Amazng documentary you all need to see!

[Crooked8]

NATURE: what plants talk about
Its on netflix
This documentary is incredible. It explains so much and it applies greatly to out beloved cannabis. A friend of mine always said if he flowered one strain in each tray in hydro it did better than if strains were mixed. This documentary explains in detail how plants have animalistic behaviors that will blow your mind. The way roots behave is mind blowing. Green leaf volatiles? What? They communicate with bugs and other plants?! What!? Trichomes of plants effect the body odor of bugs that consume them!? What!? I found this to be super informative and i think this research could aid our industry. Maybe explain why cannabis is prone to certain bugs or could even "call out" to them. Or why certain bugs could need cannabis? I dunno, its awesome though. Thoughts?

 

[Crooked8]

Damn i screwed up the title spelling. Either way, if you care about this plant and horticulture in gereal you will LOVE this.

 

[stoned-trout]

ya we talked about this a bit back....watched it myself too

 

[Crooked8]

Is there another thread about this trout? I was pretty amazed at some of the information here. Id love to see discussion about some of the aforementioned specific ways it could relate to cannabis.

 

[Cannabis]

Incredible. There ought to be a link to this someplace major.

 

[stoned-trout]

somewhere here it was mentioned ..but I don't have a clue where..i had seen it on Netflix for a while and after it was said to be interesting I watched it...

 

[Crooked8]

Its just crazy and explains a lot. Even something simple like defoliation could cause our plants to send out a signal to other plants and pests. The root behavior is the most impressive science here to me. Take a big pot or a bed of soil, put diff strains in it and there is a literal war occurring in the medium. Crazy.

 

[quokka]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdKX9nEzJOk

 

[Crooked8]

NICE perfect link. There are so many questions that were raised in my head from this. Hopefully people watch this. It will be fun discussion.

 

[Coba]

here's another link ... http://video.pbs.org/video/2338524490/

 

[Crooked8]

Thanks for the links guys. Normally im not as stoked on something like this but the actual scientific work involved is fascinating.

 

[JointOperation]

very informative information.. I always had bigger yields wen I did single strain per light.. haven't tried single light per room.

 

[Crooked8]

I think if you run beds or hydro tables the animalistic root behavior applies greatly. I will do my best from now on to fill my tables with one strain at a time.

 

[JointOperation]

ya.. I bet you if we started using those Rolls of rockwool.. underneath decent size pots.. we could see some very huge plants.. I wana say.. the wider the pot.. the bigger the plant will get? ive seen plants done in 3 gallon bags.. and 5 gallons.. that almost yielded the same.. but . wen I switched to doing 10 gallon bags. with 3-6 gallons of soil.. my yields went way up.. with the same amount of soil. just the soil was more WIDE then DEEP.

if this makes any sense..

 

[Crooked8]

It does, back in the day i thought roots mainly wanted to grow DOWN. Not true at all they love to grow out and downward as well.

 

[b3fr33]

Thanks for the heads up about this docu, I look forward to watching it later

 

[stoned-trout]

having a mat and setting something on top and letting roots grow into mat has been done hydro for a long time...

 

[Crooked8]

I used to use coco mats underneath my rockwool back when i used chunks. Boy was that a mess and nothing ever did as well as they do now in slabs.

 

[grazerd]

Ah, is this the PBS Nature doc?

I saw that on TV awhile back, it was super cool.

 

[Crooked8]

Im not sure where it originated my girl showed it to me on netflix and i just felt like an egg of knowledge was cracked all over me. Which compelled me to start this thread.