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id say week 3-4 is when you should introduce them. perfect timing.

EverythingZen

SWEEEEET!!! My nanners and I will be praying to the ganja goddess for females.

I'm going to have 13 outdoors this year. I'll definitely chime in with the results for you all.

vonrasta

buy fem seeds way easier and not that expensive

nats suck

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its hard to tell what really helps turn a plant female. last year with regular bagseed growing outdoor, i had an 8 out of 11 turn female. no tricks just being really careful to not stress them at all. and ive had years where most turn male. who knows. but i havnt seen any posts that say they tried bananas and got mostly males, so it cant hurt. ill def give it a shot next year. i had 7 out of 10 this year show me female preflowers last week, but i could only keep two. it was sad to pull the others

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My friend has 4 plants going right now, I had him keep bananas under them since about 3 1/2 weeks into veg. Now its about 2 1/2 weeks later and another week or two and we will flower them out. If I see preflowers soon Ill let you know, if not ill post once flowering begins.

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Ive been vegging 3 bagseeds for just over 3 weeks now, and have had a banana in there since the 1 1/2 week mark. I will post back when I flower.

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I was reading on another site where a guy got 5 seeds for 200 bucks. The next reply

was "damn that's a lot of money for 5 seeds, you better go get some bananas". Hehehe

the banana religion has traveled far and wide.

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EDIT; i saw that you started a thread about this "theory" or "religon" some might say

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Hermie seeds carry XXY chromosomes, just like human hermaphrodites. Sometimes the female only is expressed, but the male is just under the surface, so to speak. Waiting for the right stresses......Sometimes both are expressed, which is why you get hermies w/ some strains even tho your grow is the same as the last 10 times. Or maybe it's off by the angle of light, or a temp spike, or whatever, that was just enough to stress the male flowers into coming out.

All MJ plants seem to have the ability- not the necessity- to carry potential for both sexes. It's why you can stress the feminized seeds into being male, or vice-versa. It's a defense mechanism, though unlike most other animals, they can change after birth.

Might Ethylene gas- the "death hormone" - goad the plant into producing more females, as 1 male can pollinate many many females, while 1 female can only produce so many seeds? Might the plant think either it is dying, OR IT'S PARENTS ARE, meaning the seedling is usually closest to others of its kind- the parents- so if they are rotting, better hurry and reproduce before I die, too? This would hold true even for seeds scattered by animals dung- the first seed may grow alone, but many many seeds would fall and grow close together.
This can be seen in bromeliads- it takes years for some to grow enough to flower, but sprayed with ethylene gas, flowers appear in the same season as planting-----showing the plant thinks other fruits/flowers are going to be done soon, better hurry!! link to overview here>>> Bromeliad Blooming Overview >> Archives >> Bromeliads Care Info

This also sez that the way to use it is to, at the proper time, put a bananananana (never could spell 'em.) in a plastic bag, over the plant, to trap the ethylene.......

could this be why sometimes it works, sometimes not? the plant doesnt get a good enough wiff of ethylene? Esp. with fans, venting, etc. going on.......

I will try this with my new seeds. 20 of em, 2 different strains.

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