Hey Jberry long time no talk. So I a trying to make a nute plan for next coco grow.
JB I really respect your knowledge, I am really curious to which products you would pic. I made a list of things I will be using, please feel free everyone to fill in your favorites.
Base nutes:
PK boosters:
Humates:
Silica:
Sugars:
Enzymes:
Innoculants:
It depends on if you are trying to save money or not...
I could go off for days about this topic but im going to be straight forward and just list the products Im using or have used in the past that worked well... If you have more questions, just ask...
Base nutes:
Canna Coco A/B, or
Cutting Edge Solutions 3 part (I recommend adding some secondary/micros/trace elements, but if you use cutting edge then you could prolly get by without)
PK boosters:
Canna PK 13/14,
Shooting Powder, M.O.A.B., Top Booster
Humates:
8% Pure Fulvic Acid http://chem-gro.com/cart/product_info.php?cPath=23_29&products_id=127 and
TM-7 (TM-7 contains 50% Humic Acids, 10% Fulvic Acids, and 7 micro nutrients)
Silica:
Dyna Gro Pro-tekt
Sugars:
Humboldt Hydro Honey, Organic Raw Brown Cane Sugar, Ect. ( I hear Banana Extract is awesome stuff )
Enzymes:
Trichoderma powder (Bottled Liquid Enzymes are risky and expensive.)
Innoculants:
Pumkin Pro, Great White, Plant Success Granular, Azos., Fresh Compost Teas... Some other suitable Beneficial Bacterias for hydroponic use are:
Rhizobium, Bacillus Subtillus, and Pseudomonas.
Micros:
TM-7 with Humic and Fulvic Acids: http://bioag.com/images/TM-7_OR_CA.pdf - it turns your water black which i dont like so i will probably be looking into something else.
Root Stimulants:
Kelpak (for its high Auxin/ low cytokinin ratio)
For Foliage growth use the opposite (low Auxin / high Cytokinin)....
Roots Exelerator, Rhizotonic ...
Inducers:
Chitosan products... I use Bloom Foliar Plant Health Regulator A/B, but there are a few different Chitosan products available. (When
chitosan products are sprayed onto plants, the plants "think" they have been attacked by a fungus. The plant's cellular machinery kicks in, eliciting biochemicals to stave off infection. In the process, the plant shifts from vegetative growth to a generative habit, putting most of its energy into producing flowers and fruit!)
I also use some other products like
MagiCal (cal/mag),
Gravity and
H&G Bud XL... Something containing
L-Amino Acids may also be beneficial.
If you want to keep it cheaper then I would get the Cutting Edge 3 part formula and add some Fulvic Acids, Root Stimulators, Flower Boosters, or what ever supplements/additives you feel worthy. If you want to keep it really cheap then you could try Dyna Gro Foliage Pro with a little cal/mag.
If your willing to pay more, then you could use Canna Coco A/B as your base nutes and the H&G additives (Roots Exelerator, Bud XL, Top Booster, Shooting Powder) and that would give you good results.
This is how
H&G claims their additives work:
Bud XL and all the other H&G enhancers are made up of different vitamins, hormones, sugars, fruit and vegetable enzymes.
A plants hormones tell it to send off enzymes for different nutrient uptakes within that time in its life. Bud XL is a balanced diet of those ingredients to tell the plant to send more sugars and flower building nutrients to the proper places.
When you add the
Top Booster it has the balance to tell the plant its experiencing fall drought and its time to shut down outer leaves to send all sugars,vitamins, and minerals to fruit sets...
That is when you add our extra vitamins, minerals, and sugars (contained in
Shooting Powder).
Links:
AZOS: http://www.maximumyield.com/article_sh_db.php?articleID=516&yearVar=2009&issueVar=December
http://www.reforest.com/xtreme-gardening-azos/
Chitosan: http://www.igrowhydro.com/InfoSheets/InfoSheet-Chitosan.pdf
Kelpak: http://www.kelpak.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4&Itemid=2