Quote Originally Posted by Delta9Haze420
Anyway, don't fertilize while you're flowering! At least not after 3-4 weeks into flowering (or within 2 weeks of your projected harvest)! In fact anything that is added later in the flowering period is probably going to turn up in much higher quantities in the bud (which is bad, especially carbon as mentioned before, which means all sugars and other organic compounds). Fertilizers have a large percentage of "innert" ingredients that can get taken up by the root system and, while they don't hurt the plant, could very well make for a nasty smoke. Just a quick two cents from a biologist...
Just a quick two cents from a chemist.... This advice is misleading- AT BEST.
Are you seriously only running 5 week strains? Wow! That's pretty rare... :wtf: 35 days, eh? Got me there, I was not previously aware that a 35 day strain existed!
The ingerdients in a good fertilizer are chosen to provide both positive and negatively-charged ions that are BOTH valuable to the plant... such as Potassium sulfate or Calcium phosphate- The plants use both dissociated parts of the compound.
Furthermore, sugars may be applied right up to the end of flower with no negative effects on flavor.
lol @ carbon being bad! What do you think the resins are made of? (hint: it's found in sugar....)
The important element NOT to add in excess in flower is Nitrogen, as it is necessary to chlorophyll production, and chlorophyll is a primary cause of harsh smoke.