Day 27/18
Well lets start with the right side, CS sprayed plants are showing pollen sacs so wooo to that. The GA3 sprayed plant isn’t showing any though also has a nice double “N” stem fold going on and needing a third to keep its height in check but im done with her at this point.
Guess my current summery of GA3 vs CS is i cant truly say as i dont have pollen sacs being that my concentration mix is probably wrong but my initial opinion is even though CS does hamper the plant in a damage type way you still get to see how the plant grows out more or less naturally structure and build wise, with GA its really a guess cause your growth and shape are vastly altered due to the stem elongation properties that it promotes so you would have a hard time trying to discern any traits that the reversed plant may carry along that alone makes me favor the CS a lot heavier.
Did notice something with the GA3 spray though that i’ll have to test further with some CS spray, that being through the preparation of a GA3 solution you have to use a alcohol solvent to initially dissolve your GA3 powder which i used methanol but what i noticed is the GA3 spray would soak into the leaves pretty much visibly which made me think that the small added concentration of a alcohol solvent probably aids in surface tension reduction and or possibly knocks back the waxy leaf properties to allow better absorption and how that you could probably do the same with some CS to make it more effective.
Also not saying the acidic nature of GA3 probably helps too but were talking small concentrations, so i added some methanol to my CS spray at the very end just to see and it did appear to make a noticeable difference, so ill be testing that again on some fresh plants and maybe do a side by side with and without a little methanol mixed in for my own knowledge, cause if i can get the CS to be absorbed more effectively then that means less applications.
On to the left side which is well not doing the best but are improving, all the plants in both cabs got a off pH feed watering about 4-5days back which i didn’t correct initially when i noticed the plants were showing issues “laziness or whatever on my part” so they just got a plain watering as i was waiting on some of the new v3 megacrop to arrive, i had ordered some from Aquaterra here on the forums as he had some smaller sizes available for purchase and is somewhat local to me and Greenleaf still doesn’t have the smaller sizes stocked for us Canadians, so he got my business .
They all got there first feeding of the new v3 megacrop last night, i just had grown tired of Maxibloom and how it needs way too much pH adjuster to get into usable ranges, i prefer megacrop anyways ive just been out for awhile and couldn’t get any due to covid and shipping/restock situations…
So they may spring back but i expect to be thinning them eventually, one when the hermi traits start showing or as i deem fit, but also have some new seeds going too by the other pots which should all be up either tomorrow or the next day.
A bonus shot of the GA3 sprayed seedling beside its sisters that i removed yesterday, just to show the stretch differences GA3 causes.
Alot of blabbing today apparently lol