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If you grow weed you MUST read this!!!
    #5404167 - 03/15/06 03:41 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

I have at least 4 too many females to fit in my grow room! This is due to a new germination technique that was passed on to me by a friend. (previous germination rate under same conditions were 80% germination and 30-40% females) -

* First make a 2Ltr solution of water with 1 capful of bleach(5ml) (ordinary household bleach, mine is fragranced. Still works a treat though!)
* Then soak seeds in solution for 4-6 hours.
* Then rinse and soak in fresh water for 5 mins.
* Then add to pot full of medium (i use coco but any well aerated mix works well), and cover seeds with another 1/2" of medium.
* Water with light nutrient mix.
* Cover with cling-film and poke a few small holes for air.
- Thats it!
With this method i got 90% germination and 100% females (out of 16 seeds!)

This is only my first time using this method, but chance's of this being fluke are minimal. The friend who told me this you can easily get at least 80% females and 100% germination.
I should apologize at this stage to all the manufactures of seed feminizinfg hormones! But this info is to good not to share!
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Dr J (no copyright of course! Pass it on!) lol

P.S. - Please post results and exact method used here for comparison. Thx
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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: DrJ]
    #5404207 - 03/15/06 03:47 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

You definitely need some measure of control here.


Perhaps you just got a nice batch of seeds which, astounding but possible, just happened to be all female.

Other than that... I can't see you having done anything special other than sterilize the outer seed coating.


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: Herbus]
    #5404231 - 03/15/06 03:55 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

I was as sceptical as you dude. But these were the results. Friend concerned owns a grow shop so his info shouldn't be taken lightly.
Pots were in far corner of grow room under 24 hr lighting until germintion and two weeks after cycle change to 18hrs.
Day temp 24-27c, night temp 15-18c.
Seeds were Hashberry (ten seeds(7germinated) fropm mandela deeds, holland.
And BB x NL (6 seeds 100% germ.) From nirvana seeds, holland.
Neither was a feminised variety.
I don't know why it works either.
But results speak for themselves.
Surely this is worth investigating?


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: DrJ]
    #5404243 - 03/15/06 03:58 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Definitely worth investigation.

If you can get a seed stock of say, 10 seeds, all the same strain...

You could try this method on 5, and then 5 with another method, such as soaking in water...

Then we'd have some control, regardless I'll test your little technique.


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: Herbus]
    #5404263 - 03/15/06 04:02 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Now you mention it I used other half of BB x NL last time (6 seeds, same conditions) - 3 germinated 1 female.
Admittedley this could still be fluke, but is promising none the less.


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: Herbus]
    #5404269 - 03/15/06 04:03 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

cannabis is so viable i really dont see any need for any other methods than just putting the seeds /if the seeds holds good quality and not bag seeds , unmature seeds and so on) directly in soil and moist it, i have grown cannabis for years and its extremly rare that seeds havent germinated. i will say a 98% germ rate (2 out of 100 seeds wont germinate)


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: shriek]
    #5404284 - 03/15/06 04:07 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

True, but growing indoors, in limited space means i can't afford to take
20 plants to flowering and only then find that only 6 are female.


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: Herbus]
    #5404285 - 03/15/06 04:07 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Where you ever an OGer?


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: NumberThree]
    #5404329 - 03/15/06 04:16 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Not sure what you mean so couldn't say!


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: DrJ]
    #5404338 - 03/15/06 04:18 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

OGer = prev. member of overgrow website


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: DrJ]
    #5404382 - 03/15/06 04:26 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

By the way, these Hashberry seeds i've got are new on the market (hashplant x blueberry). They have been flowering 1.5 weeks now and i'm thinking of posting flower pics every week or so for people who are interested in this breed. They should be ripe in week 8 (12 hours light). (Indoor growers - you can lengthen flowering time by changing to 13 hrs light (takes 10% longer but larger yeild too!) or shorten l0-11 hours for opposite effects.
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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: shriek]
    #5404422 - 03/15/06 04:36 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

sounds like a typical oger to me :smirk:

DrJ what do you mean you can't efford it? isn't that why people clone?
you don't need to do it more then one time for each strain!
unless you're looking for a specific fenotip inside a certine strain... but usualy you'd do just fine with just one seed run (and unless you're really unlucky 4 plants should be enough)
and if you want some more choice you can always plant some more seeds later while already having enough clones for whatever you need!

noobs are always looking for that magic tek...
germination is pretty straight farward... good soil, warm temps, some water and patiance.
yeah you can sterelize the seed befor or prehydrate it... but its not 100% neccery (you can also sterelize the soil if you're that concerned)


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: Simisu]
    #5404447 - 03/15/06 04:41 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: DrJ]
    #5404478 - 03/15/06 04:47 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

I'm very interested in obtaining some genetic stock of Hashplant, or 'Hashberry' seeds or other propagative material.

I'd like to work with 'Hashplant' genetics and several other strains to develop something worthy of being called MHP or "Mendocino Hash Phytoid/Plant."

SWIM, this hippy I know, could supply you with mycelial cultures, salvia cuttings... etc.


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: Simisu]
    #5404523 - 03/15/06 04:55 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

I am still looking for my perfect mother plant. I have kept 1x Big bud x 
northern lights and 1 x Top-44. Both are ok but neither are perfect, so just regenerating them No clones yet, i need the space. (only have 2.7m2) As for the ooger thing i assume that thats the website that closed recently. I wasn't memember this is my first drug forum, as i was previously squating in an old army base in southern holland, for 2 years. We had shit loads of hydro weed but no internet.
Glad to be here though. Nice to be able to chat to people of like mind.
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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: DrJ]
    #5404723 - 03/15/06 05:36 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

I will probably try this just out of curiosity, and lack of anything else to do, however, you must be aware that if ever a thing like this had been suggested at OG, there would have been an immediate down pour of disapproving scientifical facts...


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: NumberThree]
    #5404782 - 03/15/06 05:46 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

The only reason i tried this in the first place was because i respect the guy who told me. But so far so good. The ammonia in the bleach may effect the hormone's in the seed,during prolonged soaking, possibly. Who knows? Worth a try as it certainly doesn't have adverse effect.


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: DrJ]
    #5404850 - 03/15/06 06:00 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

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I have at least 4 too many females to fit in my grow room!




so what you gonna do with them?
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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: DrJ]
    #5404895 - 03/15/06 06:08 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

I hate to break it to you, but if there was amonia in your bleach, you should not be alive.

And I hate to be disagreeable, but as others have pointed out, all you are doing is sterilizing the seed coat, this removed bacteria and fungal spores. Maybe you should set up a controled experement. Maybe do some research.


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: DrJ]
    #5404937 - 03/15/06 06:16 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

There are a number of other ways to create feminized seed. These include using chemicals such as aspirin and hormones such as gibberellic acid. However, it is easier to breed females to females using chemically-induced or stress-induced male flowers that produce pollen on female plants (forced hermaphrodites).

http://cannabisculture.com/articles/3381.html

Here's wat I found with some basic googling


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: mycogirl]
    #5404958 - 03/15/06 06:19 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

lol i didnt even catch that this was a method for feminizing seeds. i seem to miss out on alot today heh im gonna pay more attention to what is beein said in treads. yes listen to mycogirl she is completly correct.


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: mycogirl]
    #5405045 - 03/15/06 06:35 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

I am doing research. This is why i posted this here. Hopefully week can get as much data as possible, if people are prepared to try a few seeds this way. Sometime a chemical similar to ammonia is used buy virus's to weaken gene's/mutate them. I also remember hearing that a simalar process is needed in genetic engineering. These are only guesses.
All im asking is that people who can and are interested help me investigate this.

Anyway, gtg need sleep.
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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: DrJ]
    #5405082 - 03/15/06 06:41 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

No offense, but thats fucking stupid, soaking seeds in bleach water isn't going to do jack shit.


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: ClammyJoe]
    #5405224 - 03/15/06 07:06 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

I understand your sceptisim, but if your not interested never mind. I just think its worth investigeting so people try it if you like and get back to me if you don't want to ignore this. Neither here nor there, just thought it deserved to be mentioned.


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: Herbus]
    #5405350 - 03/15/06 07:29 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

You can get hashplant from sensi seeds and others i think, and hashberry from manadala only. Definate breeding potential due to many crystals, tight buds and high THC levels.
Let me know what you plan crossing it with, maybe big bud?
Or crossed with my BB x NL could prove interesting, x with white strains may give you uber potent weed. Interesting thought dude, i shall try it i think.
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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: ClammyJoe]
    #5405395 - 03/15/06 07:37 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Are you talking about soaking seeds in ammonia or bleach??? You use the words interchangeably, and you referred to bleach containing ammonia, which it does not, or it would kill you.


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: DrJ]
    #5405978 - 03/15/06 09:22 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

It is an intersting idea,worth some trys in a scientific enviroment with a control.

I picked up some 1% Gibb acid the other day after seeing it in that one thread about seed coats.

Im experimenting with it using a few different seeds.Im keeping a log of most of it to post eventually.The seeds I am using are:Areca catechu~Datura stramonium~Psychotria viridis(This is gonna be interesting I think,Im the most excited about this experiment!)~Mimosa hostilis~and Ipomoea violacea

Good luck DrJ,and thanks for the info mycogirl.


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: aNeway2sayHooray]
    #5406047 - 03/15/06 09:38 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

i would think a mild peroxide would work better.
it would be less toxic, sterilize the seedcoat, and inindate the vascular tissues with oxygen to give the germanation an early boost.
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    #5406151 - 03/15/06 09:56 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: aNeway2sayHooray]
    #5406496 - 03/15/06 10:58 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

No problem. Let me know how that GA works for feminization. Maybe post your results sometime.


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: mycogirl]
    #5408472 - 03/16/06 01:35 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Ok, little revision needed here, 1 plant i wasn't sure about is male, but still high rate of females, and i was told to expect around 80% females. I have 15 out of 16. This would still be good as an average. Also some feminising techneques produce heamaphrodite plants and/or cuttings from those plants. So this method would be all the more viable if it produces less haemaphrodies.
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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: DrJ]
    #5408923 - 03/16/06 03:27 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

hes got to be an OG'er, cause Dr. Jay was a big part of OG, and he recently died of cancer or some other related illness. This sounds like someone trying to walk in his footsteps, ha.


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    #5409328 - 03/16/06 05:04 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

No never been an OOger. I walk in my own footsteps and everyone i know has called me Dr jay or Mr Jay for ages.


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: DrJ]
    #5409567 - 03/16/06 05:56 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

hu thats good to know Dr J.

It realy bugged me seeing somone posting with that name, because of what Doomie meantioned.
But seeing as you just happen to be another Dr Jay. Thats preaty cool. OGs Dr Jay is a good man, who did some good things for the comunity.

I personaly dont like you method, and untill you use it for awhile and have good results for along time then id trust it.. Untill then I get 50%+ females and close to 100% germination by simply setting seeds in pasturized soil in a humidity dome.


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: Legoulash]
    #5409596 - 03/16/06 06:02 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

also there is the factor that you can be lucky getting females. i have had seeds where i have had 10 out of 10 females even tho the seeds was not femininzed, my last white widow round was like that. i want to see LOTS of evidence from more than just one person to belive that this is possible. i am extremly sceptical to this method for getting females.


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: shriek]
    #5409670 - 03/16/06 06:18 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

As I said, try it if you like, and I'll certainly post my results here. A few other people have agreed to try controlled experiments with this and I'm sure they'll post too.
I don't claim to be omnipotent, but i have a fair bit of experience and I'm more than happy to share what i know.
At the same time, there's always something new to learn.
A good scientist doesn't set out to prove what he suspects is true, he sets out to find the facts.
By no means is this method proven, but preliminary reports and test are positive.

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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: DrJ]
    #5411899 - 03/17/06 09:06 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Note: A 12hour soak may be more effective, if you try this, let me know how it goes.


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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: shriek]
    #5415109 - 03/18/06 03:12 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Hmmmmm.....the only way to learn is to try I guess but all I do know is Sensi Seeds, Dutch Master, Soma, Serious Seeds all say to never soak in bleach. After 20 years at this I know this much over time

a higher nitrogen concentration will give more females.
a higher potassium concentration will give more males.
a higher humidity will give more females.
a lower temperature will give more females.
more blue light will give more females.
Fewer hours of light will give more females. It is important to start these changes at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks, before reverting to standard conditions.

That advise came from Dutch Passion the leaders of feminized seeds. I've seen it tested many many times and it works pretty well but nothing is fool proof.
Feminised seeds are, by definition, NOT 100% female.
This is because they are created using at least one hermaphrodite parent plant. A hermaphrodite is a plant with both male and female reproductive parts, almost always starting out as a female and, later, growing male parts. Therefore, any seed resulting from the union of a female and a hermaphrodite must inherit the hermaphrodite tendency.
In practice, this means that while most or all plants grown from feminised seeds may appear female once flowering has been induced, they may, at any point in their lives, produce male flowers. If this happens near the end of a harvest, it can ruin an entire crop. With natural seeds, you only have to remove the males at the beginning of the flowering period. With feminised seeds you may have to keep watch for the entire flowering cycle.
Furthermore, since stress is one of the main factors responsible for triggering hermaphrodism, feminised seeds do not make ideal mother-plants. Every time you cut potential clones from a feminised mother, you run the risk of it turning hermaphrodite.

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Re: If you grow weed you MUST read this!!! [Re: Magash]
    #5415123 - 03/18/06 03:21 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

All good man. One last thing to add on this note, plants with at least 6" of space for their tap root are also more likley to be female.


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    #5415126 - 03/18/06 03:23 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Btw... What vairety is that? Looks like a white strain, but maybe some calafornia orange genes in there too?


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    #5415129 - 03/18/06 03:31 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

that doesnt look like a hite strain at all in my opinon, looks like what i grew 3 years ago northern light x jack herer, but it can be anything heh

i mostly grow white strains tho


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    #5415135 - 03/18/06 03:43 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Mmmm...maybe, i'm not convinced though. Northern lights x would explain all those lovley crystals on those buds, still not convinced, please enlighten us, Magash.


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    #5415140 - 03/18/06 03:49 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

yea its difficult to say , i just didnt think it looked like any white strain i have grown but as soon as you start mixing strains it gets incredible difficult to tell, :smile:


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    #5415144 - 03/18/06 03:53 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Check out sensi seed bank, they have good photo's to compare with. I suspect that magash may be showing us more than one strain here. Its the purple leaves on that one photo that threw me.
http://www.sensiseeds.com/ml/shop.asp?MainLev=3&PluNr=2070


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    #5415146 - 03/18/06 04:07 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

yea, i only looked at one picture heh cause im lazy like that

that was a good page,  havent seen that one before,thank,

i never had any strains that has grew purple,, its kinds cool tho :smile:


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    #5415147 - 03/18/06 04:07 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Thats the star! :wink: :grin: Do I get a clone now huh do I do I?!?!? Oh wait, it wasn't a contest.grrrr.  :tongue:


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    #5415157 - 03/18/06 04:20 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

When i regenerated my top-44 plant the first big leaves to come through were purple. They're all green again now. Must be something to do with nutrients or something. Btw have you heard of top-44? It flowers in 44 days! Nice sweet smoke but not that strong. Deffinate breeding pottenial
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    #5415162 - 03/18/06 04:24 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

LOL....If youy were in UK i'd give you all as many cuttings as you like!!! But here.... have an invisible jelly-baby!!!


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    #5415166 - 03/18/06 04:28 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

I think Magash may be dead! We checked the weather and they have severe flash floods there at the moment(hawaii). Possibly he's been washed out to sea!!
Magash? MAGASH!!!! SPEAK TO US!!!! Are you alive?!
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    #5415170 - 03/18/06 04:30 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

well m unsure about this but it may be just genetic. purple is a common color among many plants but i think that if its not in its genetics its probably because of phosphorous deficient , maybe also because of low temperatures can produce something called anthocyanin pigments in the leafs turning them purple, i know this from other plants and its possible it can happen to cannabis as well. but i dont know why some purpleing would be in the genetics.


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    #5415174 - 03/18/06 04:34 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Yea, during flowering plants suck the extra nutrients they need out of their leaves, and as we know they need phosphorous at this stage, so yea thats quite possibly the reason. This may also explain the purpling of my T-44 leaves as they had just come out of flowering.


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    #5415780 - 03/18/06 12:35 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Sorry Dr J I should have mentioned the strains. The purple one is Blockhead from spice of life. There is some lifesaver from BOG seeds and the last is a little cross of Mikado and Sweet Tooth #3 (my baby)


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    #5415998 - 03/18/06 01:53 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

V nice.
Not strains that are very common over here. Most people like they're Northern lights, Big Bud, White strains (esp. WW), and Blueberry. Nice to know what you US guys are up to though. Very organised and neat grow room.
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    #5416265 - 03/18/06 03:32 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

The strains I'm using arn't all that used here either. Just that the strains you have mentioned I've been threw already is all. He he he...the funny thing is I order my seeds from a place in Essex, your neck of the woods.

I've done DJ Shorts Blueberry and his True Blueberry but am bringing in dutch Passions version of it, which is just DJ first version of it.
Also bringing in

Maple Leaf Indica
Skunk #1
Afghan #1
Sensi Skunk
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Lavender
Biggie Small
AK-47

I have some crosses I plan to do. One is AK47 crossed with maple Leaf Indica. Find a good male and then cross with a Lavender x Blueberry female and then back cross it into the Blueberry again.
That should be very berry tasting with a nice touch of sweetness and good color  with a good punch in the face and turn out the lights high .  :wink:


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    #5419624 - 03/19/06 05:51 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

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I have at least 4 too many females to fit in my grow room! This is due to a new germination technique that was passed on to me by a friend. (previous germination rate under same conditions were 80% germination and 30-40% females) -

* First make a 2Ltr solution of water with 1 capful of bleach(5ml) (ordinary household bleach, mine is fragranced. Still works a treat though!)
* Then soak seeds in solution for 4-6 hours.
* Then rinse and soak in fresh water for 5 mins.
* Then add to pot full of medium (i use coco but any well aerated mix works well), and cover seeds with another 1/2" of medium.
* Water with light nutrient mix.
* Cover with cling-film and poke a few small holes for air.
- Thats it!
With this method i got 90% germination and 100% females (out of 16 seeds!)

This is only my first time using this method, but chance's of this being fluke are minimal. The friend who told me this you can easily get at least 80% females and 100% germination.
I should apologize at this stage to all the manufactures of seed feminizinfg hormones! But this info is to good not to share!
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P.S. - Please post results and exact method used here for comparison. Thx
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is there any webpages that discuss this method any further? Or is your friend the inventor of this tek?


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    #5420007 - 03/19/06 07:27 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

I'm not sure, but he own's a hydro grow shop here. He's knows a few people who use this tek but as for whether he or they invented it or if they got it somewhere else i don't know. I need some bloom booster fertilzer, so I'll ask him next time i see him.
I'll google it if i can be asked and post any stuff i find about it.
But as I said in my free seeds post, i just got 10 free seeds so i shall post my m/f results from these as extra data.


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    #5420376 - 03/19/06 09:08 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

yeah i would like to see more in depth discussion on this method.

mycogirl pointed it out but there is not ammonia in your bleach solution, ammonia + bleach makes a dangeros chlorine gas called mustard gas (used as weapon in WW1&2)

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    #5420413 - 03/19/06 09:17 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

lol...I should of known that. (kicks himself)


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