Vitamin B1 and its surprising effect on resin production...

researchstudent

Active Member
Hey everyone, longtime listener, first time poster:

Ive been growing the same strain in many rooms for almost 3yrs now and i know the plant like the back of my hand...Im a well read grower with 10years experience and repeatedly achieve 1gm per watt using organic on soil...
Recently i was given a bottle of Super B+ from Future Harvest Develoments and i added it at 2ml per litre during the flowering phase to see if it had any beneficial effects. After 1 week of application it had clearly increased resin production in the rooms where it had been applied...The variety im growing is Big Buddha Blue Cheese, which is reasonably resinous but the leaves never really coat up in resin until wk 9...the addition of Thiamine Hydrochloride has produced masses of beautiful resin glands all over the leaves in wk 5!!
I havent managed to find any literature on the net which links resin production and thiamine hydrochloride...Just wondering if anyone has had any similar experiences by adding vitamin b1 to the flowering schedule?
 

ilikecheetoes

Well-Known Member
seems like a spammy first post but Ill bite.
I suspect theres more than just B1 in there. Who knows what other PGRs it has?
 

TheGoodGrower

Active Member
I had never heard that. So I went to BPN's website to see what their B-vitamin product had to say about it. It reads:

VitaBlue is a B-Vitamin Supplement designed to supercharge plant growth. It contains Vitamins B-1, B-2, B-3, B-5, B-6, and B-9 as well as humic acids, fulvic acids, and composted seaweed extract. B vitamins are critical for maintaining many cellular processes. Providing your plants with B vitamins in a readily available solution allows plants to focus more of their energy on root development, vegetative growth, flower development, and production of essential oils.

-so seems there may be something to that. However, they recommend that you stop using it mid flowering. They're always helpful, I'll email them and ask why:

Directions for use: Apply to plants at a rate of 1-2 ml per liter of water during seedling,
[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]vegetative growth, and flowering phase. Discontinue use after week 6 of flower.[/FONT]



Source: http://www.blueplanetnutrients.com/index.php?option=com_rokecwid&view=ecwid&Itemid=202#!/~/product/category=3571243&id=15260829
 
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