Hey yoda if you come to the conclusion that its a male. I actually had an assassin male reverse to female when I sprayed it with colloidal silver and got some seeds that are both male and female and no hermies yet. Doesn't hurt to at least try after getting some pollen. This is what happened and i believe how it happened. All autos are derived from ruderalis, ruderalis plants are hermies from my findings anyway. Could be wrong im actually trying to create a number one as i found a Rudy growing randomly in my yard. Any how if this is true there genes are always able to produce Both sexes. Every plant that has Rudy as a base i.e auto flowers in theory can easily reverse to any sex male or female. NOW I COULD BE COMPLETELY WRONG AND IF SO PLEASE CORRECT ME. These are just my personal findings from researching them.
Now in theory what i believed happened to mine reversing from male to female is, after i got to a of pollen. I decided as a test i would then spray the male to see if its possible for a male to create female pollen. and yes it did kinda work. Only after spraying for 3 weeks to get new pollen from it after it had been consistently s
prayed. Well the process works on females by it up taking the silver instead of copper therefore blocking the female hormone to be created. While in flower. When I quite spraying 2.5 weeks later i noticed pistols.
i think what you noticed was a male hermie , silver blocks ethylene needed for plants to produce female flowers
im assuming you have never seen a male hermie ? ive had males hermie so bad from a distance you would think they were females , but all through veg they showed pre flowers of male and early flowering were completely male , then about 1/3rd of the way through flowering poof a ton of pistils , i actually used one to breed with (BIG MISTAKE AND WASTE OF TIME) it never flowered the female parts past pistils (no buds) and continued male flowering profusely
anyway yeah silver blocks the female hormone
you said at the end ,,,, "When I quite spraying 2.5 weeks later i noticed pistols."
ever think it was stress induced hermie ?
not tryin to bust your balls (lol no pun intended) just trying to post up some info and get to the bottom of this
peace :Cool:
edit , when useing c.s , you are blocking ethylene production in a "female" plant , therfore it has no choice but to flower male flowers , however the plant is female not male , it passes on only the female chromosome , thats why you get your female seeds
to me it only makes sence that if you spray any plant you will block ethylene , so how can you turn said plant into a female ?
no female hormone no female