Want Big, Sugary, Tasty, Sweet-Smelling Marijuana Buds?
Feeding Carbohydrates to Your Hydroponics Marijuana Produces Sweeter Buds 
Probably you’ve heard of carbo-loading and amino acid supplementation for endurance athletes. Now, plant scientists studying marijuana have discovered that your hydroponics plants have more energy, vigor and yield when you feed them carbohydrates, vitamins and amino acids through their roots.
In the good ol' days of Colombian Gold that sold in the USA for $20 an ounce, Colombian farmers poured sugar, vanilla, cinnamon or molasses into their marijuana root zone, hoping to sweeten their crops.
Nowadays, your hydroponics store offers several formulas that contain carbohdyrates in various forms. Some are said to boost plant energy. Others are said to boost bud taste and aroma. Only one of those formulas was designed for and tested on hydroponics marijuana.
One product that growers'll tell you to avoid is Brix Plus. Its maker recommends spraying it on your crops a few days before harvest. Some people use it after harvest. It's supposed to add weight and make crappy weed taste better. What it really does is clog leaf openings (stomata) that your marijuana plants breathe through. Dealers use it to pad their weed weight.
Because marijuana growers are always looking for miracle methods that increase bud size and potency, you see lots of information about "hydroponics carbohydrates." But how accurate is this information, and what if any product actually makes your buds taste, smell and grow better?
To answer these important questions, we first look at an article about spraying carbohydrates on plants. The article is in the December, 2010 issue of Maximum Yield hydroponics magazine, and is authored by Craig Gribble.
Gribble's article, titled Plant Potential: Maximum Growth Through Foliar Feeding, claims that foliar feeding carbohydrates is far better than root feeding. But we all know plants evolved to take water and nutrition in through their roots, and that the only inputs our plants evolved to take in through their leaves are light and C02. So why would Craig Gribble say otherwise?
Perhaps Gribble believes what he is saying, but many suspect he has a self-serving agenda for his article. You see, Maximum Yield lists Craig Gribble as author of the article, but fails to identify him as a leading official with Dutch Master, a hydroponics nutrients company. Dutch Master makes foliar spray products.
Their product names are cool (Liquid Light, Saturator, etc.), but Dutch Master provides only a few tidbits of information about their stuff, with not enough detail to prove how or whether their foliar products even work.
Old Information Versus Marijuana Research
While I was studying the Dutch Master website trying to figure out if their claims had any truth to them, I noticed the opening sentences of Gribble’s Maximum Yield article are word for word the exact same as the opening paragraphs of an advertising blurb on the Dutch Master website.
What's more, Gribble's article and website mentions the research of "Dr. H.B. Tukey" to assert that foliar feeding is amazingly effective- but fails to mention that Tukey’s research was conducted more than 50 years ago on non-marijuana crops, and has been superseded by marijuana-specific research.
Gribble wants you to believe that hydroponics marijuana roots do not uptake carbohydrates, amino acids and other non-nutrient substances. But rest assured- marijuana roots are capable of uptaking carbohydrates, amino acids, nutrients and other substances. You can read this scientific report to get more info on that.
Also know that foliar spraying is useful in certain circumstances, like when your hydroponics marijuana plants have root problems and you need to attempt to deliver nutrients through leaves.
Notice I use the term “foliar spraying” rather than foliar feeding because many of the benefits are protective rather than nutritional. For example, I foliar spray beneficial microbes and potassium silicate on my early-phase crops, because this helps defeat molds, mildews, and pests such as spider mites.
Here's a basic but crucial foliar spraying tip: if you want hydroponics nutrients foliar spraying to be at all effective, you need to use an organic or synthetic "surfactant" that helps leaves absorb what you're spraying. Just realize that some portion of what you spray on your crops is likely to be on them as residue when you harvest, especially if you spray during late bloom phase.
Unless you're dealing with an emergency situation that absolutely requires foliar spraying, avoid foliar spraying after your marijuana plants have set flowers. It ruins the taste of your crops, and can create health problems for anyone who smokes your bud.
Marijuana So Tasty...You'll Love it Like Bud Candy
Scientists at the Advanced Nutrients hydroponics company know that taste, scent, size, weight and THC potency of your marijuana crops are extremely important to you.
They created an integrated feed program that provides essential nutrients, carbohydrates, vitamins, natural flavorings, kelp extracts, L-amino acids and other ingredients your marijuana buds better taste, more THC and bigger size.
An important component of this program is a formula called Bud Candy. It provides a unique blend of complex carbohydrates and proprietary materials that infuse into your plants via roots.
The Bud Candy formula increases the scent, taste, size and potency of your buds. It also provides your blooming hydroponics marijuana plants extra energy at a time when they're running out of energy due to intense metabolic demands.
You've likely noticed that your plants go into a mid-bloom slump. That's because they're having a hard time manufacturing energy for themselves. Bud Candy gives them an easy supplementation of energy that they use for unusually bountiful bud production.
So you see that the tactics of foliar feeding, or when growers dump molasses or raw sugar into or onto their plants, create a lot of problems. Such as sludged-up leaves or a clogged irrigation system.
But root-feeding the right types of carbos and other booster materials to your hydroponics marijuana plants during bloom phase gives them the extra energy they need to produce bigger, more resinous buds. It also boosts taste and aroma.
Marijuana Grow Guru Jorge Cervantes Agrees
The basic fact about feeding carbohydrates, as you see in this video by marijuana grow guru Jorge Cervantes (if YouTube has made it private, it's a good idea to buy the Jorge Cervantes DVD), is that your plants' roots are the intake engine for nutritional elements, carbohydrates and other substances necessary for growth and yield. Not your plants' leaves!
Beyond the fact that Gribble's article disses your marijuana's roots, it also reveals a crucial difference between Big Buds and Maximum Yield. Forgive me for being blunt, but it's important for our community to know the difference between the agendas and quality of information provided by these two major hydroponics publications...
First off, most of us notice that the best part of Maximum Yield are the ads, and that neither the ads nor the articles acknowledge that we're growing marijuana rather than tomatoes, lettuce and cucumbers.
In stark contrast to this no-marijuana approach, Big Buds is the only hydroponics magazine that's all about giving you tools, techniques, and tactics for growing heavyweight buds packed with THC.
Those of us who write for Big Buds love growing hydroponics marijuana...we're eager to help you grow your dankest, most valuable buds ever.
Maximum Yield, Craig Gribble and Dutch Master never tell you how to get the dankest, kindest buds from your marijuana- they won't even mention marijuana. They flat out refuse to provide information that helps us grow the super-stoniest cannabis.
Frankly, I feel bad for these guys. They're missing the chance to help marijuana growers. They've never experienced the joy I get when growers say my articles help them grow their biggest and most potent marijuana ever.
Nowadays, it's no surprise that when you want hydroponics maximum yield marijuana, you turn to Big Buds instead of Maximum Yield. The strange errors in Gribble's article- errors that harm your marijuana rewards- are part of the reason why.
