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@GeoFlora Nutrients Impressions/Results
A Few Days From Harvest
Flower Day 48
Hi Geoflora folks. I promised you an impression post when I finished a plant which used strictly and only your nutes, and this is as good a time as any and I think a good example in a number of ways.
So first, my primary and overriding impression is that I am completely smitten and in love. I think the nutes are fabulous. This is my first go with them, so for anyone reading this, please keep that in mind. And I don't have a ton of organic experience. This round with Geoflora was my first ever use of a dry nutrient, for example. This plant got no other additives of any kind, not even a shot of Calmag for her. She never said she needed it. Unlike the Raspberry for example, who got one shot of additives and a couple calmag shots. So for what it's worth, this plant is all on you guys, Geoflora. It better be good.
I couldn't resist.
Here's some of what I love:
- Ease of Use: I honestly don't know how any nutrient line could be easier to use and more user friendly in this regard. All I did was prep the pots with veg nutes and soil activator, mycorrhizae my transplant holes, and then amend/top dress 3/4 of a cup of dry nutes every 13 days. NOTE: The instructions on the nutes suggest applying every two weeks, ie, every 14 days. I bumped the feed schedule up by one day. Didn't have to Ph a single drop of water. Didn't matter if it rained to water them. Didn't have to mix a thing. It was the easiest plant, literally, that I have ever grown with any nutrient line, and for reference, that includes Botanicare, Fox Farms, Canna, Blue Planet, and Prescription Blend along with now Geoflora. All have their own particular magic, and I am not comparing one to another, just saying that in that experience, the Geoflora is by far the easiest. Just the way it is.
- Idiot Proofing: Along with the ease of use comes the idea that these are practically idiot proof, lol. I don't know about anyone else, although I hear it often, but I am often high when mixing nutes. I can't tell you how many times I've gotten halfway through a blend only to realize I'd been using the 1 1/2 tsp. instead of the 1 and had to dump and start over. Or something like that. Losing lids and pipettes. Etc. Well, there isn't a whole lot of worst case scenario with these. I don't really see how one could be high enough to screw it up.
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- Results: Obviously what it's all about. So as already stated, I can only gauge results from a non-comparative perspective as I haven't used other organic nutes through an entire plant with zero tinkering. This is the only plant I've done this with. But that said, here's a few things I see that I really like a lot and attribute to the nutes:
1. The rate of growth was quite impressive. Her shape and form were gorgeous and just what it should be. Her side branching for a plant with zero training was impressive.
2. The plant has had zero deficiencies or blemishes the entire grow. Not one spot.
3. The plant has developed impressive, hefty, colorful buds that are covered in trichomes.
4. Although I removed some of the ones that turned all the way yellow, I love the fade with these nutes. I also noticed this on the Raspberry Parfait. It seems to affect the leaves in a very consistent and gradual manner that I really liked. No twisting, dying, ugly looking leaves. Is this an esthetic concern primarily? Maybe so, but it has value to me. There's a picture to show the fade I'm referring to.
5. For the most part the bulk of the leaves have stayed the same shade of green they've been the whole grow. It has been and has stayed very consistent. The leaf patterns around the buds are all solid as hell.
6. There is almost no flarf. Genetics, yes. Nutes? I don't know, but if so, these did that well. Lol.
The first three are the ones that matter to me the most. And in all three regards, I'd be a fool to complain.
I'm wondering, what's not to like? She looks great, she smells great, she's productive, and she even looks like the pictures from HSC for a change! My plants never end up looking like the plants on the websites. Lol.
I love these nutes and will never run out of them. As I learn more I hope to learn more why these seemed to do so well and be able to post more detailed and educated impressions, but there you go.
THANK YOU GEOFLORA SO MUCH FOR SPONSORING THIS GROW. I can't thank you enough for that and for the prizes and things you've laid on me as a result. I'd also like to thank you for your attendance to this, and to how you do that with everyone on here using your stuff. It's refreshing and makes it all worthwhile. More importantly, from a "customer service" perspective, you guys rocked. I had several questions and tried fairly hard to be a pain in the arse, I know. Every single thing I asked you this entire grow was answered, and almost always within 24 hours. That's astounding, and very much appreciated. It helped me a ton. So thanks again guys. Great work you do for all of us here on the forum And FYI, I will also be using Geoflora on the last plant of this grow yet to be shown, because I want to see how they do with an auto in coco. We're using Geoflora in coco on the Watermelon Weddingcake Double XL autoflower who will make her appearance soon enough...in a big pot.
So let's take a look at what you guys have done. Here she is, last pictures of the girl before the chop, and since we lost the Strawberry Banana to the Evil Hermie One, our final Geoflora photoperiod plant. Geoflora is still currently in play on Dos Si Dos autoflowers #2 and #3. Harvest is still days away, but everyone has seen this plant enough to wait til I post bud pics of her.
1. The whole Pineapple Upside Down Cake on Day 47 of flower and getting really close to harvest.
2. The two very lowest, very smallest buds on the entire plant.
3. The stem, showing the woody, developed quality it has.
4. This picture shows the fade I was referring to above.
5. Bud closeup #1.
6. Bud closeup #2.
7. Bud closeup #3.
8. The lowest two full branches on the plant.
9. A mid level branch.
10. The cola.
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But I think you can see why and I think it's the smarter decision. AND, best of all, I already happen to know from experience that the FC-E6500 is going to finish these girls out STRONG, cuz that's what this light does. So yeah, we lost the sun, and that's too bad, but if there has to be a stand in the MH ain't too bad! They will finish under 20/4 in the rig at 100% power in the exact positions you see them in below. I took the time to tweak it since now we're in final position and I'm tired of rearranging every day, so I got all the plants so that there's a "canopy" of sorts and they're exactly where they need to be relative to the light to finish budding. As we're way done with vertical growth we can now set them and forget them. Again, my life just got easier, although I didn't really want to trade that workload in. Oh well. Discretion is the better part of valor. And yield. Lol!
