Tom O'Rite

>Nothing scary about supercropping

From the point of view of an experimenter and first-timer, it IS a bit scary when you damage a plant to make it grow better, because having lavished love and care on a plant, you don't like damaging it (even in a good cause). Besides which, this is personal opinion.

>This sounds awful fishy.

Sorry, I've got this from a good source. Even if I hadn't, it would stand up to reason and experience- I don't have a fan, or any strong wind in the growing area, so the thick (main trunk is approx as thick as my thumb) branches and so on are down to this technique.

>microscopic cracks? Like its concrete or something? I dont >think so....

Well, I and loads of others do. I'm _not_ saying it's like concrete, but it's only logical that a reasonably rigid structure composed of vertical strips (simplifying) of pithy organic material would split in this fashion when agitated from side-to-side. Besides which, this is how wind, fans and whatever other method of creating a strong breeze you care to mention toughen up plants- by causing minute stress fractures which heal over with greater strength than the original stem.

>Buy a 5" oscillating fan at Wal-Mart for $7,

He's growing outside! If you'd read the thread instead of just grouching about what I'd written, you'd know that!


tom