Dyna-Gro, Liquid Gro vs. Dyna-Gro Foliage pro

Foilage pro is great. Got a buddy doing a dwc with it now.

On dynagro's web site you can get the sample pack for $19. One guy said $14 so it may vary depending how far it has to be shipped.

You get 1-quart each of foilage pro and protekt.

1-pint each of kln root and bloom.

Not a bad deal.

I'm on their website. Any ideas where to find this sample pack? Because that's an insane deal for quarts.

Nabbers said:

I'm on their website. Any ideas where to find this sample pack? Because that's an insane deal for quarts.

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Click on contact and email them. They will give you instructions.

Is your buddy using RO water? And if so, does he use any CalMag supp?

Nabbers said:

If using Foliage Pro start to finish with Pro-Tekt in RO water, is some sort of CalMag necessary or does the Dyna-Gro have enough already? And isn't there too much N in the Foliage Pro for late flowering? For that matter, is the Pro-Tekt even necessary? The silicon is just for added strength and resistance to disease, right? I notice it has soluble potash and I already have another additive with Potassium Sulfate potash that in it that I use in flower.

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You don't need a calmag supplement.

Is there too much N in foliage pro? For flowering in hydro, yes. For dirt/coco/promix, no.

Thanks, HB. So if I'm doing hydro, I shouldn't use FP start to finish? Switch to Bloom in flower?

Nabbers said:

Thanks, HB. So if I'm doing hydro, I shouldn't use FP start to finish? Switch to Bloom in flower?

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Foliage pro is great for veg in hydro. For flower, use a mix of bloom and foliage pro. You only need enough FP to keep your plants green. Play with it. It could be a 50/50 mix, it could be 85/15. It doesn't take a lot of FP to balance things out really well.

Thanks again. I'm having a hard time sorting out everyone's quantities because I can't tell who's doing hydro and who's doing something else. The only schedules I can find have Grow instead of FP and they use a LOT of it, then switch to Bloom completely at flower. I'm doing a recirculating system so this looks pretty nute heavy.


How much FP were you using per gallon in your hydro grow? Is the FP fairly interchangeable with Grow in the schedule or do I need to completely recalculate?

Nabbers said:

Thanks again. I'm having a hard time sorting out everyone's quantities because I can't tell who's doing hydro and who's doing something else. The only schedules I can find have Grow instead of FP and they use a LOT of it, then switch to Bloom completely at flower. I'm doing a recirculating system so this looks pretty nute heavy.
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How much FP were you using per gallon in your hydro grow? Is the FP fairly interchangeable with Grow in the schedule or do I need to completely recalculate?

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Ignore that feeding chart and just reference my last post. Feed at the ppm/EC that has worked for you in the past and you'll be good to go.

I'm afraid I might be actually be underfeeding. I was using an EC of .9 to 1.0 all along, but they're getting pretty big and I think they might need a bit more than that now.

Nabbers said:

I'm afraid I might be actually be underfeeding. I was using an EC of .9 to 1.0 all along, but they're getting pretty big and I think they might need a bit more than that now.

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I'm afraid you're wrong but do whatever works for you.

I've already got in the FP, Bloom, and Mag-Pro, but when I put those in, are you saying a 1.0 EC could still be enough for bushy 4 ft plants?

Nabbers said:

I've already got in the FP, Bloom, and Mag-Pro, but when I put those in, are you saying a 1.0 EC could still be enough for bushy 4 ft plants?

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Yes, I think that's plenty. If you're feeling ballsy then 1.2 EC. In regards to Magpro, it's not needed but could provide some benefit. Maybe only make up 5-10% of your EC with magpro.

Well I've been on Dyna-Grow for about a week now and already I'm impressed. I'm doing about 50/50 FP/Bloom with MagPro at about 15% of that, and then using my Sour-Dee at the levels I will be using Pro-Tekt at when I get it, as they're both the same strength Potash - I'm not getting the silica but the bennies love the carbs. Still adding Great White to the blend. I'm getting around 1.1 EC but having to top off regularly with straight water as my EC has been jumping up to between 1.3 and 1.4 overnight. Already the rate of lost leaves has slowed down considerably and the buds are growing fast. One thing I'm absolutely ecstatic about is that my pH is so much more stable. I check it twice a day and I've only had to add a little pH up once all week when it got down to 5.4... with my dry nutes I would check it one day and it would be down in the 4's and the next day it would be up in the 7's.

I just switched over to Dyna Gro, picked up some Foliage Pro and Bloom. Can someone here please give me a definitive answer? I'm in soil and using RO water, so do I still need to supplement with Calmag? I'm used to adding 5ml of calmag per gallon and then adding my nutes.

I'm doing straight hydro with RO and I'm not even needing CalMag with this stuff, so I'd say not with soil for sure. It takes barely any DynaGro to get to my EC limit. But I do like having some on hand.

Nabbers said:

I'm doing straight hydro with RO and I'm not even needing CalMag with this stuff, so I'd say not with soil for sure. It takes barely any DynaGro to get to my EC limit. But I do like having some on hand.

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Alright cool thanks for the feedback!

I don't use calmag with DG in promix or hydro. I've even added it in hydro just to see if a calmag supplement would 'help' and there was no change in the plants.

I realize dyna gro has macronutients, but so do a lot of other nutes, what makes it so different that you don't need calmag when using RO

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I realize dyna gro has micronutients, but so do a lot of other nutes, what makes it so different that you don't need calmag when using RO

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A lot of plant foods do not need calmag supplementation. Growers just think it's needed because they just don't know any better.