Congrats on all those new spouts and on PhOTM for the Alvin pic when you enter it!
Thanks Shed! As for PHOTM, no more entries for me now doing the product reviews! All these photos are just for the sake of science and photography!
Their post is a collection of accumulated anecdotes:
- Splitting stems: A somewhat controversial practice...
- Flush cannabis plants to prevent nutrient lockout: Hopefully, the result is greater levels...
- Water with ice-cold water Another largely unsubstantiated claim...
- 24–48 hours of total darkness: some growers believe...
We know that droughting causes an increase in THC from Caplan's actual controlled research. I'm only here to point out that without at least running clones side by side with a set of control plants, what we get are folk's interesting experiences. That's fine until I read something like this:
Nothing personal but when I read these kinds of statements I want to make sure they're accurate, hence all my time on this. The fact that you found an increase in THC content the later you tested should be expected by everyone growing cannabis everywhere. Eventually you will see an increase in CBN and a
decrease in THC, letting you know it's just beyond harvest time for peak THC. That would be an excellent use of PlantCheck!
I agree, looking for
@Plantchek results myself come the end of these two comparative grows. If we need to, I will try to find something more our speed, its worth the expense, I am 100% sure.
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So excited to begin the seedlings under your CT-720! Such a fantastic assortment of lights for each and every grower!
Aww you're so sweet to me Helpful Henry!
Guys and gals, I met 013 when I first came on here. He was like the bearer of all answers cannabis. He was so pleasant and courteous and directed new and old growers in a way that just touched my heart.
Thanks for keeping this page lit up. I’m so impressed, great garden with killer plants, the droughting study and now product reviewer too. When do you sleep?
I don't sleep much H. Really grateful for you to say such nice things. I'm just a girl from NJ who loves green things and science and talking. A lot of talking. Sleep is for the wicked and I'm too
for that. Plus, a body in motion stays in motion! Good ol Newt!
Allright Miss 82, I still have another month or two of travels but anxious to catch up here soon!
Safe travels, you are always on the go, don't know how you balance it all!
So guys I told Azi this already but I went ahead and emailed Dr. Punja from the trichome study. I informed him of how we started a thread based off of Caplan's original study and came into some surprising findings in doing so.
I sent him a pic of our trichomes during drought and gave him a brief synopsis of our findings in regards to trichome morphology as of late.
I inquired with several questions and ended the email bearing hopes that he would be interested in learning more of the items we have touched upon.
It is with all fingers crossed that he emails back! We will just have to wait and see.
Until then, I wanted to touch upon some things from the video Azi gave us.
I know I'm always late but you all know I don't like coming over here to talk anything in detail unless I have had time to look it over and think it all through.
Main notes:
Secretory cells are in abundance at the base of the trichome head
As trichome stalks elongate, trichome heads increase in size-this proportion shows a direct correlation in regards to both maturity and potency
As the stalks elongate, the mini factory within these stalks increases this manufacturing significantly
The manufacturing, of course, is of both terpenes and cannabinoids.
The trichome head has our medicine
As maturation intensifies, resin is pushed out of the cuticle.
It is because of this extreme exudation of resin, that it begins to drip down and produce 'blobs' on the heads, becoming so sticky, they attach to other trichome heads.
-This was deemed the 'hot bun' by Dr. Punja.
I have several thoughts.
Could it be that as the weight of a heavy nug causes a branch to bend, the weight of the increased resin production in drought, causes the trichome stalks to also bend and become mis-shapen?
Could it be that the coraling is a weird phenomenon from so many trichome heads sticking together?
When is the length of the stalk a direct indicator of maturation?
Droughting increases the production of cannabinoids in secretory cells , could the sudden influx/sheer force of pushing all this medicine through the stalks to get to these cells, in fact be the reason why the stalks elongate so much?
In addition, is there a tap-off point on what a secretory cell is capable of producing?
I'm wondering if we hold any keys to the 2 answers they are still searching for:
1. What causes the stalks to elongate?
2. Why are some stalks longer?
Happy Droughting!
