Gage Green Genetics GrapeStomper OG

I recently popped a pack of GGG GrapeStomper OG and tried a little experiment i found on the Cannabis Culture forums to get a higher percentage of females to males.

I cracked 10 seeds and had 9 out of 10 germinate, out of 9 plants i have 7 females and 2 males. I don't know about the rest of you but in my expierence that is a rather high percent of female to male plants, that's something like 80% so IMO i would have to say this experiment was a success. I highly recomend this method it worked well for me.

The following is from Dutch Passision about ten years ago...

QUOTE: From literature and our own findings it appears that the growth of a male or female plant from seed, except for the predisposition in the gender chromosomes, also depends on various environmental factors. The environmental factors that influence gender are:

* a higher nitrogen concentration will give more females.
* a higher potassium concentration will give more males.
* a higher humidity will give more females.
* a lower temperature will give more females.
* more blue light will give more females.
* Fewer hours of light will give more females.

It is important to start these changes at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks, before reverting to standard conditions.

i never could get my hands on grape stomper or any of its crosses keep us posted

I think if you baby your plants and get more females, it increase the chance of hermies. If you lightly stress a plant and it's still a female, I think it lessens the chance of having a plant that is sensitive to becoming a hermie. I never get a hermie even on stressed plants unless it's genetically predetermined. Just my personal philosophy.

Nightmarecreature said:

I think if you baby your plants and get more females, it increase the chance of hermies. If you lightly stress a plant and it's still a female, I think it lessens the chance of having a plant that is sensitive to becoming a hermie. I never get a hermie even on stressed plants unless it's genetically predetermined. Just my personal philosophy.

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I don't know about that i wouldn't say i babied them at all, if anything i think i would say i stressed them to the max. Only in the manner that they suggest to achieve a higher number of females with higher nitrogen, higher humidity, lower temperature and fewer hours of light.

I live in Portland Oregon and to achieve these conditions i simply amended my soil with worm castings and Alaskan humate to get a higher level of nitrogen and placed my seedlings outside to let them do thier thing the first of April, when the temperature is in the 30's, it's still raining 24/7 and there's only about 11 or 12 hours of light.