Magical Mystery Clone Tour

Rider509 said:
"Oh, sorry dude, I'm encroaching on your light. Let me just shoot a bunch of branches out here away from you."
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:laugh: Polite fricking plant!
 
Rider509 said:
I think you might be right. You know how tight that space was and they were all crammed into it with no room to expand. There's a phenomenon, I can't think what it's called, where plants tend to avoid touching other plants. I see it with my Weeping Willow that grows no branches in the direction of my Scotch Pine.

edit: actually the willow does grow branches towards the pine but where they meet the willow stops growing. It's almost like, "Oh, sorry dude, I'm encroaching on your light. Let me just shoot a bunch of branches out here away from you."
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I think you're talking about photomorphogensis.

I learned that fancy word in my plant science class and this is the first time I've been able to use it! haha But yeah, say a plant is growing under the leaves of another, the light filtered through those leaves will have a different red spectrum than the natural light, and the plant under the leaves will begin to grow in a different way in response to that.

There's also phototropism, which is kind of similar, but is more like a response to the dark than to the light. See, people think cannabis stretches/points toward the light, but what's actually happening is it's trying to grow AWAY from the dark. That's why with longer dark periods, you get more stretching between nodes.

But yeah, I'm pretty sure ( without being an expert of course ) that SOG (sea of green) style growing works because cannabis likes to stay squat and christmas-tree like when it's crowded up with other plants like that. Half the strains grown SOG by the Dutch (they're real big on it for some reason) grow into big bushy monsters if given the space. I've seen Dutch Treat plants the size of a small an SUV, but also little SOG grows where they look like tiny little christmas trees.
 
JustMeds said:
I must be in the wrong class, them's is some big words.
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Nah, just a bunch of small words all smashed up together.
Tunkers said:
No pictures or anything.. I just scrolled on past lol
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We need pictures! And since we're talking about tropic responses I remember someone mentioning a growing method where a plant was vegged normally and then flipped on its side to flower, effectively letting gravitropism do the job of supercropping. Maybe you could get away with that if you were growing in coco
 
I've kind of always wondered what the deal with people hanging tomato plants upside down was. I guess maybe they're trying something like that?

That's interesting though, that's a gravity response? Because weed will do that too with scrog or mainfolding. Hmm I wonder if we're all working too hard... *turns his pots on their side next grow*

Also, for my class, we tried grafting some coleus plants. Unfortunately we had to work in a group and we had a speed-racer type, so our graft totally didn't take.... But it didn't really die either. We basically grafted one stem onto another stem and it never grew a leaf or flower again haha
 
TheFertilizer said:
I've kind of always wondered what the deal with people hanging tomato plants upside down was. I guess maybe they're trying something like that?
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There are a couple of reasons to grow tomotoes upside down actually, none of them related to gravitropism. One is that tomato plants need to be staked when grown upright (too much gravity once the fruits form :)) so growing them upside down solves that problem. Also, it eliminates all the earth-bound tomato eaters.

And of course, it takes up absolutely no floor-space!
 
And deja vu again. One of the big plants is male so I know it's a MTTS. I think I'll pull him out and keep him alive long enough to harvest some pollen and do some selective cross breeding.
 
Are you sure top right is cannabis and not schefflera?
 
Oh gawd, I'm ready for it to be over. And now I have to decide whether to fire up the other tent again to mature the male separately. If one of the other clones turns out to be MTTS then I could keep Weaselcracker's strain going, or cross it with the MTPC and see what the resultant cross produces. MamaThai² x ThaiStik x Pineapple Chunk could be good! But given that I just ordered Tangerine Cookies, LSD (circa 1963), and Gorilla Glue seeds (all regular) I'm leaning towards maybe not.
 
Harvested the two Thaibodian Skunks and pulled the MTTS male. I think the bottom right is MTPC, the top left is Thaibodian Skunk, and the bottom left is too hard to tell yet.
Now I need to get the lights down on the plants and get things going with a bit of heat, humidity, and CO2.

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Started to increase humidity yesterday. I wish SensorPush had a CO2 probe so I could log that data also.
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