Fun Facts

Bplatinum9 · March 17, 2020, 3:00pm

9.) It’s Possible to Bleach Plants With Too-Bright Light

Light Bleaching – most common with high-power LEDs, but can also happen poorly ventilated HPS lights that are kept too close to the tops of the plants. Basically, this is what happens when plants get too much light, kinda like how the hair on top of your head can turn lighter if you spend a lot of time in the sun.

Buds which have been bleached tend to be low potency or even have no potency (no available THC or other cannabinoids). Therefore you should avoid light-bleaching your plants at all costs!

Sometimes light-bleached cannabis will get mislabeled as “albino cannabis” or “white cannabis” but the truth is that the white color is not healthy, so this is not a desirable trait (even if it looks pretty cool).

Bplatinum9 · March 17, 2020, 3:01pm

10.) Flowering Cannabis Plants Can Make “Sap”

Sap – there’s lots of speculation about what it is. No one knows for sure. Many growers who have run into this agree that the type of sap produced is sweet and doesn’t contain much (if any) THC. It is mostly made of sugar and water and so is not smokable. Seems to be related to the plant over-producing sugars, and sap productions is more common when

Plants being in the flowering stage
Using sugar supplements like molasses, Botanicare Sweet, Sugar Daddy, etc.
Big temperature difference between night and day, especially if it gets cold at night
Certain strains or individual plants seem more likely to produce sap
Yet sometimes oozing sap seems to happen for no known reason

“Strain: Kosher Kush. Flowered her for 70 days and she was covered in trichs. When we harvested her we noticed about a dozen of these sap like globes. They range in color from clear to amber.”

~ DC514

“The plants had already been flushed properly – I let the soil dry completely and fed the plants 2TBSP/gallon of molasses, let them eat and then flushed them out again and waited 2-3 days before harvest. Both plants started producing excretions all over. I’ve seen this before, sap leaking from the stem of plants, however personally I’ve never seen it on the buds themselves. What I believe happened is the pores of the plants either get clogged and therefore “pop” for lack of a better word. Or, the plant liked the molasses better than it’s natural sugars and forced some of those out. Either way I’m going to try this on another plant and see what happens. Is there a benefit to it? Probably not, but I’m going to get the substance tested. I’ve ingested all of the little sap pockets I’ve found and while it tastes like canna, it doesn’t seem physchoactive. Who knows, it could be loaded with CBD or something else.”

~ SeriousSports

Stem Sap (more common) – often appears to seep out of injured parts of the stem, but not always! Sometimes sap seems to ooze out of uninjured parts of the stem.

In this last case, there’s nothing that seems to be causing the sap except possibly genetics. Here’s what HNIC_204, the grower, had to say…

This is my first grow, literally. I have a couple females, that are currently in flowering. I am growing in soil with guano and flowering ferts (Flora Nova and Cal Mag). I have not added any sugars such as molasses or sugar daddy. The temperature stays pretty consistent, such as 78 during the day and 80’s when the lights are on. The seeds are mids from VA. The plant is looking as though it is a sativa hybrid. I’ve had two plants leak the sap, which tasted like honey, but didn’t have an aftertaste. I attempted to express more of the substance to come out and it would not. Maybe the sap is something to attract males, caused by pheromones. I don’t know, but if this happened on my first grow, I think it’s an awesome phenomenon. I have asked my local grow shop, but they didn’t have a clue.

Bplatinum9 · March 17, 2020, 3:03pm

Vegetating Cannabis Plants Have an Amazing Ability to Heal

“This is a white widow a couple of weeks into flower, quite nice, but look to the bottom of the stem and you see a big ‘knuckle’.”

“This lady was snapped mid veg by accident. She was completely on her side and connected to the main stem by a few fibers and a sliver of ‘skin’. The ‘connected’ tissue was around 1mm, (around the thickness of a credit card).

“She was roughly taped upright with some very haphazard wrapping with electrical tape and forgotten about. Not only is she looking pretty good, (for a small pot and relatively modest light), she’s not at all delayed or less healthy than her sisters. I guess the message is never give up…”

~ DrWeedington

Check out this manifold that was accidentally split down the middle when the plant was young.

The plant came back with a vengeance and ended up getting bigger than the other plants in the tent!

Todd.grobo · March 17, 2020, 3:08pm

Thanks for sharing bro. Really cool read

Hellyesshedid · March 17, 2020, 3:11pm

Cool thread!

Bplatinum9 · March 17, 2020, 3:11pm

Thanks so much for reading! Feel free to add to the posts anytime! Not a bro tho…Lol!

Hellyesshedid · March 17, 2020, 3:13pm

I feel like you have to say this every week, LOL

Bplatinum9 · March 17, 2020, 3:16pm

lol! I feel the same way!!!
It could be that we entered a mans sport!
Or it could be my name (Bobbie) what do you think?
P.s. Its either that or I’m being called a girl, which I didnt know that after 51 you could still be a girl and not a woman!
I’m flattered either way!

Todd.grobo · March 17, 2020, 3:30pm

I don’t have any sis
Lol

Thanks for sharing @Bplatinum9

Hellyesshedid · March 17, 2020, 3:31pm

51?! From the pic I thought you were in your 30s

I think for some it’s a linguistic (semantic? ) habit to say bro at the end of their statements regardless to whether they’re speaking to a boy, girl, man, or woman and for others it’s what you mentioned - an unconscious assumption that everyone on here is male unless your profile pic makes it obvious that you aren’t. & Yes, your name doesn’t help them lol (even though the spelling is feminine).

Bplatinum9 · March 17, 2020, 4:24pm

Thanks my son reminds me everyday that I’m turning 52 this summer!

Todd.grobo · March 17, 2020, 4:38pm

a lot of females here. I come from. A family of four brothers. What can I say. Lol

Bplatinum9 · March 17, 2020, 4:41pm

Mostly men in my family too! Trust me I get it! All-growers love here!

Todd.grobo · March 17, 2020, 4:46pm

I’m Canadian we love all by default grower or not hehe. No harm intended. I’ve seen some of my potted ones react the ways in that info…now I know why. Goos to know…

Bplatinum9 · March 17, 2020, 5:00pm

Ditto! No harm taken!
Did you happen to take any photos?
I would imagine its more prevalent in outside and tent grows.
Do you grow your outdoor plants in pots?