WELL, THIS IS GONNA BE A CONTROVERSIAL UPDATE!
OK, everyone, this is bound to be a controversial update and should keep things interesting!
Most of you are probably aware that I'm using Brother
@Doc Bud's High Brix soil mix. It really is an ideal mix for growing the highest quality MMJ possible and, if you're looking for ways to improve it, you can pretty much stop looking since Doc's already done the work for you and if it helps, it's probably already in there.
I'm also lucky enough to be a Product Reviewer here on
and when I was asked to test a soil amendment from a new sponsor, I was pretty reluctant (to say the least!) to start messing with the high brix mix.
The sponsor is
@Vulx and the product is a volcanic rock dust (see
Home - Vulx Soil Amendment Made from Volcanic Mineral Mix ).
I'm a big fan of rock dust as an organic soil amendment to remineralize the soil and I'm a heavy user of Azomite (and, to a lesser extent, Gaya Green) for my fruits and vegetables.
But, what would it do to a high brix grow?
Well, there's only one way to find out!
So, I agreed to do some testing and Vulx was nice enough to send me three pails of their product:
And, since there's only one way to tell what this stuff does to the brix levels, I also got me one of these:
So, the question we're going to try to answer with this grow is, "Will Vulx improve brix numbers when used with 3rd run high brix soil?"
The only strain I'm running two of this round is the Dolato, and they're either sisters or one is a clone of the other, but they've both been vegging for 3+ months and are both about the same size.
So, I up-potted all the plants and included the Vulx in one of the Dolato's containers and the other Dolato is in "pure" 3rd run soil. They were all extremely rootbound and I expect to see some pretty rapid growth now that they're in their final homes.
The instructions say to mix 2.6 oz. of Vulx per gallon of "light" soil (see the instructions on their website, but Promix falls into the "light soil" category). Since the plants went into #10's, it called for 26 oz. of Vulx which happens to be 1.625 lbs.
How convenient that each pail was 1.6 lbs.! So, I mixed a full pail into the one container that got "Vulxed".
I just got back from the store getting some Distilled water, which is needed to calibrate the Brix Refractometer and will take some preliminary brix readings in a few minutes.
I even picked up a new heavy duty garlic press to help extract the leaf juices:
In the mean time, here are the girls in their new homes under the SP-250's:
Some natural light group pics:
Platinum Cake:
Blackwater:
Platinum Kush Breath:
Dolato #1 (NO Vulx):
Dolato #2 (Vulx):
I'll post the introductory brix reading ASAP.
Happy Harvests!
K
Beautiful! 
...cheerz...
...h00k...
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