Silica

Success with silica

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Mellowthecat500

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The most amazing thing that you can do for your plant is by adding this must needed macro into your nutrient feeding regimine from start to finish. I'd like to hear thoughts and opinions from organic, hydro, to dwc . If you are not using this product you are missing out on the buds full potential, if used correctly your thc content will be much higher and if you have mastered your macros, micros and pruning skills this will create very heavy product through foliation at the right time and adding the proper amount through each stage of growth.
 
Dynamo626

Dynamo626

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Mellowthecat500 said:
The most amazing thing that you can do for your plant is by adding this must needed macro into your nutrient feeding regimine from start to finish. I'd like to hear thoughts and opinions from organic, hydro, to dwc . If you are not using this product you are missing out on the buds full potential, if used correctly your thc content will be much higher and if you have mastered your macros, micros and pruning skills this will create very heavy product through foliation at the right time and adding the proper amount through each stage of growth.
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Stop running silica half way through flower or your smoke will be more harsh. I dont know whare you herd that silica increases thc. I have done lots of study on silica and no publiched study on silica sais anything abought higher thc or essencial oil production
 
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Mellowthecat500

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Excellent, you are correct, this is where Pandora's box is opened. In order for sio2 to be successful it must be used properly. Example during 12 12 week 1 to 3 either combine with a 5 to 2 humic kelp. Week 4 and 5 cut dose in half. Now switch to 5/2 ratio peat moss or fulvic acid. In organic stop at week 4 in hydro go till week 6 and each feed decrease sio2 more and more and increase your fulvic. In dirt my suggestion would be to the organic grower to go a little longer with sio2 is throughout 12/12 cycle to during rinse add an enzyme, to break it down and yes if not used and stopped at the proper time your buds will taste like shit. To me what it's about is has your micro colony flourished with proper care if so from weeks 5 through 8 a cutback on nutrients all together eliminating amino a any b vitamins or magnesium. Hydro or soil, if the colony is strong, npk now looks like 0-1-2 half strength. Beneficial microbes or hydro guard for hydro. And a steady increase in mollases, which in order to be effective must be first broken down with an enzyme.
 
Dynamo626

Dynamo626

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Not trying to be an ass. Maby you have seen a study i havent. If you have a link i would be happy to read it and maby change my stance.
 
Lordhooha

Lordhooha

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Mellowthecat500 said:
Excellent, you are correct, this is where Pandora's box is opened. In order for sio2 to be successful it must be used properly. Example during 12 12 week 1 to 3 either combine with a 5 to 2 humic kelp. Week 4 and 5 cut dose in half. Now switch to 5/2 ratio peat moss or fulvic acid. In organic stop at week 4 in hydro go till week 6 and each feed decrease sio2 more and more and increase your fulvic. In dirt my suggestion would be to the organic grower to go a little longer with sio2 is throughout 12/12 cycle to during rinse add an enzyme, to break it down and yes if not used and stopped at the proper time your buds will taste like shit. To me what it's about is has your micro colony flourished with proper care if so from weeks 5 through 8 a cutback on nutrients all together eliminating amino a any b vitamins or magnesium. Hydro or soil, if the colony is strong, npk now looks like 0-1-2 half strength. Beneficial microbes or hydro guard for hydro. And a steady increase in mollases, which in order to be effective must be first broken down with an enzyme.
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You may want to read this and other articles pertaining to it. I’ve never seen anything talking about increased thc or anything.

https://www.dudegrows.com/use-silica-cannabis-garden/
 
ShLUbY

ShLUbY

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while silica can be beneficial for some plants, it is not a required nutrient. There is plenty of work that shows that silica can be useful to plants but is not essential for plant health. one of the uses for it is for increasing the thickness of a cell wall that has been compromised by insects or other pathogens in an effort to quarantine that portion of tissue. That being said, if the plant doesn't feel the need to use it, it likely wont even take it up.
 
Dynamo626

Dynamo626

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Lordhooha said:
You may want to read this and other articles pertaining to it. I’ve never seen anything talking about increased thc or anything.

https://www.dudegrows.com/use-silica-cannabis-garden/
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ha! the first silica article i ever looked at. Im a skeptic though lol. i dont trust information just because its printed. Even published studies contradict one another on some subjects. Everything else i saw on the subject of silica The Dude was 100% correct.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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i use it lightly in veg, i think it helps the plant build good strong stems, and makes it harder for pests to chew through cellular material that contains silica. i cut it off once i flip to flower, don't see much point in using it after that.
never heard of it doing anything but building tougher cell walls
 
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Mellowthecat500

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Oh sure you do, you ever have blight, powdery mildew, nematodes, gnats etc... Only to spray your favorite poison to deteriorate the genetics of your favorite strain.
 
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Mellowthecat500

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This post is not to necessarily prove that I'm right, but to help the average grower, see from the pros how they can grow a better product. Silica is the start of discussion. The most overlooked 4 nutrients that can make an inferior strain compete with the best are silica yucca amino a fulvic acid.
 
Lordhooha

Lordhooha

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Mellowthecat500 said:
Oh sure you do, you ever have blight, powdery mildew, nematodes, gnats etc... Only to spray your favorite poison to deteriorate the genetics of your favorite strain.
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No none. But I know megacrop has it in their nutrient. I’ve used it in the past separate makes the trunks of my plants look like hardwood trees
 
Lordhooha

Lordhooha

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Mellowthecat500 said:
Your cool lordhooha referring to the guy saying I'm throwing a sales pitch
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While I agree silica is important in a plants life it won’t increase thc or resin. Simply put it plays an important role in cell structure making it strong as a plant. It doesn’t do anything more. Having a well rounded nutrient, a well controlled environment will do more for thc than anything.
 
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Mellowthecat500

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I agree lordhooha, but I definetly have a few more curveballs to throw, but I got to go to work. I'll leave you with this, strengthens the cell walls, is the bud not a cell.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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Mellowthecat500 said:
This post is not to necessarily prove that I'm right, but to help the average grower, see from the pros how they can grow a better product. Silica is the start of discussion. The most overlooked 4 nutrients that can make an inferior strain compete with the best are silica yucca amino a fulvic acid.
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those aren't nutrients, they're additives. silica is to build strong cellular walls, which makes the whole plant stronger and more pest resistant. yucca, as far as i know, is a wetting agent, designed to help soil absorb water better and not get dry pockets.
fulvic and humic acid are basically the same thing at different stages, and do contain differing degrees of nutrient, depending on what the soil that produced it contained to begin with. humic acid is produced by living things breaking down into their constituent components, and fulvic acid is produced after that. fulvic is made of smaller molecules, and penetrates the plant roots and cellular membranes better than humic. so humic is basically to keep your microherd healthy, fulvic is to feed your plants.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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Mellowthecat500 said:
I agree lordhooha, but I definetly have a few more curveballs to throw, but I got to go to work. I'll leave you with this, strengthens the cell walls, is the bud not a cell.
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well, no, buds are not cells, they're made of cells. and the basic use of silica is to build a strong plant structure, absolutely no use in flower, you do not want tough cellular material in calyxes, they don't have to support anything but the calyxes stacked on top of them, and they seem to do that quite well with no help at all
 
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