YouGrowBoy
Well-Known Member
I have talked with several different hydro store workers and they mostly say "it doesn't matter which nutes you use, they are mostly the same" This is not an argument I want to get into here as there are numerous forums for discussing/arguing who's best.
I'm starting this thread because if they are mostly the same, why can we not learn to make our own nutes?
Professional hydro farmers that grow food and flowers for retail in stores and restaurants mostly use home made mixtures or buy it in sacks from professional green house and farm suppliers.
Honestly what makes our little plant different from professional orchid, rose or broccoli farmers? They have the same goal, grow big fragrant (or tasty) flowers they can sell at market.
None of these professional farmers that grow in hydro are using the expensive stuff we use. Could you see a tomato farmer buying 55 gallon drums of AN nutes? No way! It would kill his profit margin.
Like I said, professional hydro farmers use powdered chemical nutes they buy in bulk either premixed or they mix themselves at a fraction of the cost we pay for AN, Canna and the rest and I'm sure their flowers/fruits/veggies are not deficient in anything. Professional hydro farmers are growing great stuff we eat, smell or look at everyday with nutes for much less then we pay.
For instance, HydroGardens (and others)
http://www.hydro-gardens.com/all.htm
provides various different nute blends for professional hydro farmers that grow tomatoes, cucumbers and other "for market" veggies. Do you think these farmers are buying substandard nutes when they have to sell their product to grocery stores and restaurants? I think not. They want to grow the the biggest, tastiest product they can, just like us.
They must know something we don't and how can we learn what is a good mixture of nutes we can make ourselves for hydro.
Thanks for reading.
YGB
I'm starting this thread because if they are mostly the same, why can we not learn to make our own nutes?
Professional hydro farmers that grow food and flowers for retail in stores and restaurants mostly use home made mixtures or buy it in sacks from professional green house and farm suppliers.
Honestly what makes our little plant different from professional orchid, rose or broccoli farmers? They have the same goal, grow big fragrant (or tasty) flowers they can sell at market.
None of these professional farmers that grow in hydro are using the expensive stuff we use. Could you see a tomato farmer buying 55 gallon drums of AN nutes? No way! It would kill his profit margin.
Like I said, professional hydro farmers use powdered chemical nutes they buy in bulk either premixed or they mix themselves at a fraction of the cost we pay for AN, Canna and the rest and I'm sure their flowers/fruits/veggies are not deficient in anything. Professional hydro farmers are growing great stuff we eat, smell or look at everyday with nutes for much less then we pay.
For instance, HydroGardens (and others)
http://www.hydro-gardens.com/all.htm
provides various different nute blends for professional hydro farmers that grow tomatoes, cucumbers and other "for market" veggies. Do you think these farmers are buying substandard nutes when they have to sell their product to grocery stores and restaurants? I think not. They want to grow the the biggest, tastiest product they can, just like us.
They must know something we don't and how can we learn what is a good mixture of nutes we can make ourselves for hydro.
Thanks for reading.
YGB