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Amaturezaza420

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Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone could tell me if this is a good nutrients line up. I’m new to growing and I’m trying to stay low budget for the most part.
Coco A and B- house and garden
Bio root - general hydroponics
Rhino skin- advanced nutrients
Nirvana- advanced nutrients
Bud igniter coco - advanced nutrients
Big bud coco- advanced nutrients
Bud candy- advanced nutrients
Mother of all blooom
 
Doug Dawson

Doug Dawson

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Amaturezaza420 said:
Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone could tell me if this is a good nutrients line up. I’m new to growing and I’m trying to stay low budget for the most part.
Coco A and B- house and garden
Bio root - general hydroponics
Rhino skin- advanced nutrients
Nirvana- advanced nutrients
Bud igniter coco - advanced nutrients
Big bud coco- advanced nutrients
Bud candy- advanced nutrients
Mother of all blooom
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Hey man, welcome to RIU. You don't need all that. I use GH nutes and you can get away with Micro, Grow and Bloom with some epsom salts and Calimagic. I would go with Coco A and B, skip all that other unnecessary stuff. That will help your budget and the plants will be happy. I too started with the idea that I needed all that other stuff but your plants really don't. Less is more, there is enough in the A and B to grow great plants.
 
bernie344

bernie344

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Amaturezaza420 said:
Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone could tell me if this is a good nutrients line up. I’m new to growing and I’m trying to stay low budget for the most part.
Coco A and B- house and garden
Bio root - general hydroponics
Rhino skin- advanced nutrients
Nirvana- advanced nutrients
Bud igniter coco - advanced nutrients
Big bud coco- advanced nutrients
Bud candy- advanced nutrients
Mother of all blooom
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Id go for the Coco A + B and the Bio Root.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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If you want to stay low budget then use just the A & B and skip all the other stuff. In fact erase your entire list and start over. Like @Doug Dawson recommended just a a 2 or 3 part nutrient and call it a day. I can almost guarantee that if you're new to growing and use all those products that you'll end up having plant issues.

I'm not going to recommend any particular nutrient because there are many that are similar, contain what the plant needs, and will grow lush healthy plants when used correctly. But many use Jacks, Megacrop, MaxiGrow/Bloom, FloraNova Grow/Bloom. Some just use the Bloom part of GH Maxi 2 part for the entire grow and harvest beautiful plants.

If you're new to growing the first things to focus on are lighting and environment. That's much more important than fancy nutrients. Get your environment dialed in and give plenty of light and as long as you feed them what they need they should thrive. Cannabis doesn't need much. As far as plants go their nutrient requirements are minimal. It's relatively easy to overfeed and end up causing problems with different nutrients working against each other creating nutrient antagonism. That often ends up with growers thinking they have deficiencies from a lack of something instead of realizing it from too much of something.

Keep it simple.
 
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Amaturezaza420

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xtsho said:
If you want to stay low budget then use just the A & B and skip all the other stuff. In fact erase your entire list and start over. Like @Doug Dawson recommended just a a 2 or 3 part nutrient and call it a day. I can almost guarantee that if you're new to growing and use all those products that you'll end up having plant issues.

I'm not going to recommend any particular nutrient because there are many that are similar, contain what the plant needs, and will grow lush healthy plants when used correctly. But many use Jacks, Megacrop, MaxiGrow/Bloom, FloraNova Grow/Bloom. Some just use the Bloom part of GH Maxi 2 part for the entire grow and harvest beautiful plants.

If you're new to growing the first things to focus on are lighting and environment. That's much more important than fancy nutrients. Get your environment dialed in and give plenty of light and as long as you feed them what they need they should thrive. Cannabis doesn't need much. As far as plants go their nutrient requirements are minimal. It's relatively easy to overfeed and end up causing problems with different nutrients working against each other creating nutrient antagonism. That often ends up with growers thinking they have deficiencies from a lack of something instead of realizing it from too much of something.

Keep it simple.
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Thank you for the help. I’m glad I don’t need all that. This is my first time trying to grow I appreciate the advice!
 
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Amaturezaza420

Member
Doug Dawson said:
Hey man, welcome to RIU. You don't need all that. I use GH nutes and you can get away with Micro, Grow and Bloom with some epsom salts and Calimagic. I would go with Coco A and B, skip all that other unnecessary stuff. That will help your budget and the plants will be happy. I too started with the idea that I needed all that other stuff but your plants really don't. Less is more, there is enough in the A and B to grow great plants.
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Thank you for the help man. I’m very new to growing this was gonna be my first try to at it. I’m glad I can save some money and take ur advice. I appreciate the help
 
Doug Dawson

Doug Dawson

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Amaturezaza420 said:
Thank you for the help man. I’m very new to growing this was gonna be my first try to at it. I’m glad I can save some money and take ur advice. I appreciate the help
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My pleasure, welcome to a great and rewarding hobby. Many get sucked into that long list of nutes dont sweat it. Nutrient companies are great at advertising. Keep posting as you go and you will find many here to help guide you along your journey until you are able to guide those who come after you.
 
Rurumo

Rurumo

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Getting good advice so far, keep it simple your first time, work on the basics of plant care, keep track of your temps, ph, ppms, etc. Don't overwater, don't overfeed. You can grow killer buds off a 2 part or even a 1 part nutrient solution. Adding all those products together will raise your PPMs like crazy, and you'll either burn your plants or throw off your nutrient ratios. Once you got the basics down, there is no harm in experimenting with different things.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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Amaturezaza420 said:
Thank you for the help. I’m glad I don’t need all that. This is my first time trying to grow I appreciate the advice!
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It's not difficult to get sidetracked with a bunch of marketing when growing cannabis. Use this for a 10% increase and add this to get 20% more, blah blah blah. Just standard advertising to get people to buy a product. They have commercials for frozen lasagna showing a family at the dinner table eating that swill and acting like it's the best meal they've ever had. I wouldn't feed that crap to my dog yet these are billion dollar companies with excellent marketing selling more product than they can make.

They make it enticing, cool names, fancy bottles, You Need This!, etc...

Ignore that nonsense.

There are things that can be beneficial but are not required. Get a good grow under your belt and then start adding things to your grow. That way if you have issues you can go back and look at what changed that may have caused those issues. If you dump the entire kitchen sink on things from the beginning you'll have no idea what is going wrong and chances are if you use all that stuff something will go wrong.


Good luck. I say that because despite what most have said regarding your list of nutrients you'll probably use all that stuff anyway.
 
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Amaturezaza420

Member
Doug Dawson said:
Hey man, welcome to RIU. You don't need all that. I use GH nutes and you can get away with Micro, Grow and Bloom with some epsom salts and Calimagic. I would go with Coco A and B, skip all that other unnecessary stuff. That will help your budget and the plants will be happy. I too started with the idea that I needed all that other stuff but your plants really don't. Less is more, there is enough in the A and B to grow great plants.
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Can I buy the micro grow and bloom along with the espom salts and Calimagic In the gh line up?
 
7CardBud

7CardBud

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If you want a budget friendly grow with a few extras just in case these may work for you.

Cocos A-B
Epsom Salt
CalMag
Phosphoric Acid
Pro-Tekt (use as pH up and for Silicon)
MPK (monopotassium phosphate 0-52-34) booster if you choose to use

I'm personally not a fan of AN, I think they are watered down and other options are much more cost effective.
 
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Amaturezaza420

Member
xtsho said:
If you want to stay low budget then use just the A & B and skip all the other stuff. In fact erase your entire list and start over. Like @Doug Dawson recommended just a a 2 or 3 part nutrient and call it a day. I can almost guarantee that if you're new to growing and use all those products that you'll end up having plant issues.

I'm not going to recommend any particular nutrient because there are many that are similar, contain what the plant needs, and will grow lush healthy plants when used correctly. But many use Jacks, Megacrop, MaxiGrow/Bloom, FloraNova Grow/Bloom. Some just use the Bloom part of GH Maxi 2 part for the entire grow and harvest beautiful plants.

If you're new to growing the first things to focus on are lighting and environment. That's much more important than fancy nutrients. Get your environment dialed in and give plenty of light and as long as you feed them what they need they should thrive. Cannabis doesn't need much. As far as plants go their nutrient requirements are minimal. It's relatively easy to overfeed and end up causing problems with different nutrients working against each other creating nutrient antagonism. That often ends up with growers thinking they have deficiencies from a lack of something instead of realizing it from too much of something.

Keep it simple.
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So should I go with the a and b I had and add the mega crop if I choose that and that’s it?
 
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Amaturezaza420

Member
7CardBud said:
If you want a budget friendly grow with a few extras just in case these may work for you.

Cocos A-B
Epsom Salt
CalMag
Phosphoric Acid
Pro-Tekt (use as pH up and for Silicon)
MPK (monopotassium phosphate 0-52-34) booster if you choose to use

I'm personally not a fan of AN, I think they are watered down and other options are much more cost effective.
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If I buy everything u listed do I run all of that through out my grow?
 
Doug Dawson

Doug Dawson

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Amaturezaza420 said:
Can I buy the micro grow and bloom along with the espom salts and Calimagic In the gh line up?
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Yes, readily available most places. Epsom salts you can get anywhere. I get mine at the hospital Pharmacy. Almost all grocery stores and pharmacies carry it. Make sure to get unscented. PM me if you like for a feeding schedule if growing with th GH stuff. I didn't make it but an amazing grower on this site gave it to me and it works. For reference here is a pic of my current 4 plants growing with those nutes.
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Amaturezaza420

Member
Doug Dawson said:
Yes, readily available most places. Epsom salts you can get anywhere. I get mine at the hospital Pharmacy. Almost all grocery stores and pharmacies carry it. Make sure to get unscented. PM me if you like for a feeding schedule if growing with th GH stuff. I didn't make it but an amazing grower on this site gave it to me and it works. For reference here is a pic of my current 4 plants growing with those nutes.
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PadawanWarrior

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Amaturezaza420 said:
If I buy everything u listed do I run all of that through out my grow?
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Doug Dawson said:
Yes, readily available most places. Epsom salts you can get anywhere. I get mine at the hospital Pharmacy. Almost all grocery stores and pharmacies carry it. Make sure to get unscented. PM me if you like for a feeding schedule if growing with th GH stuff. I didn't make it but an amazing grower on this site gave it to me and it works. For reference here is a pic of my current 4 plants growing with those nutes.
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I would listen to Doug here. He's got the @Renfro formula.

I grow organically, but I've got that stuff to use for fun next to my organics one of these days.
 
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