Any truth to this???

[Foxhunter]

I've heard and read that a little stress will help your plant produce more tricombs?? Or is this just a myth

 

[Arthur]

Myth. If the plant is focusing on repairs, it's not focused on nug and trich production. Stressed early, topping, lst, etc. Is to take away the main dominant cola, and have larger nugs across the plant. Stress intentionally induced during flower "can" cause hermaphroditing, and will affect plant growth.

I try to have my ladies trained prior to flower, and only gentle tucking, lite lst, maybe to just allow a little more light to the lower areas.

Notice I said try... sometimes life happens, and you have to addapt.

 

[Foxhunter]

Myth. If the plant is focusing on repairs, it's not focused on nug and trich production. Stressed early, topping, lst, etc. Is to take away the main dominant cola, and have larger nugs across the plant. Stress intentionally induced during flower "can" cause hermaphroditing, and will affect plant growth.

I try to have my ladies trained prior to flower, and only gentle tucking, lite lst, maybe to just allow a little more light to the lower areas.

Notice I said try... sometimes life happens, and you have to addapt.

Thanks man I kinda just tuck and be very gentle with the ladies

 

[G.Leave]

I think the only stressful situation that would increase crystal production would be that caused by UV(harmful) lighting. I've read the plants response to block out the harmful UV rays is to create more crystal which in turn refracts the harmful light. To me it totally makes sense.

 

[Arthur]

Have heard this as well, enough actually, that am looking to add a little to my setup.

 

[G.Leave]

Have heard this as well, enough actually, that am looking to add a little to my setup.

Though totally unproven i witnessed it first hand in my stealth cab...there was more early crystal under the two lights with UV in the spectrum. I shifted the plants under the non UV light and within a week they increased crystal visually by a fair amount. I continued the rest of the cycle rotating plants under the UV lights. Doesn't really prove anything from a scientific perspective, but to me it did confirm its effectiveness. I am still considering getting some T-5 reptile lights for additional UV

 

[fryge]

UV promoting trichomes does make some sense, but I'm not sure.
weed isn't the only plant with trichomes, a lot of plants have trichomes, and they come in different forms, with different functions. there are even special salt-accumulating trichomes which work to make plants more salt tolerant.
and protection from IV-light is also a function trichomes have in multiple plantspecies, and seeing how they cover the important part of the plant(for reproduction), it could be they have a function in weed to protect against UV, and in that case it also makes sense the plant would make more of them with more UV.

on the other hand, I'm not completely sure protection from UV-light is an important function of cannabis-trichomes. I once had a practical about trichomes(I study plant sciences), where among others we looked at trichomes of olive. olive-trichomes are pretty clearly meant to protect against sunlight/UV, the trichomes are even shaped like little umbrella's if you look at them under a microscope.
but another clue is if you compare a young and an old leaf. young leaves are most easily damaged by too much light, so you see that young leaves are much denser packed with trichomes.

but in cannabis trichomes only appear during flower(or at least, the trichomes we're interested in, the mushroomshaped ones). so apparently they serve a function that's not relevant before fowering.
UV-light is also present before flower, and seedlings/very young plants would be more sensitive to it as well established, mature, flowering plants.
and buds are already somewhat shaded by the leaves around it, if protecting the flowers from damaging light was so important, it would be more likely that the plant would have developed more leafy buds instead of specialised trichomes(not to imply evolution has any intention/goal btw, just that more leafy buds would achieve the same goal, and that would probably develop easier/faster, since it's not such a drastic change).

 

[Simplicio]

UV promoting trichomes does make some sense, but I'm not sure.
weed isn't the only plant with trichomes, a lot of plants have trichomes, and they come in different forms, with different functions. there are even special salt-accumulating trichomes which work to make plants more salt tolerant.
and protection from IV-light is also a function trichomes have in multiple plantspecies, and seeing how they cover the important part of the plant(for reproduction), it could be they have a function in weed to protect against UV, and in that case it also makes sense the plant would make more of them with more UV.

on the other hand, I'm not completely sure protection from UV-light is an important function of cannabis-trichomes. I once had a practical about trichomes(I study plant sciences), where among others we looked at trichomes of olive. olive-trichomes are pretty clearly meant to protect against sunlight/UV, the trichomes are even shaped like little umbrella's if you look at them under a microscope.
but another clue is if you compare a young and an old leaf. young leaves are most easily damaged by too much light, so you see that young leaves are much denser packed with trichomes.

but in cannabis trichomes only appear during flower(or at least, the trichomes we're interested in, the mushroomshaped ones). so apparently they serve a function that's not relevant before fowering.
UV-light is also present before flower, and seedlings/very young plants would be more sensitive to it as well established, mature, flowering plants.
and buds are already somewhat shaded by the leaves around it, if protecting the flowers from damaging light was so important, it would be more likely that the plant would have developed more leafy buds instead of specialised trichomes(not to imply evolution has any intention/goal btw, just that more leafy buds would achieve the same goal, and that would probably develop easier/faster, since it's not such a drastic change).

Much of what is accepted as common cannabis wisdom has no solid evidence behind it, including this one.
I have no idea whether UV increases trichomes, and I doubt anyone else does either.
Everyone believes this is true, but I've not seen the proof.
The proof would need to be growing about a dozen of so identical plants side by side, some with UV, some without.
I doubt that anyone has done this, but will change my mind if presented with contrary evidence.

 

[wiltstone]

I use uv in the germicidal range if it doesn't do anything for the plants it will kill mold and mildew

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