My hunger games grow is the same strains as the high brix. Currently the nutrient regime is
Mbferts vitamin booster 1ml/gal until 4th week post flip
agsil 16H silica, 0.5gm/gal until 4th week post flip
Holland secret nutrients: 2/3 strength of what they list for each week.
Ton of bud PK booster 2nd and 3rd weeks flower
The heavies PK booster last several weeks flower.
Demeter's destiny chelated calcium, magnesium, amino acid supplement (no nitrogen)
Typically the highest ppm I run is around 900ppm during the height of flower.
a small amount of PH down to get to 5.8 (I will have to hide the pH meters when I go all High Brix so I can avoid the rake handle)
My observations so far are:
1. I had a much more controlled stretch in High Brix. So the HB plants ended up shorter by a few inches for each strain (I love that).
2. Before Cat drench I was worried that the HB plants were going to yield less. Then Cat drench happened. Now I see that though the HB plants are shorter across the board, they will yield the same as the taller chem plants. They also have a higher trichome count and the colas are thicker than the chem plants.
3. It takes me 10 minutes to weigh out powdered silica, pk booster, add the 3 nutrients in varying amounts (grow, micro, bloom), then pH with pH down...Sometimes I really dread the chem nute protocol. With DBHBB I just plop a 1.5oz drench and then measure 2.5ml tea with my micropipettor and I am good to go. It is so much easier and faster I can't believe it. Even on those weird days when I had to water both veg and flower and spray a foliar, it still comes out to less time and effort than making the chem nutes.
4. It really all comes down to the trichomes and terpenes period. I like to consider myself a trichome and terpene farmer first, and a bud farmer second. When you are adding all the different chems that you have researched as being good, and combine them into a coctail you really think you are doing something special, and I do feel that I was. But then you do the high brix growing and you realize that you have millions of little minions to do your bidding. They are boosting the plant, adjusting the pH, and giving the chelated elements to the plant. Now I can concentrate on other things, I have more time to chill with the plants, train, gawk, adjust. I am trying my best to follow strict instructions for the kit and I am finding it doesn't exactly work that way. There is a silent communication where my plants are not only telling the microbes what thy want. They are telling me also. Go a day early on the foliar this week, give a little more GE, I still follow the instructions but I lean a bit this way or that. I am thankful that the high brix system allows that to take place.
I look at all the DBHBB grows and I can see the individual personalities of each grower. That's important. I didn't want to adopt a cookie cutter method of growing. And the Kit is not cookie cutter at all. I am actually surprised at how similar my chem and High Brix plants are (though the HB plants are noticeably better). But I think that means my personality and growing style is expressing itself in both chem and HB regimes. Its just that the High Brix method is letting me express myself a little bit more. It feels more like an intuitive extension of myself. I feel more connected to my High Brix plants.
Just wait for the Twister Doc, a 60% sativa that I have kept with a buddy for the last two decades clone only. It is one of the magical Skunk#1 X NL X Haze crosses that were prevalent in the late 80s-90s. Great internode length and very controlled stretch. Super soapy to the touch with ridiculous trichomes. Smells of Citrus, Cat piss, and skunk hash. Super motivating buzz that can keep you on the couch not from couchlock, but from trippiness and sparkly visuals. She also noticeably tightens your cheeks into a smile, like sunshine on your face. You can't get it anymore they stopped offering it 18 years ago or so. My buddy visited and he gave me 3 clones to restock. I gave hime some Huck Kush for his troubles. Twister is the best plant I ever grew and I have all three clones in high brix soil just waiting to go into flower next round. She didnt like the transfer from chem to high brix so I had to give her a rescue drench but you can see from these pictures that she has now adapted to DBHBB soil. Some of the lower leaves have yellow but the new ones are green and lush!
