Originaly posted by Roseman;
3) Intentional Stress- When your approaching the end of your flowering cycle,you start to stress the plant out. When plants THINK they Are dying ,the only thing they know how to do is grow or try to reproduce. if you start to stress them it is believed by many that the plant will try to get stickier in order to do be able to catch more pollen from a flowering male.
When you do this,there are some methods I use,and some things to keep in mind
**Never do this for more then 14 days before your harvest. The key here is to stress them out just enough, to not give them time to turn hermaphrodite on you. You have to estimate when you think you might have 14 days left,start and harvest no more then 14 days after. - kick the plant pots everyday,shake the plant a little everyday, give it a few minutes of HIGH FAN Air..like a wind storm.
- take little thumb tacks, drive them into every branch on the plant right below the last node. Do not break anything,,or drive big things. Just a tack into every branch.you're not damaging,,your just pissing her off a little.
This was something used to do a few times on an outdoor grow. I never noticed any difference except to expose it to bugs and disease.
TWISTING- hold one part of the large stem between a thumb and finger, and one inch higher, hold one part of the large stem between a thumb and finger, and TWIST it, to damage it.
Take your fignernail and scrap a piece of skin (bark) off, the size of a penny on the larger stems.
I've broken branches or had heavy branches break and either taped them up or leaned them againstsomething. At harvest time I didnt notice a difference.
- I know a lot of people like to do 24 hours of darkness,at harvest,,try 2 days of darkness before u chop,or even mess with the light schedule a little,,i know this seems crazy but it works.
Some folks do this but I never did. The more you mess with things, the most you risk having your grow go bad.
whats the deal here? Does it work? When they think they are dieing do they yield more THC?