did having the glue dream cookies wilt before harvest decrease the length of drying time the buds needed?
yea maybe by a day or two. But honestly in this equation, dry time starts when the plant looses turgidity, even if its still alive in the pot imho. So really, no its doesnt, but yea, it does lmao.
if you actually do a side by side cotrol (non speculative) with same clones, all silica does is make stems stronger, and even then only if using distilled or RO water. Compared with municipal tap i had acess to in KC, MI, and back here in TM, there is no difference at all when using silica (this applies to call mag in most, but not all cases as well) It most definitely does not increase trichome and resin production. Not in my experience. And after spending years playing with and without it, ive settled on the conclusion that silica is only even ecessary if using distilled or RO water (some municipalties water doesnt have calcium or magnesium that plays with plants well, but thats the minority tbh).
If using tap water there is genuinely no difference whatsoever, at all, between a clone grown with additional silica additives, and one not. Not im my experience over several municipal water supplies anyway.
There are educated people out there, that believe ground rhino horn (powdered keratin) is a more effective afrodesiac then viagra. And if it works for them, i guess, cool, whatever. Although you'd have better luck and spend less money if yuo just chew on your own fingernails instead of crushing and snorting rhino horn.
Anthropology courses do this thing where they show you how quickly and absurdely rumor, conjecture and heresay can spread.
You can convince just about any consumer, of just about anything if you come across as credible and the scientific method is not fully understood. All you need is a single other claim backing yours up, and 99% of people will run with it as law. You make up a conspiracy, and you spread it with a single person confirming your claims. Small groups of people can easily manipulate very large groups of people through marketing, and conjecture alone. The only reason silica is the new hot dog is because people have started to realize that the
cal-mag is actually whats giving their flowering plants nutrient burn and N toxicity so frequently in flower and the market has begun to move away from it.
Although ill just say thats my own *opinion* to avoid getting into any debates, because its my day off and i really dont want to lmao.
The simple truth us, with 90% of USA municipal water supplies, you can take *most* plants to a full, satisfying, weighty, and high quality harvest in just about any soiless and hydro method with nothing but tap water, flora micro, and flora bloom. Literally nothing else. I spent nearly a decade doing it lol, tested lots of additives on clones but always came back to very simple regiments. The more i simplified my nutrient solution/feeding regiment, the better results i achieved, pretty much across the board. Good ole
KISS.
P.S. these statements dont totally apply to the organic regiment grower ime. And if you are having great results using silica in synthetic regiments, there's no reason to make yourself stop either lmao. Most of those big-multi-bottle lineups will deliver you problems if you arent using everything in the lineup, and the regiment is intentionally engineered that way. The market has figured out there is huge profit margin benefits to splitting up nutrient lineups into several bottles, and really it has nothing to do with plant benefits tbh, more to do with profit margins and maintaining economic growth as a business.
