How Aspirin Can Help Your Garden.

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Viagra, the popular drug that helps give men erections, could save plants from even more serious cases of droop. The most startling proof of Viagra's power over plants came from an Israeli scientist, Ya'acov Leshem, at Bar-Ilan University, who was looking at how flowers wither.
He had a hunch that Viagra might work the same magic on plants so he put some into a vase of cut flowers and found they stayed fresh and perky for up to a week longer than usual. Just 2% of the dose needed to treat a bout of male impotence brought a new lease of life to roses, carnations and African daisies.

"The flowers looked much fresher, their colour remained longer, and they were also much more turgid," reported Leshem. No one is suggesting spraying Viagra over plants to stave off wilt: there could be embarrassing side-effects and the cost would be prohibitive, but there might be cheaper and safer alternatives.

When you delve into how Viagra works, you find a remarkably similar chemical story in plants and people. "Plants share the same common denominator as humans - nitric oxide," explains Leshem. This simple, colourless gas has long had a bad reputation for causing traffic pollution, but nitric oxide is now recognised as a powerful hormone in humans. When released from nerve endings, it tells blood vessels to relax and widen to increase blood flow - which is how it gets a phallus erect.

Leshem found that plants naturally give off nitric oxide and, with Ron Wills, from the University of Newcastle in Australia, he fumigated 40 species of flowers, fruit and vegetables with the gas.

"The results were astonishing. Anything from five to 12 hours' treatment with nitric oxide could more than double the shelf life of some species," says Leshem. Strawberries were especially amenable, although thick-skinned fruits such as oranges were untreatable. It also breathed new life into bags of prepared salads, often the saddest items on supermarket shelves.

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Nitric oxide could do big things for the food and flower industries. "It is cheap and plentiful, with no identifiable side effects at the very low concentrations we use," Leshem says. However, there is reluctance to using it. Thirty years ago, it was classified as a toxic gas at much higher concentrations. Now we know that plants and animals make their own nitric oxide, attitudes need changing, argues Leshem.

Nitric oxide might also be used to fight crop diseases. "We've discovered that plants use nitric oxide much as animals do, to turn on their immune system," says Daniel Klessig at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Klessig found that at the first hint of infection, a plant launches a nitric oxide attack, telling the cells at the infection site to commit suicide and kill off the invader, then warn the entire plant to defend itself.

The gas also comes to the rescue of plants wilting in drought. Steven Neill, at the University of West England in Bristol, gave plants a whiff of nitric oxide and found they squeezed shut their tiny leaf pores, stopping their water supplies from evaporating. He's now trying out Viagra and expects to boost the nitric oxide effect. "I don't think Viagra will be a panacea for drought plants," he says, "but spraying crops with products that can make nitric oxide might be sensible."

Saving a plant from the droop may not be as sexy as rescuing an erection, but its repercussions could be far more awesome. It has been estimated that 65% of the Earth's water supplies pass through plant stomata at some time. "Global water shortage is going to be a big environmental problem this century, so anything that improves water efficiency in plants is attractive," says Neill. Which just goes to show how Viagra and its nitric oxide buddy give plants a huge lift.


I'm not dogging anybody I just hope this isn't a copy/paste. I'm a reader and it's alot to read.
 
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This is to funny. On the 14th I gave all my ladies some aspirin and food for the first time. I didn't notice any change but every body is happy. I took clones yesterday I think I will add some aspirin to the top off food I use.

Just like it Would help is for a headache I would think it would help them for a transitioning period...

I'm big in human macro's (fats,carbs,proteins) and the idea of life in general just fits. Idk my gf thinks I'm Cray cray...

#aslongasmybitchesloveme
 
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Plants are the reason that polygraph is accredible for humans... Fcking mind blowing


 
hermit186

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Unless your plants are next to dead the adding of anything except water to a dry plant will show results over night or the next day the plants don't work that fast 2 or 3 days maybe but tomorrow is something else you did earlier.
Almost anyone who took botany 101 will tell you the same thing.
 
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This was a good thread till we get into E.T. everything has to show an awareness to its environment to be a living thing it must also reproduce and eat something. To an intelligent person a response means feelings when it is the cellular structure responding to a stimulus but I have never heard a plant cry out while my cows are eating them they just keep growing.
If you told a college Professor that there was a 10 million dollar grant because a plant may have feelings you would have 25 of them proving it in a month. The difference between feelings and a plant adjusting to its environment is they don't feel pain that is for higher life forms and what the hell dose that have to do with aspirin.
 
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This was a good thread till we get into E.T. everything has to show an awareness to its environment to be a living thing it must also reproduce and eat something. To an intelligent person a response means feelings when it is the cellular structure responding to a stimulus but I have never heard a plant cry out while my cows are eating them they just keep growing.
If you told a college Professor that there was a 10 million dollar grant because a plant may have feelings you would have 25 of them proving it in a month. The difference between feelings and a plant adjusting to its environment is they don't feel pain that is for higher life forms and what the hell dose that have to do with aspirin.
I guess we're guna find that out aren't we :) at very least there will be pain killers available if my cuttings fail that will for sure help my head from not hurting as much lol I like to keep a open mind especially when these things are being posted from reputable guys they have been good enough to use there energy in posting this they have nothing to benifit from any misguided bs imo it's worth looking into as crazy as it sounds :)
 
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I guess we're guna find that out aren't we :) at very least there will be pain killers available if my cuttings fail that will for sure help my head from not hurting as much lol I like to keep a open mind especially when these things are being posted from reputable guys they have been good enough to use there energy in posting this they have nothing to benifit from any misguided bs imo it's worth looking into as crazy as it sounds :)
Also when I say looking into I don't mean go take 1000s of clones im just guna try maybe 10 my normal way and 10 with a little aspirin water and take it from there I was hoping to get em done today but not had time so hopefully tomorrow :)
 
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Let's be honest.
I did a cut and paste.
BUT... I use aspirin. And I have read many, articles on the subject. So I am a firm believer. It even helps rootbound stress.

Here is another great article...


http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2003/12/plant-gene-offers-disease-control-without-pesticides


TMV is actually mentioned in this very scientific article.
Lol bro don't get me started on root bound stress do u know that there are people that actually think it's good to root bound plants :) now that is crazy and defo not something I will be trying anytime soon (ever) but this aspirin thing is defo guna get a look at thanks for the post bro I will let u know how I get on :)
 
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https://www.thcfarmer.com/community/threads/shroomkings-secret-garden.68114/
[He adds that an attack by a plant pathogen "marks the start of a war. If the plant can recognize the pathogen and activate its defense arsenal in time, the plant usually wins. But if the pathogen circumvents detection or the defenses themselves, the plant is in trouble. The more we learn about plant immune systems, the better are the chances we can help important crop plants win their war -- without the collateral damage from chemical pesticides]

It was here I read this I have been looking for this for a while thank you ShroomKing . Couldn't remember this guys name doesn't he also write about certain vitamins being useful for root problems.
 
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Let's be honest.
I did a cut and paste.
BUT... I use aspirin. And I have read many, articles on the subject. So I am a firm believer. It even helps rootbound stress.

Here is another great article...


http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2003/12/plant-gene-offers-disease-control-without-pesticides


TMV is actually mentioned in this very scientific article.

http://bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2229-9-130.

shroomKing please look at this I had wonderful luck when it was to hot in my grow room and there was nothing I could do about it. B6 will help your plants take more heat for brief periods of time even daily and has an effect on how plant uses CO2. I am way over my head here but it has worked for me and one other I help. One thing I learned is buy it from a distributor Jacks sell it the stuff at the Pharmacy has thing that are human not plant related like not make you sick or gas control. B6 in combination with aspirin is what was sprayed on them. I didn't no about the aspirin but doesn't matter. Sorry about the rant normally threads don't head toward the outer limits
 
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I know this thread is a few months old and all but despite its many twists and turns- this has to be one of the most interesting I've read on the farm yet!
 
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Yes was a bit of fun I still use aspirin for sickly looking plants some times when they seem alike they are dragging and just don't have the get it done look I use in a foliar with Liquid light and soap. Not sure it always helps but some times the change is enough to notice. I find it interesting that plants will respond to --Mg the next day but for the most part the rest take 2 or 3 days. It took me a long time to start using moab because it seemed very strong but with tweaking am glad I tried it. Have never needed Viagra so the opportunity to try it wasent there. I did once put 4 black molly in the reservoir it fell in and you wouldn't believe what happened I still don't. I finished them out and it looked like bamboo weed and real sticky even stiffer than Silica makes them. Medium out put but was weed I give to a friend and he said it was good tasted strange.
 
Savage Henry

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Hey all. So I decided to use some aspirin in conjunction with a couple other things to prevent pm from spreading from my flower room (ugh, 2 weeks left) to my veg room.

I watered with it last night, and am considering using it as a foliar as well/instead. Those of you who use aspirin in your systems, do you find it more effective as a foliar or drench?

Edit: basically, im curious if it'll be as effective as regalia. That shits expensive.
 
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Although i have never used it i would think salicylic acid.
Which is the main ingredient in aspirin would help in many ways in plants immune system
Not sure on the amount used per gallon of water maybe ever 2 week aspirin water mix
 
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Although i have never used it i would think salicylic acid.
Which is the main ingredient in aspirin would help in many ways in plants immune system
Not sure on the amount used per gallon of water maybe ever 2 week aspirin water mix

From what I've gathered from a few sources it's 1.5 325mg tablets (uncoated) per 2 gal for foliar. 1 tablet per gallon for drench.

Anyone know the difference between SAR and ISR responses?
 
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