Maz that was a well known strain for me, Watermelon Gelato. The grow went really well, I used Athena Nutrients, Massive at low dosages week 4-6 (Like 2.5 to 3 mills per gallon). A monosilic Acid product called Salicium and WInter Frost week 8. I have not been able to get those kind of numbers using Jacks 321. I just finished up the same plant and I will be a right around 2 per light. The actual finished weight of the 3.16 was 2.75 pounds per light.
I stopped using Athena for a few reasons. The first and primary was that Grow and Bloom are hydroscopic. Second being all the strains take on a similar smell using that product. Right around the time I stopped using Athena I switched from Silicium to Front Row Ag Monosilic Acid product as well. I was also using monosilic acid thru week 8. I stopped doing that as well. That has also contributed to weight loss of final product. If I run it thru to week 8 the buds will be rock hard. I know that for a fact.
The jacks stuff seems to be clean or it might be something else. I have tried to run it in different ways. It is a three part mix that they tell you to run as 3.79 parts of their fertilizer, 2.52 parts of Calcium Nitrate and .99 parts of Epson salt. The buds seem to be better quality and the smell has improved. I was out last night exchanging untrimmed stuff for trimmed and I had a good whiff of the trimmed stuff. It took on a much stronger smell profile.
Athena had the lions share of the big grows here but people started to move away from their products. They ended up coming out with a product called FADE. Athena is a two part with 3 components. Core, Grow and bloom. Core and Grow are used together for veg. Core and Bloom are used in Flower. Core is Calcium Nitrate but to force their customers to buy their over priced Calcium Nitrate they add the micro nutrients to the core. With this Fade stuff they are telling people to drop the Calcium Nitrate completely the last 4 weeks of the grow. I looked at the listed ingredients in Fade and it is just Calcium and Chlorine. These guys are already known to play dirty ball just like most. They list the amount of Magnesium in their product as half of what they are actually putting into the bags.
I am kind of bummed out about all of this, the further I get into understanding nutrients and the role these chemicals play the more I realize the manufacturers are doing way more behind the curtain than we all know. Moe mentioned in another thread that Dr. Daniel F. showed how to use Potassium Silicate to make Monosilic Acid. That is not really the point. I have been using over priced stabilized forms of Monosilic Acid for years and I know they work but even in this same paper the author says several times the manufacturer of these products could be using the stabilizers to improve the product. Meaning they are using say Boron in amounts much higher than needed to stabilize the product to enhance the plants growth. I have used a product I mentioned above Silicium and that shit works but why? I quit using it because the price went thru the roof. I think in the near future what I am going to have to do is go out and buy the products I know work. Put them in another unmarked package and sent them off to a lab to determine what exactly is in the stuff. Right now this Silicium stuff and NM Winter Frost are the ones I am going to do first.
.and here’s my address 1 growers road hempville .just up the road from the South Pole 
the way things are going it will have batteries in it instead of an engine by the time it’s finished.lol.
