Day 16…. Part Deux. The canes.
Ok good people let's get down to business…and the whole point of this silly cane carry on... so what is the point?
It's about attempting to force extra growth from the plants by manipulating them to do things by tricking the plant. In the picture you can see how the side branch is held down after the first node, the idea is to keep the top of the side branch low, until the two developing branches at the first node start growing and then let them grow up at the same rate, so as to develop three branches.
So instead of having a side branch with a single bloom and a little popcorn bud running down its length, we can force another two blooms from one branch. Here is an example from a previous grow of how the technic works. as you can see the plant has been stripped down, just to show an individual side branch developed in the way above described.
Of course there is a limit to how much you can force from an individual auto plant, due to its short vegative phase. but with two plants in a pot you can really force an amazing amount of bloom. Here is the first ever cane grow on the BAM.
I hope this explains the idea behind this canin' malarky.