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Anyone have a legitimate, objective analysis of SM-90 in relation to beneficial bacteria? I've seen claims made both ways, but they are never substantiated.

Yes and no, almost all chemical ferts contain ammoniacal nitrogen, and that requires conversion by beneficials, otherwise it becomes phytotoxic; meanwhile, some organics contain only nitrate nitrogen, which does not require beneficials to be available. Really, the thing you need to look out for...

This is actually something I've been curious about, SM-90 alongside Zone; Zone uses chloramine which oxidizes organics, and SM-90 is organic, albeit oils. Also, which base nutrients did you use? I'm trying to find ammonia free base nutrients, and so far the list is quite small. :/ This is...

The root benefits are why I'm leaning that way, as well as being able to use organics. I haven't used either, but I can tell you that chloramine, the main ingredient in Zone, breaks down faster; further, one of the things chloramine breaks down into is ammonia, which is phytotoxic, and without...

What sort of system are/were you running? Last night I was thinking about running Botanicare Pure Blend Pro with SM-90 for an organically sterile grow, though I'm unsure everything will be available without beneficials, and the jury is still out on whether SM-90 kills them. Really, the biggest...

These products seem to fulfill roughly the same purpose, so which do you think is better?

Fair, I'll probably stick with the GH pump though; I already have it, it's quieter than the small aquarium pumps, and only draws 7w.

Yeah, that's the main reason for the switch, I don't like DWC, and while aeroponics is awesome, it's too hot here most of the time. You don't think the "waterfall" of filling the brain, the "waterfall" of draining back, would be enough to keep it oxygenated? I've got a few of the GH dual...

I don't have anything going right now, this is just my planning for the future. In the past I've done aeroponics (winter) and DWC (summer), either way I ran into root issues, and while the teas and stuff definitely helped (Heisenberg was my starting point), they never actually solved the...

Is there a good resource on running a "dead res" anywhere? Initially I neglected any biological or sterilizing agents, ran into some problems, tried H2O2 and got poor results, switched to bio-control, then over the course of a few grows went so far as building a vortex brewer; I've tried a...

The downside is when they suck at trimming, and you have to go back over stuff anyway. :/

Personally, I like to take it in planes from the top down, so first all the colas, then the tops of side branches, etc. so that the lower buds get more light as I'm trimming the tops, then I'll trim and manicure everything wet by hand, and dry the individual buds on a rack. Going by hand while...

I've gone through a numbe of cycles, but after my first I gave up with the trichomes as harvest indicators because I felt things were fairly obvious from a whole plant view of "ripeness"; that said, I've always wondered, does one look at the trichomes on the buds, or on the leaves? The leaves...

It's one of four that are equidistant from it, one of two in front of it (so not getting hit with dry air), but the canopy is well above it, and the lower part of the plant it still doing okay. I've tried the dehumidifier both inside of and outside of the tent, I didn't notice a difference, but...

So, I was unable to check the garden for a few days, the lights came on about half an hour ago, and I discovered that my oscillating fan decided it was going to break; the fan itself kept running, but without oscillating, meaning that it was pointed directly into the top of a plant... probably...

Foliar: 2l R/O 6ml ThriveAlive B1 15ml Seaplex 10ml Earth Tonic (first try, looks interesting, and I'm making less tea than expected, so I sort of have extra) 1.5ml FlavorFul 1.5ml Pro-TeKt 1.25ml/ea Flora series. 0.5g Monster Bloom Definitely some root damage, but I'm brewing a microbial bias...

Adding a chiller in line and placing a cooling coil in the reservoir are totally different situations, but so long as water is flowing through the inline chiller, all of the water will stay cool. I have no idea what what adding air stones has to do with chillers, and I know a lot about both; what?

Magnesium deficiency/calcium toxicity are your most likely culprits, and since they present somewhat similarly, calcium toxicity causing magnesium deficiency, you should avoid correcting with high calcium products like CalMag+ (faceplanted into this one recently); but, of course, make sure the...

It's been a long time, and I feel like another grow journal! Backstory: I used DWC a while back, but quickly moved into aeroponics because, quite frankly, I still haven't figured out an easy way to change 5gal bucket reservoirs; plus, aero offers other advantages, and made more sense for a...

Oh, they're in 5 gallon DWC buckets (2.5 gallons of solution), and a replacement AC arrived today (the third, fuck Whynter, go Amazon), so everything is handled, it was just a rough three days; honestly, I fully expected to lose the two super wilted plants and be happy that was all, but things...