Cannabelle - How Wind Effects Plants & Bonsai Stresses

Cannabelle;2565358 said:

I hope you fellas don't mind me adding to the discussion on how wind effects plants. I believe you are all correct with your ideas on wind's influence on cannabis.

The mechanism of wind blowing through leaves encourages the pneumatic phenomena of ethylene gas release which in turn seeds cation and fluid uptake. Thus, wind blowing through leaves is akin to pumping water with a hand pump. Strong wind also causes minor injury which is a good thing because when plant cells burst, they bleed primordial material which triggers parenchymal (undifferentiated cells) activity and salicyn production which thickens and strengthens branches and trunks. Very strong wind prepares plants for sudden death as the increase in fluids from pneumatic ethylene gas release, parenchymal material and growth hormones prepare a plant to clone itself incase it gets uprooted before it is able to make seed.

When we clone our cannabis, we are introducing a sort of sudden death natural cloning response because the wound we create is trying to build parenchymal material. Addition of appropriate plant hormones help the parenchymal callus develop a new root system.

The stunted growth from too much injury is the same mechanism bonsai enthusiasts incorporate to turn sapplings into tiny trees rather than large trees. Constant cow pruning doesn't so much stunt growth in as much as it keeps plants in juvenile mode. In maples, leaves will remain small while in juvenile growth mode. In cannabis, new leaves tend to remain small and juvenile with 1 or 3 lobes rather than massive 5+ lobed fan leaves.

You can keep a clone in juvenile mode indefinitely by cow pruning to six inches in a 20/24 light cycle. And then wake the clone when you are ready to flower it out. It will still mostly produce 3 lobed leaves with a few large fan leaves. But it will also produce many fat buds like this:

16 Inch Blue Blood Bonsai Bush On Harvest Day​

Cow pruning is the term I use for when a cow or deer creates its own bonsai by constant nomming of a sappling down to a few inches. Over time, that sappling grows a fat trunk and becomes a miniature bonsai treasure.

PS:
My mind is a little foggy today which means my writing maybe littered with murdered grammar, nerdiness and weird spelling. Hugs and sorry if I confuse anyone.

Click to expand...