Good in da Hood

SO this is part 2 of make up posts, explaining, in detail, the WHY of every bottle in my current stack. Week 11 has part 1 otherwise, i am still doing GH drain to waste schedule, and am on week 8, which is identical to week 7. i think i need to up my calcium AGAIN. The frost is showing up this week PART 2 Drip Clean: House and garden stuff is VERY effective. It's effectiveness is balanced, quite frankly, by its price, which is off the charts expensive. Doing drain to waste in coco with daily watering, I couldn't afford to use a full House and Garden line, but there are 2 additives of theirs that I simply REFUSE to do without regardless of price. Drip clean is one of those. Drip clean was made for hydro systems to prevent gunk and salts from building up in the hardware such as drip lines. It uses a process called "ionic bonding" to prevent salt buildup and allows the gunk/salts to "slip" off of the hardware. It also works in coco to help prevent salts from accumulating and more easily wash away, and since I run coco in fabric bags with 30%+ runoff, this is WHY i use drip clean. I only need a super small amount (0.4 ml per gallon) and I am proactive against coco inspired cation lockout. I have no proof, except for my grow and harvest, but the problems it addresses have never been a problem for me, and that is why I continue to use it and why I STRONGLY recommend using it for coco (as well as fabric bags, daily watering in flower, and over 20% runoff). According to the House and Garden website, it works like this: "Drip Clean contains potassium and phosphorous compounds, two very useful elements. By removing one of the electrons and altering the state of these molecules, they will seek to form ionic bonds with oppositely charged ions in the nutrient solution to become stable. When Drip Clean is run through the system, it grabs the excess salt molecules and flushes them out with it. This provides your nutrient program a clean slate to work on, without excessive salt build-up or nutrient lockout." According to me, it just works. IMHO, if you are growing in coco or hyrdo, it is MORE THAN WORTH IT. It also apparently works in soil as well. Read the warnings if you introduce it after seedling, as it may release enough salts to actually burn your plants because, as I have stated a couple times now, House and Garden stuff, like both GH and Canna, in my experience, actually does what it says it will. Most of the problems of excess salt, at least in coco, take place in mid to late flower, precisely the time you can't afford problems. Start and finish with this, feed to runoff, and you WON'T have the problems I am describing (mostly, cation related nute lockout that takes a good deal of effort to correct). While it can fix problems if introduced later in the cycle, it can also cause some (nute burn from released salts) if the plant is not used to it. I mentioned "an ounce of prevention" earlier, and this additive is pretty much a pound of prevention for coco if you use it from the start. The price is high, but read the reviews. No one says that they spent too much on this product. It absolutely does what it says and it is a part of every grow for me from now on, regardless of price (it is super concentrated, so you use very little per feeding, even if feeding daily or more often as some do). It is THAT good. No debate possible. Worth every penny. Cannazym: for as much as a fanboy as I am of Canna coco (I will NEVER grow in any other coco if there is even a slight chance I can get Canna coco), this is the only Canna supplement or nutrient that I use. I originally got this because I planned to reuse my coco and wanted to turn my dead roots into food for the new plant, and this was the ticket to that, but I switched course (after i bought a HUGE jug of expensive cannazym, per my luck) and bought brand new coco (which, as you may have noticed, let me down as Char coco is HIGHLY inferior to Canna IMHO). I have benefited greatly, in my own body, by supplementing with different enzymes to aid in digestion, and saw all of my digestion issues (including heartburn) go away. So I am ALL IN on enzymes (and probiotics). I get it. It is a catalyst. Since I am not reusing my coco, it can be debated whether this is necessary to use at all. Enzymes work for my body, so I am comfortable giving it to my plants. Since I am using fabric pots and my roots are self pruning, the enzyme should still do it's thing with dead organic cannabis matter. That should, in theory, increase nutrient availability, as well as helping to feed the micro herd I have cultivated (see below, PP specifically and Floranectar supplementary) as well as adding resistance to disease by turning potential toxic dead plant matter into food for both the plant, and the micro organisms that help the plants extract nutrients (more below on this). Therefore, it is a staple for this grow, my last grow, and future grows. I see no downside to using it aside from a slight NKP ratio change (additional P and K), and based on using enzymes on my own body, a huge potential upside (while I have very very slightly nute burned my plants, it is ever so slight without even the slightest hint of toxicity, and mostly when adding huge amounts of salts in the form of Epson). There are far cheaper enzyme alternatives for plants, and herb specifically, but Canna has a PROVEN track record in this field of targeting specific needs and results for this particular medicinal plant, and even though I spent more than I could afford at the time to buy it, I would buy it again in a heartbeat because of both the results I have seen, my belief in the power of enzymes, and the commitment of Canna to the cause. ESPECIALLY if you are using bennies in your grow, Cannazyme will reinforce what you are already doing by breaking down the dead matter to a form usable by your microherd, is preventative medicine (ounce of prevention), and even help the plants themselves to get access to more specific nutrients that they need, when they need them; it is a catalyst, after all. Expensive, but worth it, yet I can't PROVE it. I still trust it. I still use it. I have seen NO downside (aside from price) and will use it again. Without question. Alternatives may be better and/or cheaper, but I don't want to risk it because in my limited experience, Canna =Quality and better than expectations. Floranectar Cane: Sugar for the bennies, sulfur for the plants. I use unflavored after a run in with some dispensary herb that tasted like sickiningly sweet fake orange soda. I don't want to alter the taste of the bud, just supplement it. I know there are many who say not to use any sweeteners. I had no problems using it last time so I used it again this time. Even if molasses, the big alternative, was appropriate for coco, the extra 5 minutes daily to mix it properly is too much to save a couple bucks. I would rather have that extra 5 minutes and this product fits the bill. Controversial Supplements/Additives Roots Excellerator: This is only controversial since there was apparently an ingredient that used to be in it that was the reason some people bought it and why they say it worked. It's a House and Garden product, and it is QUITE expensive, but I regret nothing about using this product and would use it every grow. My roots are beautiful and thriving. Even without the missing ingredient, this stuff is legit as far as I am concerned. Bio-Ag Ful-Power :Controversial because apparently California and Oregon don't recognize Fulvic acid as an ingredient, it just becomes humic acid. This stuff came well recommended and is golden in color (different that the black inky stuff usually sold as humic acid). Some reading between the lines is necessary if you are like me, in California or Oregon. I am very happy with this bottle. Check thier faq for more info on the controversy and humic vs fulvic. Photosynthesis Plus: A foul smelling brew of proven bacterial bennies that apparently isn't sold in many states (they redirect you to a product called Plus C instead on their website if in California, for instance.) I am not sure what the controversy actually is, but I got bottles of PP anyway and am very happy with the results. I can't fully articulate how bad this stuff smells (think decomposing corpse in a well used, sun baked porta potty that got egged with rotten eggs), but the plants seem to love it very much. Those who use it seems to swear by it, and I am one of them. SM-90: Officially, it is a "wetting agent" to help break surface tension of the water to allow the feed to penetrate the medium better. Those in the know say that SM stands for Spider Mite, but for whatever reason, they can't claim that it helps with pests. Its basically coriander oil, and it is the yang to Photosynthesis Plus, because as bad as that smells, SM-90 smells absolutely delightful. It is hard to describe how good this stuff smells. It smells so good, it makes you actually smile when smelling. Despite the fact that my water is wet with it, and I have never had a spider mite or other pest, I would likely continue to use SM-90 just for the smell. Especially after using PP, it makes the smell go away. The grapevine says this product makes the medium inhospitable to pests. I can't be sure, because of the "controversy," but I have had NO pests, and the smell is the best. Will Always use. As an INTJ, I did a TON of research into these bottles. Check Amazon reviews and forum posts on these bottles, and you will see many happy gardeners using them. And while I don't see my roots very often, when I do (if i disrupt the coco and one pots out or the medium gets too dry) and i can see the bristles of the ends of the self pruning roots everywhere at the edge of the pot, my roots are pure white. Healthy. The leaves that are exposed to direct light are dark green, strong and healthy AF> so here is my update, hopefully making up for my neglect!