ethylene gas

[tallfiberousplant]

hxxp://www.ethylenegas.com/ethylene.htm are there any experts on this subject , and how it relates to female plants

[HippyInEngland]

Click no offsite links from a first poster.

You have been warned

[StoneyBud]

I checked the URL. Nothing wrong with it.

The question about ethylene gas being used in any way for marijuana draws a blank from me.

The only time I've run across it is in relation to food crops.

It would be interesting to see what it would do in reference to flowering, seeds, and male/female ratios.

[Hick]

Originally Posted by StoneyBud

I checked the URL. Nothing wrong with it.

The question about ethylene gas being used in any way for marijuana draws a blank from me.

The only time I've run across it is in relation to food crops.

It would be interesting to see what it would do in reference to flowering, seeds, and male/female ratios.

"Last edited by Hick : Yesterday at 06:13 PM."....

"ethylene gas" has been reported to increase female ratios, but I do not recall application or actual success.

[HippyInEngland]

Plants use ethylene (C2H4, also called ethene) as a hormone. It is a
very small, simple molecule that exists as a gas at biological
temperatures. Thus, when a plant releases ethylene, it diffuses quite
quickly in the air.
Different kinds of plants use ethylene differently; among the uses are
the promotion of fruit development and ripening, release of buds from
dormancy in springtime, stimulation of leaf and fruit abscission
(dropping), causing some plants to become female, stimulation of leaf
senescence, induction of flowering, etc.
Bananas use ethylene to stimulate fruit ripening. A bunch of bananas
will stay green for a long time until the ethylene concentration in the
air around them becomes high enough. When that happens, then they begin
ripening and they begin releasing more ethylene, which makes them ripen
faster and release more ethylene, etc. In this way, all of the bananas
will ripen very suddenly and simultaneously. Keeping bananas in a
plastic bag will make them ripen much more quickly than if you leave
them out in the open, because the plastic bag traps the ethylene and
thus makes its concentration rise more quickly.
Many other fruits - including apples and tomatoes, which are related to
bananas only very distantly - use the same mechanism. If one apple in a
barrel starts to ripen quickly (i.e. "goes bad"), it will cause all of
the surrounding apples to do likewise. One bad apple spoils the bunch.
Fruit distributors often take advantage of this effect by picking fruit
well before ripening and then shipping fruit to grocers while it is
still green. Then, just before delivery, the fruit is gassed with
ethylene to kick-start the ripening process. This helps make sure none
of the fruit will ripen too early, which would be problematic at the
grocery store.

[snaxforgandhi]

Wow! Thanx HIE! I love learnin' new stuff!

~Snax

[tallfiberousplant]

25 years ago i put apples in my closet, i didn't notice anything i could put my finger on , one day i put apple juice in my spray bottle , i sprayed 1/2 the closet 2wks before 12/12 and there is a differance in how fast the change happens , about a year ago i read that from week 2 to week 4 is a window where you can influance the sex ,,a light bulb went on , i now put juice in the seed soak i give it a little though the roots and leaves till the buds start to form good , well to cut long story short i will never grow a male plant i don't want again ,

[The Hemp Goddess]

Originally Posted by tallfiberousplant

25 years ago i put apples in my closet, i didn't notice anything i could put my finger on , one day i put apple juice in my spray bottle , i sprayed 1/2 the closet 2wks before 12/12 and there is a differance in how fast the change happens , about a year ago i read that from week 2 to week 4 is a window where you can influance the sex ,,a light bulb went on , i now put juice in the seed soak i give it a little though the roots and leaves till the buds start to form good , well to cut long story short i will never grow a male plant i don't want again ,

Are you saying that this process will give you all females? If you got all females, it was a coincidence or you had hermie seeds. There is NO scientific reason to believe this would work and lots of reasons not to spray and water your plant with apple juice--the acidity alone is enough to discourage this practice--2.9 to 3.3 .

[tallfiberousplant]

first i.m not begging anyone to try it but someone will and report results and what we say today will come back soon enough 2 months you can prove me wrong , /////// take two flats , plant bag seeds (( so noone trolling will be saving good seeds fron me ) /////first flat go your normal way , on other put a little juice in the soak ( not enough to dominate the ph ) and a little on the leaves daily, heres what you will see ,, before the first untreated shows alternating nodes the treated flat will have around 50% of plants showing alternating nodes , by week 8 , 50% + will have hairs under 24/7 ,AT WEEK 8 24/7, ////the ph on root will not be low cause you delute it with tap , the ph on leaves does that matter , that could be up for debate ,
after first treatment to leaves delute foliar feed to about 10% juice , //////////thinking outside the box should be required for pot heads the world is no longer flat and sometimes the answer is right there all along ,