Enhance THC

[NatzTurnazHeadzBustaz]

I was reading a Mag. and in the Mag. there is a article about a technique of stressing plants towards the end of flowering to enhance THC. The fella in the article had his plants suspended in air, but in the article they spoke of another technique of cutting the stems with razor blades or breaking the stems by hand to enhance THC. Does anyone have any knowledge of these techniques?

 

[Caretaker]

Well I am guessing if it is in a magazine there should be a link to somewhere with more info or where this guy can be reached. What mag. was it?

 

[JBonez]

sorry, but strain, and grower intellect are the only way to "increase" thc i would assume.

so many placebo's out there, it really is easier to just learn how to grow then waste time and money on things that attempt to substitute ignorance.

would be cool tho if there was a way to improve thc output aside from already knowing what you are doing.

 

[NatzTurnazHeadzBustaz]

Well I am guessing if it is in a magazine there should be a link to somewhere with more info or where this guy can be reached. What mag. was it?

It was HighTimes July 09 issue. They didnt go into detail about the razor or breaking stems by hand technique.

 

[tcbud]

The only time my girls are gonna see a razor cut them is if we are taking clones.....

 

[dirtyolsouth]

There are some stress factors that can be manipulated by the grower to increase the production of trichomes and that would increase the plant's potency. I have a couple of main stress techniques that I use after several years of growing... A cool darkness period and the use of UVB lighting.

At the end of the flowering cycle I'll do my final flush application and 3 days later - when my 10 gallon pots are getting dry - I unplug the timers and kill the lights, drop my A/C as low as I can get it - around 60 degrees and then I let the mature ladies sit in the cold and dark for 72 hours. IME it really helps coat the goo a little more and gives it the final *smack* on the flavor and aroma for me. In the winter when I can get temps in the 50's in the closet my room is in it works even better. I guess it's kind of like crisp fall nights at the end of a plant's cycle outdoors... I also stress my girls throughout flowering by supplementing my lighting with a UVB T12 fluorescent and this has made a significant difference in my grows as well.

I don't know about doing anything with razor blades but if you check out and search "supercropping" you'll see some growers doing some interesting techniques by firmly but carefully pinching stems below the crown of a developing mainstem and creating a wound that after the plant heals makes that point in the stem more beefy and the bud above it develops into a monster... I'm trying a bit of supercropping and FIM'ing this time around to keep my garden height profile even and to see if there is an increase in yield.

Happy Growing!

 

[Caretaker]

I have that issue, I will check the mag and see what it exactly says.

 

[Lemmongrass]

hmmmmmm increased stress at the end of flowering is why my last two crops hermed...

no thanks!

 

[zipflip]

this reminds me of the post i read last year on here bout someone said if ya shake ya plants vigorously now an then that it was suppose to do the same thing(more THC)
personally i dont buy into it. jmo

 

[Caretaker]

I just read the article that talks about it. He is dead on about what the article says. The article title is "A method to madness", Hopefully you guys can atleast look it up. It says this guy hangs his hydro trays so he has to lower the plants instead of raise the lights. He claims the plants not being permanetly situated stresses them. He says plain and simple clear as day in this article that xtra stress at the end of flower helps produce an unkown amount of THC. But he said this hanging plant experiment has never been done and doesnt know if it will work. But he did say he has seen people cut and bend stems to induce stress to produce more THC. Sounds like a bunch of bull. If it adds anything it is minimal and not worth it.

 

[Lemmongrass]

the only stress i can see being beneficial is light stress ^_^

 

[Caretaker]

the only stress i can see being beneficial is light stress ^_^

And the peer pressure stress it gets from us yelling at it for not being done sooner. Its like marijuana boot camp.

 

[DirtySouth]

I've grown "bubba" at a strait 12/12 the whole way through.The next grow(clones from bubba) switched to 11 on 13 off(while flushin), I believe the yeild of the (clones) was a smidgen lighter,EVERYTHING was covered in crystals(even fan leaves),what I lost in weight,made up 4 it with hash.Since then its been 11/13 4 the last 10-14 dayz

 

[Caretaker]

I've grown "bubba" at a strait 12/12 the whole way through.The next grow(clones from bubba) switched to 11 on 13 off(while flushin), I believe the yeild of the (clones) was a smidgen lighter,EVERYTHING was covered in crystals(even fan leaves),what I lost in weight,made up 4 it with hash.Since then its been 11/13 4 the last 10-14 dayz

Sorry man but what does this have to do with this subject?

 

[JBonez]

thread fail, lol. No, seriously, lets all just stroll into our grow rooms and kick the spit out of our plants, after all its the least we could do to squeeze the tit one last time. We are monsters, lol.

 

[JBonez]

I've grown "bubba" at a strait 12/12 the whole way through.The next grow(clones from bubba) switched to 11 on 13 off(while flushin), I believe the yeild of the (clones) was a smidgen lighter,EVERYTHING was covered in crystals(even fan leaves),what I lost in weight,made up 4 it with hash.Since then its been 11/13 4 the last 10-14 dayz

Posting a reply in the wrong thread..... priceless.

Um.. ill have what you're smoking please sir..

i keed, i keed

 

[DirtySouth]

Enhance THC was the subject.Switching up my lights is how I do it.What are you "un-clear"on?

 

[Newbud]

google thc natures sun block.
More intense UV light means more THC if you believe what you read.
I dont pretend to know.

 

[Caretaker]

Enhance THC was the subject.Switching up my lights is how I do it.What are you "un-clear"on?

Your actually losing an hour of light everyday by doing that. How would that enhance THC, If anything it would stunt your yield over time. If flowered for 2 and a half months and you only run 11 on then you lose a total of about 74 hours. Thats equal to 6 days of flower.

 

[Cannabiscotti]

with about two weeks before harvest i start flushing with water. with one week left, i add some simple sugars to the mix. roughly 4 days before harvest i then change from 12-12 to 2 on 10 off for a 24 hr period. then 84 hours of complete darkness just before harvest. 80 hours in with about 4 hours left before harvest, i enter the room with a green light to see so it does not effect the light cycle. i then proceed to sprinkle roughly 4-5 grams of hash on each plant.