Boiling roots b4 harvest

ok so i remember hearing a long long time ago b4 i started growing that when you harvest you boil water and put your root ball in there and it helps to push the trichs out or whatever, i was just wondering if there was any truth to that, i havent heard anything on here about it so i doubt it, but besides that is there any method you can use during harvest or a couple days b4 to increase trichs i mean besides mollasses and a flush

never herd.
give it a try.

no .

dannyboy1012 said:

ok so i remember hearing a long long time ago b4 i started growing that when you harvest you boil water and put your root ball in there and it helps to push the trichs out or whatever, i was just wondering if there was any truth to that, i havent heard anything on here about it so i doubt it, but besides that is there any method you can use during harvest or a couple days b4 to increase trichs i mean besides mollasses and a flush

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i think you're thinking of making root tea for other plants.

you can boil dried roots, cool the liquid and feed it to your plants. it will contain hormones that will give your other plants' a root boost. i've tried this a few times, it did seem to work, but not like root builder or superthrive.

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Trichs don.t come from the roots. There produced through the light and the leaves & nutes. The roots send the food to the plant leaves and nature does the rest.

I have herd of a method where you cut off all fan leaves on 1st week before harvest and then you cut off all lites 2 days before chopping. Never tried it only read about it.
Could have been HighTimes claiming ti increase trichs. But how could tou ever tell if it worked??????

yea well apparently it was just some completely untrue rumor
i just remember someone told me that a long time ago, i always thought it was just bullshit but i had to ask to make sure

my plants don't need any "secret" methods. they prefer food, water and light.

i just heard this also. i search for it to see on this forum but he swears on it.
he says he's been doin it for years. so i'm gunna try it out on a plant or two and see what it does.

AnitaNuggs said:

i just heard this also. i search for it to see on this forum but he swears on it.
he says he's been doin it for years. so i'm gunna try it out on a plant or two and see what it does.

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First of all, it's not a "rumor" that boiling roots at harvest causes the buds to be more potent. Nor has it been proven as fact. It's simply what the common thought was among growers back in the late 1970's, early 80's -- particularly in Hawaii. Back then, I was a high school stoner who grew his own weed in the gulches or in my back yard, depending on whether I lived with my mother or father at the time. Getting busted by Green Harvest with dozens of plants didn't result in arrests like it does today...just cops pulling your plants and saying, "Sorry, brah, we gotta take 'um."

Whether boiling roots increases potency or not, whether it's myth or truth, we should still respect the fact that it was a part of modern-day history of marijuana cultivation, as well as the culture leading up to the innovative techniques that we have at our disposal today. Such things as boiling roots, placing moldy orange peels with your herb to give it a psychedelic feel, freezing your weed to make it more potent, etc....all these "myths" were things that we youngsters experimented with nearly 40 years ago...the same way that today we experiment with LED lights and other techniques.

My point is, let's not discredit "boiling the roots" as being an ignorant myth but, rather, an early component of the ongoing research in our quest for the perfect bud.

Aloha!

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right. i think it's remnant of not knowing exactly where the thc comes from. it's in the trich's, that's where. boiling your roots WRECKS your kitchen. don't do it. cut the plant at base. hang in dark room till branches breaks but don't snap. trim and cure.