StoneHedge

I think i'm having a Warlocesque brainstorm!

I'm not sure if you are familiar with the process by which gardeners fatten up their marrows by threading a length of absorbent string through the vegetable and draping the other end of the string in glucose solution?

Maybe it would be possible to thread a fine absorbent thread through a stem just below each group of buds and draping the other end in a very week nutrient and hormone solution? I'm definately going to try this on a few of my northern lights when they are old enough

Could this help the buds mature?

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- Stonehedge

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Warloc731

It sounds like a good idea, but I would use the same caution that I would give to someone who would want to put sugar in their soil.

Gluclose would be good for fruits and vegetables because fruits and vegetables are made to be food for later on anyway, they would be the most likely places where the plant would be able to slowly break the sugars down into a usable plant energy. The glucose could be broken down into starches and other things for a long time before the plant is ever harvested.

The problem I see with this is that a thread soaked in glucose and threaded through the stem would be a perfect place for breeding bacteria to then enter through the wound. The stems of the plant aren't nearly as good at fighting infections as the fruits or bulbs. With weed there are no fruits or vegetables that grow on the plant and so it would need to be injected into a part of the plant that was used for regular growth.

I think that what you're talking about is kinda like the difference between getting a piercing through the ear and getting a piercing through a major artery. You would not only be poking a hole in a vital area and letting that hole stay open but you would also be creating a means for the bacteria to multiply at rates that wouldn't be found in nature.

I would first isolate the plants in the experiment from the others (to reduce possibility of infecting the control plants if the others get really sick) and then soak the string in some pure grain alcohol (everclear) for a while and then let it dry completely before soaking it in the glucose solution. The deciding factor in this experiment would be contamination by bacteria.

I would also use a few different spots to test it out, I would test everything from the leaves to the bits of stem that connect to the roots.

Tell us how it goes!

- War

wolfman

Welcome back War


wolf

Warloc731

Thanks wolf, Its good to be back.

Here is a link to an online alcohol store with Everclear for sale.

- War