I really feel like I tried my best to get the biotabs nutriets to work over the past 2 years. Many phone calls and emails to the biotabs team asking for advice (first time I lost 2 plants, by following their stupid advice, then I tell them the plants died and they were like "oh but you should have done THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT WE ADVISED YOU TO DO"... thanks biotabs staff :'(
Also their products have clearly changed, the silicium flash i recently bought is all dry and powder without smell (normally it smells like funky compost) and my plants are growing less good with less fat stems...
Their PK compost tea in my opinion is TERRIBLE. If I give a bit too much (like 200ml) then it burns the plants and when I give less then the plants show P and/or K nutrient deficiencies.
And most importantly the flowers are simply much less clean to smoke and lower quality compared to all my other grows of the past 10 years (I have tried many nutrient lines, many different systems). The smoke is much more harsh than I have in hydro. The smells/flavors are ok in mid flower but not impressive at the end of flower and mainly it feels like the resin of my plants is of lower quality since I use biotabs. When harvesting my scissors get a lot less sticky and are not stuck the whole time, the resin is more often 'wet' than 'sticky' - I am not sure why but the only factor I changed is the biotabs nutrients and now that I changed to GH powder feeding bio line my next session of plants are again top quality and very sticky and full of resin.
I wasted so much money (literally cost me a few thousand) to use the biotabs line and follow their advice. I got it to work well after a few sessions however I use around 50% of the recommended dosages, use silicium flash instead of the tabs (the tabs always burn and then not enough nutrients, it fluctuates too much), and mix 1g/L of malted barley through the soil mix + dolomite lime and every 2-3 weeks add some bactrex and orgatrex. The pk compost tea I stop giving approx 35 days before harvest otherwise I feel like I am destroying my lungs with dirty flowers.
2 years ago