Hey growmies, I’m curious as to what nutrients everybody is using I’m almost out of mine and thinking of getting something different. I’m currently using vivosun a and b vivosun nutriboost general hydroponics calimagic rqs bloom tablets and rqs rhizoblend. Growing medium is 70 30 mix of coco perlite. Nothing wrong with what I’m using now so i may just stick to it.
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I`ve always used Foxfarm and have been happy with them. This year I bought Gaia Green to try something different and see if it makes a difference.
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I am done with all the bottle stuff. If it is organic, I use Gaia Green dry mix in. If I am using a salt nutes, either Dakine or crop salt. The fifteen bottle stuff just wore me out lol. Crop salt and Jacks are the simplest. But you have to weight them out and mix them up every time.
With Gaia Green or other dry organic adds to the soil it is just water only. The rest are mix and PH then feed.
Marty
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I used to use foxfarm dry nutes but they take too damn long to go into effect you got to really know what’s in your soil and time it out right? Too much work now I use Fox farm liquid nutes but I tell you I think they’re kind of weak so I’ve been also mixing that with Bloom City organic series starting to do a comparison now between synthetic and organic
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Hey @greenbtree
i only use tried and tested ventana plant science nutrients from growershouse.com, its been tested a fair amount on here with great results.
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Haven’t tried either Ventana or Athena. With the sole exception of the FlaVue from Ventana which does up the terps and THC.
On the PPM v EC just a different scale, same exact thing a measurement of the parts per million or Electrical conductivity of the nutrient solution.
Marty
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What is the base nutes for fox farm called? I was looking at trying them not sure which to get though.
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I’m in a wheelchair, I am a senior and I am alone, duh and I have nothing but epic struggles physically, but I won’t struggle with this anymore so I use Mantis Buffered Nutrients.
I have very little use of my hands, and I can’t fumble and fuss with those PH pens, I use Mantis because I only need one bottle in the grow room, right from the first week until harvest, it’s just that one bottle with 5ml to a litre of tap water because the nutrients are buffered, that means I shake the bottle well and that’s it. I use permanent soil, I am about 15 yrs in and the set-up is rocking, bling, bagging buds and it doesn’t matter what you do as far as different cultivars in one tent, same bottle with tap water, for an old guy like me this is the easiest, system I could end up using, I can’t, but with Mantis Buffered Nutrients I can grow happy.
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You can always try growershouse.com who sell the Foxfarm range of nutrients. I think you looking for soil nutes:
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Pretty sure that they make a three pack, with veg, bloom and bloom booster in it.
Marty
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No bottle nutes here, don’t enjoy paying to ship water…, jacks 123 all the way…
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Necture of the Gods Nutrient Line
Humbolt County’s Own Nutrients
Massive Bloom (additive)
Terpinator (additive)
Lotus (nutrient Line)(sample packs)
Aurora Rock nutrients (A+)(liquid and also dry)
Simply Perfect (2 part - sample packs)
Neptune’s Harvest (sample packs)
Big Bud (additive)
Silver Bullet (additive)
Soil Balance (microbes)
Root Wise (microbes)
Alaska Fish (veg /Bloom)
Green Planet Nutrient Line
Are just a few------- need more ? will list
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I have heard a lot of good things about Root Wise, what is your take?
Marty
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use it every 2 weeks (root Wise) — root ball really increased meaning a bigger plant. There are a few other products that you can use with for excellent results (microbes)
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It is very expensive though. Funny this grow I didn’t add any microbes at all. The BAS is supposed to have it in already. But normally I add some each watering, but this grow I didn’t add any at all. I really can’t see any difference in the growth speed or patterns. Another thing I really question is take Dynomyco, if I remember right it only has one single microbe, they all seem to have a slightly different amount and variety of microbes. Back when I was doing lines like AN with a hundred different bottles of goodies supposed to enhance resin growth size you name it…I found I was overdoing nutrients and would wind up with N toxicity. Because AN adds N to literally everything. So I would wind up having to flush out nutes. The only thing that I every used that actually helped was Recharge. I buy Billions now for my microbes…but honestly even though it has like 15 different fungi and bacteria, I really don’t see much or any improvement in my plants health using it.
I am really beginning to wonder if we don’t just think we are helping by spending more money on our girls, when actually it isn’t doing much of anything at all???
Marty
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Yep used AN ph perfect line, i grew great plants but got too expensive then switched to jacks I up pot a few times and add a sprinkle of angel dust lol
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one needs to look at your “root ball” after harvesting, there you will see the difference = bigger root ball with use of microbes. tried the ph perfect by Advanced Nutes - nothing special. Like to mix them (microbes) with potting soil; Dynomyco. Microbial Mass, Extreme Gardening to list a few, then “Rootwise” thru grow.; which gave good results
have used Humbolt County Own with good results BUT have better results using Aurora Roots products (organic) their liquid (buddha grow and bloom) then dry nutrients (Uprising foundation, veg , bloom) then for your terps use heir terp teas - veg and bloom. then if you want a fast seedling growth use their "Soul (nitrogen supplement) FYI
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Thank you very much… I will keep all that in mind i actually just started using microbes really in this grow, I’m using Royal queen seeds rhizoblend. I do notice the roots im able to see look a lot healthier.
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