what are all of the little things that you do for your plants, beyond the basics?

I'm looking for info that you wont find on your basic "how to grow marijuana" webpage or book. like for example, things like putting something solid like perlite on the bottom of your pots so the roots have something to grip on to. I was recently told to stab my soil with my bamboo poles to aerate the soil late in flowering. or using vitamin b1 for transplants. im just always looking to improve and i know there are little details out there that i am not aware of yet

i heard you could play music to them 3 hours a day for root production, adding molasses during budding helps produce thc and turning the lights off for a day before harvesting helps to boost thc also... i've been doing some research into that kind of stuff for a day or so...

I sing to mine then call them mother fuckers right before i spank them with some smoke

This is a very general question, best answered by simply browsing throughout the forums. Start by reading all the sticky's. They're sticky so you know they're good.

I sometimes take mine out to dinner or tell them how lovely they look today, or hold open a door for them..

Seriously though, yeah there are tons of little extras you can do for your plants like fimming, topping, adding mollasses, adding more lights, fans, Sea of Green , scrog, adding Co2, etc etc.. search the forums bud..

edsthreads said:

I sometimes take mine out to dinner or tell them how lovely they look today, or hold open a door for them.. ..

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edsthreads said:

Seriously though, yeah there are tons of little extras you can do for your plants like fimming, topping, adding mollasses, adding more lights, fans, Sea of Green , scrog, adding Co2, etc etc.. search the forums bud..

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buh u let me down i was hoping for the big finish after the first line

theonlyandonly said:

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buh u let me down i was hoping for the big finish after the first line

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Note taken.. must try harder next time.. lol

blunted1588 said:

I'm looking for info that you wont find on your basic "how to grow marijuana" webpage or book. like for example, things like putting something solid like perlite on the bottom of your pots so the roots have something to grip on to. I was recently told to stab my soil with my bamboo poles to aerate the soil late in flowering. or using vitamin b1 for transplants. im just always looking to improve and i know there are little details out there that i am not aware of yet

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I rake the soil on top everyday. I also freely stab the rootball with my water sensor to keep it oxygenated, from the top and from the bottom through the drain holes.

BTW, I thought it was a good question and could have been instructive.

Don't over complicate things. It's just a plant, not a machine. It never took a rocket scientist to grow a plant. The sooner you learn to let a plant be a plant, the sooner you realize the basics are all you need.

gooshpoo said:

I sing to mine then call them mother fuckers right before i spank them with some smoke

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I do this too.

Molasses works especially well in organic growing because it feeds the micro herd in your soil. If you do organic you shouldn't wait for the last 2 weeks to add molasses because your plant can benefit from it at any time. The sugar supposedly sweetens the taste as well, but I'd have to run a blind taste test to know if that is true.

I feed with high quality water, RO or good spring. I try to feed my microherd as much as possible, and will periodically introduce more fungus or bacteria. I look
over my crop on a daily basis and tuck fan leaves out of the way. I make sure the water I use is room temperature so I don't shock the roots. I use smart pots to try and improve the root structure.

I don't think that giving them 2 or 3 days of solid darkness right before harvest is especially helpful. I think you'd be better off reducing the light during the last 2 or 3 weeks of flowering would give you better results.

Actually turning the lights off the last 2-3 days before cutting her down produces a huge resin increase.

ManicOrganic86 said:

Actually turning the lights off the last 2-3 days before cutting her down produces a huge resin increase.

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Actually? A HUGE resin increase? Where's your photographic proof? No? Just another forum myth?

I would like to see some side by side comparison of 2 identical plants/pots/medium/nutrients/light/etc where 1 is given 2-3 days of darkness and the other flowered normally. I'm sick of hearing about this non-debate where no one actually supplies evidence.

That's really the problem with "advanced" techniques...there is seldom any comparison that is remotely scientific to support crazy techniques. Like shoving tacks through your nodes...

I don't have pictures, but I have a book by mel frank where he harvests portions of a bud throughout a flowering cycle, including samples taken in dark time and light time, and has them lab analysed. He found that portions taken in dark time contained more THC. He, however, did not test these fluctuations over extended dark periods, and the THC after being lighted the next day had decreased again. One of his samples showed a 10% increase in THC concentration (jumped from ~6.5 to ~7.5%). His testing was more to determine fluctuations in levels throughout the whole cycle, not nightly fluctuations, and as such was not an ideal test of the effect of dark times. He certainly points this out, but it is fairly strong anecdotal evidence.