What's the worst broscience you've heard?

too larry

too larry

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Cousin Wayne knew his plants flowered in the fall, so he figured the cooler temps must be the reason. So as fall got closer, he would freeze water in two liter soda bottles, have his kids carry them down to the patch and turn them upside down to drain out as they melted. Must have worked. He had buds every fall.
 
In.Home.Rhizome

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youraveragehorticulturist said:
Flushing is an interesting one.

Every once in awhile my plants will look like shit. Simultaneously showing nutrient burns and nutrient diffincies and looking over watered. If I water until run-off, the run-off comes out a gross piss yellow. As if there was gross poison in my pots and flushing cleared it out. Then my plants perk up and look good again.

Hydro guys often feed/ water, feed/water... In effect "flushing" out the old nutrients with plain water, then starting over with fresh nutrients. Who know what kind of ph or lockout issues you can develop dumping those weird ionic compounds or "nutrients" (bro science alert!) on top of eachother for weeks.

I don't know about 2 week flushing protocols to increase dankness, or special flushing chemicals. But you can Certainly flush to eliminate undesireable buidup and Stop fucking your plant up.
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I reckon there are certain methods of growing that it is definately beneficial to flush but equally there are are lots of ways that it just isn't necessary.

I've always wondered about the flushing but found since switching away from a sterile hydro system to a more microbe organic. Flushing becomes less necessary.
I thought it was a combo of less buildup of plant shit in the media due to the beneficials doing their thing and not using chelated synthetic nutrients ie. Sticking with the organic feeds that still need the microbes to assist equals less need to "wash" the root zone towards the end of a cycle.
If I think about it even a Bloom mix has instantly available nitrogen in it so it makes sense to stop a bit b4 harvest but in my mind if ur just letting the micros feed the plant what it wants then itll self regulate.
 
athomegrowing

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Chef420 said:
Anything that has to do with influencing the sex of the seed.
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It's possible. I haven't come across anyone who discusses CRISPR/gene editing on here, but the reality is Monsanto has perfected gene editing, and can remove foreign DNA from a seed. You could do anything you want, including changing the gender (works on humans too). If it's not already hidden/secret knowledge; in a twenty years (or so) we will have discovered a chemical which when applied to the seed guarantees a female. Not very far fetched in my opinion. Secret societies have guarded similar knowledge for hundreds if not two thousand years.
 
reallybigjesusfreak

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Chef420 said:
Anything that has to do with influencing the sex of the seed.
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goddamn that is brilliant, I need to start marketing seed sexing juice. Guarenteed to turn at least half of your seeds female, or Your money back*

*you will just get blocked on instagram and I will not return your emails because you are stupid and bought my stupid product.
 
too larry

too larry

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reallybigjesusfreak said:
goddamn that is brilliant, I need to start marketing seed sexing juice. Guarenteed to turn at least half of your seeds female, or Your money back*

*you will just get blocked on instagram and I will not return your emails because you are stupid and bought my stupid product.
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The weed nerd says you can make more males by germing in temps above 85F. It's worked well for me. I use the hot water in the garden hose to water my seed trays when I'm looking for more males.
 
nachooo

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In the eighties I use to hear...hashish and marijuana came from different plants!!!. And also..dry the buds..put them in a glass jar and dig a hole underground and put the jar there..after 3 months the THC will increase a lot….
 
madvillian420

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oh jeez....lets see

"white seeds are the females"
"drinking orange juice after you blaze makes you 10x as high"
"putting a slice of bread in an oz bag of over dried bud it will re-moisturize it"
"putting coffee with weed in transport confuses drug dogs"

ill post more as i remember them, i have quite a few lol
 
ltecato

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DonnyDee said:
So I think we're all aware that a lot of bullshit broscience gets spewed about growing - from the blurple schtick to sticking copper through stems. I read some stuff today that's just been the straw on the camel's back and I'd love to share it with RIU.

Some pollen chucker is trying to sell seeds locally, this is what he's said when I asked about the lineage of seeds he's trying to sell.



So it's an Amnesia Haze S1? Did you induce pollen production or let it occur naturally?



What's the craziest bullshit you've heard, bonus points if the guy was trying to make cash out of it!
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What about colchicine? I recall I think reading in High Times in the '70s about how using colchicine to induce polyploidy was supposed to be the next big thing, then it just seemed to vanish from the collective conscience.
 
nachooo

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ltecato said:
What about colchicine? I recall I think reading in High Times in the '70s about how using colchicine to induce polyploidy was supposed to be the next big thing, then it just seemed to vanish from the collective conscience.
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But that is not broscience….colchicine can be used for that...At least to some point i think…
I remember in the eighties..my mother had colchicine pills for artritis illness...I disolved one on wáter and use it like coloidal silver on flowers and then I pollinated them...I remember a very big seed as a result...but never finished the experiment.

I remember also people using antibaby pills in the water for the plants to get more female plants or something like that...
 
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athomegrowing said:
It's possible. I haven't come across anyone who discusses CRISPR/gene editing on here, but the reality is Monsanto has perfected gene editing, and can remove foreign DNA from a seed. You could do anything you want, including changing the gender (works on humans too). If it's not already hidden/secret knowledge; in a twenty years (or so) we will have discovered a chemical which when applied to the seed guarantees a female. Not very far fetched in my opinion. Secret societies have guarded similar knowledge for hundreds if not two thousand years.
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Pretty much everything he just said is the worst broscience that I have seen today. Not even worth correcting.

Also ... playing different genres of music (or any music) somehow your plant likes classical music and hates metal ... sure ....
 
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