root stimulator... dude factory

I've been experimenting with root stim on my last batch in veg. every second feeding I added a very small amount of root stim, with great results in veg , very vigorous growth . but 2 weeks into flower it was a total sausage fest. I remember reading that root stim was beneficial, Is it possible that it caused a higher male ratio ? anybody else experience this? Or just a bad batch of seeds?any in-put appreciated.

ha, thats pretty intersting. cant say

I use house and garden root stimulator and have had about 50% male. Doesn't seem to give me that problem.

SayWord said:

ha, thats pretty intersting. cant say

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seed sex is determined at development nothing can make a seed more male. getting fems is all luck based.

i used it with alot of my plants and had a normal female/male ratio.

Ghost420 said:

seed sex is determined at development nothing can make a seed more male. getting fems is all luck based.

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studies with weed say otherwise. in weed it seems it's more like a line and at either end are "true" males and "true" females, but there are lots in the middle that will hermie and some that will do a complete reversal given enough time. Some things that seem to cause more males are not enough root space and early fert high in P (or maybe it was K).

in personal experience it just seems the better you treat them the more likely they will be a girl.

pinkus said:

studies with weed say otherwise. in weed it seems it's more like a line and at either end are "true" males and "true" females, but there are lots in the middle that will hermie and some that will do a complete reversal given enough time. Some things that seem to cause more males are not enough root space and early fert high in P (or maybe it was K).

in personal experience it just seems the better you treat them the more likely they will be a girl.

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while that may be true to an extent the seed is still given a sex at development and there is no way to fully root out that said sex.

do you have a link to the study?

Marijuana botany by Clark and either of the mel frank grow books have stats. One of those frank books was co-authored by Ed Rosenthall. I think Jose cervantes in his books too, but I have to admit I haven't had one of his books on hand in like 15 years...and I smoke a lot of weed. JUst do a google search and you'll probably find some stuff....I've seen exerpts from the frank/rosenthall book on the web lots of times uncredited.

tell ya what, i'll search too.

peace

Ghost420 said:

while that may be true to an extent the seed is still given a sex at development and there is no way to fully root out that said sex.

do you have a link to the study?

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here you go, here's 1


http://www.suchtmittel.de/info/cannabis/002117.php:blsmoke::peace:

mj320002 said:

I use house and garden root stimulator and have had about 50% male. Doesn't seem to give me that problem.

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that roots excelurator is some very good stuff! a bit pricey, but worth it. i doubt if the root additive the op used caused any sausages, maybe if it wasn't used correctly....

high nitrogen promotes females.

high phosphorous promotes males.

root stim is a phos product.

thanx all for the in-put. I'll be doing a control test on my next batch in veg to see what happens , it just seemed odd that 4 out of 6 that I flowered turned male . I've never had that high of a ratio before and I also don't buy fem seeds but think I just might on my next .