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Upside Down Cannabis???

corky1968

corky1968

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I wonder if anyone has tried these yet for the Cannabis.
It's a new way to plant tomatoes upside down.

Check it out here:

http://www.topsyturvy.com/

I plan to at least try one nice plant using this method
this summer just to see how it works with Cannsbis.
It could be a wicked way to camouflage plants in
the great outdoors. Since most people are looking
at ground level. You may even be able to hang
the plant when it's ready in the same pot.
I bet if your plant is ready you could stop
watering it 3 days before it's ready. Then
just to kill it and by girdling the plant.

Girdling is meant by cutting the bark
around the base of a plant to cut
it's water and nutrient flow.
Once a plant is ringed it will die.


Here's a link for girdling:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girdling

If anyone has used this please post away.
We could always use new techniques to grow
our favorite Wild Tomatoes:laughing:

Good points would be less insects in your plants, especially snails.
Also, the soil in the pot would warm up faster in the Spring giving
you a faster start. In the fall the plants wouldn't have to deal with
moist and cooling soil. Maybe, it would help with mold problems as
well cause there's more wind to hit the plants.

The main problem could be excessive hot pots in the summer.
Maybe, putting a bigger pot around the plant container would
keep the heat of of it during warm spells.
 
darksith

darksith

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I have seen people attempt this indoors, but they still had the light above the plant. I think for it to have any chance the light must be below the plant, and then you will have issues with heat. The pics I saw had the plant hanging upside down, but the plant kept growing up as normal reaching for the light. Try it outside and see, but I think the only reason they are doing this with tomatoes is so you don't need a wire support. I could be wrong, but I bet its a gimmick and thats its only purpose.

Why would you girdle it? That stops the flow of liquids and nutrients, its a slow death, I'd rather have mine pumping water and such until the very last second before it comes down. Girdling is how to kill a tree without falling it. And trees are totally different than a plant. The tree is dead on the inside, the nutes go through the cambium, its not the same with a plant. The center is where all the liquid is transfered.
 
corky1968

corky1968

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darksith said:
I have seen people attempt this indoors, but they still had the light above the plant. I think for it to have any chance the light must be below the plant, and then you will have issues with heat. The pics I saw had the plant hanging upside down, but the plant kept growing up as normal reaching for the light. Try it outside and see, but I think the only reason they are doing this with tomatoes is so you don't need a wire support. I could be wrong, but I bet its a gimmick and thats its only purpose.

Why would you girdle it? That stops the flow of liquids and nutrients, its a slow death, I'd rather have mine pumping water and such until the very last second before it comes down. Girdling is how to kill a tree without falling it. And trees are totally different than a plant. The tree is dead on the inside, the nutes go through the cambium, its not the same with a plant. The center is where all the liquid is transfered.
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I think it will work better outdoors than indoors.
We'll see in time how things go. I saw some yesterday
while shopping with my mother. She said you should buy
some, they would do great with your tomatoes.

I just laughed and I hope she hasn't figured out why
I was laughing. That being that I have other things than
tomatoes on my mind right now. :laughing::laughing:
 
GeorgeSmiley

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Boy mine sure did great last year with tomatoes. i have a lot of container plants by the deck pool, probably 100+ last year mostly tropicals. I can hang these from my poolhouse and they're out of the way.

This probably works in my case because the roots are under the eave of the building but who knows....

smiley
 
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Pineydoobey

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What happened to Lola Gal's thread?

What happened to Lola Gal's thread?

I stopped by the thread Lola Gal did with the Upsy-daisy and it hasn't had a post in going on 5 months. If anyone see's her, or if you're reading this Lola, how about an update?

I'm curious if you had the same results as Mosca Negra. As shown below. VVVV

mosca negra said:
I ran these some time ago. Here are some finished pics. No issues with hermies. I ran my Sweet Tooth#3 x Warlock and Love Potion#2 in the Topsy Turvys! Nice phat buds!!

Very easy to use and it was fun to watch them grow.

Mosca

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Duckmang

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I had a buddy do it with a 1K watt HPS under the plant. It looked like it was still trying to grow upwards. It's my opinion that there are chemical mechanisms that react with gravity and that is stonger than the tendency to grow towards light.
 
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Pineydoobey

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Duckmang said:
I had a buddy do it with a 1K watt HPS under the plant. It looked like it was still trying to grow upwards. It's my opinion that there are chemical mechanisms that react with gravity and that is stonger than the tendency to grow towards light.
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I saw a documentary not too long ago about plants and memory. There was also something in there about gravity and how it effects a plants growth. They showed a close up of the roots tip and inside of it were little... I wanna say minerals, but don't quote me on it. I'm pretty sure that this picture shows the small specs.

The fat cells at the top (which I think is actually pointing down) have little black clumps of something in them. I'm pretty sure that's what I saw.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Root_tip.JPG
Anyways, gravity effects the little mineral particles inside the cells and make them go down to the bottom of that cell. Which tells the root which direction is down. They showed it up close when the flipped it upside down and you could see that all the particles settled on the opposite side.

Pretty cool stuff.

-Pine
 
Sheriff Bart

Sheriff Bart

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they arent mineral particles they are a modified plastid (like a cholorplast, but it just doesnt photosynthesize)
it reacts to gravity and yea falls to the bottom of the cell and their place in the cell causes the redirection of auxin flow and causes the shoot to grow upwards and the roots to grow down wards
there are also mechanisms by which the shoots auxin flow is redirected by the direction of light and this is how plants can bend towards light
if you are really interested i can go way more in depth about that system (i've read A LOT about the auxin systems in plants, its pretty complicated and still not well understood as to the exact mechanisms but the basics of the response curve to the shoots and roots and how auxin flows in the plant and how it effects the plants growth is pretty well laid out.

basiaclly, my 0.02 is that these topsy turvy are the dumbest thing on the planet because they make the plant grow in the totally opposite way that it has evolved mechanisms to grow. and do not get me started on the claims that it being upside down somehow forces nutrients and shit in to the plant, its retarded.
 
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