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    I was talking to a dude and he advised that I stress my plant before harvest. He said it increases THC levels. Has anyone heard of or have experience with this?

    I asked him how and he said he deprives it of light for the last few days and sticks pins through stems.

    The hippy in me thinks this is cruel af lol.

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  2. "Let your plant dry back more in between watering's, not to the point of wilting, but let the pot get light. This is has been tested side-by-side with a regular irrigation schedule & the test results of the flower for the plants with the drybacks produced higher levels of cannabinoids.

    That stem splitting thing is some nonsense from the 80's, when people thought planting weed with strawberries, made the flower taste of strawberries."


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    That's really what a lot of Bloom boosters are designed to do. To irritate and stress the plant and make it produce more.

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    I stress my plants their entire journey. From day one I pet them and shake them, deprive them of water from time to time, etc.
    A little stress early in a stage goes a long ways in making them stronger for the next phase. As far as during flower, I definitely feel my outdoor plants produce way more oils then my indoor plants. They are fighting all sorts of stresses outside. Not sure they are any higher in thc though.

    These plants are very strong and don't need to be coddled. They do a great job of fending for themselves. You can whitness the flowers oiling up for high sun. It will also happen when the temperatures start to drop.

    As much as I believe in adding stress to my plants to make them stronger, I don't do anything special just before harvest. No pin sticking going on here.

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    Maturing trichomes and increasing thc potency isn't something thats achieved over a couple of nights. Yes the plant will respond to stress stimulae and potentially push out more trichomes, but they wont mature in that small a timeframe.

    The energy taken to do this would, imo, be better served finishing off the trichs it all ready has and has been maturing for the last 2 months, its a 6-8 week process roughly for trichs to mature. During this maturation all the flavour profiles and THC strength develop.

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    there is a theory behind ''stem splitting''
    Most grow techniques that involve stem splitting work on the principles; stressing a cannabis plant encourages it to take up more nutrients, which in turn results in more growth and heavier harvests




    i haven't tested this theory myself but since you asked about it.

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    On my first grow I had a plant which had been topped. One of the stems broke under the weight of the growth. It was still attached by a sliver of stem. I put it back and then taped it back together using cloth tape. That plant then obviously had a couple of quiet weeks as it recuperated, but eventually went on to become a beast and out produced the other 2 plants I had by at least50%.
    I keep meaning to do it again but am too worried in case I mess it up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Karlito1 View Post
    On my first grow I had a plant which had been topped. One of the stems broke under the weight of the growth. It was still attached by a sliver of stem. I put it back and then taped it back together using cloth tape. That plant then obviously had a couple of quiet weeks as it recuperated, but eventually went on to become a beast and out produced the other 2 plants I had by at least50%.
    I keep meaning to do it again but am too worried in case I mess it up.
    It's basically supercropping.

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    I used to do this once, sticking a knife in the stem near the ground level about 20 hours before harvesting, along with freezing. That gave a bit of a purple color somehow, but did not quite got the difference in the strength of THC

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    sounds like a bad idea

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