Update on attempts to reverse sex the balcony photo girls
It has now been 21 days since I started spraying 24ppm Colloidal Silver on a selected minor stem of each of the balcony photo girls. To be honest, so far I am not seeing any change to indicate that this is working.
No signs of female pollen sacs.
So far, I have missed only 1 day's spraying due to one day of non stop rain and wind. But all other days I have tried to spray a minimum of 4 times, mostly 5 or 6 times a day.
A few days after I started doing this, I used a pin to prick a number of points around the nodes that I was spraying. Today, I carried out a further round of 'pin pricking'. I have forgotten who I first read of doing this, but I since saw that
@NuttyProfessor carried this out on one of his reversal attempts and was rewarded with a load of female pollen sacs, so hence I carried out another round of pin pricking today.
I first carried out CS spraying on the previous already been harvested CBD Express auto. I did that one, mostly twice a day and saw no sign of reversal. So this time I bumped the spraying up to 5 - 6 times a day. While I am confident on the quality of my Colloidal Silver, it is only 24ppm. If this fails to work, then next time I will endeavour to do a run of 'capped' Colloidal Silver to take it up to a higher concentration (50ppm or higher), as any higher than my current concentration without capping will result in the silver falling out of solution.
The other option available to me, is that I still have some White Widow XTRM pollen in storage in the fridge sealed with rice where it has been for 3 years. This was pollen that was 'rescued' from a grow buddy's compost heap where he threw out the male plant several days before. Luckily after rescuing I was able to recover viable pollen and pollinate my 2 plants at the time to create about 400 or so regular seeds. After doing so, I then decided to save the already 'used' pollen in the fridge. So I have no idea if it will still be viable. However, if in about 10 days time, there is still no sign of reversal then it will be time to declare the reversal attempt as being a failure and fall back on my storage of 3 year old pollen. As in 10 days, there will still be time for a 'regular' pollination to make seeds
if the pollen is viable. I very much would have loved to make some female seeds but if nothing else, having some regular seeds is a lot better than a kick up the arse and no seeds.
Here's some pics of my reversal attempts, the pic quality isn't great, but even so I am unable to spot any signs of reversal so far.
Strawberry Cough - Colloidal Silver sprayed over 21 days
Godfather OG - Colloidal Silver sprayed over 21 days
Mango Sherbert - Colloidal Silver sprayed over 21 days
And lastly the
CBD Express Auto, she has
not been sprayed with Colloidal Silver but I am just showing her for her trichome development. I'll probably chop her around the end of the month.
So it's been a bit disappointing so far my CS reversal attempts. However, it has to be said that it has been a good thing to try and gain from the experience. At least if it doesn't work I can make some stronger CS for next time and see if that makes a difference or not. If just one of them works I'll be elated if I can get some female pollen, but currently it is not looking so likely.
All the best everyone.