Hello all! I thought I would start a thread with an experiment.
I have yet to successfully change a plant, mostly due to horrible cab environment and inefficient soil growing methods. I have decided to go back to my traditional DWC method since, ironically, I do much better with it. The plant used is a Northern Lights X Bigbud from World of Seeds. I do have another plant that will be pollinated growing in a seperate Aerogarden (same strain). I will post pics of this later, hopefully to show how much larger it is in the bucket when it gets to that stage. Again, this will mainly be focusing on reversal and pollen collection.
First, please know that I would never advocate growing a cannabis plant fully in the Aerogarden. I do, however, start every seed that I grow into a plant with it. I find the plugs are very easy to manage and it is a complete all in one unit.
For the sake of this experiment I will not be supplementing the reservoir with any oxygen via an aquarium bubbler. This is an experiment where the results are good and obtained with a minimum of fuss (hopefully).
Ideally the CS treatment will stunt the growth of the plant requiring less height. Another factor controlling size is the plant is pure Indica, which should naturally grow more compact. Last, I will not be afraid to top and/or trim this plant. I know this is NEVER done when growing for consumption but this experiment is an exercise in gender swapping and only male pollen will be harvested. Therefore I only want enough to actually collect pollen from the flowers. Once I have enough it's life will be ended. Cruel, I know, but it will have served it's purpose :X's Evil Laugh x:
These are pics from last week when the plant was one week old:
And now seven days later:
As you can see the Aerogarden does work at this stage of plant life and ideally I would be transplanting in my regular bucket soon, probably after one more week or so.
I will be using Tiresias mist at first until the bottle is empty, then making my own CS solution. I bought the mist on a whim, and have since learned that I could have made gallons of CS for the price I paid for it. I do not view this as money misspent however because it was a learning/thinking spark.
The instructions state to only spray on one branch but I will be changing the entire plant according to the instructions on the definitive colloidal silver thread (I am assuming everyone has read this ENTIRELY including the questions and answers).
One deviation from the instructions on the thread will be to use purchased Colloidal Silver. This is in the form of 500 PPM. When diluted to 10% strength it should be 50 ppm, so adding 3 ML of this and topping off the one ounce (30 ml) spray bottle with distilled water should be what I am after.
!!Edit!! I will be making my own solution as discussed below
I believe the genius is in the application of the spray. Being a smaller and more precise spray stream is the advantage here over spraying the entire plant until runoff or at best only hitting some of the fan leaves accidentally. This is a hopeful assumption that is a large part of the experiment.
Hopefully some will gain some insight to the conversion process and we can all learn along the way. I really can't thank Bob on the Definitive CS thread enough for his insight and the time he has spent helping others and sharing information that made this experiment possible. I hope you read this because you truly are the best Bob! I also look forward to hearing from others concerning their ideas or constructive criticism, and those who have done a conversion successfully before.
I have yet to successfully change a plant, mostly due to horrible cab environment and inefficient soil growing methods. I have decided to go back to my traditional DWC method since, ironically, I do much better with it. The plant used is a Northern Lights X Bigbud from World of Seeds. I do have another plant that will be pollinated growing in a seperate Aerogarden (same strain). I will post pics of this later, hopefully to show how much larger it is in the bucket when it gets to that stage. Again, this will mainly be focusing on reversal and pollen collection.
First, please know that I would never advocate growing a cannabis plant fully in the Aerogarden. I do, however, start every seed that I grow into a plant with it. I find the plugs are very easy to manage and it is a complete all in one unit.
For the sake of this experiment I will not be supplementing the reservoir with any oxygen via an aquarium bubbler. This is an experiment where the results are good and obtained with a minimum of fuss (hopefully).
Ideally the CS treatment will stunt the growth of the plant requiring less height. Another factor controlling size is the plant is pure Indica, which should naturally grow more compact. Last, I will not be afraid to top and/or trim this plant. I know this is NEVER done when growing for consumption but this experiment is an exercise in gender swapping and only male pollen will be harvested. Therefore I only want enough to actually collect pollen from the flowers. Once I have enough it's life will be ended. Cruel, I know, but it will have served it's purpose :X's Evil Laugh x:
These are pics from last week when the plant was one week old:
And now seven days later:
As you can see the Aerogarden does work at this stage of plant life and ideally I would be transplanting in my regular bucket soon, probably after one more week or so.
I will be using Tiresias mist at first until the bottle is empty, then making my own CS solution. I bought the mist on a whim, and have since learned that I could have made gallons of CS for the price I paid for it. I do not view this as money misspent however because it was a learning/thinking spark.
The instructions state to only spray on one branch but I will be changing the entire plant according to the instructions on the definitive colloidal silver thread (I am assuming everyone has read this ENTIRELY including the questions and answers).
One deviation from the instructions on the thread will be to use purchased Colloidal Silver. This is in the form of 500 PPM. When diluted to 10% strength it should be 50 ppm, so adding 3 ML of this and topping off the one ounce (30 ml) spray bottle with distilled water should be what I am after.
!!Edit!! I will be making my own solution as discussed below
I believe the genius is in the application of the spray. Being a smaller and more precise spray stream is the advantage here over spraying the entire plant until runoff or at best only hitting some of the fan leaves accidentally. This is a hopeful assumption that is a large part of the experiment.
Hopefully some will gain some insight to the conversion process and we can all learn along the way. I really can't thank Bob on the Definitive CS thread enough for his insight and the time he has spent helping others and sharing information that made this experiment possible. I hope you read this because you truly are the best Bob! I also look forward to hearing from others concerning their ideas or constructive criticism, and those who have done a conversion successfully before.
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