I don't know why people get pissed about it either, but it is one product I will not use in my garden. I don't like PGR's like that, and in the two grows (small sample size, take for what it's worth) that I've seen use it the buds were much leafier than without the Bushmaster, and trichome production was noticeably less. Maybe that was just luck of the draw, or poor use of the product, I don't know. That product just scares me.
To put this to rest I finally got around to taking some pics to clear this topic up once and for all. Bushmaster works plain and simple. If you choose not to beleive your lying eyes so be it. I honestly havent used it for very long but the results were brutally clear. It virtually STOPS vertical growth as advertised. Some may want us to provide thousands of test subjects blah blah blah, but I think anyone with a brain cell atatched to their neck can see that it does in FACT work.
These plants are the same strain taken from the same mother plant. Switched 12/12 at the SAME exact height. Recieved the same nutes. Were in the same room. Same lighting. Couple are on the same tray even. I removed a couple of them from the tray for a few days while I ran the bushmaster in the system.
I used 1 ML per gallon with my nutes but back to 1000 PPM. Ran it for 4 days. Refilled res with fresh nutes and all plants went back on the same tray . Couple pics I had cut the plants down that were about a week further along so you can see me holding the plant. On those there was still a good 4-5 inches of stalk not shown so add a few more inches. I wrote down the height of the plants when I started BM. The first pic the plant stopped its stretch completely for atleast a week. It then only stretched another 4 inches total before it stopped on its own. Normally it would have doubled in size. Does the plant on the right yield more then the one on the left? Nope but now I can fit four plants in the same footprint which increases the yield dramatically and is how I choose to grow. I would have tossed this strain without Bushmaster. I have several other strains I did it on as well with the same results.
If you need to stop vertical growth or slow it down this product works wonders and a little goes a very long way.
FYI if I could take a picture that proved density and weight I'd do it for this manfacturers Gravity as well. The difference is just as clear on that product as well.
I did get a little leaf curl by the end of day 4. I beleive its because I had pretty strong nutes mixed in with it.
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I haven't noticed any difference in bud developement with the Bush. But, I use it different that most people. I tend to use it in veg when I have a plant group getting a little tall. By the time they goes into bloom, the Bush has weared off, and the plant does it's early bloom stretch normally. Fortunately, as long as I get my timing right, I don't need to use it. It's just when I end up taking clones too early, or blooming plants take a little longer, that I fall back on the Bush. Hopefully, after a few more months in this new grow, we'll have the schedule nailed down. That will be about the time we bring in a new strain and start learning all over again. Damn I love my job.
lolNo real nute burn actually. The clawing you see in the larger pic is on one strain only and that one is C99. It got the claw when I hit the plants with Bushmaster the first week. They are still very plump and very very good quality. None of the other strains got that clawed leaf thing going. The only actual "burn" I can see from these photos is on the tray shot where there are some brown spots but that was from spraying the plants down with a foiler to keep mildew at bay. The single plant shot has the very very tips and one leaf closest is a little yellow but the buds and all the small bud leaves are 100%. I push my plants no doubt about it but I also get great results.lots of nutrient burn going on, also rooster claw caused by nutrient burn or Plant Moisture Stress (PMS).
lay off the nutes a little and it should clear up.
Just wanted to say that I know what you meant I was just trying to clear it up for other people. I know you get it unlike a few others out there... Hell I dont even know if I am going to use it on a regular basis but its nice to have an option like this when a tray is getting too tall. I dont think running the stuff for a few days in the first couple weeks of bloom is going to leave anything harmful in the final product after another 6-7 weeks go by.
Me too!...
It's actually the other way around. The new Purple Maxx contains the old Snow Storm Ultra product. They have reformulated.
All my grown strains get top shelf statis at any club so the quality is top notch. I have been smoking myself for the last 28 years and I can attest to the quality being as good as anything else out there even the finest clubs. Key is to use it prperly and not overuse it. Snow Storm adds lot of crystals and its cheap.
OK nice, much respect. Like I said Bush and Gravity to each his own. But I strongly have to disagree with using a chemical to change your non-purple strains to purple. IMO that is not what growing cannabis is about.
I hear what you are saying. Its not like they are putting dye into it or something crazy though. What it does is just enhance any strain that has any purple tendency at all. I have some strains that would turn just a tiny hugh of purple without it but with it it is more prnounced. Not super purple but just a bit more purple. Purple strains turn out a shade more purple and so on. Not drastic. The Trich production is dramatic on the plants however and that is the only reason I even use the stuff.
