Nutrients Harvest Gold Silica trial test: Sweet Seeds Cream Caramel in a 2-Liter Soda Bottle

[Only1Sky]

@Only1Sky This is an awesome journal. Thank you so much for your journal and detailed observations. I agree, three plants only are hard to gauge a true test. We typically run 4 plants of the same specs (genetics, ratio, conditions, environment, etc.) to ensure that we see how things look on average. In addition, HGS needs some fertilizing to truly take advantage of its power. It's a soil conditioner at heart, silica is only one of the benefits, the other nine nutrients are also benefits - but when working with HGS you still need to add some NPK. I'm curious to know what you found in your watering schedule. Did the plants with HGS need less watering? Please email us at info@harvestgoldsilica.com so that I can send you a thank you gift

Interesting that you asked about the watering schedule, 'cause I hadn't thought about it. But since it was hand-done every day I actually get pretty intimate. The fact is, you're right, the HGS plants used less liquid. No sure exactly how much, but I would estimate that it was somewhere between 20-25% less each day.

Regarding fertilizer and other factors: I used reverse-osmosis water, but the 3 plants were never given it plain except once to start, which was around day 10. Thereafter, the water was mixed with Greenleaf's MegaCrop nutrient. Half-way through the grow I added Greenleaf's Sweet Candy and Bud Explosion into the mix. Prior to flowering, the plants were misted once daily -- alternating Optic Foliar and Biotabs Boom-Boom spray.

The baseline soil mix was Roots Organics Original with amendments of worm casings, some azomite and some dolomite. The soil was then primed with a nice drench of ReCharge and Mammouth-P. Then, half-way through the grow everybody got another drenching of ReCharge, but this time with the addition of SLF-100.