Is this somthing old or is this somthing new?

[kingme]

If this is somthing new i want to name it. lol. Ok so what i am doing here is taking one fan leaf and bringing it from the other side, almost moving each fan leaf 180 degrees. This opens up a extreme amount of light. Now ive head of training fan leafs but what i am doing is twisting the fan leafs around each other to hold them in place and not cutting,super cropping anything. Nothing is breaking or in a permanant position. I am rotating these huge fan leafs every week as a experment, and im seeing new bud spots which is cool, they will proably be just popcorn buds but whose complaining. Where im noting the biggest improvement is at the top, over roughly 270 degrees of the top is exposed to light, and same below. I dont know if i came up with this or if everyone does this, but i can tell you it works let me know what everyone thinks!

 

[lowerarchy]

So if I read you right, yer twisting all the fans from one side of a plant to the other and alternating once a week? Let us know how it goes, but my intuition is telling me that a fan leaf isn't a very efficient photosynthesiser when it's upside-down.

To the plant it must feel like a geologically slow class 5 hurricane.

 

[mr.swishas&herb]

did you notice a significant increase in yield with this experiment?

 

[kingme]

what i am noticing is more bud sites. And a fuller top. Now not all leaves are upside down. Some look like a giagantic fan leaf. Basically if you have a thick canaopy and you want to make room for other light this might be fore you. When i do this, im seeing more light getting towards the bottom. Im not seeing anything negative. And to top it all off it doesnt cost anything to do.

 

[jas6118]

it seems like super low stress training, i do this also as part of my regular lst, although not to this extent.

 

[KlosetKing]

ive always tucked leaves under and around other leaves to allow better penetration to the lower branches, but i also LST and Top, so i couldnt tell you if it has any effect on budsites, but then again i never considered it more than just moving a leaf to create less shade.

 

[irieie]

yeah i always tuck the fan leaves under budsites . tangling those leaves together seems like a mess to me. but the leaves always grow toward the liight so if it is gettig more light through your canopy to the smaller budsites without removing anything the i dont see how it could be doing anything but good for the plants.

 

[mrboots]

come up with a clever name for it and maybe it will stick

 

[irieie]

doesnt have to be that clever everyone knows what FIMing is.

 

[mrboots]

doesnt have to be that clever everyone knows what FIMing is.

"fuck I missed" is pretty clever, but I hear ya, some of the names for training techniques are kind of lame.

 

[kingme]

well i was leaning towards anal tweaking, but then i was going to name it after a nick name i have for my lil son. lol It really works and the best thing is its always those huge ass fan leafs that block so much light. And this isnt permanant when you twist the leaves together.

 

[mrboots]

Anal tweaking sounds like some kind of gay sex act, don't call it that.

 

[irieie]

Anal tweaking sounds like some kind of gay sex act, don't call it that.

yeah i agree. i hope you dont call your son anal tweaking.

 

[kingme]

lol, i was kidding my nick name for my son is junka but i dont think thats appropriate for this, what about MTS (move that shit)

 

[kingme]

im going to take more pics of what ive done. the top canopy almost looks like nothing is their. Thats how much light it is getting. the bigger the fan leaf the better it is.

 

[jewgrow]

well i was leaning towards anal tweaking, but then i was going to name it after a nick name i have for my lil son. lol It really works and the best thing is its always those huge ass fan leafs that block so much light. And this isnt permanant when you twist the leaves together.

those huge ass fan leaves aren't blocking any light....they're collecting it.

 

[kingme]

Yea now its collecting light on the side. And more light is getting to the lower parts that would have never seen this much light. put pieces of paper up to a light, then take one off, and so on and so on the light increases. same thing when you move those fan leaves over

 

[jewgrow]

yes, but think about it, your moving the largest collectors of the plants energy, so that they are inefficiently collecting sunlight...just so smaller bud sits can get light...

 

[kingme]

Ummm it also opens up alot of light space at the top as well which would never of been their with all the shade from fan leafs. So the main cola is getting more light as well with out cutting anything

 

[KlosetKing]

Something to keep in mind also, is that calyxes don't photosynthesize. Therefore, exposing more buds to the light isn't necessarily helpful. Couple that with the fact that something like 90% of the actual lights photons pass straight through a leaf, moving leaves are mainly only necessary in a fluorescent situation where penetration is minimal at best.

The trick is to find that balance of moving it in such a way that actual leaf surface area light exposure is increased, and if not careful, turning one of those giant fan leafs sideways or tucked under another leaf can actual reduce your total surface area being hit by light.