caffeine to boost metabolism? works for many life forms...

Would like to know if anyone has tried small doses of caffeine to their flower cycle? (nodoz to soil/hydro)??

If i don't get any solid answers, I will be experimenting on some clones when the time comes later.

Thanx in advance!

Dude I'm not tryin' ta harsh your plan or anythin', but I am pretty sure that since plants dont have a central nervous system for caffeine to interact with, nothing good will happen as a result of this. It could potentially mess up your Ph or hurt the plant somehow (who knows, there's other chemicals and binders in those pills also).

I especially wouldn't try this experiment during flower, when you are so close to finishing already. The best way to increase a plants "metabolism" is to give it more light and better food. This is what people have been doing to make plants grow well for a long time. Theres plenty of methods to pack on buds during flowering, why not at least try one of them before you pull something out of the great beyond and decide it's gonna be your experiment. If adding pure caffiene (which those pills are not) worked I'm sure a soda company would have invented a caffiene based fertilizer 50 years ago. But those pills could have chemicals, or who knows what else in them? Just because you can but it in your body doesn't mean it can go in your plant. If you insist, adding freshly brewed coffee would be a better way of adding it than crushed NoDoz, but even then it could make everything stink and still probably won't do much. sorry bro but I think its a bust. I'm out.

im usually a lot smarter than this. duh about no central nervous system idk why i thought this. this thread is done.

u coulda bashed me pretty hard lol

You are right, especially for being in the "advanced growing" section. This is a forum for stoners, so every now and again, someone has one of those ideas that seem great... at the time. Then you aren't high anymore, and you are like, "I am retarded." this has happened to me before too, and I must be in a good mood, because I have bashed people for asking weird things here. the last time I went off, it was on someone asking "what would happen to the seeds of marijuana pollinated from another plant" and someone responded, "I once smoked something called 'lavender', and it was that color and smelled like lavender. it was probably a lavender/marijuana hybrid." I completely lost it. it was the second time that same question had been asked that week... in the "advanced section" no less.

Thanks for at least standing up like a man, bro! i'll give you rep for it

I should mention, however, that many old gardeners add coffee grounds to thier compost or soil mixtures. I don't know why, but I always see old fashioned style gardeners doing this, so maybe there is something in the bean itself besides caffeine that makes coffee grounds a good soil amendment. who knows, could just be a substitute for peat.

Don't do it on all your plants ,just do one if your trying to experiment.

I wonder if there's a plant version of adrenaline?

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i have used coffee grounds but it wasn't worth tryin to figure out the amounts. molasses is my new miracle nute.

Hehe just pour some red bull into her, mabey she get wings and fly away lol.

stick with molasses and apple juice.

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come on man don't be ridiculous Everyone knows Pot plants like cocaine.