Purple Kush-Bubba Kush-Pure Kush-Jack The Ripper-Super Silver Haze-Santa Cruz Kush

[aeviaanah]

From what I hear, the proper way to use Gravity would be to hit your plants with it for one week after they stop widening, to harden them up.

Widening being at the point calyxs swell?

 

[LiveHigh]

When you get to that point where you feel like your buds have stopped swelling.

 

[aeviaanah]

youve tested both 3 weeks before harvest and just after calyxs have swelled and have got better results with the latter?

 

[LiveHigh]

To be exact in the extent of my knowledge, I've used Overdrive, which is a worse product than Gravity, both in the category of hardeners (according to the source of information I trust) in two grows, and both times I used them for longer than a week and at the end of flowering.

I recently spoke to the guy and he told me how Gravity is better and that the hardeners are used for just one week after you notice the buds stop swelling. I still have Overdrive, and he's recommended I just use it while I have it and swap to Gravity after it's out, and he's the guy that could sell me it...so yeah. To use his words, "You're in and you're out with it."

So no I haven't used it 'properly' yet, but I will be this grow, although I'm doing a lot different this grow than I have in the past, so it'd be tough to give you an honest speculation of how it performed, comparatively. But like I've said before in the posts, the guy who told me is a hydro owner who tests the products side-by-side and has grown for over 10 years. I trust him, and I don't see why he'd want me to use the product less (only one week) if it wasn't for the best interest of the plants.

 

[aeviaanah]

Ok ill give that a try...sounds like its backed by someone who knows what they are doing. must be good smoke my friend?!

what happened when you used it for the last three weeks? negative results or do you feel it could have just been better with the one week?

 

[LiveHigh]

Eh, I wish I had logged that grow because going off of a memory that's been fogged by countless bongtokes can sometimes get the best of me. I also took a decent-sized break between this grow and my previous two.

I recall things seeming okay to me at the time, and all of my branches were tied up to support the nugs, but that's just cause they were Abusive OGs that stretched like crazy cause my closet was too hot at the time. I had gotten 4 rooted clones and threw them straight into flower...got .5 oz each plant my first grow...definitely wasn't satisfied at all with that, so I spent a lot of time talking to this guy I've mentioned.

 

[aeviaanah]

hmm...right on thanks for the input! do you use ec or ppm?

 

[LiveHigh]

I have the truncheon, so I see both, but I usually look at the PPM. My water comes out at like 200, though. I also don't measure shit out. I just add in with the cap from the bottle and check PPM after.

 

[jcdws602]

what does raising the light do? do you measure in ppm or ec?

I use ppm......and when I don't raise the light I have noticed some burning.......twice so I just raise it now......I use gravity like the bottle says to use it...it has work fine for me on 8 grows....maybe I will try like liveHigh says to see if I see any distinguishable differences

 

[aeviaanah]

wb x rk went hermie on me. spread some pollen around but not too much....her own nugs have got some seeds...dont know if this is from environmental stress or genetics? not to big of a deal as the pollen didnt spread too far. this is the plant that has been hardest to train and is not yielding as much as other plants. i did notice a few rogue seeds that were almost fully developed when i was pollinating...these must have been from when wb x rk spread her hermie pollen. i am going around and popping any seeds i see with tweezers as to not mix them up with the designated bud for breeding.

i have four plants- 2 deep purples, 1 master kush and one wb rk (hermie) where half to 25% of there pistils have died off. is this normal in some strains? i think with the white berry it may have to do something with the hermie accident. maybe the plant is happy with the pollen she has gathered and doesnt care to keep them pistils alive? i think next grow i need to calm down on my additives as well. i do not have a strict regime...and i just basically add whatever i feel the plants need at that time. i do know that over ferting can cause pistil death right? that may be a cause with the deep purples...i am also learning that with a hand ful of strains you are going to get some that arent as happy as others as i am favoring the others needs.

 

[aeviaanah]

ok hermies are doing a little more damage than what i thought a few days ago. now i am at a standstill...do u think the damage is done already or should i remove all wb x rk? week 4 begins tommorow.

 

[Burger Boss]

Hey Aevi, very nice, the outdoor is where my focus is of course, lol.
Kinda looked like seed pods developing in MC macro shot, has she been pollinated? And on purpose?
All in all, you may get 2+ lbs. off the outdoor. Looking real good, Good luck & good grow.......BB

 

[Burger Boss]

Oh Crap! My bad, I didn't read the whole thread. It WAS on purpose! And GOOD job!.........BB

 

[aeviaanah]

well some of it was on purpose...most of it was from a few wb x rk that went hermie on me. deciding what to do right now.

 

[aeviaanah]

master kush

mk

wb x rk

wb x rk

wb x rk

dp

tw x es - cant wait for this to plump up

bastard jack(jtr x mbs) center, wb rk left, bk nug on right

wb x rk left and bastard jack (jtrxmbs) right

 

[aeviaanah]

im getting ready to give em another nitrogen feeding...probably end up being some fish emulsion not so potent and natural. i am planning on harvesting some a few on the ripe side and some on the over ripe side. i will again harvest tops and allow bottoms to fill in for a week. ppms are around 1000-1200...feeding GH maxibloom along with FF beastie bloomz. i also give calmag, snow storm, and gh floralicious. just fed a half dose of gravity as well.

 

[jcdws602]

lOOking frosty..........hey I see you got some gravity....why did you decide to use it now???at this point in flowering??

 

[aeviaanah]

lOOking frosty..........hey I see you got some gravity....why did you decide to use it now???at this point in flowering??

Well im in the middle of week 5...most are around 8 week strain right? The bottle says to use 2-3 weeks before harvest...I do admit i may be doing a little early but it was a half dose and my next watering may only be a quarter dose. I guess i am kind of slowly introducing it before giving a big dose and risk burning the plants or something. Bad move?

 

["SICC"]

Damn them buds are filling like crazy, that MK is looks great, same with the RB x RK, the DP looks fine, i cant see any of the fallen pistols you were talking about.
The TW x ES super frost

 

[theexpress]

this shit right here is what im talking about... wtf is this?