Organic Nutrients

Greetings!

Introduction:
I was looking for information on organic nutrients for bubbleponics. I'm trying to avoid using chemical nutes like the GH (general hydroponics) flora system, and FF (fox farm) trio formula. FF only has one kind of organic nutes but it's for flowering only called Big Bloom, but other then that, I'm having a difficult time finding any organic nutes for hydroponics. I'm still a fledgling grower so I'm looking to have just a few questions answered.

Question(s):
1. Is it important to grow organically? If so...
2. What organic nutrients have clear instructions and work effectively? And one last question...
3. Would you recommend using a multi-nutrient system, or an all-purpose from germination-to-harvest nutrient system?

Thank you so much! <3


This guide recommends using General Hydroponics:
http://www.growweedeasy.com/high-yield-bubbleponics-technique

Is this good advice

Organic growing is nice because you feed the plant a range of foods which become nutrient-rich to the plant through decomposition in the soil. Then, your plant takes in what it needs and wants. Chemical growing feeds the plant directly, so it will absorb nutrient xyz, even if it doesn't want xyz. A balanced spectrum of NPK (High N in veg, High P in flower, K for overall heartiness) is the goal with Organic feeding. I use Iguana Juice for veg. Mother earth and Molasses for flower. I know this sorta answers different parts of your questions but I think it's good info. GL.

squeekitoy said:

Greetings!

Introduction:
I was looking for information on organic nutrients for bubbleponics. I'm trying to avoid using chemical nutes like the GH (general hydroponics) flora system, and FF (fox farm) trio formula. FF only has one kind of organic nutes but it's for flowering only called Big Bloom, but other then that, I'm having a difficult time finding any organic nutes for hydroponics. I'm still a fledgling grower so I'm looking to have just a few questions answered.

Question(s):
1. Is it important to grow organically? If so...
2. What organic nutrients have clear instructions and work effectively? And one last question...
3. Would you recommend using a multi-nutrient system, or an all-purpose from germination-to-harvest nutrient system?

Thank you so much! <3


This guide recommends using General Hydroponics:
http://www.growweedeasy.com/high-yield-bubbleponics-technique

Is this good advice

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IMHO, don't get too caught up in the "organic" marketing hype. Lots of misinformation on cannabis forums regarding "organic" vs "synthetic"... do yourself a favor and put on your skeptic hat before reading about the topic and arguments on here.

For DWC, I would recommend Botanicare Pure Blend Pro (it's a simple 2 part w/ optional supplements) along with a kelp-based product (like Liquid Karma) and beneficial microbes (like AquaShield/ZHO). It's not going to come with an "organic" label but in practice it's the best compromise that I've found for ease of use in hydroponics (I use it in soil as well with great results) while using beneficial microbes and it's reasonably priced. You can usually find cheaper kelp-based products and beneficial microbes than the Botanicare ones I used as examples (but I do like the Botanicare products - just putting that out there if budget is a concern).

Wanted to add (edit post is not working for me at the moment):

Just scanned through that guide and what I read seems fine. Although for some reason the guide says to use clear plastic tubing when you can get black tubing for the same price and it will cut down on the amount of light that might get into your reservoir(s). And otherwise, light-proofing and insulating your reservoir(s) is an important thing (might have missed it being mentioned in the guide).

Just a couple of little things:

If you are more than a little serious about growing, it's probably worth it to jump straight into getting HID lighting and decent ventilation (inline fan + ducting) - even if you stay small and use low wattage. By the time you add a bunch of CFLs, Y-splitters, extensions, etc. you won't be saving much, if any, money and most people end up either going to HID (well-proven) or LED (if you can afford decent ones) eventually and having to start over with purchases. Not knocking CFLs, especially the higher wattage ones with decent fixtures but there's really not much cost savings in them in the long run if you are going to stick with it.

It's also not necessary to have a top-feed system along with DWC if you might want to simplify things a bit when starting out. Straight DWC gives great results itself and it's one less thing to worry about setting up and controlling as opposed to the system in the guide.

If your doing DWC I wouldn't go organic if your set on organic try coca or soil it will go alot better for you. I've used the iguana juice and nirvana in DWC and had much better results with sensi A+b, big bud, bud candy, over drive. ALtho iguana juice with nirvana and mother earth tea in soil rocks with benes and is cheaper than the former.

Yes, for DWC type grows where roots are directly submerged in water organics are generaly known as a bad idea.

Not saying which is better re sterile or organic but i had better success when starting out using a sterile res. things just got plugged up using so called organics. Im a real newb so it was probably me lol. I thought it was impossible to measure tds's as well in organic based systems, am i wrong?