Apical dominance and Harvesting

[iTiC]

Well I just heard something interesting.

Apical Dominance and friut readyness in regards to harvest times

Apical dominance is a term used to discribe how the plant uses its hormones.

An climbing vine for instance uses its geotropic and kinseotropic hormones to ancore the apical node to the highest point possible.

In cannabis and most other trees the apical node denotes the top of the plant and hence the fruitting body know as the "crown", in the case of cannabis, is the plants MAIN proirity.

Hence the Apical hormones put this fruit in the optimum light/food regime to produce a muture fruit.

As a result the LACK of apical dominance means that lower buds get a different prioity and hence dont mature as quickly as the most exposed bud. So effectivly "maturing hormones" are fed to the plant from the top down.

Harvest

SO to use this information to get the most out of your plant you simply harvest teh crown, allow lower buds a week or two to fully mature. then Harvest this level of bud exposing the 'popcorn' type bud. Give these buds the correponding length of time to fully mature.

Chasing these hormoses down the plant (harvesting from the top down) can helpyeild the most from each plant. This will add some time to the grow cycle, but will yeild a far greatter weight per plant...

 

This sounds like a great theory; and Im definitley giving it a go.

[The Hash Nibbler]

Yeah this works Canna, will be doing this in the tent closer to chrissy =) , done it a few times before. Plants that are tipped also promote more of the hormone lower in the plant. Mine are tipped, but the lowers need fillin out.... I got a lil extra time =)

Peace. Nibs

Edited November 11, 2012 by The Hash Nibbler

[Faith]

Nice post iTiC. I'm going to harvest like this, still a lotta studyin to do though Peace and good growing. v

[loylty gets u nothing]

been doin it for years

thanks for sharing

take care

bil

[Matanuska Thunder]

I tried it once, years ago - added 2ish weeks after trimming top buds, plant showed sign of stress through under-mature hermie balls on the lower buds, discovered at harvest.

Could have been hundreds of reasons it happened, but still chicken $h!t to try again.

 

mt

[El Gato]

Messes around with flushing a bit I guess, or the plant goes with out for a week then you gotta nute her back up again, but agree it is a good way to get the most out of them.

[MadeInAfrica]

nice post iTiC. im gonna try it out.

Cheers

[iTiC]

Thanks for the feed back. Im glad to hear its worth it, will dial that in

Messes around with flushing a bit I guess, or the plant goes with out for a week then you gotta nute her back up again, but agree it is a good way to get the most out of them.

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I tried flushing an AK that was in with longer flowering plants. I harvested then put the stalk into pH ajusted water to flush for a cupla days, then dry and cure as normal. I thnk this worked well enough.

I used a long neck wine bottle. Stones Green ginger to be exact.

 

This would allow to keep the nutes at optimum for the bulk of the grow whilst still gettting a well groomed crown. imo

Edited November 11, 2012 by iTiC

[El Gato]

I tried flushing an AK that was in with longer flowering plants. I harvested then put the stalk into pH ajusted water to flush for a cupla days, then dry and cure as normal. I thnk this worked well enough.

I used a long neck wine bottle. Stones Green ginger to be exact.

 

This would allow to keep the nutes at optimum for the bulk of the grow whilst still gettting a well groomed crown. imo

Good idea there

[protein]

On this subject i also make sure to tip my veging girls no later than 2 weeks before i turn them to flower. As from memory it takes about this long for the plant to reproduce the amounts of hormones lost to the first apical tipping (to get the plant shape/limb count)

 

see below

 

-protein

Edited August 28, 2013 by protein