Pro-Tekt silica in flower

hey everybody, I was wondering if I can give protekt to my plants all the way through flowering. I use it for a ph up now and I'm coming around the 3rd week of flower. I used it all the way up until this point and I haven't seen any issues. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

I use silica right up to the last week of flowering stop 1 week before cut....never had a problem...I water it in with my reg fert routine..but also foliar spray with it...its a high ph so mold does not like it..I had very little bud rot doing this the last few years...i never seen any taste difference either..

tyson53 said:

I use silica right up to the last week of flowering stop 1 week before cut....never had a problem...I water it in with my reg fert routine..but also foliar spray with it...its a high ph so mold does not like it..I had very little bud rot doing this the last few years...i never seen any taste difference either..

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Thanks for the input, I didn't think it would be an issue but you hear and read so many things that may or may not be true.

yep i use silica more as a ph up when needed as well

I use Botanicare Silica Blast periodically through the first month of bloom as a stalk strengthener and to raise PH and haven't ever had a negative effect. I give it regularly in veg as well.

killa4lyfe said:

yep i use silica more as a ph up when needed as well

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@killa4lyfe @Dudemankidson

do you guys add silica after your nutes then since you are using it as a pH up?

Theres a microbe that digests silica. Just google silica fixing microbe. I always add it to my soil just to make sure that the silica doesent build up

I can't understand why anyone would prefer K2SiO3 to KOH for pH up. It's like using a torx screw driver to turn a philips head.

Hell, I can't understand why so many hydro growers even bother buying K2SiO3 (which has questionable utility) but so few buy KOH flakes (staple).

Just my usual reminder.... your plants will never show signs of Si deficiency so there's really no point of adding it. All it does is needlessly over-complicate the process of feeding your plants what they actually want.