HOW DO I PRODUCE THE BIGGEST MOST POTENT MOSTER BUDS!!!!!

[Hammerhead]

I agree you can lead a horse to water but you cant make them drink. I wish you all that grow inferior genetics the busy of luck. Good genetics are defined buy how much work a breeder puts into there projects and runs test to see the outcome over and over.. This costs them thousands of dollars to accomplish. Plus the time involved to make strains that produce what there looking for. IMVHO growing high quality genetics to there full potential is far from easy.

 

[Lazyman]

Genetics, followed closely by the following feat:

"NEVER let the plants growth slow down for any reason, at any time during its life."

That can be exceedingly difficult, depending on the room, environment, size of the garden and of course cubic dollars. Experience factors into this heavily as well. Every year I do better than the last year, and I've been growing for ten years now.

Learning to "read" plants and give them what they need is one thing I wish I had focused on earlier, instead I chose to learn how to design and implement state of the art grow rooms. It's all important info, but reading plants well will get you a better crop than a high tech room will. Bring it together in the end and you can have a big garden full of happy girls and with a large degree of automation to make your life easier.

Growing is a journey, not a destination. Dig it!

 

[habeeb]

run the same plant over and over then over, and then again, over.. rinse and repeat

you need to learn the strain and how far you can push it every week.

 

[paladin420]

hire a professional.

I'm Easy. Just not Cheap... But reallly realllly woth it.

 

[TurboFish]

run the same plant over and over then over, and then again, over.. rinse and repeat

you need to learn the strain and how far you can push it every week.

+1, people can tell you anything they want. You can throw all the additives in the world at a strain, but if you don't know it and you burn the thing or don't give it the correct care it will slow it down and you will have limited potential. knowing your strain is the biggest factor, its easy to tweak it after you realize what it needs, because not every strain is the same or will grow to its fullest potential under the same feed and environmental conditions as other strains.

 

[Darth Fader]

#1 Cut a hole in a box
#2 Put your ...

nevermind

 

[supersmallgiant]

#1 Cut a hole in a box
#2 Put your ...

nevermind

BWAHAHAHAHA One of the funniest skits I have ever seen. Now its going to be stuck in my head again... thanks.

 

[High Country]

Just grow, don't worry about the biggest, most potent. Sow the seed and grow the weed....you might just find it one day.

 

[mck2k2]

agreed

 

[bombadil.360]

tips and tricks?

like what?

irrigate your plants with the menstrual blood of a virgin while you scratch your ass with the feathers of a bald eagle?

 

[High Country]

Mmmm....I might try that

 

[zarak]

well i started with bagseed, miracle gro, dirt and 4 foot shop lights and oh yes did i mess things up several times.i learned from my mistakes and pretty much mastered the dirt and fluros. moved on to the hps with hempy buckets and better nutes gh 3 part and better genetics and did fairly well. switched that to dwc with gh3 and had amazing results as well. have never looked back since.i'm now looking at adding mixed spectrum by adding mh's but right now i can't do anything because of some stupidity on my part or i'd throw up some pics to prove that i'm not blowing smoke or misleading you. but i can tell you this my small 400 watt hps is hanging and running 15/9 on a parks whopper tomato in a dwc setup and it's doing better than anything i have outdoors.practice makes perfect. so in short or long i say experience is the best followed closely by genetics and lights in no specific order on the last two. everyone can tell you different but just grow it and see what works best for you.

 

[liquidlight]

My first grow was with bagseed. The plants grew and flowered well and the result was absolute total trash. A huge waste of 3 months work. Just get the best seeds you can get your hands on eh? If that happens to be bagseed then so be it.

You can't make a silk purse from a sows ear.

 

[Dudesome]

You can't make a silk purse from a sows ear.

yet you can fuck up a silk purse pretty hard. It was your first time after all...

 

[Snow Crash]

Since no one has suggested it...

Nutrition can play a huge role in the final structure of the plant if growing in a hydroponic medium. I found that AN Big Bud dry increased the size of my flowers considerably. I am currently using Cutting Edge Solutions with decent trichome development at just 23 days into flowering. Another product that I use as a foliar spray which results in very tasty and sticky buds is BioCanna BioBoost Accelerator. In my last grow I tried Snow Storm Ultra and Bud Candy but did not have anywhere near the same results with regards to resin output. Bud size was fine though.

I think another goal for growing big flowers is knowing when to hit your plant with a good amount of nutrition. That week 6 p/k boost suggest by every mfg is for real. What I focus on is running a relatively low EC for weeks 1-3. This keeps any burning or stress to a minimum during the transition. If the plants need a little extra food it is easier to add more then to try and flush out excess. After the 30th day, when the flowers are really kicking into gear, that's when I start to push them harder. Trying to push the plants with too much nutrition too soon always results in diminished harvests.

Something I notice about bud structure is that if you flip to flowering just as alternating nodes are present (easy to do with clones) the way the buds stack up helps create nicely sized flowers. Keep the internodes tight and alternating when you hit flowering and that can make a little difference... probably not in final weight, but at least in the shape and size of the cola's.

And never forget, big roots build big buds. Start with your roots and work up. If the roots aren't happy, don't push a bunch of shit they can't eat just because it's "that time." Ensure a healthy root zone and that will be a huge factor down the road.

To recap how I go about it:

1. Ensure a perfect environment held as close to 75.6 degrees as possible all of the time. CO2 supplementation temperatures are higher, between 80 to 84 depending on the plant. Don't let your humidity drop too low until you have a risk of bud mold. Stay in the 50's and 60's until those colas really take shape after day 45; then you're safest dropping down to 40's in RH.
2. Do not over feed during the transitional stage. Take a slow ride, take it easy.
3. Use a quality nutrient system that has a proven track record. If you're new, go with the Lucas/H3ad/Rez General Hydro formulas and mimic someone else.
4. Try including a hormone/amino-acid supplement like Big Bud or Shooting Powder. Dry is key. Use from day 28 to about 14 days before you harvest.
5. Don't be afraid to foliar spray with an organic based bio-activator like BioBoost (250ml at $20 will last you several grows when using maybe 0.5ml per week in foliar per plant for only 2-3 weeks). I'll usually do a good drench with the stuff around the end of week 7 with what remains in my bottle just as I stop using nutrients. Foliar only as long as it is safe, only at lights on, and concentrate on the underside of the leaf. Follow up every nutrient foliar the next morning with a clean water foliar to wash off residual. Do not spray every day and always include a surfactant (a drop of Ivory dish soap is great).
6. Wait for alternating nodes before you flip to flowering.
7. Keep your roots happy. I like to use kelp extracts and organic acids derived from Humic acid.

Always keep your eyes peeled. Advances in technology abound. Electro-stimulation, ultra-sonic frequencies, plasma diode lighting, and many other hyphenated sciency shit that could be the future.

 

[In~Plain~Site]

While I appreciate the effort put into that post, it will fall on deaf ears...no relevant info(for the OP) to be gleaned without a point of reference...which I believe is what everyone, more or less, has been trying to tell him.

Show me someone, just starting out,and thinking someone can give them 'the answer' and I'll show you someone who's about to be disappointed.

 

[Hammerhead]

Would this be concidered the biggest most potant monster bud

 

[Jellyfish]

Yep. So, tell us, briefly, how ya did that!

 

[Hammerhead]

LOL thats a good one. Good Genetics with the strain dialed in.

 

[liquidlight]

yet you can fuck up a silk purse pretty hard. It was your first time after all...

What i learned was to use better seeds next time. So i hopped on a Plane to Amsterdam with a mission! At the time you couldn't buy seeds in the UK ... nobody was selling them yet.

I also learned 'don't believe the hype' ... the guy that gave me those first seeds said "Yeah man they're really good" - Some people just don't know what comes out of their mouths!