Gravity flower hardener

[BlueBear]

Be careful using it, like most of HF's products it is very strong. It will thicken up bud mass, but you need to think about this as well, sometimes you can have the buds so thick that an ounce can look like a half because the buds are so dense and if you let your sacks go then some people sometimes think you have skimpy sacks, but at the same time it may add to your over all yield. I would almost completely drop your mane nutes when first using. HF has great products, but they have also probably destroyed more crops than alot of other products so tread softly.
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BlueBear Reviewed by BlueBear on 01-11-2007. Gravity flower hardener Is anyone familiar with this stuff? It was recommended to me but I have no idea what it is or what it does. "Flower hardener" sounds kind of scary to me. What does that mean exactly? Worth using? Thanks for any words of wisdom. :) Rating: 5

[Weedhound]

Yes, LM pretty much said the same thing there about being very careful and Stinky frowned..I saw it....plus you Bear.....in view of the replies above I believe I shall skip this tidbit...especially after my molasses disaster....thanks you guys for the head's up.

[MadHatter79]

Well, I am harvesting tonight and I can tell you that Gravity definitely did three things:
1. Hardened and thickened the buds
2. Made a large amount of sun leaves fall off
3. Caused the bud burn on my largest cola.

I don't know how heavy the buds woulld have been because I didn't have a control plant, but I am convinced that the buds got heavy because I had to put support nails in various places so it's branches didn't break off. If you squeeze the buds, they are solid inside with only a slight softness coming from the new growth. I also did not move the light away as suggested because I am limited to a fixed light setup currently. I agree that my bags might be small but heavy, but anyone that is unhappy with my pot can simply smoke someone elses. =) I am expecting a HEAVY yield, so I think I can safely say that Gravity helped. The bad news is that wanted to take flower cuttings and hardly any of the sun leaves are intact. If you wanted to reveg after using gravity, I would not suggest using it as it stresses the hell out of the plant at the end of it's life.

[Weedhound]

And one last one if I haven't already scared you away: How many weeks did you flower for after using it....in total?

Thanks!

[Weedhound]

Did you use it in the third or fourth third week as directed on the bottle and how many days did you run it through for? Did you use any nutes in the solution? Would you say your buds are about the same size but denser or smaller and denser? I wouldn't be revegging so no problem there. Sorry to jump you with all the questions but I've been saving up.

[MadHatter79]

Let's see... I believe I used it three weeks before harvest. I added it for 3-4 days, but did not flush until 6-7. If I could do it over...and I'm going too. =) I would use it 2 weeks before harvest, and just let it flush out as part pf the normal pre-harvest flush. You should also make sure that your plant is doing good by then or it'll probably kill it... The buds for sure got super dense inside. This gave them a more solid core early. When the bud would have been getting more solid, it already was, so it just started getting big fast. At the end of my grow I was spraying a superthrive mix and it was lovin' it. I think this was because of how stressed the plant was from the gravity feedings. The B1 in the superthrive helps stressed plants grow better. I dunno if that helps but it's what I got. I recommend the gravity if you are a plant tweaker and are always thinking of ways to make the buds bigger. (that's me)

[MadHatter79]

Oh, check out my grow log and you can see what happened after the gravity feeding and how big the buds ended up getting.

[Weedhound]

Hatter, thanks for answering all that. I will check out your grow log. I'm so on the fence about the stuff....Now if you put it in two weeks before the end you would just add it with ph'd water? You talked about flush....do you use Flora Kleen or just flush with water? Tweaking is the kind of thing I'm talking about....getting more yield per plant vs growing more often but I really tend to screw things up when they get complicated (more than 2 things at once)

Thanks

Oh AND, no problems toward the end with mold etc due to the denser buds and the spraying you were giving them?

[MadHatter79]

so far no mold or problems.

[captzap]

Oh, check out my grow log and you can see what happened after the gravity feeding and how big the buds ended up getting.

Ok So where do I find your grow log?