What do you mean? Our trychomes starting to turn milky so the end is near, just wondering if the girdling would make it any better. Thanks! weedhopper
if u girdle ur plant, it will stop all flow from the root of the plant. so if that is what u desire, ur plant to completely stop doing all that its doing, then go nutz. i have yet to see anything in the literiture that would tell me that girdling ur plant would have any positive affect on strength of ur plant if that is what u are trying to get at. just leave it alone until its time. ive heard ppl putting nails and splitting and the such. frankly i think they are as nutz as the unibomber...but hey, its their grow.
Oh...ok, thanks for explaining! You're right...I think we should just leave them alone! We're going to pull one in a couple of days, I'm so excited sorry about the picture quality! Didn't look to clear after I checked it out. weedhopper
i dont know where u are located. but those plants still have some time left. i wouldnt be picking them now if u dont have to.
<TABLE class=tborder cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=6 width="100%" align=center border=0><TBODY><TR title="Post 1217562" vAlign=top><TD class=alt1 align=middle width=125>Spanishfly</TD><TD class=alt2>WTF is girdling, anyway???</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> I was thinking the same thing>?
The way my fiance' explained it to me was basically cut notches in the limbs so the nutrients go in but they can't come out. weedhopper
i would leave it another week or two then it should be good if its for your personal stash otherwise if you are gunna sell it then leave it at least a month.
By what alchemy is that supposed to work then?? Sounds like you are none too sure what this technique is either.
Looks like Bufu leafy needs to take you ladies to school on age old methods, with the help of a few horticultural tricks, the berries plump up nearly fivefold. "They also get firmer and more cylindrical," That means a higher price per pound and greater profits for farmers. So how do farmers get that extra junk in the grape's trunk? Many use an ancient — and slightly barbaric — practice called Girdling, which forces the plant to put all its food and energy into making fruit. Plants have two types of pipes in their stems: the xylem and the phloem. The xylem pumps water to the leaves from the roots, while the phloem sends food from the leaves back down to the roots. If you cut off the phloem's flow, all the sugar and energy stays up top, where the fruit is growing. So the berries get plumper. That's exactly how girdling works. Farmers strip off a section of the trunk's phloem, stopping sugars from moving down to the roots. The phloem sits right underneath the bark, so farmers can easily remove it without hurting the xylem deeper inside the stem. They call this girdling because — just like the formfitting garment — the cut must encircle the entire trunk for it to work. The practice goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks, when the "father of botany," Theophrastus, wrote about "girdling stems," shoving metal pegs into pear trees and other ways of "punishing plants" to quicken fruit production. I wouldn't recommend full Girdling, 90% should be fine, interestingly high stress training can work the same as Girdling for short periods if you crush the stem to supercrop it. Also forgot to mention, if you try Girdling do it only in your normal two week nitrogen flush period, = last two weeks of growth + Its a Cannabis plant not a Tree so go easy on it, small blade slice around the stalk skin, but same scientific principle.