Decided to take a crack at making my own batch of Colloidal Silver. It's a fairly simple process, in all actuality, and now, I can start creating my own F1 feminized seeds.
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Here's a short how to:
Find an old mobile phone charger, they have an output of around 5v DC which is perfect.
Snip off the plug that fits into the phone.
Strip the wires.
Attach 2 small alligator clips - the crimp-on style need no soldering and cost a few cents from and electronics shop (Radio Shack)
Attach small pieces of silver to the clips. (99.999% pure - jewelers wire, pure silver coins or ingots)
Pour Demineralized Water (cleaning products section of supermarket) into a glass - I used about 240ml.
Tape clips to inside of glass so that the silver (and NOT the clips) are immersed in the water.
Turn on charger and leave in darkness for 24 hours (silver reacts with light).
 Still learning about feminized seeds and how to get the best results, but I'll try my best to give a short simple explanation. Basically, the silver interrupts the uptake of certain minerals that help determine the sex of the plant. So, you take a female plant, and spray one, or a few of her branches. This will cause male flowers to form. You remove the male branch, let it develop in a separate area, collect the pollen from it's pollen sacs, and pollinate either the same female from which you applied the silver, which is called selfing, or pollinate another strain completely. The latter process creates an F1 hybrid.
I have a few strains I would like to cross. One in particular will be my own version of Strawberry Diesel (Strawberry Cough x Sour Diesel). It will be a true hybrid. It's not a new cross, however. There are already some great versions of it out there. But, I need something I can smoke before work that doesn't make me tired out by 11am. Also, I'm extremely curious to see how much of a challenge it is to develop a stable cross of two different, true breeding types.
Another cross I'm thinking of attempting is my own version of Sour Grape (Gran Daddy Purps x Sour Diesel). Sour Grape is the cross of one of the best nighttime Indicas, GDP, with one of the most widely smoked Sativa strains of all time, Sour Diesel. This will be perfect for my anxiety.
A great thread that inspired me to try my hand:
Stew's Breeding Project 2013