what strikes me remarkable about homebrewer's threads is that he somehow managed to nuke his plants using connoisseur. how is it that other growers including phillip, lordjin, humbolt, collective gardener and myself (first time ever using connoisseur) managed to run crops with sensi 2 part and connoisseur without burning them to death? or at all for that matter? i don't remember exactly but i do believe homebrewer was only using connoisseur by dosages and not by measuring ppms. seems like a very rookie move if that is the case. either way i can't seem to understand how someone claiming to be SO experienced and knowledgeable could nuke his plants like that. especially at the lower levels he claims to have run connoisseur.
the other thing that strikes me as akward is that if you go through homebrewer's threads, especially the side by side grows, you will see surprising similarities between the plants and the photos. not only do some of the photos look exactly the same from what are supposed to be different grows...but many of the pics of the room have it looking exactly the same. right down to the placement of small objects in the room and creases and bends in the mylar on the walls. all looks very suspicious to me. i'm just saying. everyone should make their own judgement. i have.
now i am in no way trying to peddle advanced. you will never find a post of mine telling someone to buy it. and if you look at my journal you will see that i am actually going to be trying out some new nutes and teas pretty soon. i'm all for experimentation. but someone acting as homebrewer in this matter raises suspicion in my book. he shows up in any advanced thread where he thinks he can talk down to the grower. there is a reason he does not show up in collective gardener's thread or lordjin's. he does the same with all newbie threads on dyna grow. someone who spends that much time arguing for a nutrient company is most likely getting paid. i know i wouldn't argue that much for any product.
ok....on to some bud porn. here's a little background info. got 4 plants running under a 600 super hps hortilux bulb. co2 at 1500ppm and 6 hours of UVB light in 2 hour increments. they are day 18 of 12/12. they were vegged for 2 months with sensi grow a & b, voodoo juice, superthrive, and botanicare cal/mag plus. ppm's were pushed to 1150 before i backed them off to 1000 the last weeks of veg. they are in sunshine #4 with 20% worm castings. pH is 6.3 of nutrients and the soil. using blue lab soil test meter and hanna growcheck pH/ppm meter. since i moved them to flower i have pushed the nutrients all the way to 1475ppm on the last watering which was wednesday; the beginning of week 3. the plants have shown no signs of nute burn and in my opinion are growing vigorously. hey are drinking about 1/2 gallon a day and are in 5 gallon pots. flower nutes are mixed to 150ppm below the desired amount and the last 150ppm is cal/mag. the nutes i am using are connoisseur a & b, voodoo juice (first 2 weeks), piranha (first 2 weeks), tarantula (first 2 weeks), big bud (weeks 2-6), bud candy (all weeks), sensizym (all weeks), rhino skin (all weeks).
room temps are 76 during dark cycle and 86 during light cycle. humidity is a constant 38-42%.
for a newer grower using a nutrient for the first time with a fair amount of knowledge of growing i think these pics speak for themselves. i turned on the UVB bulbs in the beginning till the HPS bulbs fired. i wanted to see which would give me a better light source for the pics. so you get some of both.
). The BIG difference, I would have to say is LIGHTING. Some even say it's more important than all else combined. I'm just trying to say when you want to vastly improve yields, potency and harvest time that's what one should be focusing on. I'm checking out vertical growing, you'll be amazed at what people are pulling (1 gram/watt w/inexperienced growers). Proof is abounding on the web. I don't want to get OT but just making a point.
as long as I use simply two part nutrients like Pro-Tekt and GROW from seedling to 7 weeks of flower . I will use the Bloom up for the finish. The point is to have the best healthiest plants that will produce most yield. No magic !! Bro keep em greener.