I concur, Purple Maxx is actually derived from river eels, not chemicals. I will second the notion that it increases trichome production, I don't know how it does it, but it does. It will FRY everything if you aren't careful. Supposedly it was discovered by accident (that's what it says on the bottle), I imagine some bush hippy grower using dead river eels to fertilize his outdoor plots like the Indians used to, and getting a pleasant surprise at harvest time.
*whistles*
If you have less plant height, you can put your light closer to your budsites Without having to penetrate though 6 ft of branchy growth. If givin the right nutrients in bloom, This will result more light on your plant and budsites.
Same strain from the same mother switched at the same height/size. Also I showed about 6 plants total.I had an entire tray with 12 strains on it all respond the same. I also stated I got the same results with many strains. Yeah and in nature you sure as shit wont ever yield 5+ lbs in a 4X8 space and if you did it would not be consistantly that high. What do you think everyone in the forum does ? We are all giving these plants our own little growing enviroment, not tossing seeds off our balcony hoping for some great natural plants. =)not sure how a study only using 2 plants proves anything, even if they are the same strain,same height......but mkay... it works thats fine
as we all know plants in nature love being pumped full of random chemicals
It's just another tool to have in the grow. I always have a $20 bottle on the nute shelf. My helper wanted to bloom a litltle sativa for his head stash. We hit it with the gravity to keep her in line with the rest of the grow.
What, you don't support the oil companies lol? I have grown pure sativas indoors that would make the best veteran growers faint. I have trained sativas and grown them successfully indoors by topping at will..... and that included topping during flowering. Those pure sativas were stuff like TFD's Original Haze, Zamal sativa (straight from Christopher of La Reunion, a french breeder who was shocked to find out I was growing his stuff indoors), Dalat Vietnamese (seeds sourced directly from the Dalat highlands of Vietnam) and Mexican sativa. Of course some of the best laid plans don't work. For instance, here is a shot of a Dalat Viet which I let grow outside of the garden's footprint, had no choice, ran out of headroom. It was just plain uncontrollable and took forever to bring to a flowering response, I'm talking months. Want a good laugh and a REAL challenge, look at this hehe! On the right is a C99 X Dalat cross that my bud and I did, left outside of the lamp footprint. I mailed him pollen from a choice first generation C99 and he did the dirty deed with his Vietnam ladies. Needless to say, the C99 influence did not show. As an aside, so much for the paradigm that sativa requires super amounts of light LOL.
If I wanted to and had the time, I could breed some world class sativa. I still have alot of Dalat, some TFD's O. Haze beans, Zamal and Mexican sativa. They are safe and sound....have been kept in dark cold conditions.
Zamal was as challenging except it did flower much quicker than the Dalat. The Dalat flowers upon reaching a certain age, vegetative maturity, as opposed to being driven by phytochrome levels. I'll share a really cool email directly from the breeder who lives on a volcanic mountain on La Reunion. It's thought that zamal was originally brought over from Africa to Madagascar and then to La Reunion where French is the native tongue. This is the first correspondence from the breeder, Chris:
