Some images. Some short females. When exposed to gibberelin, shoots grow very "male" spindly with huge internodal distances. The leaves are smooth edged and flat. A male flower was
produced, although the plant has since reverted to female and is flowering.
When exposed to gibberelin, the colas become spindly and distorted.
Basically, there is no use for gibberelin in cannabis horticulture.
But I was reading that abscissic acid is the opposite of gibberelin in action on sensitive plants, and that should have the opposite response --short female bushy plants.
Also read that trichomes (at least in the medicinal anti-malarial plant being investigated, an artemesia IIRC) increase in density when the plant thinks its under insect attack. This can be done simply by crushing leaves below the colas. Can also be simulated with jasmonic acid, a plant communication chemical. Supposedly the 3-leaved kind of sagebrush emits a lot of this natively, so an obvious experiment might be useful: grow with sage augmentation of the atmosphere.
Combine that with a few times normal CO2, warmth, foliar feeding...
And of course Mr. Mantis on two different plants.
