Never heard of such. I have seen people push a nail thru the trunk right before harvest. They say it makes the plant produce more trikes. ???
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i wouldn’t say that, but my main cola will be thicker because of it
Same concept but i don’t want to introduce a place for disease to take hold.
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Ok, i got you now cuz. For my test run, I’m letting everything be as natural as possible with nothing to influence any difference other than the BBP.
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That’s why I scarred mine, because your going all natural
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My Grandfather used to take clones by scaring them and using cheese cloth and potato sacks filled with dirt wrapped around branches. Every couple of days he would wet them down with water that had willow soaking in it. The roots would work their way out the “bag” of dirt and he would cut the branch off just below the cloning bag. This was fruit trees though so… He also did cuttings soaked in that Willow tea. That worked too but he said the branch method produced clones that were never stressed.
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That’s seriously ‘old-school’ there cuz lol There’s some folks still do it that way. It does work.
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Grandpa and dad were always AMAZING to me. So many of those old ways are lost. I wish I had paid more attention. But there were girls.
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So the wisdom was lost but the girl stayed. I think a good tradeoff.
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You could say that. 
lol
That is old school. Then you have to lay them over. I did some fruit trees one time when I was a kid with my uncle. Very interesting because I’ve been wanting to do some myself. I got this beautiful lemon tree. I’ve been waiting for lemons I’m trying to learn grafting.
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Hi Bob, I’ll add my thanks for making this test happen, always interested in ways to improve. @JohnnyPotseed is The Man for the job with the cred & resources to get your message out.
Here’s a question from left field: I use an electric Fogger in my small fruit orchard for integrated pest management. It allows me to treat all the trees with a cloud of permethrin, BT or whatever is needed and is extremely efficient in the amount of chems used. Two or three ounces will treat over a dozen mature apple, peach & pear trees.
I’ve also used the fogger in my grow room to combat a terrible case of Spidey Mites a few years ago. Thirty seconds of “Fog” applied three times over a week and no more spidey! I also fogged the empty grow room between grows and haven’t had any pest issues since. Jus sayin.
So my question is whether this could be an effective method for BBP application in a large grow rather than normal foliar spray?
Cheers,
-Grouchy
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Hi Grouchy !
In 1986 I found myself manager of a 2235 ac almond orchard…I realized early on in order to do timely applications and get accross that acerage, I wasn’t going to spray at the normal 250 gal/ac (common practice in that time period) I purchased 6 Windmill sprayers and had extremely good success at 40/50 gal ac…but boy did I hear the shit I was a idiot, and couldn’t get control with that coverage!
Anyway to answer your question… In order for BudBusterPro to work we have to get sufficient material on the leaves…I would be afraid if you went very low application rates, you would have to spray the BBP super concentrated…that may be problematic and burn tissue… You may try it on a single plant and see if you can ‘wet’ the leaves…I’m sure you understand what may work great with insecticides/pesticides/fungicides may not be appropriate when you’re applying foliar nutrients ! Thanks for the question…
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That does sound like the thing to do with that large of acreage cuz. Why woul they say no to it? Old habits, I guess makes some ‘stick-to-the-‘right’-methods’ lol
I woulda thought maybe mounting one or two of those windmill sprayers on a trailer and driving up n down the rows…
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The issue everyone had with low volume spraying back in the day was coverage…when actually it’s about partical size…conventional big drops vs Windmill’s fogging… Windmill and Spectrum orchard sprayers use a unique nozzle manifold so they really in essence are foggers. I believe another advantage no one considered is that your chemicals applied were much more concentrated and thus more potent/long lived.
It’s much more accepted now than in 1986 and I think a lot of it was I was a ‘young buck’ and you just don’t go against the ‘flow’ !!!
LOL, I’m pretty sure I gave the boys in the coffee shop something to laugh about !!!
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Yep, I’m sure cuz lol But the main thing is, did it work ok for ya? that’s all that should matter.
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You bet !! It worked great ! LOL it was one of those things I was comfortable with my convictions at the time so, I went with it !! Also, I guess I have a unique attitude toward ridicule/mockery…I was just glad to provide my neighbors with entertainment I
BTW I continued to use them until I retired in 2018 and noticed that actually quite a few growers were employing them by 1990
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Ridicule they might, but they were smart enough to read the writing on the wall, it would seem! lol
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Passive persuasion… works with some and those it doesn’t work on are welcome to go their own way!!
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Thanks for the response, makes sense.
To combat boring beetles I’ve had to soak down the tree trunks with the sprayer until they dripped with the fog. I didn’t increase the concentration, just let the fogger run longer.
Maybe I will do a test down the road as you suggested. 
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Update time folks
I did 3ml/8oz distilled water today. The smallest Blue Dream is fast catching up to it’s sister, as you can see. The Bruce Banner #3 is still getting bigger than the other BB and both are filling in very nicely with the secondary growth.
This first pic is all 4 group shot
next pic is the two BB#3 for comparison
next is the two Blue Dream, she’s gaining on her sister lol
and last shot is of the two treated plants, soaking wet!
So far, so good. The next treatment is in 7 days with another 3ml/8oz water.
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