05. Marijuana Growing Tips
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There are several tricks to increase the number of females, or the THC content
of plants: You can make the plants mature in 36 days if you are in a hurry, by
cutting back on the light to about 14 hours, but the plants will not be as big.
You should gradually shorten the light cycle until you reach fourteen hours. You
can stop any watering as the plants begin to bake the resin rise to the flowers.
This will increse the resin a bit. You can use a sunlamp on the plants as they
begin to develop flower stalks. You can snip off the flower, right at the spot
where it joins the plant, and a new flower will form in a couple of weeks. This
can be repeated two or three times to get several times more flowers than usual.
If the plants are sprayed with Ethrel early in their growing stage, they will
produce almost all female plants. This usually speeds up the flowering also, it
may happen in as little as two weeks. You can employ a growth changer called
colchicine. This is a bit hard to get and expensive. (Should be ordered through
a lab of some sort and costs about $35 a gram.) To use the colchicine, you
should prepare your presoaking solution of distilled water with about 0.10 per
cent colchicine. This will cause many of the seeds to die and not germinate, but
the ones that do come up will be polyploid plants. This is the accepted
difference between such strains as "gold" and normal grass, and yours will
DEFINITELY be superweed. The problem here is that colchicine is a posion in
larger quanities and may be poisonous in the first generation of plants. Bill
Frake, author of CONNOISSEUR'S HANDBOOK OF MARIJUANA runs a very complete
colchicine treatment down and warns against smoking the first generation plants
(all succeeding generations will also be polyploid) bacause of this poisonous
quality. However, the Medical Index shows colchicine being given in very small
quantities to people for treatment if various ailments. Although these
quantities are small, they would appear to be larger than any you could recive
form smoaking a seed-treated plant. It would be a good idea to buy a copy of
CONNOISSEUR'S, if you are planning to attempt this, and read Mr. Drake's
complete instructions. Another still-experimental process to increase the resin
it to pinch off the leaf tips as soon as they appear from the time the plant is
in the seedling stage on through its entire life-span. This produces a
distorted, wrecked-looking plant which would be very difficuly to recognize as
marijuana. Of course, there is less substance to this plant, but such wrecked
creatures have been known to produve so much resin that it crystallizes a strong
hash all over the surface of the plant - might be wise to try it on a plant or
two and see what happens.
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