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pk_boosted2

pk_boosted2

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Jorge Cervantes actually uses this method to speed up maturation and flower formation. He has a few write ups on staking the main stalk he has written about and has journals on showing the effect of "staking" or driving shims into the main stalk last few weeks of bloom. You can google it and it will pop up. And like I said i know of someone who uses this technique who swears by it. Ive never found the need to as im not interested in it, but that doesnt mean it doesnt work.

Theres a few youtube videos on the practice as well, and instructional videos on how to do it so u wont harm the plant itself.
 
Uncle Ben

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chuck estevez said:
wait a minute, driving a STEAK thru it just might work, that's adding beef to it, now we are doing advanced cultivating.
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Sounds mooey bueno to me.

pk_boosted2 said:
My boy drives a sharpened popsicle stick through main stalk last week of bloom. It triggers hormonal response and increases resin production
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Of course it does.

If my boy pulled that stupid shit he'd get a good spanking.
 
WhsprnEye

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I'm sorry but if it works for them good but it did not work for me. I'll stick to my uvb light to induce trichome production. I can bare the thought of throwing away 8 weeks of hard work in hopes that this technique works. Its more safe using the light.
 
BWG707

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I got some "Electric Ganja" (that's what they called it) from Hawaii back in the late '70's. It was said that they used a spike in the stalk. First time I ever heard about that, never heard about again. Myth possibly?
 
WhsprnEye

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GreatwhiteNorth said:
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BWG707 said:
I got some "Electric Ganja" (that's what they called it) from Hawaii back in the late '70's. It was said that they used a spike in the stalk. First time I ever heard about that, never heard about again. Myth possibly?
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Well I have seen the youtube videos and it look legit but when I did it with 8 inch wooden skewers the plant next day wilted. It was on its last week of flowering. That is the only reason I will not try it again. I have the uvb light and my stuff came out pretty frosty with it.
 
RM3

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churchhaze

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There's some truth to this myth (the darkness one), it's just that none of that truth is related to increasing THC.

What it does do is starve the plant, giving you a head start on the cure. No light means no new sugars which means no new starches. It has to burn all the old stuff.

However, after 12 hours of darkness, the plant plant basically just stops most respiration and goes completely dormant in hopes of stayign alive long enough for the sun to come back up. Plants at night break down the starch from the leaf chloroplasts at the perfect rate so that it lasts exactly one night length, and it estimates that length based on yesterdays night length.

I always harvest before the lights comes back on. I tried a 3 day darkness period for the first time last harvest, and the buds came out nice and smooth after drying. I can't see any reason for not giving at least 12 hours of darkness (1 nights length) before chopping.

Saulamus said:
The Stake is a very old farmers' trick, but I'm not sure it does anything for cannabis plants, besides hurt them. There is another trick which was determined to work through scientific research....72 hours of darkness before harvest. There's a discussion here, which talks a bit about it: https://www.rollitup.org/t/chopping-tomorrow-1st-grow-1st-harvest-1-last-looks-please.624571/#post-8680642
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farmerfischer

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WeedFreak78 said:
don't forget to piss on it , then slap it around and degrade it a little, then lock it in a dark closet for 7 days with its roots submeged in a bucket of ice water, and finally a blood sacrifice of a female virgin and you'll have the dopest dope in the world...:wall:[/QUOTE thats awsome.!! Goin to try that''lmao..at that one...
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ServingSize1oz

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I stabbed my plant and it grew good buds > Stabbing my plant made it produce good buds!

Maybe your plant could have grown great buds :(.
 
WhsprnEye

WhsprnEye

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And I found out the hard way that it's just a myth. It didn't do shit for my four plants but hurt them. Never again.
 
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