i am happy with my buds but i am not all that dazzled because they have been flowering forever i should have been almost done with my 2nd grow by now
They're definitely liking the cooler temperatures, it looks like.
I've been thinking about that. You've clearly showed us all that those LEDs are quite good at flowering. But I do wonder if, had you been using HPS lights, would the different spectrum (IDK if it's better or worse, but it's probably different, lol) have encouraged your girls to flower correctly and on time where the LEDs did not? Of course that completely ignores the fact that in the Inferno the plants would probably have been burned-out husks under big HPS fixtures. So it's kind of a hypothetical question in any case. (But worrying about hypothetical stuff is oft times safer and always less stressful.)
i am sticking with TRF's for good now. i got booted out of my hydro store yesterday when i was getting some more Green Fuse, their was a new grower and they were telling him he needed all of the GH products to do a good grow, so me feeling bad for the dude told him about TRF's, and they did like that, but the guys was about to spend $200.00 of nutes.
Really? Don't get me wrong - I still encourage people to start out with a simple DWC hydroponics setup and GH Flora because the combination allows them to learn the basic concepts, TDS/EC, pH, dissolved oxygen, et cetera. And it allows them to experiment with adjusting ratios without being so strong that a little goof would kill their crop. It also allows a "no surprises" kind of environment so that they have a chance to learn their strain and how to read it and plants in general. But I'd never suggest that they
need the stuff. I've seen cannabis growing up through cracks in the sidewalk all by itself with nothing in the way of care other than water from an occasional rain and whatever fertilizer the neighborhood dogs decided to provide. It works, and works well (although probably not the
best (although I still use it along with others)). But so do many other things. Part of "the basics" is understanding that there is no ONE "needed" nutrient brand. My plants never bothered to read the jugs (I think they liked a good horror novel more than non-fiction).
You ought to start carrying around some nice pictures of the plants you're growing without those "needed" nutrients, then when someone pulls that sh*t you can whip them out and politely ask, "So, how much better would they have been? What do YOURS look like, lol?"
Then again, I never carried around those kind of snapshots either.
heres some good info on the B1, i think the thing is that the micros sometimes help out with some nutes, google just thought me some good stuff.
Breaking the Vitamin B-1 Myth
Does Vitamin B-1, used and touted by customers and retailers for over 50 years as an aid to help plants overcome transplant shock, really work? Or are its "results" a myth? Research performed in recent years by U.C. Davis, Sunset Magazine and others, reveals that Vitamin B-1's restorative powers have indeed been exaggerated.
Sunset's study, published in their magazine, tested the truth of B-1's claim to aid root regeneration and to bring better top growth. Using fast-growing annual marigolds, the magazine tried six different treatments.
I never could decide, myself. I've got a small bottle of Dragon B1/Iron/etc. transplant stuff that I've been known to use whenever the urge struck me. <SHRUGS> But often I didn't. I suppose that just like everything else, it's a useful product IF it contains something that your plants need and IF your media/nutrients do NOT already contain that something to begin with.
An old lady gave me the bottle about five years ago because it had sat on the shelf in her store for "years" without selling and then it got stuck in the back room for another bunch of "years." It's probably younger than my GF, but it's still old enough to vote at least. It doesn't look like I'm in danger of running out any time soon - and it's a fairly small bottle.
But as for the article you quoted: It was an interesting read. However, I'd have been happier if they had used something that wasn't a ridiculously healthy and fast-growing plant. Something that was notoriously hard to germinate, clone, and grow would have been nice. IOW, something where the normal (unadulterated) success rate is lower than 100%, lol - like maybe 50%. Take a plant that only is successful in each test half the time and try it. It might show no change, it might show an improvement - or it might show a change for the worse.
Still, as I mentioned, interesting reading. I feel much better about (a) Almost never using the Dragon stuff and (b) Laughing at all the Superthrive ads I've seen and the people that swear it's the best thing since air.
Grow on!
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