Any one part nutes that are good for DWC?
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firsttimeARE
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I second the Ionic
Great stuff
Great stuff
Doer
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I just use a powdered, organic kelp based feed at 16-16-16. MaxSea or SeaGrow. I never change a thing but the PPM, throughout.
mjdudeist
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this is not true, i'v ran flora nova for over a year using 5 gallon buckets. there is no guano or feces of any kind in it and that's what clogs your air stones. I keep reading people saying this. it is not true!!! yes half organic but no guano. yes it looks like sludge coming out of the bottle, I also thought it would build up on air stone. but it doesn't. it mixes up and looks like a tea. it does not settle on air stone and it does not leave salt resin on my air stones. almost 2 years of using it. I did get lots of salt build up with dyna-gro though. I use 10 x 5 gallon buckets with 1 six inch air stone in each one and have never! had one problem with flora nova.
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WhsprnEye
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Use maxigrow powder for veg and maxibloom powder for flower. 2 pound bag costs 15 dollars. I just started using it after a lot of research and my plants have never looked better. I use 2tsp (using the provided scoop) of maxigrow in 5 gallons of water. Puts me at 1.1 ec (about 550ppm at .5 conversion). And in flower I use 8tsp in 10 gal water which puts me at 1.4ec (700ppm). You'll need a bottle of advanced nutrients ph up if you're using ro water. Tap water you may or may not. This is a complete one part additive. Nothing else is needed. Some people even run bloom thru veg with no problems. But it's so inexpensive I just run the maxigrow in veg. No booster, no ripener, no calmag. Nothing else is needed.
WhsprnEye
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I think I'm going to check this product out. The only reason I'm hesitant is because golden tree said it would work magic without aything else and the whole thing was a sham.
farmasensist
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This is actually what i went with and it works really well. I haven't used anything else with it except for some arm & hammer to bring the ph back up and everything looks better than it did when i was using the 3 part GH but that is probably more from experience and me being more willing to take care of the plants since i have a simpler nute now.
WhsprnEye
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Hmm. It could have been too because at the home I had just started growing. Its been a year since I used it. I don't use soil any more just dwc buckets. Can you use it in dwc?
farmasensist
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yeah, thats what i've been doing.
I'm going into my second week using it in dwc. Prior I was using Dutch master. Plants had deficiencies that wouldn't fix even at near 2ec. Now with maxigrow at 1ec, they're a beautiful green that dutchmaster never gave, and growing aggressively. 3x the rate as the same plant in soil next to them. I'll try to post a pic later. Maxi line is very acidic. If you use ro water like I do you'll need ph up. Nute mix puts my ph around 4. I hear tap water balances pretty good depending on what your water is like
GrowerGoneWild
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Yep.. maxi and tap water works great. My tap water comes in at about 100 PPM. The small scoop side in 1 gallon of water and I yield 900 PPM/5.6-5.7 a little bit too acid but just fine for a fast vegging mom that eats up alot of nitrogen. Works great for the moms, and if I need to feed new clones, seedlings, no problem just add equal part water..
I pretty much quit using RO water, its just added cost... ph up, calmag, etc... but I dont have any problems with cal or mag in veg.
tekdc911
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fuckin A man + rep x 1000 ........
cheap and ph buffered im setting up a hydro system for sure now for my next run
do you use this stuff ? how long can you go before having to change a res do to PH ?
here's 3 kens GDP's in the dwc bucket 19 days into veg. and one in soil also 19 days into veg. the one in soil was the biggest and most aggressive rooted one out of all 4 when they were all placed into their mediums. this past week the ones in DWC were started on maxigrow and have doubled in size and turned the lovely green color that they are. they were yellow before using dutch master nutrients. what a difference a week makes. but you can see in veg the plants love the maxigrow one part powder in DWC.
skunkd0c
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i have not used it in a long time, they used to give small bottles away free
with NFT grow systems its been around for years, made by the same folk who make clonex
i use 2 part food (vitalink max) currently for last few years
i find it keeps my plants greener than canna which i was using before
if you have standard tap water pH 7.2-7.4 it makes things easy you can just top up with water and nutes when needed i do not change the res
some folk like to change the res every 2 weeks or so, this might be necessary
for some folk who start with a pH much higher or lower than 7.2
i do not check pH myself, i did in the past when i started, after doing it so many times i can roughly guess the pH by the EC of the nutes
on full strength 2.0 the nutes are acidic they will drop the tap water from 7.2 to 6.0 - 6.2
on half strength 1.0 the pH will be around 6.5-6.8
when i am starting off with seedlings or small cuttings the EC will only be .7 - 1.0
the pH would be 6.8 - 7.0 so i tend to add 1ml of ph down per 10 liter of res for a little while until they are big enough to take a higher EC 1.0
which will bring the pH to around 6.5 -6.8, i keep it on the acidic side
i find they grow fine whatever the pH is across the range of 5.8 -7.0
rob333
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u can try i have never used it but few people i no use it u can use dutch master one just 2 bottles 1 for veg and 1 for flower already mixed and ready to go also u can use house and garden same deal 2 bottles but u use a and b thru out the whole grow i love the shit but by the time u get all the additives u end up mixing about 5 diff things so u do go back to the whole heap of mixing thing again but try dutch master one