You said that was the Frankenstein?
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100% correct!
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Nice setup. Thanks for sharing that.
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Sry for delay @slippy790 !
My fav but expensive:
I dip a butter knife into the goo like a honey dipper and have enough XP to know how deep to go to get the right amount in my solution.
With @defharo 's guidance I’ve been now breaking down D.Earth with KOH + heat + agitation to make a silica K+ solution instead of paying out the ass for the grotek gro-silic.
Additionally I’ve now added rice hulls into my soil mix so their breakdown continuously supplies silica but not as much as my ammendments.
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Hi @Pigeoman, with your permission, a few notes on how I’m using silica this season.
This season, I’m following a more minimalist approach to all kinds of nutrients and minerals.
As a contribution of silica to the substrate, I’ve replaced perlite with rice hulls. I have to say that rice hulls are very hard and hardly decompose in pots in a single growing season. I try to accelerate the decomposition of the hulls as much as possible to release silica by continuously inoculating them with Mountain Microorganisms.
Because of its hardness, it can completely replace perlite in terms of substrate aeration and moisture retention. In the case of rice hulls, it also retains nutrients and promotes microbial life.
In addition, I include various types of powdered clays, also rich in silica, in the substrate mixes.
On the other hand, the spring water I use for irrigation is rich in Si, as the geology of the area is rich in clays.
And finally, I’d like to say that Si is the most abundant mineral in nature. We find it in any moderately woody plant debris. My mulch is loaded with all the stems from the marijuana plants I harvest and smoke. The ash is very rich in Si, and I’m also using rice husk charcoal for substrate mixes.
I’ve known all this for a long time, but I’m only doing it now. Until now, I’ve been adding soluble Si frequently. I have several formulas that make silica soluble.
The HIDRO-SIK (potassium silicate) we experimented with last season is being used every 10 days in very low proportions (0.1-0.2%). It’s the only soluble Si formula I’m using this season.
I also believe that outdoor plants do need extra Si because they’re exposed to wind, etc.
For all the reasons stated above, I’d say ditch GRO-SILIC! 
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Wish I would have thought about the paper clip idea. Ended up drilling a bunch of 1/8 inch holes around the rim of my 5 gallon buckets to LST.
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Theres always next time!
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Here you can see how the plant training turned out.
A lot more pics of the plant before harvest and after i chopped her you can find in this post:
, ixi
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I like cranking down on them with pipe cleaner to keep them small but check out these from this dude on Reddit. He just likes fing off but it’s still cool looking lol
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Pirate border life 
I follow the dude too but not on reddit
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Yup. just noticed the first couple don’t have his name on it but the last one does. He does some that look a lot more useful then these ones but these were my favorites lol
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Yes and I’ve seen him do some big ones too
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Meanwhile I’m over here worried about slightly bent branches
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They damn near told me they loved me the next day shits crazy stay dangerous
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