Advanced Nutrients on Coco, CalMag needed?

don't water with fertilized water then calmag only then fertilized... all that will do is rinse out your fertilizer when you give calmag only or dilute what was given before even without runoff. that's not how a soilless substrate functions the best. 100% of needed nutes given every time with 10% runoff. simple.. easy.. don't make it complicated. you need calmag if your Ca PPM is too low from whatever the AN nutes provide. You need 100+ ppm of Ca. Do you have 100ppm or more? if not, add cal mag. the plant needs it every single fertilization, not intermittently. it should be a consistent amount of Ca as well as all other nutes each time with 10% runoff waste water - don't let it sit in its piss. I use ME 7030, too. I prefer promix with extra perlite but the convenience of this product tips the scale for me. In general it comes in good condition. In 2 years of using it, i've had 1 bag that was a bit sketchy. It probably wasn't buffered 100% correctly. This is a risk of using coco coir. If not washed thoroughly and buffered, it'll leach some Ca from fertilizer until it reaches the equilibrium buffering should have created -- has to do with cation exchange sites.. Ca has high affinity to bond to these sites so it will replace what is ther -- K, Na, some cation (a positively charged ion). Once 'enough' Ca replaces that stuff relative to concentration of typical fertilizer, it's no longer a problem. Luckily, my "bad" batch wasn't deadly. It just caused a deficiency of Ca the first 1-2 weeks then was fine. if properly buffered, there is no difference to feeding a plant in coco coir than any other soilless medium. None. It's not magic. It's just something that holds water. So find an app or online nutrient ppm calculator. follow instructions. type in info from your labels. If Ca is

If you are Canadian, Mother Earth 70/30 coco Perlite is a solid coir as well that is also washed and buffered and ready to use right out of the bag. A good practice with coco feeding is feed then water with calmag, feed, then water with calmag, does that make sense? Like i feed on monday, and on thursday i water with calmag, repeat.

Gotta agree that AN as a brand is overpriced for what it is. There are many other brands who have more concentrated fertilizer that are not a rip off. ASLO AN has been caught slipping PGR's into their formulas and pretending they did not know. PGR's or plant growth regulars are like steroids for plants, some are bad for humans and they should not consume plants grown with them. Out side of all that. Any time you want to grow with coir you should be rinsing the coir with some CaMg as the cation exchange sites in the coir suck up the Ca and Mg and then release Na and K. its also why you want to be watering with a bit of runoff every time. This happens naturally as a coir decomposes in the grow. CANNA branded coir is very nice to use, they buffer the product and age/ferment it before hand so less work is needed by you. If you can't return the AN just look at its analysis and confirm it has good levels of Ca and Mg as well as all the other micros needed as coir is void of nutrients and needs everything supplemented to it. if its missing something then just add it into the feed. CaMg supplements are avilable in many forms and price points. Teraaquata, JACKS, Metrop, Gaiagreen are all good options other then AN, and they are more concentrated and cost less per ml of active compounds.

advanced nutrients is snake oil. 500 bottles of bullshit. Take it back, get something reputable like General Hydroponics. Grow, Bloom, Micro, Calmag, Diamond nectar is all you need. The rest if horse shit $$$$$ grab