Intentionally starving plants increases yield?

[Opie Yutts]

Does this make any sense to you guys:

Have you had a friend that has gone on a diet, lost 30 â?? 40 pounds only to regain more weight once the diet is over? We can apply nutrient solution in a similar manner for similar results. The best time to put your plant on a diet is just before introducing the flowering food. As you increase the strength of the vegetation food (19 â?? 22 ml VA & VB), the chemical potential is increased on the inside of the plantâ??s root system. 4 to 7 days prior to going into flowering, you decrease it (16 â?? 19 ml VA & VB), creating a higher need for certain mineral elements. Now, start the flowering cycle by increasing flowering formulation 3 ml stronger (22 â?? 25 ml FA & FB) than where vegetation levels were (19-22 ml VA & VB). The plantsâ?? natural ionic exchange should have a higher negative and positive need within the plant; therefore, absorbing more mineral elements (fertilizer salts), and triggering faster growth and flowering. Plants are not unlike usâ?¦the more you get, the more you want. Donâ??t forget to adjust all the other requirements like, light, heat, water, air and carbon dioxide.

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Opie Yutts Reviewed by Opie Yutts on 11-04-2007. Intentionally starving plants increases yield? Does this make any sense to you guys: Have you had a friend that has gone on a diet, lost 30 â?? 40 pounds only to regain more weight once the diet is over? We can apply nutrient solution in a similar manner for similar results. The best time to put your plant on a diet is just before introducing the flowering food. As you increase the strength of the vegetation food (19 â?? 22 ml VA & VB), the chemical potential is increased on the inside of the plantâ??s root system. 4 to 7 days prior to Rating: 5

[PharmaCan]

During the period of time that s/he suggests starving the plants, normally fed plants are growing bigger and becoming able to carry more nutrients.

Even in the example of the human dieting, there's no comparison to how big that person would get if they never dieted and instead gorged them self during that time.

But, really, this sounds more like voodoo than science. I somehow doubt that a direct comparison of plant physiology to animal physiology is valid.

JMO

PC :smokin:

[Mic-Mechanic]

i would stave off it unless your vegging for extra time and can afford to risk losing growth. To my knowledge the way to get them to consume more is to give more. Thats why you introduce them to ferts at 1/4, go up to 1/2 and then full and sometimes increasing the dosage slowly after that.

[Zcomp]

Yeah I'm gonna go with this:
fatter people come from constant gorging. We have thyroid gland which gets disrupted by uneven eating, While the plant has none. Also gorging stretches your stomach which enables bigger meals next time.

[Opie Yutts]

Yeah, I was kinda leaning the way you guys are. OK, unless I hear different, no deprivation of nutrients.