Yield Increase Thread

[SeriousSmoker]

keep it coming any more news??

 

[joe99]

1. Molasses or black/brown sugar - the sugars will feed the bacteria in the soil that help break down nutes in order to be absorbed. Plus, the minerals contained in molasses/black sugar improve and accelerate the metabloism of the plant. Increased my personal yeald by 15-20%.

how do you go about this process? do you just mix it into the soli or just sprinkle on top and how much of either do you add? and do you add both?

 

[merahoon]

A lot of people mix it in their water while flushing in between feeding.

 

[UncleJohn'sBand]

i have heard that if you get some coca cola and soak all your buds in the coke and then let them dry, the sugar of the coca cola stays in the weedd, and it looks like crystals and it adds about 30% weight. That is only good if you are trying to sell it of course. and it doesnt make the bud less potent of anythng.

I have to say, and I'm not trying to be mean, that must have been the dumbest thing i have ever read. ever. if someone tried to sell me coca cola soaked weed i'd break their fucking nose for being a scum dealer. this thread

 

[UncleJohn'sBand]

i have heard that if you get some coca cola and soak all your buds in the coke and then let them dry, the sugar of the coca cola stays in the weedd, and it looks like crystals and it adds about 30% weight. That is only good if you are trying to sell it of course. and it doesnt make the bud less potent of anythng.

I have to say, and I'm not trying to be mean, that must have been the dumbest thing i have ever read. ever. if someone tried to sell me coca cola soaked weed i'd break their fucking nose for being a scum dealer. this thread is for natural or at least acceptable ways to increase yield..not ways to screw over other smoking enthusiasts.

I've found that molasses the last 6 weeks of flowering, extra light and good ventilation are the main keys to increasing yield. I would suggest "testing" the limits of your strains' fertilizer tolerance..you may eventually burn some trying to find out just how much they can take, but you'll learn the maximum that you can pump into them in the future, which is seriously invaluable. hope this helped

 

[chief greenleaf]

Yes, UV light is for trichrome production, not yield increase. And i have been part of threads about this topic many times. I actually have a 600w UV bulb for the last week of flower. It makes things more crystally, but may cost some yield, so its a toss up what you want.

Hey Yota I know this thread is a little old but maybe youll pop and see this, I wanted ta let anybody thats reading this and interested in UV lights in flowering know that they can actually be harmful in the last week or two of the flowering cycle. Ive been doin a lot of research, side by sides, etc and when using UV lights you wanna turn them off in during the last two weeks for best results. This is because UV is only benefical in increasing potency when trichomes are in active development/growth. The increase in THC production is your plants natural defense mechanism trying to protect itself. During the last two weeks THC starts to mature and die off and harmful UV rays will probably negativley effect growth because the plant cant produce extra trichomes to protect itself.
To get the best results try turning the UVs on as soon as you see the first trichome development. The goal is to simulate the suns rays, one of THC's purposes is to act as a kind of sun block to protect the plant from UV rays, thats why herb grown at higher altitudes tend to have a higher THC content. In nature UV rays are the strongest during mid day so indoors you wanna turn your UVs on for 6 hours everyday during the middle of the lights on cycle. So theyll be turned on 3 hours after lights on and turned off 3 hours before lights off for a total of 6 hours a day... Make sense??? Good! Continue this up until the last 2 weeks and you should see a visible increase in trichome production, anybody thats skeptical go buy a few UVs and put em in one half of your garden and compare to the side without. Thats what convinced me!
Remember scientists are still doing research on UV rays and THC production but this info is what they think is the most accurate and from my own personal research on the net and in the garden this seems to back it up pretty well.

 

[lugger37]

50 under 1000 W...and 18 ounces? Which is about what you should get. Your goal should be 2 lbs per light which is what you are approaching. All time highest yield ever recorded was only 2.5 lbs per light. So with that being said, why dont you lower your work load to say 6 plants and get the same yield? Once you approach 2 lbs per light then start tweeking your system to see what you can get it to do. The one constant I think you will find for increased yield is CO2. Good luck.