Trichome Production & Hormones

I posted this at the bottom of another thread and I don't believe it got much light there, so I am bringing it... here.
Also, citation can be found below each entry.

Studies behind trichome production:

"Leaf trichomes protect plants from attack by insect herbivores and are often induced following damage. Hormonal regulation of this plant induction response has not been previously studied. In a series of experiments, we addressed the effects of artificial damage, jasmonic acid, salicylic acid, and gibberellin on induction of trichomes in Arabidopsis. Artificial damage and jasmonic acid caused significant increases in trichome production of leaves. The jar1-1 mutant exhibited normal trichome induction following treatment with jasmonic acid, suggesting that adenylation of jasmonic acid is not necessary. Salicylic acid had a negative effect on trichome production and consistently reduced the effect of jasmonic acid, suggesting negative cross-talk between the jasmonate and salicylate-dependent defense pathways. Interestingly, the effect of salicylic acid persisted in the nim1-1 mutant, suggesting that the Npr1/Nim1 gene is not downstream of salicylic acid in the negative regulation of trichome production. Last, we found that gibberellin and jasmonic acid had a synergistic effect on the induction of trichomes, suggesting important interactions between these two compounds."
- http://www.citeulike.org/group/2438/article/853395

"The plants that received no treatment are progressing as Bubblicious always does, with light visible trichs on the buds, but very little frosting on the sugar leaves.

The plants that received jasmonic acid treatment only, show heavy visible trichs on the buds, as well as a light frosting of trichomes on the sugar leaves.

The plants that received the mix of jasmonic acid and gibberellic acid also show heavy visible trichs on the buds, a light frosting of trichomes on the sugar leaves AND a great deal of FOXTAILING. Foxtailing is considered a disagreeable trait by most gardeners."
- https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=200972

For those of you who may not know what foxtailing is: (it'll make sense once you see it lol)
https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/379782-what-fox-tailing-5.html

A place to buy jasmonic acid spray:
http://www.jazsprays.com/JAZ-Plant-Strengthener_p_14.html

Interesting stuff, huh? Maybe something to experiment with.

So has anybody messed with this stuff before?

Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing! I don't have time right now to dig into the links but i will later for sure...

One immediate thing that comes to mind is that some of the plant hormones/PGR's out there are carcinogens and would ultimately make the flowers unsafe to consume, guess i'll have to investigate more tomorrow when i have time...

I became interested in the use of hormone-type supplemental feeding a couple years ago when I began indoor gardening. Being a life-long outdoor gardener I found out there's years worth of reading on the topic of any kind of hormonal treatments, supplements, mutations, etc...I became interested enough to purchase a few hormone powders in raw form. With enough researching I found enough information to guide me to which chemicals were better used when combined and which ones were better used alone. The big issue became not enough information to guide me to the correct concentrations or when to administer. Long story short- gibberellins alone have no use in cannabis growing for indoor gardening for my environment. Gibberellins combined with Diethylaminoethyl Hexanoate (DA-6), Indole-3-Acetic Acid (IAA) or Indole-3-Butyric(IBA) can be used if I can figure out the combinations and concentrations that work for my growing methods. Jasmonic Acid is not one I've attempted yet but it's on my 'to do' list. My results have been almost completely negative on over 10 plants I've administered to. I claim victory when the plant lives past the first feeding. The few vegetable plants I've sacrificed actually did well at first but suffered longer term issues such as mutations, weird root growth, strange twisting of meristem. This is obviously something that could literally take years to isolate and perfect. That could be the reason you don't seem to find too many cannabis growers willing to jump into the hormonal experimentation. We seem to be an impatient, greedy bunch that want our buds right now, no time for playing around.

Yeah, I'm leery about it but curious as all hell. I've gathered that the most stable results seem to be from jasmonic acid treatments, but even still...

There are bound to be people here that would argue against it stating about how it isn't natural to mess with or boost hormones... but shit. If we could figure out a combination and correct concentration along with a proper method of administration... this could do amazing things to the quality of bud. And even the plant itself.

I guess I'm just another one of those guys who are looking for a substantial breakthrough. But really though. This area of study has potential I think. We use hormones on our own kind daily because we've researched and experimented enough to do it semi-safely.

i thought giberillic acid was used to create feminized pollen ? Maybe thats why it foxtailed?

Nizza said:

i thought giberillic acid was used to create feminized pollen ? Maybe thats why it foxtailed?

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I've heard this before but have never used it for this. Gibberellic acid is primarily a plant growth stimulator and is a naturally occurring substance in most plants. Here's a couple days worth of reading on the topic:http://www.plant-hormones.info/gibberellins.htm And there's plenty more where that came from. It seems there's thousands of articles out there, finding the time to read that much is just impossible for me so I do a lot of scanning for particular info when I need it.