New Grower Plants hormones and the effects on male/female/herms?

[LongbottomLeaf]

Ok it is my understanding that when you are working with an plant with LST and you create small knuckles on the stems when you bend them this creates in the end a larger area for that bud site to receive more water and nutrients. Also when you pinch or bend a stem you physically damage some of the interior of the stem casusing the plant to react by sending ethylene and cytokinins up the stem to help with repairing the broken interior structure and creates that knuckle.

I believe that these hormones are used in repair and are female hormones naturally acurring in the plant? Is that why you see the larger bud sites?

If so does it stand to reason that when you have a plant that is herming out and you catch it at the first signs of the nanners if you LST/bend the stem in multiple locations above the nanners it would send excess female hormones up that stem and then helping to reverse the herming process? Then removing any male sacks that start to form and the new growth will revert back to female?

Am I off base on this or have you had similar experiences. Do you see bigger buds at the LST knuckles?

This is based off of my observations of one grow. If you want to check out more about this grow here: https://www.autoflower.org/f44/ultra-lemon-haze-auto-seeds-36125.html

I no longer see any herm issues on this plant. And I accidentally broke one of the branches on the Ultra Lemon Haze that was herming on me and after removing the nanners I have been checking regularly see no further issues. I am curious to see when dried and cured if there are a few seeds in the buds though.

 

[Son of Hobbes]

LST does not create growth "knuckles" like you are describing. LST is Low Stress Training, in which you gradually bend stems down and tie them to anchor points. This multipurpose technique is used to create level, horizontal canopies to allow better/more equal light distribution to the bud sites (instead of a tall plant growing up towards the light and the spire of buds deflecting light.)

Bending down the main stem below it's highest point typically releases a flood of auxins, or hormones that regulate cell elongation in side shoots (what that means is that you bend down that main stem and all of your side branching gets a massive growth kick-in-the-pants.)

The point of Low Stress Training is to provide a very LOW STRESS training method to train down plants while not inducing much (if any) shock to them. If you are bending/crimping your stems, you are not LST'ing them. Those knuckles are forming because you're actually crimping/supercropping the plant tissue (which is a High Stress Training (HST).) With LST, you want to gradually bend stems like you would gradually bend a copper water pipe.

If so does it stand to reason that when you have a plant that is herming out and you catch it at the first signs of the nanners if you LST/bend the stem in multiple locations above the nanners it would send excess female hormones up that stem and then helping to reverse the herming process? Then removing any male sacks that start to form and the new growth will revert back to female?

One of our more biology inclined could probably better answer you with the hormone questions; but doesn't sound right to me. I would identify what I thought was causing the herm issue in the first place; if you have bad environmental conditions or you are stressing the plant (like with High Stress supercropping/crimping,) you're creating conditions for a hermie to occur (and please note, I'm referencing autos with all of this.)

Hope that helps bro! :Sharing One: