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[juxt]

Hi folks Im looking forward to bouncing a few ideas off some like minded individuals.
Ive been growing marajuana for 15 years on and off, nothing big just enough to keep me ticking over, last year I had five plants and decided to try something new. I left one plant in a seperate corner and introduced some slugs to the plant ( Yes you read that correctly, slugs ). I left a ring of slug pellets so that they would not escape. Now the reason grass produces THC is to stop animals feeding on it and after the plant was consumed I threw it away, it was in a very poor state, however once I had a smoke of the other plants they seemed to be much more potent and the same happened this year.
I realise its a bit subjective and thats why I wanted to get some feedback from other growers, has anyone else noticed this effect?:icon_smile:

 

[Locked]

Welcome to MP....I always thought resins are what you are talking about and THC is entirely different. Interesting. Not sure if I wld attribute a rise in resin production to slugs. I wld think the resin production wld be a genetic thing and the same amount of resin wld be produced regardless if you hve slugs or not. jmo and I am just guessing at this point.

 

[juxt]

Its been the same plants both years but it wasn't a subtle difference and most of the conditions were reasonably the same though there may have been more/less sun but as far as I could I kept the conditions the same.

 

[The Hemp Goddess]

...Now the reason grass produces THC is to stop animals feeding on it...

Where did you get this information?

 

[juxt]

Hmm I would have to have a think about that, I don't recall just off hand but apparently the alkaloids in most plants are a defense mechanism against being eaten by cattle or in this case slugs.
Its quite possible that its a placebo effect, I expected the grass to be more potent so it had a greater effect. Thats why I wanted to see if anyone had a similar experience with slugs, mice, cattle etc etc

 

[Kupunakane]

Yo Ho Ho N,

Now let me see if I got this understood. Your curious to know if the reason the smoke from your other plants is more intense is because they witnessed another plant being scarfed ? and by witnessing this terrible thing they put out more THC laden resins.

Some how I don't see myself as a plant terrorist, and can't help but wonder what someone would think witnessing me going off on a plant, oh-yeah the meaner and nastier would work in my favor as also a good lashing with something the plant might also take as a potential threat...

OK, I want to hear more, and Oh welcome to the site, peruse the rules,
and here hold this---->:48:

smoke in peace
KingKahuuna:cool2:

 

[Rosebud]

Do you think the other plants saw the savagery and started pumping out the thc? Whatever your smoking I want some.
Welcome juxt and please tell us more.

 

[Roddy]

I'm :confused2:

but that's not unusual after a good smoke

 

[Sol]

Well, if no one else did, i see what you are getting at. Very interesting idea. People sometimes forget that nature has her mystical ways of doing things, never heard of this one before but i'de love to see a side by side comparison perhaps. I would have thought that the years of pro growers would have already thought of it if it was effective though.
I was just reading about how in back in the day ppl would pierce the stem at the base a week before harvest with wooden needles, one piercing forwards and backwards to increase resin production. I know ppl here wont like hearing stuff like this but these guys have been doing it this way for 100 yrs. Who am i to say it would'nt work?

 

[juxt]

I detect a healthy dose of skepticism, which I guess is understandable considering my audience have been told....
" Drugs are bad mmkay". when they know dam well thats not true.

Ok, pine trees in a forest, one corner of the forest is attacked by a heard of herbivores or tree eating slugs maby, the trees being attacked release the tree equivalent of pheromones during the carnage and this pheromone is picked up by the healthy trees which produce more tannins to make themselves less digestible.

Mitragyna speciosa or kratom cant be grown in a greenhouse as it does not get stressed out enough to produce any useful alkaloids.

When growing chillies the hottest examples are taken from plants that have been stressed out to the point that they are close to death.

Its well documented that plants can communicate and I suspect that all those old hippies that have "The Velvet Underground" playing on a loop to entertain their plants are really just stressing them out ( lets face it who wouldn't be ).

hXXp://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...arn-dangerous-predators-claims-scientist.html

hXXp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kratom

hXXp://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jun/24/how-to-grow-chillies

 

[Ruffy]

welcome juxt.