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I've had several successful crops in the past using nothing but the absolute basics ( basics meaning miracle grow, no ph testing, no ppm meter etc) and bag seed; the results were actually pretty impressive.
Fast torward 12 years to the present, I built two seperate grow chambers: one veg room aprox 5x4x8 and one flower room aprox 15x7x7. The plants are started in 1inx1in rockwool cubes and transferred to 1gal plastic grow pots Filled with hydroton once established with roots. The plants are all drip feed from the top from a 25 gallon res, then once they are about 15in tall they are transferred to the flower room.
All the plants were grown from cuttings purchased from a very reputable clone merchant in San Fernando Valley. they were:
OGxDiesel, Chemdog 91, Ogre Kush, Banana Kush, and several othersl
I am using a mix of nutes:
Veg: advanced sensigrow a & b, mother earth tea grow, fulvic(from huvega) roots excelerator, Hygrozyme,barricade, vitamax from grotek
Flower: Connoisseur a & b, mother earth tea bloom, Big Bud, vitamax, barricade, and hygrozyme.....first week i use bood blood as well
So, using that set up I have now had three harvests all with one thing in common.....NO F"N TRICHOMES!!!! WTF am I doing wrong? I keep my ph btween 5.6 and 5.9 and my PPM i try to keep as close to 1000 as possible. I have the hardest time with the PPM's for various reasons, so the plants do seem to have fert burn (albiet not terribly) Something else I've noticed is that the roots of freshly harvested plants seem rather weak..that is despite the roots excelerator and hygrozym!!!
So i guess I'm wondering if there is a common cause for LOW trichome production. I seem to be putting in A LOT more effort now than I did 12 years ago, and my results are CRAP.
Thanks in advance for any ifo that may be useful, I'm totally stumped!!!
JP
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