What's your nutrient regimen for R/U DWC?

Hitek

Hitek

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I've been through alot of products and kinda settled on my go to nutrients before getting a chiller. Now that my temps are under control I'm curious about changing some things around. I've always used Dutch Master Zone to keep my root zone clean of bad growth. This product I found works wonders if you can't control temps and need to fight back pythium or any other root problems. While my roots look good I wonder if using something like Microbe Life or Great White would help the root system more since things are at an ideal temp range now. As of now the only nutrients I use are:

House and Garden Aqua Flakes A & B
Multi Zen
Advanced Nutrients Cal/Mag
Nitro Boost
Bud XL and Shooting Powder in late flower
Dutch Master Zone

sometimes I use advanced nutrients silica, if anyone has any suggestions for tweaking my nutrient line please chime in, or let me know what you use?
 
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JayKitchen

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I use the Flora 3 part; Protekt (spelling???); used to use really small dose of Gravity until it was pulled off the shelves; Northern Lights Fat Flower. Keep the amounts of nutes below the required levels and change the buckets (DIY 5 gallon containers with at least one air stone per bucket) once a week; many times I will just run the flower additive (Fat Flower or similar) by itself for a few days with no other nutes in the bucket. Typically, depending on the genetics, I've been able to pull as much or more than a quarter off of one plant in the buckets.
 
Malevolence

Malevolence

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Great White is the best IMO, but you can get the same thing for much cheaper... the difference is the cheaper shit doesn't have starter enzymes... it's mycogrow soluble from fungi.com

Whichever you get, you can bubble in a bucket of 2-3 gallons r/o for 2 days and make your supply last a lot longer. If you really want to add diversity, pick up a bag of GH ancient forest humus and put 2 large handfuls in pantyhose like a tea bag and add a dash of botanicare black strapped molasses to feed the bennies. But you can just put great white directly in your res if lazy/rich. Aquashield alone has worked well for me too which is cheaper than great white, but not as diverse... still works fine though. Pond-zyme is another cheap product you can use for bennies and you can get it from petco or petsmart... but you shouldn't use enzymes if you ever have slime (it can/will feed the slime bloom).

Obviously don't use the zone if you do run bennies. With Heisenberg tea, you're looking at like $40 a year for bennies for your average 1000w personal grow. Forty bucks a year to guarantee you never have root issues even if you fuck up and expose a huge light leak or let your res temps hit 80* shit you not. I wish I would have started using it months ago because I went through a lot of bennies products trying to figure out what works for me.

Rhino Skin is a rip off and has the least amount of silica in it... something like 0.4% or some shit... you can google all about it if you want. Pro-tekt has the best concentration of silica and then silica blast.

I would replace the AN cal/mag with Botanicare. Not sure what the other shit is, but some good and cheap booster/hardeners/sweetners are again botanicare and general hydro... hydroplex, koolbloom dry and liquid, and botanicare sweet for carbs (never used personally).
 
Hitek

Hitek

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Thanks yeah it sounds like I'll give great white a try, although i'm a little bit in the mindset "if it aint broke dont fix it" but could it be better? If so then it may be worth the risk, I can keep my water temps to 65-70 and no light leaks so I'm leaning towards giving it a go for my new system
 
Malevolence

Malevolence

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I have never tried sterilizers so I don't know, but I have read a few posts that say root growth is faster and stronger with bennies than sterilizers. I have never compared.
 
Hitek

Hitek

Member
I've used hygrozyme and similar products, without success.... granted that was before I had a chiller but what I found was Dutch Master Zone keeps my roots healthy and clean and especially since I don't use any organic nutes a sterile environment seems to work out great.
 
Malevolence

Malevolence

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I use botanicare cal/mag cuz dg mag pro doesn't have cal. Also, most people use foliage pro or dg grow, not really both. I guess it's for foliar spray, but if you head up to General Marijuana Growing > Nutrients there are a few DG threads, and foliage pro is something a lot of people use in soil or promix; people prefer bloom/grow in hydro from what I've researched. I don't know what the story is with k-l-n.
 
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savana

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Yes . I just use the grow . I feel for me , keeping it simple helps reduce problems that may occur . I'm new ( on 4 th grow) to the hydro growing . Reading on here I seen a lot of good results using Dyna grow . I've had good results with it ..
 
Hitek

Hitek

Member
it used to be everyone online was raving about house and garden, and i gotta say, it's a damn steady nutrient line for rwdc, i think it was designed for dwc from what the salesman for HG told me, shooting powder really packs on extra weight, i've never tried DG though and I may give it a try if it's cheaper than HG
 
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savana

Active Member
My first run with DG I got almost 9 oz dry off of a chemdog .My local shop doesn't carry DG so I switched to GH maxibloom for the last 2 grows . Didnt like the powder and didnt have the results I did with DG . But that could be my fault also . I think I ran it way to weak in the beginning ..... Back on DG now .. got 16 plants on day 20 .. hoping the stretch will be over soon .
 
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