not I will have to email one of my plant biology professors.

I will have pictures up in the test grow thread very shortly, I just need to get my hands on a digital camera.

Thank-you,

Shev.

flower inducing? be more specific

do you mean inducing the creation of flowers of the opposite sex or inducing the flowering stage in the plant?

if you question addresses the latter, there are currently no chemicals that can be used to cause cannabis to just start flowering.

[Shevek]

I think there are. We need to do more research.

I am talking about hormonally inducing flowering, like the short photoperiod (12/12) does.

nope: for some reason, no one has figured out what that chemical is yet

[Shevek]

well, maybe we can figure it out.

[franco.gh]

if you do, let me know

;-)

[yammersven]

according to invisible marijuana by Robert bunch, phytochrome is a pigment rather a hormone, inactive p660 (pr) and active p730 (pfr) theyre named by the specific red spectrum that they absorb... this pigment is directly responsible for the flowering in mary,, idk if that helps...