Yeah I have never burned any of my plants with H&G so I am surprised to read so many people having problems with it. Makes me wonder what they are doing because I can go way above Aggressive on H&G feeding chart without burning them. In the years I have been running H&G I have tried plenty of things and some of my plants have taken a very heavy dose of H&G COCO A&B. I mean I have got nearly 2000 PPM in flowering but 1600 PPM in veg is out of control. If I was you I would try to reach 800-1000 at least. I find 900 PPM to be perfect for all my plants because I have so many different sizes in veg that medium spot seems to be perfect for all of them.
well I was trying to go around 1100ppm. actualy I was usually aiming for about 1000ppm but sometimes I would shoot past my target by mixing too much base in and just kinda roll with it... often was mixing around 1100. But now I know that my 1100 at .5 converted to the .7 scale used to calculate H&G nutes means I was actually feeding just under 1600 lol It wasnt that my ppm's were rising, I was just putting them in high from the start. and Yes I do have some burn but thats to be expected... just really happy that my plants were able to pull through 1600 without too much damage. I think unless someone isnt calculating/measuring their ppm's correctly such as I was then they shouldnt have problems burning their plants because I just prooved that vegging plants can withstand 1600ppm
Do you know if my plants could be permanently damaged from the high ppm? they still have 95% of their leaves in good health, actually they look wonderfull besides some mag def and minor burns. I'm just not sure if this kindof stress can effect bud production later down the road?
I think your logic with the Amino is pretty sound, I already have a silica product called Pro-tekt Silica, I have roots excel and multizen. Definately heard nothing but good things about the great white so I will be getting that too. I will get the dark energy as well as this sounds like a pretty good cheaper alternative and a little more hands on approach. Now just need to figure out a cheaper option for the Algen extract! that stuff is expensive like I can't believe lol