I’ve experimented with electroculture on vegetables in my garden with good results, so I thought I’d see what adding a coil to one of my plants would do. The guinea pig is a Super Skunk photo, currently at 12 weeks. It was a bit smaller than my other SS, and not as full, so I thought it was a good candidate. Both plants are using similar soil, mixed with worm castings and coco coir. They are also on the same feeding schedule(bergman’s nutrients). Everything being the same, except the use of the copper coil made from 1/4 inch tubing and wound clockwise toward the ground, I thought it might be of interest to post any findings.
The coil was placed 17 days ago. While the real test will be with bud size and quantity, I have noted a couple things after two weeks. The coiled plant has filled out more and the leaves appear to be larger(or longer and skinnier) than the uncoiled plant.
Leaf size/shape could possibly be difference in genetics, however both seeds came from the same batch, suggesting similar genetics. (Correct me if I’m wrong here.) Also, the uncoiled plant tends to show a need for water and droop earlier than the coiled plant.
Anyway, just some initial notes and thoughts on this test after a couple weeks. I’ll add more as time goes on. I grew some very large zucchini using this method. I’m curious to see what it does here.
Anybody else using electroculture?
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The Super Skunk plants are in flower now, (a little over a week), so I took a few pictures to compare bud development between the electroculture plant and the uncoiled plant.
Buds on the plant with the copper coil already look more well developed than the uncoiled plant. They appear longer and fuller even at only about 10 days. I think that’s interesting considering the coiled plant was the smaller of the two a month ago.
I’ll post more photos in a couple weeks.
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Had to move the Super Skunk plants to the other side of the greenhouse. They needed more space and I needed better access. Three weeks since the last update, three weeks in flower now. The coiled plant, which was the smaller one when I started this process, is now the taller and fuller of the two with more developed flowers.
Starting to see some leaves yellowing at the bottom of both plants, possible nitrogen deficiency. I added about an inch of worm castings to each pot as a top dressing to help give them a boost. Still feeding and watering these two the same for the purposes of the electroculture expirement.
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Another three weeks has gone by. The girls got trimmed up to allow the buds get more sun light. Both are coming along nicely, looking healthy and happy. Overall structures are similar, the uncoiled plant actually has more colas than the coiled plant. The buds on the coiled plant are noticeably more dense and well developed than the uncoiled plant. The coiled plant started flowering about a week before the other, so maybe just further along the time line? Interesting test so far.
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Another month has gone by, both plants are almost ten weeks in flower. The uncoiled plant, which was the larger of the two even as they were developing, has more buds than the coiled plant. Both plants have some very nice buds developing. The biggest difference I am seeing is that the buds on the coiled plant are much more dense, they almost feel solid.
At this stage it is obvious these two plants have different genetics even though they came from the same batch of seeds from ilgm. Leaves are different colors, with different posture. I suppose the only really accurate way to do this test and eliminate other variables would be to use clones from the same plant.
That being said, I will be doing this test again on my next run to see if bud density is affected using the electroculture method. Thinking I will place the coils as soon as the plants are planted in their final grow space and see if veg phase is affected. I’m even considering building a small orgone collector to place the seeds in before germination. I’ve seen some good results with that method for vegetable seeds, no reason not to give it a try.
I just checked them with the microscope yesterday, still two or three weeks yet, I think.
Pics are the uncoiled, then coiled plant for comparison.
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Harvested the girls a few weeks ago and have a few observations I found interesting. The coiled plant took longer to get to harvest by two weeks, it also started flowering a week earlier than the uncoiled plant. Also, those dense buds on the coiled plant I keep mentioning were really loaded with trichomes. The buds were really sticky. During the trimming process I was moving them around to get to the leaf stems and noticed they were so swelled up with trichs the centers of the buds looked white. I was concerned at first, thinking it was mold or something, but that faded away during the drying cycle. (Wish I would have taken a picture of that, but fingers were kinda sticky to handle a phone/camera at the time…) Currently all buds are in the curing phase, I’m waiting patiently for bud testing/tasting.
One final observation regarding the plants themselves. When I pulled them up out of their grow bags the root ball on the coiled plant was almost twice as big as the uncoiled plant. Trunk size was notably larger too.
Looking forward to bud testing in a few more weeks. I also want to weigh the cured buds for final yield weight, for comparison.
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After drying and curing for 4-6 weeks, I weighed everything to compare yield between the two plants. Buds are being cured in grove bags, humidity is steady at 60-62%, temps around 65 degrees. The total cured weight for the uncoiled plant was 250 grams and 274 grams for the coiled plant. So, even though the coiled plant had fewer colas, it produced more weight. I have commented before how the buds on that plant were much more dense, so it figures.
Of course, there had to be a “smoke test”, and both deliver a nice buzz. The bud from the coiled plant has much smoother burn and a more heady high. The uncoiled plant is more of a body buzz with a strong pine flavor.
Interesting experiment, I’ll have to do that again on the next grow and see where I can improve. I’ll likely use larger grow bags or tubs on the next round and work to improve my soil game.
