What's the point of this forum anyway if all the "advice" is to support the sponsors? Why isn't the nutrients section about nutrients? Almost every single thread here is about "Which line of nutrients is better?". Seriously? What an annoying question. What's the point of switching from GH to AN or canna? Who cares? It's hardly a question about which nutrients they should use and more a question of what "products" and "brands" they like to use. It gets really messy because everyone likes to use their own line, then has to specifically seek out other people using the exact same line with the exact same products. It would be like asking if anyone has used Bayer, and people saying they've only had aspirin.
A lot of people don't worry about whether they get coke or pepsi, yet growers swear their plants can tell the difference, and are picky too! literally, people ask which sweeteners are the best.
What would really help people out is a section completely devoted to dry salts. The only reason it's so confusing to people is there is no sticky threads or sections on it. There's no way I'll buy the argument that combinations of 3 bottles of some marketing name combined in the just right ratio with whatever PK booster, Cal-mag+, etc is simpler than using real salts, where each brand has the same empirical formula.
How else can I get my message across? Plants eat the chemicals, not the brands.
You know it's really hard to suppress the negativity with all the crap I get for trying to help. I don't come with a way to do hydro, I come with THE way. There is only one way, and it's what the nutrient companies sell you at ridiculous markup.