thanks chuck estevez
UB has screamed apical dominance for ever. I supercrop, which was explained to me as redistributing those auxins from the main to the laterals to make them all equal.
No fair cherry picking your worst LOl!
The only usable light they get is R and FR thru the leaves but that's not the issue. (I've discussed the importance of R and FR spectrum in previous threads). You can't convince most newbs that budsites don't need a lot of light. It's like they've made up some "given", it became another misguided forum consensus, and no amount of science is gonna convince them otherwise. "Don't confuse me with the facts". Like I said before, the few small leaves at the budsites don't have the ability to contribute much value to the plant compared to the efficient, large solar collectors (fan leaves). You pull leaves, you set the plant back. Simple science. And saying "it works" is pretty lame. That's like saying rubbing bacon grease on my cracked hands works, but I'd much rather use Gold Bond Ultimate.
....and fool proof.
But you're a scientist and master gardener and know better than to waste your time. I've yanked leaves on a very bush plant many years ago. The result? Replacement of what I yanked, output from the nodal axis (an issue never discussed by the leaf pluckers)....and of course it set the plant back because there was less food being made for a period of weeks.
Experiment, find out for yourself. I've done a bunch of experimenting on cannabis. It's the only way you learn. My seed germ method regarding proper pot heights came as a result of experimenting, a 3 time freeze/thaw of seeds regarding viability came out of an experiment, I experimented on Mex seed regarding pesticide applications to test their tendency to burn the leaves......
Interesting point, I and most others really got hung up on spectrums when we first started out. I spent 100's of hours on research and have dozens of spectral analysis graphs on all kinds of lights - fluors, HID, incandescent. I was discussing this spectral issue with a Parks Superintendent of a large city and he said he and his son did a high school experiment and found that a pure red light grew plants as well as any other colored bulb. They tried different colored bulbs. Their conclusion and my observation after growing some of my best with pure HPS from start to finish made me come to the conclusion that the hydro lighting sales segment was yet another gimmicky way of making money.
Again, you don't know what you're talking about. Bud found at the lower levels was found to be more potent than top bud per Mel Frank's reporting. You're shooting off your mouth again showing your ignorance where Frank reported actual scientifically derived results based on the U. of Miss. laboratory analysis. Buy the book, you might learn something (then again you might not).
Well fuck a duck, I explained this twice! Are you fuckin' blind and can't read nor comprehend or you just STOOOOOOOOOOOOopid?
Yep, and then there is the hormonal response called phototropism.
NICE, Found this on that.
Yeppers, the cells on the shaded side actually divide causing elongation and a tilting of the leaf towards the sun. Wonder if that effect is the same for a sunflower, where the head tracks the sun from sunrise to sunset.
UB has answered this countless times..
I've noticed this before! lower buds and even buds on the backside of the plant (away from the bulb) are more resinous at times..
not good with science talk, but this don't mean I can't grow a plant
I could grow for 20 years and grow the best plants every and not know, just remember you read this info, didn't get it all from growing a plant
but exactly what is apical dominance controlled by? i know is the auxins but is it age, or height, or light exposure, or some sort of combination of those factors that distributes them?. the reason i ask is because i noticed that when i was using my vertical bulbs the buds closest to the light (they were lower side buds) developed more quickly than the bud further away.
I don't pretend to know any of this stuff, but hope that it answers your question:excuse me if I'm being a dunce
in fact there's one donkey dick bud that's well over 6" taller than the other and would normally be the most developed bud if the plant was under a horizontal fixture with the light shining straight down.
i want to add that by most developed i mean the most frosty... i remember reading somewhere that resin glands sometimes serve the purpose of protecting the plant. not sure how true that is, but maybe if it does hold some weight, then maybe the reason they are frostier is due to the bud protecting itself from too intense light (flowering plants do not need as intense light as vegging plants) and has nothing to do with apical dominance.
if anyone could clear that up for me it'd be awesome. thanks
I think this is more based on topping a plant and how it reacts
