Sucrose Injection

sucrose injection study on different weed species, which would most likely do similar things with mary jane.


"Plants injected with sucrose had greater dry weights and shoot-to-root ratios under both light levels"

Yeah, that's what it was. I guess there wouldn't be much commercial potential for something as simple as sugar injection anyway. Here's the articles. Now you know the secret of "sugar-cropping", a name I just made up;

http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/53/376/1935.full.pdf
http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/49/329/2013.full.pdf

They show that injecting sugar solution into plant stems steadily under pressure has a pronounced growth increasing effect. It can increase dry weight by up to 100% under full light or it can produce the same weight as full light using only 25% as much light input. They used shading for that experiment and it caused plants to elongate. To keep Cannabis in a normal growth pattern I suggest giving them about 90 minutes of full light at the start of the day cycle and another 90 at the end of it, then just a dim light during the rest of the day cycle. You might be able to use full darkness instead, in which case you would have 90 min. on, 9 hours off, 90 min. on, 12 hours off. No idea what kind of side effects such a light cycle might have. Experimentation is required.

I think this would be most beneficial if done during the "drowning" period before harvest... been reading about it here on RIU, seems like this could be used with that method to get super fat buds.