Boiling roots

[diesel farmer]

I was told to boil the roots at harvest for a better final product, has anyone heard of this step before hanging plants or is it a myth?

 

[Droopy Dog]

Myth.

DD

 

[diesel farmer]

Thanks DD,
Sounded a lttle wild to me, I`m sure someone has tried it though, lol

 

[TheKiller]

Like what, pull them outa the soil(or water) and stick them in apot of boiling water???

Thats wild man...

Wonder where these crazy ideas come from?

Could you add a little salt,pepper and garlic maybe a splash of olive oil to make a nice steaming plate of boiled pot roots?

 

[diesel farmer]

LMAO!!

Yep I was really told that it works, sounded like BS to me but was just checkin to see what u guys thought, thanks

 

[piercer808]

Myth.

DD

It's not a "myth" that boiling roots at harvest causes the buds to be more potent. Nor has it been proven as fact. It's simply what the common thought was among growers back in the late 1970's, early 80's -- particularly in Hawaii. Back then, I was a high school stoner who grew his own weed in the gulches or in my back yard, depending on whether I lived with my mother or father at the time. Getting busted by Green Harvest with dozens of plants didn't result in arrests like it does today...just cops pulling your plants and saying, "Sorry, brah, we gotta take 'um."

Whether boiling roots increases potency or not, whether it's myth or truth, we should still respect the fact that it was a part of modern-day history of marijuana cultivation, as well as the culture leading up to the innovative techniques that we have at our disposal today. Such things as boiling roots, placing moldy orange peels with your herb to give it a psychedelic feel, freezing your weed to make it more potent, etc....all these "myths" were things we youngsters experimented with nearly 40 years ago...the same way that today we experiment with LED lights and other techniques.

My point is, let's not discredit "boiling the roots" as being an ignorant myth but, rather, recognize it as an early component of the ongoing research in our collective quest for the perfect bud.

Aloha!

 

[Muttt]

Some people boil the roots to make tea .... completely unrelated to growing/harvesting.

 

[Farang]

I think Cervantes covers this topic well.

 

[Cultivator]

there are so many other things u can do to make bud better, this would be at the bottom of my list.