Calling all Smart Stoners.........Ethylene Gas for faster Flowering??

Help with my next seed order please. :-) what would you grow.

  • Brazil Amazonia - World of Seeds

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  • Sour Secret - DNA Genetics

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  • Fruity Chronic Juice - Delicious Seeds

    Votes: 3 42.9%
  • Flowerbomb Kush - Strainhunters/Greenhouse

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Nuikala

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Hey, a question for the botanists among us.
Since some plants respond to Ethylene gas to ripen faster, do you think adding some ethylene gas to the grow room (maybe over ripe fruit like pears or bananas) would kick the plants into high gear during flowering? i KNOW it works to help ripen fruit faster, so maybe it would work for Cannabis. Maybe not.
Peace and Pot
:lol:
 

qwizoking

Well-Known Member
No
And id take the fruity chronic juice..only one I've heard to be good, never grown any of those or tasted... flower bomb should be good though and I would probly choose that out of the choices I like green crack a lot and og..
 
Ethylene serves as a hormone in plants.[20] It acts at trace levels throughout the life of the plant by stimulating or regulating the ripening of fruit, the opening of flowers, and the abscission (or shedding) of leaves. Commercial ripening rooms use "catalytic generators" to make ethylene gas from a liquid supply of ethanol. Typically, a gassing level of 500 to 2,000 ppm is used, for 24 to 48 hours. Care must be taken to control carbon dioxide levels in ripening rooms when gassing, as high temperature ripening (68F) has been seen to produce CO2 levels of 10% in 24 hours.[21]
 

Lysemith, Lowkey

Well-Known Member
Have you tried this Qwizo? it would be pretty cheep to throw a stack of bananas in your room.

I think the importance of hormones is understated or underestimated in general.
 

qwizoking

Well-Known Member
There's no way your gonna like the outcome..
Because the effects differ by plant you can't be certain what will happen...but let me put it like this, your wife just got pregnant (entered flower) you tell her to go ahead and get induced..now you have an underdeveloped bud that lost yield and potency
that's the best case scenario mind you..
Suppressing it causes nanners to get thrown and turn into a boy (feminized seed) unlike other crops
Now mj flowers with short days.... (ethylene)Inhibits short day induced flower initiation in Pharbitus nil [30] and Chrysanthemum morifolium [31]
Inhibits shoot growth and stomatal closing as well..nice plant structure? Lol and lack of transpiration in our grow environments?
Stimulates leaf and flower senescence because we want our bud to go crispy
Stimulates epinasty — leaf petiole grows out, leaf hangs down and curls into itself..great for trimming
Not to mention this fucks up the cure and photosynthesis rates
All from the Wikipedia article the other dude first quoted
I mean I'm not about to list all the reasons this will go wrong...none of the "side effects" are desired in cannabis cultivation

I hope y'all weren't under the impression my simple no meant I didn't know what I'm talking about..
 

kermit2692

Well-Known Member
Fruity chronic juice because i've not grown anything from the other companies but have not been let down by delicious..I would stay away from that stain hunter BS fuck everything those fools stand for..arjan that moron running around in their dumb videos ripping leaves off plants and molesting the buds..they are all about landrace strains yet they bring western strains in bean form to trade the locals so they are being counter productive and negatively affecting what landrace means for the next generation..I have no respect for that company id never give them my money..plus they have a bad rap for hermies too
 

Lysemith, Lowkey

Well-Known Member
I was certainly under no such impression. I was thinking starting ethylene in like week 8 of flower for commercial growers to finish up a crop that was going a bit too long. I believe thats what they do for other commercial crops, instead of using it throughout the flower cycle.

How would it affect the photosynthesis? increased uptake of related nutrients? specifically Mg?
 

Nuikala

Well-Known Member
Ok so it wont work? or it would work but not with positive results for cannabis? either way i dont think ill try it, just something i thought of while i was sittin around yesterday.
 

qwizoking

Well-Known Member
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripening
Read about how we tell when fruit is ripe
Fruits don't ripen like weed flowers.I think that's causing confusion.we check for trichomes to finish producing.
Go do your research about ethylene I guess.. http://agronomyday.cropsci.illinois.edu/2008/tours/ethylene/
the results are seen in minutes
There is literally no gain to this..even If all it did was somehow stop trichome production thereby "ripening" it will still mess up the cure severely and hurt yield as well as potency . And no it severely halts not increases. Nutrient uptake is most effected by transpiration and the use of. Which is why you can negate the effects of a root bound plant by increasing temps and lowering nute concentrations and lowering humidity etc..also why putting a healthy plant with sufficient n in the dark a while can cause clawing and an abundance of nutes with the lack of deterioration and use..it closes the stomata (yes I know it increases root hairs)..also don't forget it actually halts flowering in short day plants
There are so many reasons this won't work soooo many lol I'm not gonna go into it...hermies for example
Literally every side effect is bad for our plant...I don't know why you think it will be good. Just take the no lol
 

Nuikala

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Oh ok i get it. The ethylene is just a trigger for the fruiting process to start, not actually an ongoing thing that actually ripens the fruit. Thanx
 
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