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Droughting and its medicinal effects in cannabis
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Apologies for this coming photo bomb, but here are some pics of my Mango Sherbert that I took today.
It has been 25 days since I began her droughting process of withholding water until extreme wilting then rescuing her with a small drink before repeating multiple times.
At this point I feel I should have triggered a survival response from her. So now, I intend to be a little 'kinder' to her for the remaining 1-2 weeks before harvesting her.
With the pictures, I will start with the whole plant and then 'lean' progressively in, to allow a closer view of the buds and trichomes. Hopefully these pics will give some hints that the droughting process that she has been under is having an effect. See what you think.
When viewing the whole plant, she looks very gnarly and tatty, especially with all the dead leaves that I have refrained from removing, why? Because she is under a lot of stress with the droughting and I don't want to open any wounds by removing 'unsightly' leaves and risk infection occurring just for cosmetic prettiness, there is only risk in doing that.
But when the colas are viewed, in my opinion they look quite clean. There are even 3 or 4 small caterpillar damaged dead bits that I would ordinarily remove because they tend to grow bigger and cause more die off when left. But these bits don't seem to be changing. I have noticed the odd dead ant on the buds, why? I really don't know, is it so sticky that they can't move and die? Or are the buds too 'hostile' for them obtain any nourishment and they then die? I don't know.
Looking closer at the buds they seem quite thick with trichomes which run up the back of the sugar leaves.
Leaning in even closer for some pics of her trichomes. I'm thinking another 1-2 weeks at this stage.
Anyway I hope this is of some interest, I particularly like the sugary candy like coating the buds have! That's where she is today on hitting her 'quarter century' of droughting days, and still a few more to go, maybe another 1-2 weeks. Feel free to chime in with any thoughts, it's a route that I haven't intentionally travelled before, but I am really determined to give this a good go, and compare the results with the efforts to get there.
It has been 25 days since I began her droughting process of withholding water until extreme wilting then rescuing her with a small drink before repeating multiple times.
At this point I feel I should have triggered a survival response from her. So now, I intend to be a little 'kinder' to her for the remaining 1-2 weeks before harvesting her.
With the pictures, I will start with the whole plant and then 'lean' progressively in, to allow a closer view of the buds and trichomes. Hopefully these pics will give some hints that the droughting process that she has been under is having an effect. See what you think.
When viewing the whole plant, she looks very gnarly and tatty, especially with all the dead leaves that I have refrained from removing, why? Because she is under a lot of stress with the droughting and I don't want to open any wounds by removing 'unsightly' leaves and risk infection occurring just for cosmetic prettiness, there is only risk in doing that.
But when the colas are viewed, in my opinion they look quite clean. There are even 3 or 4 small caterpillar damaged dead bits that I would ordinarily remove because they tend to grow bigger and cause more die off when left. But these bits don't seem to be changing. I have noticed the odd dead ant on the buds, why? I really don't know, is it so sticky that they can't move and die? Or are the buds too 'hostile' for them obtain any nourishment and they then die? I don't know.
Looking closer at the buds they seem quite thick with trichomes which run up the back of the sugar leaves.
Leaning in even closer for some pics of her trichomes. I'm thinking another 1-2 weeks at this stage.
Anyway I hope this is of some interest, I particularly like the sugary candy like coating the buds have! That's where she is today on hitting her 'quarter century' of droughting days, and still a few more to go, maybe another 1-2 weeks. Feel free to chime in with any thoughts, it's a route that I haven't intentionally travelled before, but I am really determined to give this a good go, and compare the results with the efforts to get there.
Looking great there Stunger. So you can't visually tell the difference in trichome coating on this one vs your others? This one looks pretty frosty to me.
Cheers Azi, my others are well behind the stage of the MS, they're still shooting out white pistils so I can't really compare them.
Great job Stunger 
The drought I did earlier in the thread was one of the stickiest for me , so you look well on track
The drought I did earlier in the thread was one of the stickiest for me , so you look well on track
Maritimer
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Ahoy there!
We have been calling this crop Otter's Dream when in fact this crew is Cookies #5 X Jack Herer. The Sativa dominance will run flowers thru 11 weeks. The drought is still conducted at the same time beginning week #7. As a note to the frostiness indications, or lack of, we have experienced dramatic changes in potency without noticing a whole lot of "additional frostiness". Said differently, don't judge the effects based only on appearance. Anyhow here is the crew.
Sorry about the mixup. The Otters Dream crew are in the veg room not pictured.
We have been calling this crop Otter's Dream when in fact this crew is Cookies #5 X Jack Herer. The Sativa dominance will run flowers thru 11 weeks. The drought is still conducted at the same time beginning week #7. As a note to the frostiness indications, or lack of, we have experienced dramatic changes in potency without noticing a whole lot of "additional frostiness". Said differently, don't judge the effects based only on appearance. Anyhow here is the crew.
Sorry about the mixup. The Otters Dream crew are in the veg room not pictured.
Maritimer
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Four hours later.
If only we could recover as well.
If only we could recover as well.
If only! 
If I could recover that well, and look that good, Id be strutting my stuff down the boardwalkIf only we could recover as well.
@Maritimer ,Four hours later.
If only we could recover as well.
What is the average full recovery time once fertigation begins? How soon do you see ANY signs of recovery?
scottreid1966
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What the heck does fertigation mean? Girls are looking good.
Irrigation + fertilize = fertigation!
greenjeans
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I may have missed it .....but.....Does the droughting work just as well for Auto's??
For my 2 cents, I would guess that droughting autos would also be capable of triggering a survival response in them. I have not tried that but perhaps some others in the droughting fraternity have already done so.
Yup! Droughting an Auto can be done, just treat it like a photo
Oh, ok. I thought your comment in an earlier post was that you didn't noticed any appreciable difference in the frost you are seeing on this plant and what you'd consider typical, although I now see @Maritimer indicate more frost is not necessarily included in the response.
Yes, that is right. I struggle to notice a definitive difference in appearance when compared to non droughted buds. I find it hard to compare to my other 2 non droughted plants as they are both at an earlier stage of flowering and are not so directly comparable.
They look in impressively good shape from their droughting, and as @Rexer said, if only we could all recover as well, yeah if only!If only we could recover as well.
High folks. I was reading around the other day and found The Rev saying he cuts a bud and looks in to see trichome density as a way to get a sense of thc development. He says not to judge a bud by it's cover.
Emilya Green
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Just sayin... Here is a bud that got fed and watered heavily right up to the end. This stuff is fire! One of these days I will do a side by side to compare. Droughting has definitely shown us what the plant can do if it is forced to, but I am not at all convinced yet that it is the optimum way to grow this plant. I like all of your results, and they are indeed impressive, but I didn't have to work that hard, and my plants led a good and pampered life without stress. Maybe that will result in a more mellow smoke? So much testing still needs to be done. Keep up the good work!
