It's Tuesday! A great time for a
PROJECT 28 REPORT!
This morning I decided to give the Queen one more thorough drenching with the Silver Thiosulfate solution. Again, I think one coating, if it dries nicely, probably deposits enough silver ions on the plant's tissues to retard or even completely inhibit the production of the needed Ethylene gas and should do the trick, but I am accounting for new growth since the first spray and also an extra measure just for luck. See? Science.
First, the plant has shown zero effects from the first drenching.
No discoloration of any leaves, even the huge ones...
I am absolutely sure my solution is correct so this should work. Strange there's no yellowing of the fans though.
I removed the Queen to the now-unused nursery chamber adjacent to the main grow room and set her up to be sprayed again.
I applied probably 3-4 ounces of liquid.
We gave her another complete bath, at this point I'm pretty sure 99.9% of this plant has received the solution. I set her up in the stream of a fan to dry before I stick her back in place. This will be the last time I spray. I joke about it but there
is a tiny bit of science going on here since hard data on this method is only sparsely available, and the few threads that detail efforts to reverse plants often describe less than optimal results so I'm winging it no matter how much I research...just using my spider-sense and some botanical basics and then we'll see if it works. An experiment is an experiment.
While I had her out I couldn't help but notice the large number of huge fan leaves hanging down in the undergrowth where I tucked them weeks ago. These are the biggest ones that are usually removed but my supercropping method has preserved a lot of them amazingly well...
All these giant leaves are still perfectly healthy, even though they have been out of direct light for weeks...they just hang there like giant antennas, collecting light and making additional food for the plant without blocking out any branches. It works so well I can't help believing they have added a nice boost of nutrition and could even be responsible for a lot of the extra-rapid growth we are seeing. There's probably 50 big fans I have supercropped, many twice, and as I poke around I see many of them still in there and still perfectly healthy even though many live practically in the dark.
Even two brutal supercrops haven't hurt these leaves at all...common sense says they are still adding food.
So that's kind of cool. Perhaps I should have brutally defoliated one of the plants to have a comparison...too late. Can't do everything I suppose. But my guess is, they are adding plenty to the plant that otherwise would have been lost.
I'll go back up there in about an hour and hopefully she has dried off enough that I can stick her back in place without getting too much on the adjacent plants. I will have to be on the lookout for male flowers on those branches that have touched the Queen as well I think.
It takes a little while to write a post in this journal...of course I'm usually smoking some tasty variety of weed while I write, and that has accounted for all sorts of fun toward the end of many installments. I've seen this meme a few times but I post it here because it just happened to me...twice...
Enough already...have a great day!
Peace, Hyena
