Since this thread was so long I didn't read all 30+ pages, but I kind of have an idea about the problem with the hermies. Sorry if this is a repeat of an idea, but I thought I would throw it out there.
Now in the human genetics, whatever hormones your introduced to early on will cause you to become one sex or the other. So being a male your testosterone dominant, and a female being estrogen and progesterone dominant. The point I'm trying to make is, maybe you have plants that are male dominant, and are pretty much forcing them to become female. I know early on in the thread there was a link to a full article about putting the banana peels into the seed bags to feminize the seeds, and the author stated having a 100% success. Now the last thing I would like to say on the topic of hermies is it could be quite possible that people are putting the bananas in to late and again forcing a male plant to become female. Which in turn would give you a hermaphrodite, just like taking a testosterone dominant fetus and introducing mass amounts of estrogen and progesterone is probably going to give you a hermaphrodite baby or just a really messed up baby. Tell me what you think.
And again I apologize if any of this has been stated earlier, as I didn't take the time to go through 30 + pages of reading.
OHHH and one last idea, what if you seeded the plants, and then put a dome over them with banana peels in paper towels laying inside the dome? Do you think this would cause mold to form on the plants? |