How to make stubborn Sativas flower faster!!!

Used to hang around commercial growers (uncles and cousins basically) back in the old country - somewhere tropical. Anyway I learned some things while growing in that part of the world. I remember a nifty little trick to make them flower faster and that is to give them a bit of smoke. Ironic isn't it....

I am not sure what the availability of "whole coconut husks" are in your area but it is the main ingredient in this process. Basically you put a burning piece of red hot charcoal between two pieces of dried coconut husks and leave it under your bush making sure that it doesn't burn the whole place down of course. This would smoke the plants for hours during the day. apparently it is bad if the husks burn too fast but the burn is controlled via moisture content in it. Too much moisture and it doesn't burn at all too little burns too fast. The only remnants of it the next day would be some ash at the base of the plants.

Ahhh brings back memories. Hard work i know but imagine doing a couple of hectares of this it was tiring work. Family thing farming in that part of the world - you have to pull your weight I guess.

Anyways "Horticulturaly" speaking it does have it's own merits - it might be the ash stabilizing the PH of the soil, increased CO2 produced by the burn, reduced pest aphids/insects etc due to the smoke or some other organic chemical material released in the process or a combination of it but I've seen it work with my own eyes. Forces the plants to flower/flower faster before the rainy season starts to spoil everything in that part of the world. Anyway just a tip to help fellow outdoor growers...

I think nutes with no N in it is about all that can be done for outside grows.....I donno though I dont have much outside exp.

Allglad said:

I think nutes with no N in it is about all that can be done for outside grows.....I donno though I dont have much outside exp.

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I beg to differ. There are a myriad of things out there that plants respond to other than Nutes. We have heaps of examples in the wild after all we are talking about a plant here. Examples such as certain Eucalyptus's will only germinate after a fire, mahogany trees will only break open seed pods when the wind is blowing in the right direction, some seeds survive in the stomach of birds while others do not etc. Might seem like "Voodo Mumbo Jumbo" but experience tells me it works and I am going to keep doing it. That's all we can do really... Keeping in mind that plants are living things and they are naturally respondent to actions induced (tropisms) by their environment. So why not make use of it.

Ok I am wrong then. I dont disagree there are things to do..hense my comment "I donno".

I guess you found your answers. Good luck!!

Thank you and no worries. Anyways I am here to learn more things. So I am all ears (well eyes in this case) if you have tips you are willing to share about this special plant.

Sorry, creating smoke with the hazard of causing a fire and alerting emergemcy officials to my grow is not my idea of intelligent. It might be OK in some tropical place that is isolated, but I wouldn't risk sending up smoke signals from my plants.

Serapis said:

Sorry, creating smoke with the hazard of causing a fire and alerting emergemcy officials to my grow is not my idea of intelligent. It might be OK in some tropical place that is isolated, but I wouldn't risk sending up smoke signals from my plants.

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That's very true but at the same time you can control how much smoke is released via the amount of moisture in the coconut husk and how big the piece of ember you put on it. Doing it really early in the morning too would probably help. Not too much wind early in the morning. Dried whole Coconut husks (not shredded) burn has a very distinctive light white smoke. The idea is to have it burning at a rate of a cigarette or incense - smoke wont get very high up at all. Probably experiment on your backyard first before doing it in your secret spot.

I know certain places on earth you probably wont risk doing it such as places that are prone to massive forest fires. Hence the don't burn the whole place down comment.

If you can cut down to grow time by half a month maybe more and hence lessen the other perils that your plant is exposed to while outdoors. I would say it's worth it. Don't you think?

it just kinda sounds like your saying if i put a rabbits foot at the base of my plant it will make it bud faster. if i tried this, i would feel like some indian tribe member or something. and if anybody ever saw me doing it they'd be like wtf are u doing?

dababydroman said:

it just kinda sounds like your saying if i put a rabbits foot at the base of my plant it will make it bud faster. if i tried this, i would feel like some indian tribe member or something. and if anybody ever saw me doing it they'd be like wtf are u doing?

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LOL fair enough! Be one with the land man!

But seriously - as I said it has it's merits.