Gibberellin to Induce flowering?

bigbudeddie

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I was doing some reading, and was wondering how easy it would be to treat a plant with Gibberellin and if the treatment would induce female flowers under a 18/6 lighting schedule. Would love to hear of anyone that has tried this procedure. Peace
 

W33D

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Gibberellin Is usually applied to a seed during germination. And Gibereling also promote flowers AND male flowers. If you have a female and treat it with this, you will end up with sex reversion and it will either be a hermie or a male.
 

bigbudeddie

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Ye iv done alot of reading, i had read that wiki page to but thank you GN. If i understood the information i have read correctly if you give your plants the right amount of the G Acid it should just promote FEMALE flowering. Normally only high doses will cause it to produce male flowers. Any chance im right? Peace
 

JayMD

Active Member
Sure would like to know what kind of results you got with your gibberellin experiments. Workin' on some myself.
 

JayMD

Active Member
Also curious where data on male-favored flowering and sex reversion/hermaphrodization originated. Have not come across that before, and so far haven't encountered it in my own garden.
 
A one time treatment with a 250 ppm foliar application during the second week of vegetation caused about 10% of a particular batch of new york diesel to exhibit early signs of flowering including the formation of very small white stigmas on one or two of the plants bud sites. The plants also became noticeably more odorous. This occurred under a 24/0 light cycle. After the above symptoms occured flowering did not progress any further. It has been reported that concentrations over 400ppm can promote the formation of male reproductive parts on female plants and concentrations of 1000ppms have been shown to promote the formation of female parts on male flowers.

It seems plausible to me that by applying giberellins via foliar spray to the plants on a daily, even weekly basis, the plant could be forced into flower under a vegetative light cycle. Only things to note would be 1) the plants would most likely gain a tolerance for the hormone and require an increasing amount every application. 2) your chance of causing a hermaphrodite to develope increase, though an observant grower might be able to counter this by dramatically increasing the concentration of giberrellins.

BTW it sounds like a really cool experiment. Being able to grow flowers with 24 hours of light sounds like huge bud to me, in addition juicing them with the GA3 would make Bud fit for king kongs bong.

If you don't stop at trying to flower with GA3 and try ripening with ethylene also, you might be able to go from veg to harvest in a couple weeks all on a high yielding veg light cycle. Food for thought.
 
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