Can you force an Autoflower into flowering with collodial Silver?

Breeder reporting here.

I've used collodial silver to breed AF's before but am doing a time critical project at the moment and have 2 rare strains, both feminized. The "female" is currently 2.5 weeks old, is 9' vertically and is being grown outdoors in soil, she has had her first dose of nutrients 1/4th strength 6 days ago, she has not begun flowering yet. The "male" which i will convert is currently 9 days old and is 2.5' at the moment. I am wondering whether it is possible to FORCE the plant to flower early (produce male pollen in this case) using collodial silver?

I know that collodial silver changes a certain hormone to prevent female pistils from producing and you need to apply it as soon as you see preflowers, but in my case, as it is time critical can i spray the CS when the plant hits its 2-3 week mark (the "male" i will be using)? Pollen takes 2-3 weeks to be produced and i need as much of it as i can get for the mother plant as she has been LST'ed for maximum colas and is looking to produce 10+ colas at the moment. Estimating 1000+ seeds.

Bakatare666 said:

https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/338572-how-hermie-autoflowering-female-plant.html

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That thread is useless.

Nobody has managed to answer the question at all.

Can i FORCE flowering in an Autoflower strain using CS?

no, imvho, using a chem like cs will do absolutely nada to actually speed up the flowering time of any plants.. that's not what cs is for..
you already know what cs is for, so i won't get into that, but imo, i can't see how using cs would possibly speed up how fast a plant will flower as that's pretty much already built into the dna of the plant..

racerboy71 said:

no, imvho, using a chem like cs will do absolutely nada to actually speed up the flowering time of any plants.. that's not what cs is for..
you already know what cs is for, so i won't get into that, but imo, i can't see how using cs would possibly speed up how fast a plant will flower as that's pretty much already built into the dna of the plant..

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Thank you for your reply.

I was just wondering because CS doesn't do anything to the DNA of the plant. The plant is still a true female, CS only kills the female flowering hormone and forces the plant to produce male characteristics. My real question is, will it produce male characteristics if I apply the CS before the plant has begun flowering? Very curious subject.

Could do 1 of 3 things.

1. Nothing.
2. Not develop male characteristics as female flowering horomones are not present and the CS would be ineffective as the CS cannot block out the female hormones (because there are none) and force the plant to flower male instead of female.
3. Force the plant to flower male and trigger early flowering, but this contradicts #2.

Thanks for all the replies guys!

OzGrower87 said:

Thank you for your reply.

I was just wondering because CS doesn't do anything to the DNA of the plant. The plant is still a true female, CS only kills the female flowering hormone and forces the plant to produce male characteristics. My real question is, will it produce male characteristics if I apply the CS before the plant has begun flowering? Very curious subject.

Could do 1 of 3 things.

1. Nothing.
2. Not develop male characteristics as female flowering horomones are not present and the CS would be ineffective as the CS cannot block out the female hormones (because there are none) and force the plant to flower male instead of female.
3. Force the plant to flower male and trigger early flowering, but this contradicts #2.

Thanks for all the replies guys!

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it is an interesting thought for sure..

my gut thought would be your number 2 choice, for the very reason that you listed.. cs works by blocking the female hormone, and tricks the plant into growing male flowers, stamen, but if there are no female hormones present, i don't see how the cs would really be doing anything at that point..
that's of course a some what educated guess on my part though ... be interested though for sure to hear any and all results if you were to try this of course..

Will indeed try it. Extremely interesting subject. If there was a way to induce flowering chemical-wise, with further research there would most likely be a way to force a plant to reveg (in this case, autoflower) which is currently impossible with autoflowers due to the self-regulating hormones that force the plant to flower once it reaches a certain size.


I think we may have started something...