nail through stalk

My bro says it works and he grows fire.

billyblunt said:

like try stabbing the branch a few times near one spot on the branch ,with a needle it causes the plant to produce what looks like a hard knuckle as it repairs..inducing auxin flow..

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Why not just pinch and flatten the stalk without damaging the outer membrane in that same area and stop penetrating your cannabis plants with foreign objects? Train and take care of your plants, give them good water and good food and a good enviroment- theres the secret to high testing and heavy yielding plants (good grow pratices lol)

These replies 11 years later are amazing.

I don't actually put the nail thru the stalk. I threaten to. This state of continuous anxiety and stress for my plants creates a perpetual panic response and increased thc.

I've had some measure about 112% thc by doing this. A few strains I suspect are onto the threats, but the rest, they're worried enough I think they may begin hoarding toilet paper, but man are the scared ones pumping out the sticky now!

Rob Roy said:

I don't actually put the nail thru the stalk. I threaten to. This state of continuous anxiety and stress for my plants creates a perpetual panic response and increased thc.

I've had some measure about 112% thc by doing this. A few strains I suspect are onto the threats, but the rest, they're worried enough I think they may begin hoarding toilet paper, but man are the scared ones pumping out the sticky now!

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Just sit a TV tuned to the news in your grow room. That should panic them. Hopefully they won't sprout feet and steal all your TP

curious2garden said:

Just sit a TV tuned to the news in your grow room. That should panic them. Hopefully they won't sprout feet and steal all your TP

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Live stream the Johns Hopkins map for them

BarnBuster said:

Live stream the Johns Hopkins map for them

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LOL that should do it.

It's hilarious to me that this bs, that I originally heard in the 80's is still alive and well.


CK

captiankush said:

It's hilarious to me that this bs, that I originally heard in the 80's is still alive and well.
CK

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Good for you.

I pinch and bend my girls over until they can grab their own roots
right gf @curious2garden

smokinshogun said:

This method will cause "Desiccation" of the plant by interrupting the flow of fluids through the stem....Essentially allowing you to "water stress" the plant without all the hassle of underwatering.

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This is all this thread needs to be. This is why it could work. The nail stops water from getting up the plant, so it is similar to underwatering stress. I was wondering how I was going to underwatering in dwc... will I drill a hole or put a nail? No. But I might take all the water out of the res for a while and only give them a splash for a week before chop. I listened to a podcast that said it’s best for about a week of underwatering stress.

Putting a needle in individual stems- I think it could work, but if pinching the stem until it pops works just as well I would do that, less holes in the plant.
Does it actually increase anything?

Ugh! Frustrating!

IMHO the plant potential it's totally determined by genetics. There are 5 limiting factors: light, water, nutrients (Inc O2, CO2), humidity and temperature. You can change things up with medium, tools/automation, training methods, etc to customize your grow.

For example, if you have a plant that has a total genetic potential of 10 pounds, which is not uncommon outdoors, you can get that indoors but you'd have to veg for 6 months and have 30 foot ceilings and a PPFD of 2k or somethimg. The same plant can be trained with LST or HST or other methods to have 30+ 1oz tops in a 5x5 with the right factors in about 12 weeks. Yes supercropping, or pinching/twisting works for what it does. I'm really interested in espalier method...a few masters of that here.

Everything else seems like witches brew to me. I even wonder about flushing, so many smart people believe differently on it i do see how water starving could jump start dry/cure, but i haven't grown in a long while so haven't tried this. I would never slice a stem or leave an open wound except far out on new growth though.

Interesting video, search YouTube for Bruce bugbee increase cannabis yields at home. Wonder what he would think about nail through the stem.

Peace!

Instead of a nail, try a drill next time.

Fucking insane ....

How about hammering a nail through your dick and see if it adds size ?

I remember hooking up alligator clips with wires and a 9v battery to a plant back in 99-2000. Also topped it and injected pure vf11 into the stalk at the same time. It grew a weird nodule where the top site would normally V. From that growth shot out like 20 new vigorous tops that had weird mutated leaf patterns. The plant was 5 times the size as the rest at the end of the season, and the growth was the size of a baseball. We called her frankenstein. Good times.

Make sure when you put a nail through your plant that you do it correctly.

Budzbuddha said:

Fucking insane ....

How about hammering a nail through your dick and see if it adds size ?

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I'm gonna try that right now. Will report back with results.

Budzbuddha said:

Fucking insane ....

How about hammering a nail through your dick and see if it adds size ?

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Well I tried it and I think it actually works. I gained another 3".

IMHO doesnt do anyhting to increase THC. THC is genetic.

In Nepal some put Cobra Heads in the stalks, thats also fake news. The stress can also cause them to Hermi.

Budzbuddha said:

Fucking insane ....

How about hammering a nail through your dick and see if it adds size ?

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my plastic surgeon told me not to do that again. it made it smaller.