Ethylene Application Systems

[Telegraphist.]

Anyone use this: http://www.takem.gr/products/ripening-solutions

How best to adapt this for cannabis?

Ideas

 

[Sammet]

Applying it to living plants can have all sorts of effects, most won't be desirable. Yea Ethylene is the plant hormone that's involved in ripening fruit but it's also involved in leaf abscission - i.e. it makes the plant drop it's leaves - probably not a good thing. The way they use it commercially is to ripen unripe fruit that has already been picked.

It'd be fun to see what happens though

 

[Telegraphist.]

exactly, not bothered if leafs fall out, as long as plant ripens

 

[Lazyman]

Interesting, their SmartRipe system even automates ethylene dispersal and allows checks via the internet. Probably expensive tho...

 

[Sammet]

exactly, not bothered if leafs fall out, as long as plant ripens

Plants with no leaves = dead sticks

 

[grapeman]

Anyone use this: http://www.takem.gr/products/ripening-solutions

How best to adapt this for cannabis?

Ideas

We use it on grapes all the time. Not really for ripening but to help anthocyanin formation in the skin. Anthocyanins are responsible for making the pigment formation, or the red skin in a red grape.

Also used on green tomatos to turn them red and green lemons to color them yellow.

We all know that store bought tomatos taste like shit. This product will not "ripen" (like in making the plant manufacture sugars in the fruit) anything really. It just gives the appearance of being ripe. Some exceptions would be bananas, apples and stone fruits, which do sweeten "AFTER" harvest from the tree.

From that fact alone, I can't see how it can help this crop. I can't see how this product would add trichromes or make them amber up. I could be wrong, but I don't think so. Maybe it could turn the leaves purple or red?? But a side effect (as Sammet said above) is that application of Ethylene signals to the plant "end of life" and plant system do shut down. Ethylene is produced naturally by decomposing or ripening fruit. So if you try it, try it at the very end just before harvest. Let us know.

 

[Telegraphist.]

Is ideas and any experience i am looking for so thanks for letting me know your take on this grapeman.

The intended use is to give the plant that signal that says ripen so would be at the end but how many days before harvest, dose, etc, lot of questions

So it would not be of use to help a curing crop also? Just an idea,

I have no plans to buy it just now but looking for ideas on how to homebrew a set up on a smaller scale for experimentation purposes,( Single small plant in a bag system)

 

[Tony Aroma]

I thought ethelyne was used to feminize seeds or even plants. Don't people feminize seeds by placing ripe bananas with them? Or am I thinking of something else?

 

[Telegraphist.]

Think you are correct Tony, do not think seeds come into play last days of plant though, could be wrong

 

[fadahigh]

would a pile of banana next to my outdoor plant work?