Stressing plants

Stress plant or no

  • Yes

    Votes: 4 66.7%

  • No way

    Votes: 2 33.3%
  • Total voters
    6
BigDawg@1964

BigDawg@1964

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15649656898242041283291.jpg Ok growers let's hear your thoughts on stressing plants through a grow cycle, pros and cons, what's your experience been, let's face it if your growing weed you've tried it or considering it. Lol I myself am a firm believer in it, sometimes my plants have more tape or Band-Aids than 15 year old that just started shaving, let's here it the good and bad,why or why not. Me I tie over plant soon as stem can support that stress, next I start fiming tops then when branches or strong enough I start super cropping I keep the canopy even with that ,but to do all this it takes long veg cycle, I them fim main tops again right before I switch them to flower and the growth is explosive from that fim the first few weeks of flower cycle, this is how I get my plants to be big and have lots of colas for big yeilds,
 
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CanadianJim

CanadianJim

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I only ever topped my plants, then trained the new growth to grow out to the sides, while pulling side branches in close to grow straight up till they caught up with the main stem growth, then topped em all one last time. If I did it right it made an even canopy. Despite the more vigorous growth on one side, randomly switching.
 
BigDawg@1964

BigDawg@1964

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BigDawg@1964 said:
Ok growers let's hear your thoughts on stressing plants through a grow cycle, pros and cons, what's your experience been, let's face it if your growing weed you've tried it or considering it. Lol I myself am a firm believer in it, sometimes my plants have more tape or Band-Aids than 15 year old that just started shaving, let's here it the good and bad,why or why not. Me I tie over plant soon as stem can support that stress, next I start fiming tops then when branches or strong enough I start super cropping I keep the canopy even with that ,but to do all this it takes long veg cycle, I them fim main tops again right before I switch them to flower and the growth is explosive from that fim the first few weeks of flower cycle, this is how I get my plants to be big and have lots of colas for big yeilds,
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BigDawg@1964

BigDawg@1964

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BigDawg@1964 said:
View attachment 4374485 Ok growers let's hear your thoughts on stressing plants through a grow cycle, pros and cons, what's your experience been, let's face it if your growing weed you've tried it or considering it. Lol I myself am a firm believer in it, sometimes my plants have more tape or Band-Aids than 15 year old that just started shaving, let's here it the good and bad,why or why not. Me I tie over plant soon as stem can support that stress, next I start fiming tops then when branches or strong enough I start super cropping I keep the canopy even with that ,but to do all this it takes long veg cycle, I them fim main tops again right before I switch them to flower and the growth is explosive from that fim the first few weeks of flower cycle, this is how I get my plants to be big and have lots of colas for big yeilds,
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this plant just started week 6 of veg.
 

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DustyDuke

DustyDuke

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hotrodharley said:
I top and supercrop everything. Starting early. I’m drastic with the snapping. Stems will have multiple knots from repeated healing. I skewer the hell out of the medium including the hardened root mass directly under the plant. My plants are healthy and produce well.
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I have stolen your stabbing of the medium idea off another thread and I’m glad I took note of it.
Cheers
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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DustyDuke said:
Makes since, I gave mine a worm castings tea the next day and they loved it. I believe it would work the same as stabbing your lawn every few months, works in other aspects of gardening.
Or am I a weirdo who just likes stabbing things o_O(:
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Exactly the same as lawn spiking. That hardened mass can retain nutes since it’s the finer outer roots doing most of the absorption. Take something long and thin. Pierce all through that so air and water can get in there. Pierce all the way to the bottom of the container in multiple places again to aerate and evenly distribute your feed and water. Water really packs mediums down. Especially peat. But even dirt needs cultivation and aeration.
 
Flowki

Flowki

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Our purpose for cannabis is subjective, if it yields more (topping during veg etc tends to do so) then we deem it better. During veg while it may hurt the plant it has time to recover and knows it, being why it doesn't start throwing out seeds in veg. In the wild animal and insect damage is more common, all plants will have a certain tolerance to that kind of thing. Topping response itself no doubt came about due to grazing animals eating the heads off of plants during evolotion.

If our subjectivity isn't the context then topping/bending plants at any point induces stress that the plant doesn't need for it's objective function of survival.

I don't know much about stabbing the medium for aeration, I'd personally try to find a less damaging solution to limit/prevent compaction. It sounds a bit too extreme but that could be naivety.
 
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