How and why would you remove the part of the plant that transports water and nutrients?
What you said is that the xylem performs that role, carrying raw sap from the soil upwards, while the phloem is responsible for energy and sugars like sucrose and glucose… which are produced by the leaves.What you said is that the xylem performs that role, carrying raw sap from the soil upwards, while the phloem is responsible for energy and sugars like sucrose and glucose… which are produced by the leaves. I removed the phloem blocking the passage to the roots and forced that energy to return to the flowers.
Again HOW and WHY? Why would you stop the flow of energy to the buds? How can you remove it without damaging the xylem or other important parts? Considering they are basically right next to one another. This seems illogical to me.
Honestly haven’t heard of anyone doing this in over 10 years . . . called girdling. It slowly strangles the branch and will kill it in time . . . however, if done at the proper time can cause some bulking of buds.
It was mentioned in one of Cervantes or Rosenthal’s old grow bibles and I heard of a few people playing around with it some years ago, figured there wasn’t much real benefit to it since the talk about it died out.