Do you feel that your cannabis buds are not growing to their fullest potential? It may be time to complete your feeding routine with a bloom stimulator, a fertiliser designed to help plants grow strong and healthy with big, beautiful flowers during the final stage of their life cycle.
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All growers want their cannabis plants to flower as majestically as possible. Bloom boosters and stimulators can be of great use as they’ve been specially formulated to increase the size of buds and foster the healthy development of roots. Plus they enhance the biosynthesis of terpenes and cannabinoids, more specifically of THC, to the extent of affecting the effect of the plant, increasing both its potency and taste.
While the flowering stimulators included in most nutrient lines are pretty useful for novice growers, at some point they’ll have to learn to identify the basic elements of fertilisers, namely, the NPK ratio shown in all fertilising products: (N) nitrogen, (P) phosphorus, and (K) potassium. These three elements, known as macronutrients, are basically our plants’ food.
How do bloom boosters work?
Varying levels of these macronutrients will stimulate the development of our plants during their life cycle. During the flowering stage, for example, many growers coincide that for vigorous growth of cannabis nugs higher levels of potassium and phosphorus in combination with a low percentage of nitrogen are needed. In fact, high-nitrogen grows have a risk of toxicity, which results in dark leaves with clawlike edges. Unless this is properly treated, plant leaves will start to turn yellow, wilt, shrivel, and die.
Flowering boosters and stimulators provide this extra boost of phosphorus and potassium so needed during the blooming stage, as well as other additional nutrients such as calcium, sulphur, and magnesium. Phosphorus, one of the primary macronutrients, acts as a flowering enhancer that speeds up the ripening process. This also helps with the conversion of energy and plant respiration, allowing for a greater cell division in roots and shoots, which, in turn, leads to higher growth and resistance to stress. Among the many positive effects of potassium, its ability to activate the enzymes that promote stalk strength as well as the quality of the end product is one of the most important ones.
These bloom boosters usually contain amino acids, key components of proteins essential to the development of plants. By adding some proteins to an adequate diet, a faster and more natural production of chlorophyll is ensured, which is extremely important for photosynthesis, the process used by plants to transform sunlight into energy.
Top-quality stimulators also have trace elements in their formulation, some of the most common ones being iron, manganese, boron, zinc, and copper. These trace elements play a major role in the organism of plants as well as in their hydric balance, cell division and metabolism.
Which flowering booster should I use?
There are many different bloom stimulators on the market, all of them with varying ratios of macro-and micro-nutrients specifically formulated for the cultivation of cannabis. Each fertiliser manufacturer has its own catalogue of flowering boosters to be used in conjunction with the general range of products.
One of these last years’ bestsellers is Delta 9 by Cannabiogen, a powerful metabolic bio-stimulator to combine with basic organic nutrients. Besides its NPK macronutrient and magnesium content, it has over 60 micronutrients and a broad spectrum of amino acids, vitamins, and enzyme complexes that increase the production of buds by 30% and of resin by 25%.
Another very popular product is Boost Accelerator by Canna, which, as its very name suggests, is an extraordinary booster that accelerates and stimulates the natural processes of cannabis plants during the flowering stage. Used mostly by organic growers looking to obtain the best possible results. Big One by Top Crop is also an outstanding alternative. Formulated from algae extract of the genus Ascophyllum Nodosum, it substantially increases the production and densification of flowers, the development of resin and the intensity of the tastes.
At LaMota Grow Shop, we have dozens of flowering boosters and stimulators by world-renowned brands such as Hesi, Canna, Advanced Hydroponics of Holland, Atami, BioBizz or Trabe. Don’t hesitate to check out our catalogue to find the one that best suits your growing needs. Take a look at our other bestsellers!