Can someone tell me if I can use rhino skin during the veg stage and how long I can use it for. Right now I only use it during the flowering stage.
All Rhino Skin is a Silica supplement. I use Dutch Master Gold Silica. Both are similar. Silica can be used start to finish or till you get ready to flush. Silica is a awesome supplement as no nutes have them in it and soiless potting soil like Fox farms or any have it in it. It allows a plant to have higher temps, pest resistance, mold resistance, and lets your plant grow nice thick stems. Anyhow start to finish with it added is a good thing.
The other highly recommended supplement is Cal Mag you can add that to every watering as well. Your plant will love you for it. Most supplements are lacking somewhat in it.
Silica rocks! I have also heard that the silica fills the cells and so that it adds a little weight to the finished product as well, or something like that. It really helps pm and mite resistance and makes the stems much stiffer in my experience.
Rhino Skin is supposed to be amazing, and I can't add anything to this amazing advice. I would check it out online on the AN site, and then see if it's a good fit for you. Rhino Skin - Plants Coat of Armour, Cloning, Rooting, Germination, Transplanting
Silica is Silica but you are right I think its amazing stuff. Use Dutch Master Gold variety though. Not out of thinking its better was the first I saw when I went into the store.
Dyna-Gro makes a liquid Silicon that's fantastic, and inexpensive. Without the fancy names or marketing hype, like AN.
Yep, it's called Pro-Tekt. It's what I'm using and I love it, but I didn't have anything to compare too. My plant seemed to flourish in hot and wet weather though. Not to mention the stems... stiff as a board and thick. Hoping they develop some huge colas because of it.
Since I added silica this grow...using Dutch Master GOld Silica I Have noticed the same. Tents at 80-85, not a issue, stems nice and thick and the plant seems to love it. IF you read up it also makes your plants more pest resistance which I noticed with using it. I for some reason no matter where I live get fungus gnats which I before had to keep in control with Insecticdial Soap and fly traps. This go around only a couple.
No idea on that one, man. I haven't used Rhino, so I have no idea what it would do for my plants, though it's been coming up a lot around my grower friends, so I'm wondering if maybe I should...
Yup. I'd just point out that according to the feeding chart they don't have you using Rhino Skin during veg or, obviously, during flush. But every week of flowering, yeah. The "silica is silica" argument is always fun. It's like "salts are salts". Truth that suggests a falsehood. There is more than one way to provide silica to your plants. Each individual way is the same within itself, but different than the others. There's more to it than simply looking at the label and saying "oh, well they all use Potassium Silicate, and all Potassium Silicate is the same because... Chemistry!" Yes, but no. In a chemistry equation Potassium Silicate is exactly the same every single day of the week. In the real world, it's not pure. Take another look at the label, Rhino Skin says under Guaranteed Analysis: Soluble Potash (K2O).... 0.4%. No mention of silicate until you look under that and it says "Derived from: Potassium Silicate" There's more to it than what the label says. There's the question of the source and purity of the silicate that goes in. There's the question of how they go about making something that doesn't typically want to dissolve in water do it anyway because if it doesn't stay in solution it doesn't do your plants any good. There's an assload of Nitrogen in the air all the time. It only helps the plants if it's dissolved in the water they can access in very specific, bio-available, forms. Silica IS silica. The formula of "X is X" will always be true. But it's simplistic because it doesn't take everything into consideration. H2O is H2O, but frozen, liquid or steam makes a LOT of difference, doesn't it? The devil is in the details.
I use dyna-grow pro-tekt and noticed a huge difference in the plant vs my other plant who wasn't fed it. It was cheap and it works great
I have a similar post regarding Rhino Skin, Gold Range and Pro-Tekt, I work at a grow shop and have been given misleading info by a couple reps...id like to know more difference btwn them. there are subtle differences. rose bud's most recent issue has 2 coupons for free rhino skin btw...FREE!!! $70 worth of nutes, FREE