Grand advices had by all, got me a CFL now (candle flame lamp) and i just knows oi can git a pound easy per plant with it cos my dream showed me how…smoking…smoking…zzzzzzzzz
Ok how did i do? am i worthy of a you tube vid yet?
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Even RCC in your PDF says “Whole plants, limbs, and floral clusters are usually hung upside down or laid out on screen trays to dry. Many cultivators believe that hanging floral clusters upside-down to dry makes the resins flow by gravity to the limb tips. As with boiling roots, little if any transport of cannabinoids and resins through the vascular system occurs after the plant is harvested.” so those myths have been widely around for a long time…
One I heard was to treat your plant very roughly, it seems the theory went that the more stress it was under, the more the plant thought it needed to protect itself, and so the more resin it would make.
Every plant I have seen that gets regular stress/abuse anywhere tends to stop growing in that place, like a bush where kids go through it every few days always has a clean hole with no growth. The plant just stops putting effort into growing shoots that are likely to be lost.
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@zem: Thank you for the suggestion, but I have mixed feelings about going to a breeder or seedbank. A really good breeder is probably more likely to have unwanted eyes on his business. Mary Jane is still illegal in my home state. I am very leery of any paper trail. I may be paranoid, but I’ve never had LEO looking at me, and I need to keep it that way.
@Jellypowered has generously offered to send me some seeds from his collection. (Gotta love the brotherhood here at OG 
) I feel certain he is far off anybody’s radar, so I feel safe. I am indeed looking forward to it as well. My 2 unknown strains have served me well, but I am very ready for a new taste, I’ve had just these for years.
Maybe when I am old enough to not worry about such foolish things, I may shop at seedbanks, but I’m not that old yet, My paranoia level is still very high.
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The often quoted statement about hanging plants upside down increases its potency may be a myth, but there is another reason for hanging whole plants upside down. It is convenient. Once all the leaves have been removed, there is generally enough distance between the limbs to allow airflow for drying. Upside is also a convenience as there are a lot of places to hook onto. The only way for a plant to dry out standing is to leave it in the pot until it is dry and that would take longer.
So, myth or not, it is still going to be my preferred method of drying my plants.
Astute observation. Every neighborhood has paths through bushes somewhere and it does seem like that were programmed to not grow overt the path.
She must be growing philodendrons or pathos plants in that room then. Lol
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Don’t get me wrong, it is my method of drying my plants also, although I leave my leaves on until trimming time to protect the flowers. You quoted me quoting Robert Connell Clarke who basically says the same as you, hang them upside down to dry, because it is better than any alternatives, but do not expect it to increase anything like resin or other biological processes.
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You can dry right side up and the buds will be a bit more open. It is more work, but if mold is a issue sometimes it can help.
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Finally… an efficient way to grow… 
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Haven’t had mould in decades. I had it once, then sorted out my environment and kept on it.
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Yeah, sorry, it was a general reply not aimed at you personally.
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No need for an apology, gave me a chance to hint for/at newer growers that sorting out your environment is far better than mitigating a bad one 
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Hey, this is the bad advice thread. 
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Bugger, I actually gave good advice then! Too easy to slip back into it!
Um… ah! I remember some bad advice!
I did hear once about injecting your stalks with sugar solution to grow enormous plants/buds but knowing how giant vegetables are grown (sometimes injected with sugars to enhance growth) I do not know if this is bad or good advice (for the purposes of size/weight that is, obviously taste and possibly potency would not be as good)
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In other words, dead is dead.
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@99PerCent, the reason “pheno” hunting has become ingrained in cannabis culture is because it isn’t incorrect, it also isn’t complete considering the complexity of plant selections. There is a natural order to the increasing complexity of plant breeding with a direct linkage to the stages of scientific advancement. If you aren’t using laboratory terpene testing and genetic mapping to select plants then you can only search for “phenotypes,” and thus are correct in stating so. To understand the parts of plant selection I’m defining it’s parts in jargon laden & non-jargon terms below.
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Phenotype: the set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment.
This is what we can see in the physical attributes of the plant and in it’s responses to environment (temps, light, humidity, water), nutrients and microbiological interactions.
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Chemotype: is a chemically distinct entity in a plant, with differences in the composition of the secondary metabolites. Minor genetic and epigenetic changes with little or no effect on morphology or anatomy may produce large changes in the chemical phenotype.
Chemotype is what laboratories are determining with cannabinoid/terpene/flavinoid testing.
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Genotype: the genetic code of an individual organism, which determines all of its characteristics in every phenotype.
We can only see & decipher this genetic code with advanced biochemistry laboratories and gene mapping, which we’ve barely begun to do for cannabis. (Research maize/corn gene mapping to see where cannabis will be in 20 years.)
All 3 forms of selecting are taught in college evolutionary genetics and advanced genetics courses, which is were I learned about them indepth.
~Cultivate cannabis & compassion to heal our communities.~
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That’s real life. Human ejaculate (mammalian ejaculate) is highly acidic. This softens Borg defenses allowing the spermazoa to go in for the kill. 
Just make sure your aim is on point during uhm, application.
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can a mod move this bit of info to the proper thread then?
this mans knowledge is invaluable!!!
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I find this a little confusing. What term do we use to explain variation and attribute clustering in sprouts when we do a hunt through 100 sibling seeds?
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