Boosting Trichome Production in Flower

[ComfortablyNumb]

I've looked around and I do not see a thread that answers my question.
Can we use this thread to please compile all your tricks and techniques for boosting trichome production?

I'll go first. we already know that UV light will boost production.

What else? I just saw sulfur. What's up with that? Someone said crazy low humidity?

 

[MICHGANDER9]

I've looked around and I do not see a thread that answers my question.
Can we use this thread to please compile all your tricks and techniques for boosting trichome production?

I'll go first. we already know that UV light will boost production.

What else? I just saw sulfur. What's up with that? Someone said crazy low humidity?

I use a Gavita plasma for tri comb terpin boost

 

[MICHGANDER9]

I use a Gavita plasma for tri comb terpin boost

Mixed with 2 750 Gavita sodiums and for veg I switch to 2/Sunsysyem 630 LEC

 

[MICHGANDER9]

Mixed with 2 750 Gavita sodiums and for veg I switch to 2/Sunsysyem 630both on a sun rise sunset feature with a 4.0 mover

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

Ok, so you say the light has a lot to do with it?

 

[MICHGANDER9]

Ok, so you say the light has a lot to do with it?

I do as a matter of fact I noticed before plasma and and adding it MAJOR difference also environmental factors has Alot to do with it a stress weather it be from under/ over water ,cold ,heat bugs so on see where I'm going with this

 

[MICHGANDER9]

I do as a matter of fact I noticed before plasma and and adding it MAJOR difference also environmental factors has Alot to do with it a stress weather it be from under/ over water ,cold ,heat bugs so on see where I'm going with this

It's all about mimicking outdoors+ the added benefit from the University studies and so on

 

[PizzaBob]

UV light, triacontanol and salicylic acid. Most trichome boosters have one or both of those supps. Triacontanol can be derived from alfalfa and salicylic acid from willow among others.

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

Ok, you are talking about getting it all dialed in correctly. That always works, but I'm looking for simple things that help boost production.

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

UV light, triacontanol and salicylic acid. Most trichome boosters have one or both of those supps. Triacontanol can be derived from alfalfa and salicylic acid from willow among others.

Asprin will boost trich production?

 

[MICHGANDER9]

Ok, you are talking about getting it all dialed in correctly. That always works, but I'm looking for simple things that help boost production.

What I'm saying is you need environmental things under control anyways for a good ,clean, flavorful abundant, harvest indoors or out shit a good bout of powdery mildew or a spider mite infestation and you don't need to worry about tricombs you won't even want to use it and you just wasted all that time and money

 

[PizzaBob]

Ok, you are talking about getting it all dialed in correctly. That always works, but I'm looking for simple things that help boost production.

Asprin will boost trich production?

Asprin will boost trich production?

They are all same class of salicylates. But probably not. Just go buy a product with one or both. They induces SAR, which defends against pest by increasing resin production.

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

Scrubbing the tent with bug killer between grows helps.

 

[Ponky]

Keeping temps below 74 F. And I've been told tale of plant additives that mimic the enzymes insect bites would inflict. Making the plant think it's under attack when it isn't. Making it produce extra resins. But I cannot find the stuff and I don't know how reliable the person telling me about it was. Maybe someone else knows of that which I speak.

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

Environmental stress and UVB seem to be the two top trich boosters. There is an enzyme that helps and I know that DaKine 420 has it in their Sticky Icky mix. We have not used this, but we are considering it. I have to run the numbers first.

Sticky Icky-Enzyme Blend

Sticky Icky supplements your soil’s naturally produced enzymes, to give you a shortcut and a boost to radical oil and resin production.—including enzymes that “stress” your plants, sending them into oil-producing hyperdrive. This doesn’t hurt the plant...or your pocketbook, for that matter!

dakine420.com

 

[MICHGANDER9]

Keeping temps below 74 F. And I've been told tale of plant additives that mimic the enzymes insect bites would inflict. Making the plant think it's under attack when it isn't. Making it produce extra resins. But I cannot find the stuff and I don't know how reliable the person telling me about it was. Maybe someone else knows of that which I speak.

Insectfrass I also use malted barely in bloom for the enzymes

 

[MICHGANDER9]

Insectfrass I also use malted barely in bloom for the enzymes

I got that set up on a mover

 

[PizzaBob]

Keeping temps below 74 F. And I've been told tale of plant additives that mimic the enzymes insect bites would inflict. Making the plant think it's under attack when it isn't. Making it produce extra resins. But I cannot find the stuff and I don't know how reliable the person telling me about it was. Maybe someone else knows of that which I speak.

Read my post above. I can tell you that pretty much all the bloom boosters or trichome booster have one or both. So I think there’s some validity to the claim. Look up plant SAR.

 

[PizzaBob]

Also you can buy malted barely at your local brew shop and blend it up good. Use mildly hot water to active the amylase enzymes.

 

[Moe.Red]

The question of how you are measuring increases in trichomes is my concern.

Also "UV" is way too broad. Even UVB is too broad. But in general light will have an impact. I did some testing on this and shared it all in another thread, but the end result was inconclusive on the actual increase in Trichomes. Cannabinoids went up slightly under the UVB test conditions used. The UVA component brought out more color (purple anthocyanin in my case) than control but had no impact on trichome production.