Anyone have any ideas on how to increase bud density and over yield using a natural method instead of liquid bloom or slow release miracle grow? More so looking for any ways can do it with some stuff I can find at home. I would be open to some different brands that are more all natural I guess.
 

Richard Drysift

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Yes; there’s nothing you can dump on them that will grow big buds. Only wattage, training, and time can do that. One effective method of increasing bud mass is through light manipulation. This is probably not what you had in mind when you posted this question and it is probably too late for plants you have in flower currently but you can try this next run if you have the indoor space, patience, and adequate lighting.
Start with mature plants from seed or clones in veg phase by reducing the amount of daylight by one or two hours per week. Go from say 18/6 to 17/7 and so on. The more gradually you reduce hours of light the more it will affect bud structures. Keep going until they are around 14/10 or 13/11 when most strains begin throwing pistils. They will be both vegging and flowering simultaneously at this point. Then pull the cycle back to 18/6 for 2-3 more weeks to re-veg them. I usually transplant them into bigger pots during transition and then flip to the final bloom phase until chop. Also known as monster cropping; it works by closer simulating the suns natural cycle as it changes gradually through the summer into fall. This reduces stretch in between the nodes and increases nodal branching sites where buds form thereby increasing mass; you can easily double the yield this way if you have lighting intense enough to get down to the bottom growth.
 
It's a house brand sativa strain, I'm not sure of the actual name but i will be running a autoflower hybrid that I created this year by crossing think different (autoflower) X My own Strain #1 (cyber krystal x afghani special). cyber krystal is indica dominant and afghani special as well. Think different is sativa domoinant and parents are AK-7 x Ruderalis
 

Zephyrs

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What about if I am growing outdoors?
Then you let them grow until October 15th-28th. Then start thinking about harvest. And between September 1st and harvest, than ya wanna start prevention for PM and bud rot. The best prevention is an absolutely healthy plant. Otherwise it's a freaking crap shoot, growing outdoor in the Fall elements. JM2C
 
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