Caution...using UV light is hazardous to your health. To mention the technique without also warning others of possible eye damage, skin damage, risks in general...seems a tad irresponsible.

Last I heard, it wasn't proven that the UV bumps the concentration of psychoactives in the trichomes, but would love an up-to-date link proving me wrong...

Stinky: Was just thinking...(rut-ro)...
Decades ago, (about thirty years ago) when I first started with my attempts to grow, an old friend used to scar the base of his plant, and a few of the side branches. Every day or two in flower, he'd scratch into the 'bark' of the cannabis plant. Not much, just a scratch, thru to the cambrium layer. He said it was to trick the plant into thinking it was under attack by insects, and in response, she increases potency.

Never really thought about it till now, as he was a lot like that guy, Jim...on the sit-com Taxi.
Have you ever heard of this technique? Would love to have another myth dispelled, but as trichomes are used for self defense from bugs and such, it does seem feasible/possible. Instead of it increasing potency tho, could it have actually increased trichome production...?
Hmmm...photo-voltaic cannabis bugs to aid in trichome productioin...
Rusty's
Original
Bugs, for
Overproducing
Trichomes
...Rusty's ROBOTs...has a nice ring to it. :jointsmile: