Has anyone tried growing stinging nettle in their flower room?

iscrog4food

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I have read that growing stinging nettle in the flower room will promote more vigorous trichome production on oil producing plants. My questions are:

1) Has anyone tried this or can anyone verify that it works

2) i noticed the fact that stinging nettle produces humic acid in the soil in which it grows. would i have to plant the stinging nettle in the same pot to get the benefit?

Thanks for you help (if anyone actually answers this thread.. i know its an oddball question.)
 

canefan

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I have looked but don't see or should say haven't found anything about stinging nettle and humic acid but here is a link that might shed a little light on the subject for you.........Google is my friend..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humic_acid. Hope that this helps you into the right direction.
 

gobbly

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If I ever did a guerrilla grow, I've thought about surrounding it with stinging nettle. Dunno much about benefits other than security though
 

Leothwyn

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Well, if you do grow it, it's good to eat when you're done. My wife keeps a patch of it at the back of our garden. It's sort of like spinach... supposed to be very healthy.
 

canefan

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Thanks for all that info, I have learned a lot this morning. I just always knew that when I lived in the States on my farm that it use to just eat me alive.
 

anomolies

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I don't know why you'd want a plant that causes skin irritation in your grow room. Just buy some humic acid. it's cheap.
 

iscrog4food

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From what i have read it has a symbiotic relationship with oil/resin producing plants. So that is why i was asking if anyone had tried this. SO the obvious reason would be to produce more resin?
 

kylecole420

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I have seen outdoor growers use them as fertilizer before. Put some in a five gallon bucket and cover it with water and let it sit for a few days. Suppose to be high in nitrogen. Some organic growers use the nettles during veg and russian comfrey during flower. Little tip though even though these plants contain good amounts of nitrogen they hardly have any trace elements in them so they are mainly used as a tea along with regular fertilizers.
 
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