Hello, I’m going to grow indoors again, but this time I’m going to try a method widely used in global agriculture, which is hormone treatment at key phases of plant development such as auxins, cytokinins, and gibberellins.
With this, I intend to experiment, using global agronomic knowledge of biostimulants, in order to improve the quantity, quality, and production of flowers, in addition to controlling growth and development in all its aspects.
I studied the subject for a few weeks, and I believe I now have all the necessary knowledge to experiment. If any of you have done this before, or are interested in helping me or practicing it and sharing knowledge, I would appreciate it.
For now, I have several clear concepts to put into practice:
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Hormones control the cellular growth of plants in various ways.
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It is key to learn to control the dosage and exact moments when each one will be applied to avoid undesired effects.
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By controlling the quantities and moments of application, we can shape everything from height, the creation of new shoots, the reduction of spacing between shoots, the plant’s sugar processing, etc.
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Incorrect application usually generates contrary effects.
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There are other techniques like girdling, which I will also experiment with.
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Cytokinins promote cell division.
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Gibberellins promote cell elongation.
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Controlled imbalances.
That said, according to what I understood from my studies, we would do the following:
To germinate, we will use auxins (from lentils) or hydrogen peroxide (3% hydrogen peroxide).
Which promotes cell elongation and division in the roots for rapid development.
With the first leaves,
We will maintain auxins in the waterings with biological root propagators (in my case, deep underground by topcrow), so that there is no lack of boron (which controls possible undesired hormonal disorders due to potential auxin excess).
From day 28 to day 42 will be the vegetative growth phase. During this very important period, where the plant will develop its final size, I will use cytokinins+auxins, since a greater number of cytokinins than auxins breaks apical growth (height) and favors the appearance of shoots and reduces the space between nodes, which will generate an increase in the number of lateral branches and therefore flowers.
Upon reaching day 42, the first flowers begin to appear. It is then that we will begin to apply cytokinins and gibberellins, as one increases cell division and the other cell elongation, theoretically making flowers longer, wider, and more compact, in addition to favoring sugar processing for the flower.
Next, we will switch from growth fertilizers to flowering fertilizers, which provide more phosphorus and potassium.
Here, I will try performing the famous girdling on one of the plants, on 50%-70% of the branches, leaving some so that the roots do not die. With girdling, we achieve that the food produced in the leaves stops reaching the roots (that’s why we leave some ungirdled), but the food supply will continue to rise from the roots to the flowers, as these ascend through the inner part of the stem.
That’s right, the leaves feed the roots through the bark, while the roots feed the plant through the inner part of the trunk.
These are natural techniques, used in agriculture for mass food production; everything is natural, the plant is simply tricked into prioritizing some processes over others.
What do you say? Has anyone else tried something like this before?
Does anyone want to collaborate or help me?
All help and advice is welcome.
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for example, I’d like them to be with XXL seeds, and I don’t have any. It would be interesting to make them dwarf plants that maintain XXL production, but I don’t have any XXL. Another thing I’d like is for some varieties to be among those that branch out the most laterally, and to see the effects of cytokinins on them.
