Nutrients Using sugars in flower to boost yield....

[Kaizer_Soze]

Hi there,

I'm a DWC grower, using single tank (54L storage box), powered with 60L per min pump and 8 way splitter to 8 golf ball airstones, with 3 plants in scrog under 2 CMH units with philips greenpower 930 agro bulbs.

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• Kaizer_Soze
• Apr 7, 2018

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• Kaizer_Soze
• Apr 7, 2018

They are getting into week 5/6 flower now, and nutrient reservoir consists of following -

0.4 base EC
0.8 EC House & garden aqua flakes
0.5 EC shooting powder (roughly half a sachet in there)
silicon at 1ml pr litre approximately

so 1.7 EC total.

there is also full strength biosys tea in there. bennies humates aminos and enzymes.

I want more girth than they are showing me, so need to up my game.

Looked at carboload - expensive sugar water. looked at molasses - people favour it for its npk ratio, as it heavily favours potassium (5:1 ratio to N I think with 0 phosphorous). However, it is a complex carbohydrate and requires more work to breakdown, and because im using shooting powder I don't want any extra K in there.

In steps white sugar. basic rocket fuel.

I am counting on my strong bacterial colonies to deal with the sugars and slam some weight onto the girls.

I've never added white sugar to a grow before, so it all might go horribly wrong

I added it at a rate of 1 tablespoon per gallon of water in my Res. so I have 45L - 10 tablespoons.

I dissolved it in 500ml boiled water, then cooled it by topping up to 1L. EC read at 0.4EC - same as tap water.

Tank before adding sugar -

1.7 EC, 5.9 ph (my meter reads 4 points lower than it should, so actually 5.9)

also included some bud shots with truncheon for reference later, I want to see if the sugars help....

I'll take shots each day to log if there is a notable difference in development.

 

[MickJ]

Nice experiment I'm in.

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[Weedeep]

Great man! I'll do to. Alsow a heard that bannana skin is good too, you have to boil it , than throu away bannana skin and thats it the mixture is ready, you can give it to pland


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[BII]

Tablespoons (about 15 mL each) of sugar added to a reservoir will ferment. The by-products will be ethanol and simple organic acids - nothing good for the plants.