I've been using Technaflora recipe for success. Check them out.
I have done Lucas in hydro twice, once with bloom-micro and once with flora nova. Yes maxi bloom works as one part, it wasn’t available in Canada. I liked floranova but would prob opt out of using in hydro again as it’s so dirty. You don’t necessarily need calmag, Lucas formulas don’t call for it, I use it to match RO to tap water ec if anything.
If you found it dirty you were doing it wrong.
Like taking a shit in the rez man lol, I don’t think I ever went over 3-4ml a gallon never mind the 8 as posted for Lucas. Needed peroxide to keep shit at bay, the water itself was clean once mixed into, but yeah, it’s dirty. I ripped the hydro out, too old to fuck around, check my last journal I never bothered completing yet lol, pissed me off. Onto coco and 2 part salt currently. Kinda wanted to used floranova in coco, might try next time. You should of seen what FNB left in my chiller coil.If you found it dirty you were doing it wrong.
Don't need 8 like the original Lucas Formula says. Just a ratio of 1ml Micro to 2mls Bloom and no Grow as in a 0-1-2 ratio. Like I said, you were doing it wrong. I did about 50 DWC grows in Rubbermaid tubs and the last 20 or so never changed my nutes once from clone to harvest and even revegged a few times in the same nutes and got great results. I switch to Lucas after the stretch. Used to use 35% peroxide a couple times a week at 0.5ml/L but built a chiller out of an old water cooler and dropped the peroxide. Could maintain 65 - 68F easily and the plants loved it.
You think flushing does something to change the taste? Flushing doesn't remove anything from the plants themselves. What you are talking about is starving the plant thru one of the most critical stages to get the biggest yields and resin production. Lower ppm but more K, S and Mg in the last 2 or 3 weeks gets you dank. most people overfeed in the earlier stages and load excess nutes into the plant that are still there after harvest and it's excess P that gives it that 'chem' taste more than anything. Less P and N after the stretch with more of the others.
There is no micro, flora nova is a one part. Pls explain how it was wrong... you’re confused with the trio which I also used previously... definitely not wrong.. ever use floranova or just the floratrio?? Not even close to the same.Don't need 8 like the original Lucas Formula says. Just a ratio of 1ml Micro to 2mls Bloom and no Grow as in a 0-1-2 ratio. Like I said, you were doing it wrong. I did about 50 DWC grows in Rubbermaid tubs and the last 20 or so never changed my nutes once from clone to harvest and even revegged a few times in the same nutes and got great results. I switch to Lucas after the stretch. Used to use 35% peroxide a couple times a week at 0.5ml/L but built a chiller out of an old water cooler and dropped the peroxide. Could maintain 65 - 68F easily and the plants loved it.
I've mainly used AN for 20 years. Tried lots of others but that pH perfect with RO makes life so easy even in Promix HP that I retired my pH pen years ago. Only need it if I'm trying some different nutes like REMO of MC and neither needed any pH adjustment.
I found hydro way easier than soil but getting the hang of mixing the two and having happy plants. Even bought a big bag of coco to give that a try.
I won't ever use GH products or anything Hawthorne, Scotts etc. Scumbag companies in league with the likes of monsatan and bayer don't deserve pot growers money. GH always denied there products were used to grow pot and would not discuss it if you mentioned pot while calling their support lines so fuck them.
Yeah that sucks, I’m using flora flex currently, not sure there background but they are owned by 4D holdings. I can do a run for $100 ish which still might be a lot for some buying bulk salts.
You think flushing does something to change the taste? Flushing doesn't remove anything from the plants themselves. What you are talking about is starving the plant thru one of the most critical stages to get the biggest yields and resin production. Lower ppm but more K, S and Mg in the last 2 or 3 weeks gets you dank. most people overfeed in the earlier stages and load excess nutes into the plant that are still there after harvest and it's excess P that gives it that 'chem' taste more than anything. Less P and N after the stretch with more of the others.
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Ok so what are you using?
A large variety of things both organic and hydro. Promix HP for my base with 3 types of composted manures, EWC, DynoMyco, some unfiltered dugout water to enhance biodiversity but mostly RO, crab/lobster meal, greensand, gypsum and a few other things. On the hydro side AN 3-part and Big Bud, REMO 7-part kit, MegaCrop, P/K, K alone, chelated minerals, potassium silicate, Epsom Salts, CalMag. For carbs I mix dextrose, unsulphured blackstrap molasses. and unpasteurized local honey.