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What's this lunar pull and everything elseStart spreading the beans Johnny Appleseed! Do you worry about the Lunar pull effecting your ability to see the trees because of the forest?
I don't understand it but I do think it matters, so I do worry about that but not much because I don't need to understand it I'm not sure how much it matters...not sure if it matters enough to make hermies but posibbly yield which is not huge for me cuz their might be another benefit worth the trade.....I am curious to know more about itWhat's this lunar pull and everything else
thanks for that link @SunGrown I've read a bit on it not much... and that site is awesome i do a lot of 'no control gardening' and i'm gonna read up on that site. Got a lot of reading to do this week lol. I'm just about to start a book called 'South African journal of botany'. I take cues from my local weather patterns and local plant life for outdoor gardening. 2 years ago the landscape looked very different here... since then there was a big growth spurt of berries and field flowers. the landscape is always changing because the planet is alive and it is always growing. The berries we had growing 2 years ago were a lot smaller than the berries this year. There's also a mold affecting most of the grapevines i've seen. I'm not sure why it's bad this year. powder mildew on a lot of the wild grapes. Moisture levels in spring and cold nights all summer are what caused it in my opinion but hey it's for that exact reason the berries really flourished this year. the rubus genus of plants has a hard time in hot dry climates, altho some species are more heat tolerant (golden raspberry). My approach to gardening is that i comply with mother nature... i have to follow her lead.I am sure you have read some articles already on the subject, but here is a link for you
http://www.moongrow.com/
Gardening by the moon phases isn't bullshit at all. I have a buddy that has studied a lot more than me on it, maybe he can chime in what he can share. @SirLongRock
But the moons force goes thru walls absolutely, so it does influence indoor gardening as well IMO
From laboratory experiments, it’s known that light intensities as low as 0.1 lux (approximately 0.01 foot-candle) during the night can influence photoperiodic time measurement in some plants and animals.
Yet the intensity of light from a full moon on a cloudless night may reach 0.3 lux at latitude of 50′, and more than three times this value in tropical regions.
This fact led E. Bunning and his colleagues (ref 2 below) to inquire whether moonlight can disturb time measurement. Surprisingly, their investigations revealed that some plants have adaptive mechanisms that apparently prevent moonlight from interfering with photoperiodism.
Photoperiodic perception occurs in the leaves. In the leguminous plants soybean, peanut, and clover, “sleep movements” change the position of the leaves from horizontal during the, day to vertical at night. This behavior reduces the intensity of light falling on the leaf surface from an overhead lamp (an “artificial moon”) by 85% to 95%, to an intensity below threshold for interference with time measurement.
In some nyctinastic plants such as Albizzia, Sainanea, and Cassia, leaflets not only orient vertically at night, but also rotate on their axes so that paired leaflets fold together, with the upper surfaces shading each other, an interesting behavior in view of the fact that the upper surface is more sensitive to light breaks than is the lower surface.
Some long-night plants (a.k.a., short-day plants) flower most prolifically when grown with low intensity light (approximately 0.5 lux) rather than complete darkness during the night. In these plants, moonlight probably increases the number of flowers produced by a short-day regime.
However, flowering of Pharbitis nil (Morning Glory) plants was slightly inhibited by exposure to the light of the full moon for 8 or more hours with a single dark period of 16, 14 or 13 h. It is suggested that in the natural environment moonlight may have at most only a slight delaying effect on the time of flower induction in short-day plants (see ref. 3 below).
In a brief review, Wolfgang Schad (ref. 4) cites evidence for the effects of moonlight on biological rhythms in plants. He is co-author of the book Moon Rhythms in Nature: How Lunar Cycles Affect Living Organisms.Bottom Line: Although it is not clear why low light intensities affect flowering more than darkness, these examples provide some rational basis for the belief of planting particular seeds by the light of the full moon. Another full moon one lunar cycle later could have effects on flowering.
I was thinking of just that last night. I will be popping some today as well as doing last defoliation on my outdoor girls as they look like all but 2 are turned.It's a full moon sow some beans!!!
The" lunar pull is the excuse that I hear farmers giving for a poor indoor harvest if their lights run at night instead of the day. Many people feel that plants that flower at night are susceptible to the lunar pullbin the same ways that ocean tides are effected. I have read all kinds of essays about lunar and solar pulls effecting everything in the world. Even our mental reactions. "Freaks come out on full moons" etc.....
this isn't related to lighting but it does have something to do with character expression in cannabis.
Many plant species respond to herbivore attack by an increased formation of volatile organic compounds. In this preliminary study we analysed the volatile metabolome of grapevine roots [Teleki 5C (Vitis berlandieriPlanch. × Vitis riparia Michx.)] with the aim to gain insight into the interaction between phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae Fitch; Hemiptera: Phylloxeridae) and grapevine roots. In the first part of the study, headspace solid phase microextraction (HS-SPME) coupled to gas chromatography – mass spectrometry (GC–MS) was used to detect and identify volatile metabolites in uninfested and phylloxera-infested root tips of the grapevine rootstock Teleki 5C. Based on the comparison of deconvoluted mass spectra with spectra databases as well as experimentally derived retention indices with literature values, 38 metabolites were identified, which belong to the major classes of plant volatiles including C6-compounds, terpenes (including modified terpenes), aromatic compounds, alcohols and n-alkanes. Based on these identified metabolites, changes in root volatiles were investigated and resulted in metabolite profiles caused by phylloxera infestation. Our preliminary data indicate that defence related pathways such as the mevalonate and/or alternative isopentenyl pyrophosphate-, the lipoxygenase- (LOX) as well as the phenylpropanoid pathway are affected in root galls as a response to phylloxera attack.
I found this article when searching for info on wild grape terpene profiles. altho this is talking about how the plants' roots are responding to herbivore attacks something tells me this might be related to the amounts and concentrations of chemical compounds that each plant produces. i'm wondering what would happen if 2-3 weeks into flower i snip off small portions of a few flowering tops... how would this affect what chemicals are being produced in the plant. are the rates changed? does the plant pump out more limonene as a defense mechanism? or perhaps other terpenes.
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