Well, y'all have made your opinions well known - although tact and diplomacy is lacking from most if not all.
Y'all keep crying about my method being known, but no one produces any invalidating references. I would bet the family farm that none of you, not one, has driven their shoot temps down to about 45 deg F and kept the root at 75 or 80 deg F for either all or a portion of veg growth - for any reason - and had no motivation to do so. All I've heard thus far is lowering root temp to increase o2 solubility. Yes, that is in very public domain. But providing cold shoots and hot roots for plant morphology - that is is not public.
But I tire of the din of ignorance and now come to the bottom line; put up or shut-up. Show me a reference. If I'm evil incarnate and you righteously wish me ill, produce an invalidating reference which will shatter all my work and dreams. Ask God to show you the "golden reference" on your quest and smite the nefarious blasphemer.
And, unless you're in the US patent biz, and have been for quite some time - you're really making a fool of yourself with your pronouncements. You're singing foolishness from the rooftops of ignorance.
I am telling you stubborn jack-asses that if you lower your shoot temp to about 45 deg F for the first third or so of vegetative growth, then switch to whatever method you use from there on out, at the end you'll have a ton more buds. Leave your pride and preconceived notions at the door. Listen and look, you may learn. But, alas some never will.
I'm not looking to sue anyone, and I sure don't want to stop mom-and-pop growers (hell, I want it to take off as did sliced bread). I'm just as pissed at corporate America and the abuse of the patent system as anyone else. I've been working with an former co-worker who is now Rep. Tom Massie's Chief-of-Staff. AIA and the pending Innovation Act are killing the small inventor. Where's Ben Franklin when you need him?
But, that abuse is not coming from garage inventors, it's coming from the large corporations. Google is lobbying, with taxpayers dollars, to eliminate the small inventor from the market place by making bringing a complaint so expensive that only international companies can afford it. Just like the inventor of the "intermittent windshield wiper" who was screwed over by the US auto industry. Just like the inventors of 100+mpg cars in the 20s-50s; the oil companies suppressed and bought up the patents for pennies, and entered into antitrust violating agreements with the auto makers. The Cotton lobby, the Soy lobby, etc. are trying to kill hemp dead in North America. Nothing new under the sun.
The problem isn't with the patent system or the citizen inventors dear friends, the problem is with corporations having more of a voice than the citizens themselves (
http://movetoamend.org/). How do you think the Crash of '08 happened? By companies doing the "right thing"?
Pull your heads out people!!
Sincerely and respectfully,
~Chuck,
channeling the spirit of Luther Burbank