sir_tokes_a_lot

Do you remember in Kindergarten when you would plant a flower but feed it water with blue or purple or red food coloring and the plant would turn that color? Well, i was wondering if that would help prevent getting caught by helicopters that scan for the distinct color of hemp. Would that screw up the bud at harvest time? That would be a good idea if you are growing in an open field, which i am preparing to do.

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shepper

??PREPARING?? to grow in an open field in mid-october? i would like some details on that one...

sir_tokes_a_lot

I live in Dallas, where it does not get cold until mid-november, but i must have made a mistake when i said that i was going to grow in an open field right now. I will grow in a open field in the spring and summer time. I plan to grow in my attic next to a furnace in the winter. But woul dthe color thing be a good idea or would it screw up the bud.

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NJ-Toker

Changing the leaf color has NOTHING to do with the detection done by helicopter from above.

They use visual detection from above because it's very easy to see a pattern of plants that way - something you just can't do from the ground. Ever notice how easy it is to pick out the baseball fields from an airplane? Same theory.

When they fly over and use infrared detection, they are actually looking at the heat being given off from the roofs of houses. If there is a higher concentration in one house they can suspect grow lights inside and start surveillance on that house.

Skywalker

Ya know Sir t.a.l. you might be on to something. I had forgotten that food coloring bit but it all came back when you mentioned it.

One of the main ways they spot pot outdoors is by the intense green color it had. They can pick it out from a long distance away. Since red is the opposite color to green a little red added to the plants color would make it more purple and less of that bright green color. You would still have to prune it to change the shape and watch ground cover etc but you *might* just be able to fool them completely from the air. It's worth a shot.

Another thing they are doing is to detect pot at night by the IR signature it has. This is a fairly new thing and it's different from the heat on the roof detecting that we're more familiar with. Each plant has a certain tell tale IR signature in the way it gives off heat. I've heard that pot can be detected this way too. The color change might affect that too. We all know black absorbs and gives off heat much faster than white colored objects. If you change the color just a bit of the plant it would have to change the way it gives off heat, just a bit.

Sir tal, if you try this out and it works you will be famous

sir_tokes_a_lot

If someone could find out if color changes in plants change the amount of infrared heat plants give off that would be great. It seems that it would, because looking through infrared binoculars it seems that different colors have different amounts of light they give off in the infrared binoculars. If anyone could test this, (i have no plants now) that would be great. Just put a little red to make it purplish or yellow to make it a lighter green. Well i need a cigarette.

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Happy McSnappo

colour tends to be a result of how dense an object is i think...

but anyway, here in the land of aus, a popular plant is "sorgum" as it gives off the same heat signature as weed... thats not the reason that its popular though... you can sell it for food... but every now and then people take alook at the large sorgum crops of shaddy farmers, and you'll never guess what they find hidden in the middle ;P

you've got the web, look it up... though i dont know if thats how you spell it though