Hi!
I haven't posted here for a while, due to the tribulations of everyday life (the pragmatism that keeps us alive is also what buries us in daily mediocrity). In any case, I was thinking about an interesting project. I don't know if the forum comrades are following an interesting channel in youtube in which the guy was cultivating psiloscybin-producing mushrooms in a Mimosa Hostilis substrate. Very interesting project that can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaJf5fCh7oc

This project reminded me that cannabis is a filtering plant, which can retain, among other things, impurities and contaminants (hence the importance of using clean water with a low chlorine content and in your hydroponics, establishing a feeding period of only water to clean the salts from the plant)

Would it be possible to grow cannabis and at the end of flowering add DMT to the hydroponics (probably during the salt cleaning period, that is: water with controlled PH + DMT to flood it with DMT) in the hope that it accumulates in the plant or it is just crazy? Anyone has ever done that?

I cultivated cannabis in the past and I could potencially do it... So it is a possible project to me.
Any usefull information/thoughts/impressions?

Thanks

Hi and welcome back. Totally with you on the tribulations of everyday life thing

I have no real clue about your question but what springs to mind is the hypothesis that plants can use DMT as an easy precursor or the auxin IAA. To that end, I'd suggest you contemplate how this may affect root growth and what impact that might have on the rest of the plant at any given phase of the growth cycle.

Could DMT be used as a rooting hormone for cuttings or air layering? Horticultural use of DMT would appear to be a whole topic in itself.

So do you think they can't acumulate DMT because they would potentially use it for other objectives rather than acumulation?

I think it's very plausible that plants could use DMT as an auxin precursor as both are biosynthesized from tryptophan (or as a precursor to any other tryptophan-derived plant compound). I have some suggestions: If the roots absorb DMT the effect would depend on the concentration of DMT in the irrigation water. A low concentration would either have no to minimal accumulation (& no noticeable effect maybe?) or plants would use it as an auxin precursor and you would have some increased root growth (which isn't necessarily a good thing for production yield). If the concentration of DMT is too high this would be toxic to the plant or lead to strange growth patterns. You obviously also have the question of whether DMT is absorbed at all by the roots, does it pass the endodermis/Casparian strip? Maybe there is a difference in which different DMT salts could pass through it? Altogether, these are very interesting questions and I would love to see some growth results on this !

Maybe you could do a little experiment with plants with DMT in their irrigation water and then a control group without it. Afterwards, you could test the buds for increased tryptophan levels and or DMT? However, you need some advanced test equipment as I think that common reagents do not show a difference between tryptophan and DMT?

Try it with a clone of an auto plant, it won't grow and will only flower and will be small enough so you won't need lots of DMT to test it.

Exitwound idea was perfect.
Thank you all.
I will sure test it and post results.