OldMedUser
Well-Known Member
AN user for almost 20 years now and no plans to switch. DWC and soilless with RO water and never check pH.
I've done many DWC grows without changing nutes the whole grow with great results. pH pens don't read properly in it but people persist in trying to adjust it and screw it all up then blame the nutes.
I bought gallon jugs of the 3-part almost years ago for a total of $124. In a hydro store in Kelowna and not some discount place online. The GH 3-part was over $150 at the same store. It's those goofy supplements that cost too much money but I only use the Big Bud for flowering and Rhino Skin for a little silica. Got some Remo CalMag now and use a bit of Epsom salts. Those jugs and the 500g can of BB, ($80) with a liter of Rhino, ($45), will last me well over 5 years and grow me a shitload of pot.
Nutes are about 5% of my costs to grow pot. Electricity at almost 25¢/kwh is 90% of it. 5% for RO water and incidentals.
Checking pH wasn't all that much work before they made the pH Perfect but still another chore I'd rather not do. With DWC I would top up my tubs with RO every 3 days. Allow to mix for a bit then check ppm. Add enough of the nutes in the right ratio to bring the ppm back up to target and let that mix for a bit longer, (at least an hour), before checking pH. When you add fresh nutes it can take an hour or more before the pH stabilizes. Most guys check immediately and adjust pH then check later and it's moved again so tossing in more crap to fix their first mistake. My pH would move in a predictable fashion. At top up time it would be around 6.3 so I'd add a few drops of conc. sulfuric acid to bring it down to around 5.4. Three days later it would be back to 6.3. Plants loved it.
Since the change to pH Perfect technology I'd top up, check and adjust ppm then walk away.
I 'm not saying you can't grow just as well with GH or any of the other brands but AN was the only company that proclaimed from it's inception that they were making their nutes specifically to grow pot while GH and the rest denied all of us. For that reason alone, plus that they started down the road from where I lived in Abbotsford, BC, I'll keep using AN.
With GH being part of the unholy Scotts/Hawthorne/Mon$anto/Bayer mega-corp a buck for GH is a buck for Mon$atan!
If I win some MegaCrop in the Canadian contest I'll run a side-by-side against the AN and if it grows as well then I may stop buying the 3-part but I ain't growing without Big Bud unless they quit making it!
I've done many DWC grows without changing nutes the whole grow with great results. pH pens don't read properly in it but people persist in trying to adjust it and screw it all up then blame the nutes.
I bought gallon jugs of the 3-part almost years ago for a total of $124. In a hydro store in Kelowna and not some discount place online. The GH 3-part was over $150 at the same store. It's those goofy supplements that cost too much money but I only use the Big Bud for flowering and Rhino Skin for a little silica. Got some Remo CalMag now and use a bit of Epsom salts. Those jugs and the 500g can of BB, ($80) with a liter of Rhino, ($45), will last me well over 5 years and grow me a shitload of pot.
Nutes are about 5% of my costs to grow pot. Electricity at almost 25¢/kwh is 90% of it. 5% for RO water and incidentals.
Checking pH wasn't all that much work before they made the pH Perfect but still another chore I'd rather not do. With DWC I would top up my tubs with RO every 3 days. Allow to mix for a bit then check ppm. Add enough of the nutes in the right ratio to bring the ppm back up to target and let that mix for a bit longer, (at least an hour), before checking pH. When you add fresh nutes it can take an hour or more before the pH stabilizes. Most guys check immediately and adjust pH then check later and it's moved again so tossing in more crap to fix their first mistake. My pH would move in a predictable fashion. At top up time it would be around 6.3 so I'd add a few drops of conc. sulfuric acid to bring it down to around 5.4. Three days later it would be back to 6.3. Plants loved it.
Since the change to pH Perfect technology I'd top up, check and adjust ppm then walk away.
I 'm not saying you can't grow just as well with GH or any of the other brands but AN was the only company that proclaimed from it's inception that they were making their nutes specifically to grow pot while GH and the rest denied all of us. For that reason alone, plus that they started down the road from where I lived in Abbotsford, BC, I'll keep using AN.
With GH being part of the unholy Scotts/Hawthorne/Mon$anto/Bayer mega-corp a buck for GH is a buck for Mon$atan!
If I win some MegaCrop in the Canadian contest I'll run a side-by-side against the AN and if it grows as well then I may stop buying the 3-part but I ain't growing without Big Bud unless they quit making it!
