taproot
Well-Known Member
Been away for a few years and wanted to look into getting something going again. I generally grow in coco hempy buckets for the simplicity but at times like dwc when the winter comes around and helps keep the water cool. I've tried a lot of nutes; the dyna-gro and maxibloom were the best to me in both simplicity and cost at the time. While the dyna-gro was awesome it was a pain to mix and then ph the mixture. I ran across a members post years ago that all he used was maxibloom from start to finish and didn't even bother with ph cause it always settled right into the target range, it was easy to mix and affordable. He was right and I started using maxibloom exclusivly. I was so easy to just put a scoop of power into a five gallon bucket and mix then feed. I assume maxi has ph buffers in there to help adjust and lock in the ph? Maybe I got lucky like he did on my city water at the time. Anyways, I'm wanting to startup a small grow again and was looking at the maxi ferts and they have went up a little on price and I remember before I gave it a break I was seeing people talk about jacks line of ferts and how they are affordable. It appears I can get a 25lb bag of Jacks (5-12-26) for the price of 18lb of maxibloom. I'm reading it does not have cal so some calnit is needed. I've also found some other ferts you guys seem to mention a lot and am looking at them. For anybody that has used maxi ferts how would you compare Jacks to them in ease of use and ph control, does Jacks have PH buffers?
Here are the other ferts I'm looking at.
jacks
mega crop
master blend
Athena
My new home is on a well and well water is new to me. What I can say is the water that comes straight out of the well is about 5.2-5.5 on the ph meter and it does not even register anything on my bluelabs ppm/ec tds meter. The lowest on my bluelabs (500) ppm/ec meter is 100 ppm to get the first blue light to blink. There's also a creek behind my house that seems to be spring fed as the water is just seeping out of the ground with a decent flow rate and it also does not register anything on the tds meter and is very clear...so I think I might have a spring that feeds my well. The house has a whole house filter that adjust the ph to about 8 and I get about 100 ish ppm on the meter. My meter is the bluelab truncheon.
So, I have two choices of which one I use but I assume neither has enough cal/mag. Do you guys think a bag of Jacks 5-12-26 with some calnit would work or should I go the 321 route and add extra cal/mag? I have no issues with using maxi and will probably get some but...if I can do it cheaper and still have a easy to use proccess and good results why not. At least the expermentation would be interesting. Mega crop seems to be liked but people say it's fairly dirty to mix. Master blend is another one I see people talking about. If I had to add mag to jacks maybe some magnesium sulfate for the sulphur content with some calnit for the calcium?
Thanks in advance.
Here are the other ferts I'm looking at.
jacks
mega crop
master blend
Athena
My new home is on a well and well water is new to me. What I can say is the water that comes straight out of the well is about 5.2-5.5 on the ph meter and it does not even register anything on my bluelabs ppm/ec tds meter. The lowest on my bluelabs (500) ppm/ec meter is 100 ppm to get the first blue light to blink. There's also a creek behind my house that seems to be spring fed as the water is just seeping out of the ground with a decent flow rate and it also does not register anything on the tds meter and is very clear...so I think I might have a spring that feeds my well. The house has a whole house filter that adjust the ph to about 8 and I get about 100 ish ppm on the meter. My meter is the bluelab truncheon.
So, I have two choices of which one I use but I assume neither has enough cal/mag. Do you guys think a bag of Jacks 5-12-26 with some calnit would work or should I go the 321 route and add extra cal/mag? I have no issues with using maxi and will probably get some but...if I can do it cheaper and still have a easy to use proccess and good results why not. At least the expermentation would be interesting. Mega crop seems to be liked but people say it's fairly dirty to mix. Master blend is another one I see people talking about. If I had to add mag to jacks maybe some magnesium sulfate for the sulphur content with some calnit for the calcium?
Thanks in advance.