What are the Best Nutrients to use in DWC?

WyoKush

WyoKush

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Hello everyone, I am about to start my first DWC and am having a hard time trying to figure out what nutrients I should use. I have done some research and some people say that fox farm runs hot and fluctuates the PH. I have always used fox farm when growing in soil and never had problems but I know hydroponics are a whole other ball game. My second choice is well i don't really have a second choice yet. I was leaning toward Advanced Nutrients but don't know if i want to take that hit in the wallet. Are General Hydroponics a suitable brand? Any information is helpful and will be considered. Thank you for your time.
 
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Zaycor

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Hey buddy yes General Hydroponics are good...I think their flora series is excellent value. Good luck
 
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harris hawk

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Consider PH perfect 3 part Micro/grow/Bloom during vegation stage along with Cal-Mag + root stimulator (Great White) and Rino Skin in veg and flower both along with Bud Blood firs1 1st week of flower and then week 2-4 use Big Bud and weeks 5-7 use Bud Blood
 
blackforest

blackforest

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Has anyone tried 'Ionic'? I'm going to run a diy undercurrent system and the guys at the shop swear by it. Said it was designed for those types of systems. I bought GH flora for an experiment DWC bucket and it worked great. I also setup a DWC bucket w/ some Advanced (sensi grow) and it left tons of residue in the bucket.
 
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churchhaze

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potassium nitrate
monopotassium phosphate
magnesium sulfate
calcium nitrate
iron sulfate
sodium borate
manganese sulfate
sodium molybdate

tiny piece of a post 1982 penny for zinc and copper.
 
ThermalRider

ThermalRider

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WyoKush said:
Thank you everyone for their input. After reading all the comments I have been swayed to go with GH Flora and Aqua Flakes A&B. I just read on http://www.htgsupply.com/Product-House-&-Garden-Aqua-Flakes-A-&-B that it shouldn't be used with an oxygen pump in the nutrient container. I will be using cola can style air stones in my 5 gal buckets. Does anyone have any advice on this matter?
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you'll be fine, I run 8 coke can stones in a 26 gal DWC res with AquaFlakes A&B....
 
Slimjimham

Slimjimham

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I also use aquaflakes... what ppm do you run them at in flower? And for the answer please let me know 500 or 700 scale...

I'm asking this because I'm also going to try cultured solutions and they recommend a real low ppm...
 
ThermalRider

ThermalRider

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Slimjimham said:
I also use aquaflakes... what ppm do you run them at in flower? And for the answer please let me know 500 or 700 scale...

I'm asking this because I'm also going to try cultured solutions and they recommend a real low ppm...
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I'm running between 1000 - 1180 using the 500 scale...
 
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Slimjimham

Slimjimham

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Cool I'm gonna go with that but the cultured solutions I'm going to try (current culture nutes) says to use like 1/2 that strength. .. so I'll try it both ways... you see they have a specific dwc chat for aquaflakes?... that's what I'm gonna go by t
 
WyoKush

WyoKush

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ThermalRider said:
botanicare silica blast, H2H0, gh flora, was running cal-mag till I found out aqua flakes have cal-mag in it...

Two Sugar Punch in one 10" netpot day 6 of flower.....
sorry for the HPS washout in the pics....
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Thank you and just to make sure i'm headed in the right direction you just follow the recommended feeding chart on the bottle?
 
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