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I've been tying down, and pruning my plants for detection purposes...they are continuing to grow up rather fast even though they are tied down to about a 10 degree angle from the ground, i have heard of severe pruning which can create a bush effect and am very interested in pursuing this idea...will this severly damage my plant causing more hermies....if so what elso could i do?
Get some Christmas tree ornaments, the round ones, and paint them shades of red and light green like tomatoes in various stages of ripeness. Plant tomatoes around your plant. Hang the bulbs on your plant. Voila, you now have tomatojuana. :D
Seriously it's not a bad disguise.
I have to admit I Laughed reading your post Stinky!
Though I do have to admit, if there were people around they might overlook that disguise.
Do you recommend painting the hangers green?
And I am glad you specified the round type....would hate to see a spray painted Santa hanging on there and someone have someone think that was a funny looking mater!
thanks for the idea with the ornaments...sounds pretty smart and i'll definitely think about using it....again thank you
If you do, you have to take pictures!
Of course, you could be in trouble if your mom comes over and tries to pick some 'maters for a nice salad...
Get chilies and tie them on with cotton thread. Worked for me.
u mean chille peppers?
oh how close u think the tomato plants should be, i want the babies to get some light
If they are growing too fast for you you can always cut down on their light. As long as they get a couple hours of direct sun each day they'll survive and even thrive. They just wont grow as big as fast.
Pruning does not cause hermies. It does cause stress, which can trigger hermie traits but this is rare. People keep trimming their mothers for decades.
Trimming new growth off the tops of primary stalks causes bushiness, trimming bushy secondary growth off causes stretch or increased height of primary stalks. Your choice.
O MY MY PLANTS HAS BALLS,:D I might want to say this worked for the past 30 plus years.:rasta: One friend, uses a air brush to make them look like tomatoes. I have seen 1 ft tall and 6 ft long x 1 ft wide. O muther nature has balls, silver balls painted green, with a light red.:thumbsup: :dance:
wow that is seriously a great idea, (christmas tree ornaments), for decades people have always planted their cannabis plants with tomatoes, for camo, and always they looked reasonably camo'd but that ornament idea takes the cake. Many people just would pin fake plastic flowers to the leaves. But yes, each time you prune your reducing your yield and reducing the plants energy (growth rate) and the more you do it the greater chance of them turning herm.
" more you do it the greater chance of them turning herm "
If you have a stable strain no problem.
I cut , chopped, pinched, made them go in circles, horizonal , bent sideways. Now no problems so far, GOOD strains are worth every dollar,quid,lera.
Keeping the lights 18 grow 12 bloom, right ph, works for me.
Some strains go hermie if you fart in the rooom, look to the left 2 times when in the room.
Its better to have a bunch of smaller plants and not get caugh that most problems , morons get greedy.
Old bull , young bull syndrom.
I have grown next to police startion, next to narks, no problem.
Always remember cops are not stupid, a small patch of tomatoes, is nothing.
If you get stuck for xmas tree balls , ping pong ball work.
Note the Quanico filter can tell tomatoes from pot.
The quanico filter was designed to block all collors but pot. Works like a charm , they can find 1 pot plant, its that good. But you lucky if your not growing a bunch.
Quanico filter can spot plants growing in oak's, pine's swamp cypress. l
Cops make the best neighbors, it keeps you on toes.
O lord I feel the power of painted balls, muther nature is kinky.
I'd plant something permanent and bad ass alongside an outdoor grow.
Bougainvillea is my outdoor cover of choice. They grow full and lush...at a faster rate than MJ...with gobs of blossoms and thorns to boot. Easily pruned and or moved out of the way if they grow over and block light from hitting MJ.
And once they're rooted and established...it takes a super-nova to kill the things. Start one now and by next spring you've a nice looking and defended cover for your outdoor growing.
Stable strains have nothing to do with it, its just if it was bred to live with the abuse. or you could have a xx female. You can have one of the most stable strains, I.E. Old school Skunk #1, and she will still herm if abused/ stressed to much. You will see my point when you're about 6weeks into flowering, if your plant wasn't stablized for tolerance trait. :twocents:Quote:
Originally Posted by oldsanclem
oldsanclem, I am very interested about this 'Quanico Filter' that you speak of. Is it widely used or in just places like Northern California and Hawaii? And also how you came by this information. Looking forward to your response.
The dea had the system developed for choppers. Its quite simple in some respects. Use a red filter and look at red paper, and what ever. With black a white ccd red stuff is blocked and the rest of the spectrum come in distorted. Pot has a real green look, and a high rate of heat absorbtion. Between the two you can spot pot very easly. With the system even a small plant 2-3 ft tall sticks out.
You might want to note Budwizer is on of the largest contribitors to the CAMP program in Calif. So the saying This Buds on you , has a two sides to a knife or sword.
Buy a roll of IR film and use a camera with a red dot on it. for a simple way to look at your crop.
The dea has some good gear, and a bigger budget.
Calif and Ha. and many other states borrow the system. It does not have a learning curve , point and find.
" we do not fool with the 2-3 plants on the patio" note quotes
Also note that from spy sats. you can see a 100 watt bulb, check for tooth decay, locks open or closed.
Its that pot is on the bottom of there list.
95% of busts are done/with a open mouth, never tape you mouth shut, it looks funny.
O yea down load Google earth, it good enough for visable , Russian service is better but it cost. :thumbsup:
Aiding in a University of Maryland (College Park, MD) project,
researchers at NASAâ??s Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD) have
tapped their Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor (LVIS) to map out what
might be remaining habitats of the ivory-billed woodpecker, assessed as
extinct in 1994 but possibly sighted in 2004. The instrument uses
lasers that send pulses of energy down toward the ground. Light from
the lasers bounce off leaves, branches, and the ground and reflect back
to the instrument. By analyzing these returned signals, scientists can
measure the height of the forest's leaf-covered tree tops, the ground
level below, and everything in between.
Data garnered from the LVIS result in 3D maps of the forest canopy that
can help narrow habitat possibilities for ground teams in their search
for the bird. The sensor sweep, done from an airplane, took place over
the lower Mississippi basin along the Cache River in Arkansas.
very good oldsanclem, that is very useful information. I truely appreciate you're detailed response. So it would be fair to say, that only the DEA is using this technology? And that their looking for farms, not a few plants in a backyard? How probable would it be that they loan this system to the east coast? Specificly Georgia? Yea, I've got google earth, pretty incredible, and thats just the one we have free access too...But again, how did you come by this information? (sounds like inside information to me, ;) )
I do not fit the mold of a smoker, nor any of my frineds. You might say I get to go to parties, where its very easy to listen. Clue all kinds of badges, all kinds.
A note NASA is looking for a ivory bill woodpecker, in a area the size of R.I. If they wanted growers it would be done.
They found a brass clock, 1 meter under the sand in the desert. Note the spectrum responce of there gear, He. detectors are good to 1 dC.
If you want to have fun just buy a common role of IR film. With a good camera it like shooting ducks in a rain barrel. Common for the cops to get a warrent for pictures, and use a wide angle camera. duh
When the public finds out about things its 10-15 years old.
Ask to check out the vapor cooled scope, if they have one in stock.
5150
so in other words, theyve had this technology for awhile. But aside from the NASA thing, is LEO using that filter to bust people in their backyards? Is it just the DEA that has it or do county police helicopters have it as well? Please answer these questions directly.
Directly well, it would be very hard, there how may choppers. I have not the foggest idea of who has what.
If I was going to make it work I would use filters with a spectrum responce to filter out all but pot green, with a bandpass filters that would also pass ir.
Most FLIR are on choppers, (foward looking Infar Red)
You may want to look up the pattent office for the plans for the system.
Past that I do not know.
Thank you my friend.
Listen to the news and think of the bottom line,
Tire tracks in the sand, how much more ore less heat is from a new tire track in the sand. Now think its in a hot area. :stoned: ;) :D
Small note that atleast 15 year old tec.:mad: