How many PPM Pure Blend Pro Bloom
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Limosnero
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Hydro I'm guessing? I gradually build mine up...600 - 800 - 1000 - 1200 ppm. I would not go over 1200. Not sure where you started but anything higher would be bad. I have recently learn to build up the switch between the Pro Bloom and the Pro Bloom Soil (if you make that switch). Botanicare recommends finishing with the Pro Bloom Soil for Hydro. If you are at 3 weeks, I believe you have 1 more week on the Pro Bloom before you are suppose to switch. Anyway I hoped I helped a bit.
rimfire
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Thanks for taking the time to give me that info. I'm currently running about 750PPM of Bloom in a DWC. I'm a Noob with a first time grow. I have one female Kahuna, one female Northern Lights and on female Biggie Small. When can I expect to start seeing buds? It seems like things have kind of slowed down with my girls. There are healthy but don't I'm not seeing the rapid growth I initially had and no buds. I do see hairs, but no buds. Will that come down the road after I switch to Bloom Soil? Any help is appriciated.
Limosnero
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I am not too far from you as a noob. I have a few grows under my belt...but still learning a lot, trying different techniques, styles (just the tech in me I guess) I would not worry about them they are just making that change from Veg to flower. If you are seeing Hairs(flowers) then you will see buds...Not sure of the finishing time for each of those strains but just give them time. I imagine they all just started showing flowers sometime in the 2nd to 3rd week of 12/12? I am guessing you will start to see some cool stuff in the following weeks. To me that is the best part, watching them go through that change and seeing all the new developments from day to day. Here is a few pics of one (bagseed) about 5 weeks of 12/12 currently at 1100 ppm working the Pro soil bloom and the whole botanicare compliment. The one that looks like a aloe plant is my favorite pic 
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rimfire
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Thank you again for your info. You mention you are using Pure Blend Pro's full compliment of products. Can you tell me more about what you are using exactly? How did you come to using the Botanicare products? My local hydro guy recommended this stuff over everything he had in his shop, and said it would make my PH more stable. I think he is right. Also, do you use a bloom enhancer? If so, which one? Thanks again for taking the time to help this Noob out.
Jesushasdreads
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the reccomended supplements for hydro on my feeding chart is pureblend pro grow, pro bloom, pro bloom soil, cal mag plus, liquid karma, sweet, hydroguard, and clearex to finish out with. i use the grow, soil bloom, liquid karma, molasses, superthrive, and technaflora magical on my soil garden.
Limosnero
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Yeah...I use all of the recommended + some black strap molasses towards the end. I also use the clearex every other res change. No other bloom enhancer. How I came to use them...I was looking for something organic. Tried Nature's Nectar and really just failed with it. Got some free samples of botanicare and really liked it. I do experiment with Foxfarms but I will most likely keep using the PureBlend Pro line. I get consistent results. Post some pics if you can. Good luck!
rimfire
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Thank you both for those recommendations. My local hydro guy sold me Budswel to be used in the later weeks of bloom. He sold me the dry stuff. I'm using a DWC setup and I don't like the mess it makes and it doesn't disolve worth a shit. I think I got the wrong stuff. Should be a liquid. Why no bloom boosters? Like Koolbloom or one of those? Looks to me like you can get quite a few dollars wrapped up into Botanicare Pro products if you use their full regiment from start to finish. Is going the extra expense of organics worth it in the final product? I started with GH 3 part Flora with Koolbloom at that seems it might be easier and cheaper and you still get a good harvest. What are your thoughts? I'm not that much into the taste and aroma as I am yield, potency and ease of growth. If Botanicare will take care of yield and ease of growth, I'll be a happy, happy guy. Hopefully I'm growing some girls with good genitic potency. We shall see...... Attached are a few photos . How do they look?
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Jesushasdreads
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i was stuck between the powerplant and pureblend pro when deciding what nutes to try....i had been using technaflora line, but i am pleased with the botanicare as well. here are some pix from today. enjoy
LST soil grow day 37 of flower
LST soil grow day 37 of flower
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Jesushasdreads
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imo most any brand of nutrients will be sufficient so long as they are given the reccomended products. the products are produced to work together and provide the full rance of macro, micro, and trace elements. using the reccomended doses is usually a sure fire way to get better yields and potency, however getting the BEST harvests, weight, ect usually requires a bit of experimenting and fine tuning, but also allows for less marin of error and can cause nute lockouts toxicitys and even deficiencies if too much product is given. like i say, im not a hydroponic grower so im not sure how useful my yabbering is to you. imo hydro is even more of a science than soil and is not nearly as forgiving to mistakes.
Limosnero
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Your girls (hopefully) look very healthy! As far as the bloom enhancers...I will try some next time around. Wanted to go all the way though a couple of name strains with what I know...then see if I can get some better results by tweaking. Going to do some LW2 outside - also trying a mixed batch of WW, Sweet Purple, and Magic Bug. I guess I would always like a huge yield but I am equally concerned about taste and potency. IMO organics is the way to go there. Although, I am not opposed to experimentation...it would be boring for me not to try out some other nutes/methods in the future. Gotta love doing something different but I try and temper that with sticking to one set of nutes/method for each grow. Then mix it up a bit and see what happens. There is always something to learn or add to your setup...right?
Limosnero
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Nice pics...so many different nutes to try but it is great that we can give feedback to each other with places like RIU
I am experimenting with some chicken wire over 4 plants...kind of a SCROG but really I am just weaving them in and out of the screen. Exposing all of the lower sites to act as a top. I have never done this before and just wanted to see the results. When I am done with the weaving I will post some pics...here is an early shot...sorry for the quality.
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rimfire
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Thanks again for adding to this thread with some useful stuff. It appears from the photos that this stuff really works. My plants are healthy and green and this Noob has kicked the shit of them from the time they were seedings, and we have made it this far. I know part of my success so far has been because of the Nutes. I think they are a little more forgiving.......
Jesushasdreads
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yeah, this is a prety good thread, i love pix! I have a clone i took as a mother from that biggest girl in my photo, so im going to keep this strain around a while and mess with it at least for another 3-4 grows and see how well i can do with it, then pollinate it with the male pollen i saved to get some seed to keep around in the ol blunt tube and then go find some other weed to grow! actually i got a couple of pretty bagseed indica seedlins right now, but those are another experiment all together. 