Originally Posted by
Green Jay
Nice Trex. Do you think this would be the first rootless flower and stem that anyone has ever stuck in water to keep it alive for a few days? hmm. Instead of just saying retarded, how about something constructive, why is it retarded? Talk it through. If I can keep other flowers going for a few days in a vase why not these flowers? strip the fan leaves to reduce the transpiration rate and see if they respond like virtually every other flower on the planet by staying alive for a few days while taking up water only. "Retarded" is not a good argument on it's own. You need to think why it is retarded, other than you've never considered it before. Maybe it is retarded, maybe the plant will use so much less nutrients after removing the fans that it won't be effective and I might as well have gone straight to harvest or maybe the plant will die faster than other plants when vased. I'm more than willing to hear why I shouldn't bother trying it out to see, but if all you've got is "retarded" then I have learned nothing new. What I used to love about the old weed forums when I was growing 20 years ago was that people would put out a suggestion and that suggestion could be good or bad, people would say they had tried it or not, whether it worked or not and even if they had no direct experience they would think it through and come out with their predictions. If you thought the technique they tried needed tweaking, or you thought their reasoning was wrong, you might try it out anyway. If you were convinced then you wouldn't bother. I miss that.
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