Just trying to find out about this plant health pyramid. There is a gentleman by the name of John Kempf who I recently found on youtube and he has a regenerative agriculture podcast as well. Im about half way through the video about this topic and there are just massive knowledge bombs left and right. Equating spider mites and another horrid creature i can’t remember right now to the ammonia nitrogen in your soil that they are after. Just talks about how to produce a rock solid plant of any type and what you have to achieve before you can move up the ladder. Each rung of the ladder produces desirable attributes we are looking for in the highest grade cannabis we can grow. It’s looking more and more like the original way was the best, especially after refining her setup for millions of years lol. Stay irie.
Thank you for sharing, I have not heard of John Kemph, but I am going to go check him out!
John Kempf, sorry misspelled his name. (wish we could edit posts)
Our culture has gotten so used to synthetic agriculture that sadly growing plants the natural way is strange to most people. This seems to have resulted in many scientist types feeling like they have to use big words and complicated explanations when they realize the current science suggests maybe we should go back to using more natural methods.
I’m not familiar with that guy or his pyramid, but just looking at the chart, I feel like maybe I could sum up most of what its trying to say in one much simpler sentence:
When you grow plants using healthy natural methods, you get healthy natural plants.
Maybe I’m oversimplifying and there is more to it than that… but that seems like the important part of the message.
Damn dude, this is why it pays to scroll to “older” on the DGC. This post is gold. Or rather this Pyramid is gold. Let my people gold.
When you think about the healthy people you know in life, most of them probably share features of eating well, exercising, practicing sort of an idealized version of the human lifestyle. Probably they don’t watch tons of tv, eat tons of snack food, etc. And they mostly just shake off colds and flus that people around them get. Sure there are exceptions. But mostly, those folks “live a healthy lifestyle.”
This pyramid describes in plant terms the same effect basically. Keep the junk food and bad habits away from the plant at the different levels and the plant will shake off problems. The problems still exist, but the plant isn’t threatened. Up the pyramid from survival to joy.
But another key part is that the stuff we are interested in with cannabis is literally at the top of the pyramid. Trichomes are secondary sex characteristics, they are not needed for survival. What are secondary sex characteristics? Things like shapely breasts or a chiseled jaw, they are irrelevant for survival but important in some other way down the road. Like sexual attraction, or seed viability. Trichomes protect seeds in a microclimate of humidity, keep UV light off them, trap pests that might burrow into the seeds, etc.
If the plant is sick from the roots and can’t photosynthesize properly how is it going to grow full melt trichomes? Put another way, if you were starving to death from weeks of poor diet, how good would you look standing on a stage or being photographed? Your secondary characteristics like skin color would be all messed up because your primary needs aren’t even met.
So if we want to grow a plant whose fresh headies just melt into our brains, we have to grow the different systems of the plant.
This is a great post dude, I hope we hear more of this in the future. Cheers!