Growing for terpenes?

[BoiseShortz]

Stop posting LOL

Sorry kept getting an error message, but they must have all gone through

 

[pollen205]

Can some expert please help me to find terpens rich strain in eu seed banks...
Now growing afghan kush special and the smell is just wood...
I realy dont know to tell difreence betwen the strain because I buy on street and dont know what I buying..
But I love smell dominant weed
La confendencial from dna genetic???

 

[Hot Diggity Sog]

You must drink lots of goldshlager?

Almost spit my coffee out on my monitor I LOL'd so hard!

 

[detgreenthumb]

Hi everyone, I have been growing for 10+ years alway knew that there was a specific flavor to weed that I just loved. Now with lab testing, I am pretty positive that it is a combo of Myrcene and Bisabolol (Kushy). Maybe there is already a thread about this that someone can direct me to? But if not I was wondering what growing techniques (other then genetics) can be used to enhance this flavor profile.

Potassium, magnesium and sulfur are going to be your main catalysts to essential oil (THC/CBD/Terpene) production. I focus on P/K loading duringbthe back end of veg/first couple weeks of flower. Doing so will help with tighter node spacing, better lateral growth and better shoot production in the rhizosphere. Once your plant is done stretching you want to utilize less phosphorus and focus on the potassium, magnesium and sulfur. You also want to maximize UV output from your lights. CMH/QMH bulbs produce a good amount of UV-A and UV-B spectrum. Same spectrum that burns our skin causes the plant to produce more trichomes as a defense mechanism. If you really want to go the extra mile get yourself some bulbs that produce UV-C spectrum. It's by far the strongest of the UV spectrum, which in turn is something that can do the most damage to your skin (think cancer.) If you choose to go the UVC route, make sure those bulbs are only running for 15 minutes every hour and they're always off when anyone is in the room working

 

[Observe & Report]

use magnesium sulfate foliar at the flip, which will double your terps and increase pungency, if timed right and if right strength, and increase your vitamin and mineral production as well.

I'm calling B.S. on this @DonTesla, what evidence can you point to that foliar feeding magnesium sulfate will double the terpines produced by Cannabis?

 

[mr. childs]

I'm calling B.S. on this @DonTesla, what evidence can you point to that foliar feeding magnesium sulfate will double the terpines produced by Cannabis?

i dont know about doubling... but it does seem to work. this is the one i used this year.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

i dont know about doubling... but it does seem to work. this is the one i used this year.View attachment 4227619

juniper and grapefruit.....really? Gin and Juice?

 

[mr. childs]

juniper and grapefruit.....really? Gin and Juice?

rollin' down the street smokin' indo sippin' on...

mixed with mega crop in a 50/50 ratio, or mixed with jacks citrus in a 50/50 ratio...

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

rollin' down the street smokin' indo sippin' on...

mixed with mega crop in a 50/50 ratio, or mixed with jacks citrus in a 50/50 ratio...

that seems like a lot, you use it every feed?

 

[pollen205]

Does any body know what terpenes afghan kush have??

 

[mr. childs]

that seems like a lot, you use it every feed?

foliar outside by itself, tablespoon to a gallon. outside i use it more to hit the mites, moths, catepillars, slugs & snails. foliar indoors, teaspoon to a gallon mixed with a little jaz rose spray or tricontanol with this mister occasionally.

 

[Blue back]

This may have been brought up but does anyone use Terpinator? If so or not what are your thoughts of it?

 

[doniawon]

Potassium, magnesium and sulfur are going to be your main catalysts to essential oil (THC/CBD/Terpene) production. I focus on P/K loading duringbthe back end of veg/first couple weeks of flower. Doing so will help with tighter node spacing, better lateral growth and better shoot production in the rhizosphere. Once your plant is done stretching you want to utilize less phosphorus and focus on the potassium, magnesium and sulfur. You also want to maximize UV output from your lights. CMH/QMH bulbs produce a good amount of UV-A and UV-B spectrum. Same spectrum that burns our skin causes the plant to produce more trichomes as a defense mechanism. If you really want to go the extra mile get yourself some bulbs that produce UV-C spectrum. It's by far the strongest of the UV spectrum, which in turn is something that can do the most damage to your skin (think cancer.) If you choose to go the UVC route, make sure those bulbs are only running for 15 minutes every hour and they're always off when anyone is in the room working

@Heisenbeans , now you've heard the sunscreen theory twice!.

Side note: plasma, hortilux super blue mh, are also good for supp. Uv..

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

foliar outside by itself, tablespoon to a gallon. outside i use it more to hit the mites, moths, catepillars, slugs & snails. foliar indoors, teaspoon to a gallon mixed with a little jaz rose spray or tricontanol with this mister occasionally.View attachment 4227826

what strength tria do you use? i've experimented with it, like the results, ought to use up the rest of what i have stored, i guess

 

[doniawon]

what strength tria do you use? i've experimented with it, like the results, ought to use up the rest of what i have stored, i guess

Snowstorm from humbolts own is basically tria n a bottle, always seemed to help the frost.

Is there a way to make it at home?.

Interested in using tria again, been stuck on sulphur for frost lately, would like to combine them.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

Snowstorm from humbolts own is basically tria n a bottle, always seemed to help the frost.

Is there a way to make it at home?.

Interested in using tria again, been stuck on sulphur for frost lately, would like to combine them.

the easiest way is to use alfalfa meal, it contains a pretty good amount of tria naturally.
you can buy it in powdered form and make it up at need, have to dissolve it in polysorbate 20, then add that to water, tria won't dissolve in water by itself.

i don't actually use it during flower, it's a veg booster to me, seems to make plants at least ten% bushier, grow up to 20% faster, can cut a week or two off of veg time, and have bigger, bushier plants when you flip them. you're supposed to be able to use it in flower, and it will make buds larger, but i've never been able to figure out the timing properly, haven't gotten any mind blowing results from using it during flower

 

[pollen205]

Will gypsum make my soil better for terpenes production ?

 

[Observe & Report]

It's all stoner mythology, like rusty nails, pre-chop darkness, boiling roots, and flushing.

Maybe driving a rusty nail through the stem or increasing sulfate increases terpenes, nobody has done the work to find out if it is true.

 

[pollen205]

Gypsum cant make soil bad anyhow or ?

And what you mean boiling roots...how can I booiled my roots...
Booiled water then water the plant ?
I heard ice cold water at the end??

 

[Observe & Report]

People imagine all kinds of things can improve their crop. If you don't control for expectation bias or other variables then almost anything you do will seem to you to improve your crop. That's why people swear by flushing, prechop darkness, boiling roots, icing roots, organic, biodynamic, chiropractic, accupuncture, homeopathy, prayer etc...