Using colchicine,,,from the Colchicum lilac wonder,(the alkaloids),,reversed sex too,quicker than sts,,,but it is known to be toxic....i won't smoke the buds,but when i tried to use it for tetraploid results,treating seeds or plants,i realized it reversed sex much faster than sts with less stress...it also boost the plant metabolism and much better than the ga3 (which i never used cause it is real bad and elongate plants etc..) ,no stretch at all,,,leaves becoming bigger,darker,with much more water intake...
i never used it for commercial seeds...for sure.
(i mixed a colchicum bulb with the same volume of water,pressed it and spray it the best I could,not so liquid...,,) maybe 5-10 sprays over a 10 days period.Male flowers then start coming quick...maybe 1-2 week faster than sts,where the minimum is like 20-25 days...to get results...maybe 15 days were enough with the Colchicine.
I guess it provides the same kind of "emergency pollen" use to make fem seeds with sts.
I treated seeds directly and results were bad...will test the seeds i made soon and will keep you update but I have doubts,even if a plant become tetraploid which was probably the case due to the fact the plants were pumping 2-3 times more water ,may not affect potency at all? on direct treated plant...at least.
but who knows on the seeds they produced..? will let you know when i test them.
Plants treated this way were not stronger,,,,the progeny seeds,I have not tested them yet so well,,when i did for a few,i got bad germination results which is a good thing indeed, (it was done by spraying some plants ,maybe 10 times with a spray of colchicine after they were pollinated with some sts pollen) what i am trying to say is the colchicine may provide the exact same pollen as sts,,,and it may work to make fem seeds...(sorry it is pretty long,i don't want discourage the use of colchicine by saying i got poor germ rate,cause the way i tried,was hard....spraying a plant that make seeds can be very armfull instead of using pollen made by spraying a neighboor plant...)
now using colchicine pollen and pollinating another plant won't make me think for sure the seed will be tetraploid so i did it differently.
I just sprayed 2 plants that were sts pollinated with colchicine to make some fem seeds tetraploids....
if on 200 seeds only a few are making it there is some chances the tetraploid gene passed on and that only the progeny will have more potency maybe? but not the plant directed treated...or a plant can just become tetraploid without more potency...
i am convinced that simply using colchicine to make pollen and polinated a neighboor plant will give birth to female seed with a very good germination rates....(not specially tetra seeds,this way)
roots stress can help too,,,as topping etc....to produce sex reversal,and acid ph (3-4) for 10 days or more
Auxins,ga3,cytokinins,reversed sex,,,it is often found inside all those boosters products....
my personal thoughts is that what some people call pure female are plants that under indoor or outdoor condition even with natural stress will not produce any reversal flowers,
but with a sts applications or other reversal applications these plants will produce male bags,,,
i think the herma genes are latent and plants have a different ceiling to be trigger.And all plants can reverse sex and they do it to survive,,I don't think a plant that will never produce male bags under sts or other applications will be able to grow cause i think all plants can reverse.
while using sts i never found one plant resisting it,,some are harder to trigger but after 40 days and a few applications they do produce male bags...
with all respects to the pioneers etc...the prove will be to try to trigger with a sex reversal application what you guys call your pure female...and see the results...
i am convinced these plants will never show a hermaphrodite tendency under natural condition...but probably not, using a sex reversal applications.
what ever the herma genes or male genes are latent or produced or reversed the last minute during heavy stress,you name it! but I think all plants can be reversed.more or less easily ,with different ceilings but all plants,through reversal applications.
i never used it for commercial seeds...for sure.
(i mixed a colchicum bulb with the same volume of water,pressed it and spray it the best I could,not so liquid...,,) maybe 5-10 sprays over a 10 days period.Male flowers then start coming quick...maybe 1-2 week faster than sts,where the minimum is like 20-25 days...to get results...maybe 15 days were enough with the Colchicine.
I guess it provides the same kind of "emergency pollen" use to make fem seeds with sts.
I treated seeds directly and results were bad...will test the seeds i made soon and will keep you update but I have doubts,even if a plant become tetraploid which was probably the case due to the fact the plants were pumping 2-3 times more water ,may not affect potency at all? on direct treated plant...at least.
but who knows on the seeds they produced..? will let you know when i test them.
Plants treated this way were not stronger,,,,the progeny seeds,I have not tested them yet so well,,when i did for a few,i got bad germination results which is a good thing indeed, (it was done by spraying some plants ,maybe 10 times with a spray of colchicine after they were pollinated with some sts pollen) what i am trying to say is the colchicine may provide the exact same pollen as sts,,,and it may work to make fem seeds...(sorry it is pretty long,i don't want discourage the use of colchicine by saying i got poor germ rate,cause the way i tried,was hard....spraying a plant that make seeds can be very armfull instead of using pollen made by spraying a neighboor plant...)
now using colchicine pollen and pollinating another plant won't make me think for sure the seed will be tetraploid so i did it differently.
I just sprayed 2 plants that were sts pollinated with colchicine to make some fem seeds tetraploids....
if on 200 seeds only a few are making it there is some chances the tetraploid gene passed on and that only the progeny will have more potency maybe? but not the plant directed treated...or a plant can just become tetraploid without more potency...
i am convinced that simply using colchicine to make pollen and polinated a neighboor plant will give birth to female seed with a very good germination rates....(not specially tetra seeds,this way)
roots stress can help too,,,as topping etc....to produce sex reversal,and acid ph (3-4) for 10 days or more
Auxins,ga3,cytokinins,reversed sex,,,it is often found inside all those boosters products....
my personal thoughts is that what some people call pure female are plants that under indoor or outdoor condition even with natural stress will not produce any reversal flowers,
but with a sts applications or other reversal applications these plants will produce male bags,,,
i think the herma genes are latent and plants have a different ceiling to be trigger.And all plants can reverse sex and they do it to survive,,I don't think a plant that will never produce male bags under sts or other applications will be able to grow cause i think all plants can reverse.
while using sts i never found one plant resisting it,,some are harder to trigger but after 40 days and a few applications they do produce male bags...
with all respects to the pioneers etc...the prove will be to try to trigger with a sex reversal application what you guys call your pure female...and see the results...
i am convinced these plants will never show a hermaphrodite tendency under natural condition...but probably not, using a sex reversal applications.
what ever the herma genes or male genes are latent or produced or reversed the last minute during heavy stress,you name it! but I think all plants can be reversed.more or less easily ,with different ceilings but all plants,through reversal applications.
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