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Zarayju
Zarayjustarted grow question 6 months ago
Can I use only the advanced nutrients micro grow bloom nutrients for the whole growth? I don't have the budget to buy bloom boosters like big bud, bud candy, etc.
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001100010010011110answered grow question 6 months ago
there's no such thing as a bloom booster, so no worries. this is a good thing. you'll form a baseline using normal stuff, and then if you ever try the magical stuff, you'll see it makes no difference. If you look at the ingredients of those products, you'll find it's mundane stuff you can find elsewhere for much less if you want to incorporate it into your fertilizer regimen. You want to provide a consistent well-balanced diet. There is no need to play mad scientist by add product X at week 3 of flower or product Y 2 weeks before harvest etc etc.. That's all self-fellating nonsense with no evidence to support it. About the only thing you have to do differently in flower phase is maybe drop your N 20-30ppm while keeping the other stuff mostly the same. Plenty of studies show that amping up P or K does nothing but waste extra p and k, and possibly burn the shit out of your canopy, which is far more of a negative than any potential positive they bring. Light and co2 are the limiting factors, not fertilizer. Your light and co2 wil dictate how much you can feed, because that will dictate resulting rate of growth. keep the plant healthy and happy. you feed a bit too much, you dial back and take note for the future. Repeat until it works on 99% of all plants with zero problems seed to harvest (within reason). When that's the case, you know you are giving it as many building blocks as you can to match the current growth rate. The light you use is 100x more important than the fertilizer you use. Fertilizer is made of ubiquitous commodities. ammonium nitrate is always ammonium nitrate. there are no quality grades of ammonium nitrate, for example, so don't pay extra for a brand name fertilizer. AN is fairly expensive choice. think they are up around 15cents per gallon or more? I pay less than 1/4th of that by buying dry fertilizer in bulk. A bit more upfront cost, but dry fertilizer has a shelf-life so long that you can take decades to use it up. I average about 25-30 USD per year on fertilizer for 80sq ft worth of growing across 2 cycles. there's no reason to make fertilizer a major expense.
FuzzySnout
FuzzySnoutanswered grow question 6 months ago
Short answer - yes. You might not get the biggest harvest, but yes. Judging by your diary, you grow outside. Why not to use Advanced Nutrients water soluble powder? It will be much more cheaper. Look up "Lucas formula", it's the cheapest and actually working formula for feeding during entire life cycle of a plant. It was created for GHE Flora series (only 2 nutrients used for grow and bloom!), but it's possible to adapt to Advanced Nutrients serie.
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AutoflowersSucK
AutoflowersSucKanswered grow question 6 months ago
All you need is to provide the plants with all the elements in the right ratio's, and keep your pH of your substrate in check. Thats it. I know guys that use cheap ass powder tomato plant fertilizer from home depot and have rockin awesome results. The nutrient "Business" is just that, a Business, and they wanna make as much money as possible. So that's why advanced nutrients has 2500 bottles of bullshit with eye catching labels that dazzle the no nothing growers out of their money. When i suggest a bare bones product line to people, it's as follows, General Hydroponic's Micro, Grow, Bloom, Calimagic, Diamond Nectar, THAT'S IT. That's all you need to get to the harvest, if you can't affort things like humic acids and sea kelp and things that actually DO lend themselves to the plant.
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