Mixing A / B & Bloom booster flowerin

NinjaMaster

NinjaMaster

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Hi Guys,

My auto is proper flowering and not stretching at all anymore.
Im not sure what ratio to mix my hydro nutrients - since the recommendation from the supplier seems to be for tomato / lettuce

Here is what is in A, B & the Bloom Booster mix - from a basic understanding that they need low N and high PK in flowering ive switched to 2ml A + 5ml Booster (part C) Per Litre of water and leaving out B altogether. Am i doing it right?
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kushedy

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I think you are going to struggle slightly with getting a response that will help as I doubt there are many people on here using these nutrients. Your Part B is basically Calcinit & Part C is (as labelled) MKP.
Part B & C are fine in general but your Part A has to much Nitrogen. I would do similar to what you are suggesting (less Part A & introduce part C).
I tend to use a Calcium supplement most of the way through flowering, gradually tapering down towards the end of flowering. Problem is for you is that you can't add more Calcium without more Nitrogen being added as well which you don't want as your base (Part A) already has a high Nitrogen content.
I expect it can be dialled in but this is more of a trial & error situation unless you know someone who has grown with these fertz before. Be careful with Part C though as it is very strong. May be better to mix these using an EC meter to make sure you haven't gone to far with the MKP.
 
NinjaMaster

NinjaMaster

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kushedy said:
I think you are going to struggle slightly with getting a response that will help as I doubt there are many people on here using these nutrients. Your Part B is basically Calcinit & Part C is (as labelled) MKP.
Part B & C are fine in general but your Part A has to much Nitrogen. I would do similar to what you are suggesting (less Part A & introduce part C).
I tend to use a Calcium supplement most of the way through flowering, gradually tapering down towards the end of flowering. Problem is for you is that you can't add more Calcium without more Nitrogen being added as well which you don't want as your base (Part A) already has a high Nitrogen content.
I expect it can be dialled in but this is more of a trial & error situation unless you know someone who has grown with these fertz before. Be careful with Part C though as it is very strong. May be better to mix these using an EC meter to make sure you haven't gone to far with the MKP.
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Thanks so much for the reply man!
This helped a lot. I will keep a close eye on things

I do have supplemental Cal / Mag on its own. Perhaps i can just add a little of that to each feeding!
 
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chemphlegm

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if its important enough to you for a successful harvest consider using a tried and true proven fertilizer system, save the tomato ferts for the tomatoes, use something you can understand without guesswork
 
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kushedy

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Most cal mag products are Calcinit & magnesium nitrate mixed which does still have nitrogen in it. If you have something else that doesn't contain nitrogen, all good.
Not tying to contradict anyone or start anything here but I don't think the issue here is so much that your using tomatoe feed, more that your using the not ideal npk ratio tomatoe feed.
Have a look at the npk ratios of maxi grow, maxi bloom, jacks, veg&bloom & look to get a fertilizer with npk ratios in the same ball park.
 
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Gumdrawp

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kushedy said:
Most cal mag products are Calcinit & magnesium nitrate mixed which does still have nitrogen in it. If you have something else that doesn't contain nitrogen, all good.
Not tying to contradict anyone or start anything here but I don't think the issue here is so much that your using tomatoe feed, more that your using the not ideal npk ratio tomatoe feed.
Have a look at the npk ratios of maxi grow, maxi bloom, jacks, veg&bloom & look to get a fertilizer with npk ratios in the same ball park.
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I believe a few of the organic based lines use liquid lime as ph up which is mostly calcium carbonate and a few other forms of calcium, it may be a good option for him. Especially because iirc MKP is pretty acidic.

I think nectar for the gods had an all calcium ph up.

Also you still need some nitrogen In flower, the amount you get from calcium nitrate should be pretty negligible unless you literally can't get calcium anywhere else.

OP's "A" and "B" are not a normal a+b combo for sure. Honestly if OP didn't think those numbers were a little funky when you looked at that chart he probably needs to do a little reading on typical cannabis nutrient profiles.

A lot of people mix their own nutes here and there's a good deal of information out there on specific macro and micronutrients that can help you determine if your mix is off.

Don't take this the wrong way but for the time being you would probably be best sticking to a branded nutrient mixed for weed then trying to use some off the wall shit your third cousins second stepdad recommended to you. Doesn't even have to be expensive, general hydro and dyna gro would work fine. A 1 or 2 part start to finish nutrient would be just as good, jacks has a few choices that are pretty reasonable. Aquagold or something was one of them I think.
 
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kushedy

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Didn't know that about the organics being calcium carb.
In fairness the Part A & B would probably still be usable for veg. Just not ideal for flowering. But yeah if struggling with with making sense of ratios you can't go wrong with the Maxi series & also as Gumdrawp suggested the Dyna Gro feeds are meant to be good.
Maxi is the easiest most reliable one I know of. If I could buy it in my home country without importing I probably would have never stopped using it!
 
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