Pura Vida!

Technaflora's new oraganic line apprently is pretty good. I have heard that when you use it you are not suposed to adjust the PH?? is this true. Has anyone had any expirience with the product. Im planing on using just the simple two part with hygrozyme for 100% organic.

Hydrokronics said:

Technaflora's new oraganic line apprently is pretty good. I have heard that when you use it you are not suposed to adjust the PH?? is this true. Has anyone had any expirience with the product. Im planing on using just the simple two part with hygrozyme for 100% organic.

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Hydrokronics.... The Pure Vida stuff is earning quite a reputation for being top notch stuff. With any liquid fert, when you mix it up - if it's pH is below 5.6 or above 6.6 - it needs adjusted.
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The better quality ferts - attempt to pH balance their products before they go into the bottle. Still, everyones water is different - so, I always recommend mixing up your fert, waiting 15 minutes - then checking the pH. If any adjustments are necessary - make small adjustments, wait 15 minutes, then recheck / readjust as necessary.
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Hope this helps...
Keep it Real....Organic....

Thank you ohso. Yea i use this method of thing now. I check and re-check the ph consantly. but the main thing about pure vida is that you are suposed to have to touch the ph. Let at all. in fact i was told by my shop owner to ph the water before i add nute and then leave it alone. adjusting the ph will only waste my time. no matter what it re-adjusts itself. check out the web-site Technaflora Plant Products - Home

i have used that fert. i use r/o water and only checked the ph once at the begining of the grow and it was perfect so i never checked again and my grow turned out great. never had any problems. have also used in my grow mediums but like it better in hydro.

I was wondering what the difference was between the complete one part formula and the aggressive two part formula listed on the back label? Or does someone have a mixing schedule for soil/soil-less? Any suggestions

The aggressive schedule is what you use for ganja. This is a great fertilizer with my only complaint being skinny stems. I'm dong a side by side with canna chemical salts and pura vida and that PV puts canna to shame but the canna has much stronger stems. The PV plants grew 30-40% faster and have huge lush leaves. My girlfriend calls the canna side our little garden while she calls the PV ones our little jungle. The back wall is not visible through the growth on that side. Start at 50% strength then water, water, then 75%, water, water, 100%, water , water, 100%,water, water, etc..... As for adjusting pH, on one plant I have adjusted nothing and it shows no differences from the others. The pH when added to distiled water is generaly 7.2. I adjust the others to 5.7 as they all are in coco. Also, off topic but, botanicare coco bags seem to out perform canna coco.

Thank you for your help. Sorry if I'm dense but I still don't completely understand because it appears that in the 2 part aggressive formula that you use both the grow and bloom combined in both the veg and flower state. That doesn't make sense to me am I reading the label wrong and are you say start with half of the recommended feeding of 6tsp to 1 gal of water? Then work my way up to 100%. Sorry One more thing you would suggest feed water water. The guy at my grow store said feed feed water. I usually only have to water/feed every other day I almost always skip a day between water or feeding.

Thanks

Every plant and situation are different. Yes, you use both as a 2 part for "aggressive crop production". Now that sounds familiar. So to start out once clones are rooted or seeds established, per Liter of water in soil or soiless add 2ml grow + 0.5ml bloom, then water, then water. Next time double this to 4ml grow + 1ml bloom, then water, then water,. Next time double this to 8ml grow + 2ml bloom. This worked well for me as I use large container to plant size ratios and there is plenty of food for roots to find. I have even used 50% first, skipping 25% altogether. All depends on strain and light and humidity and etc.... I have never felt the feed,water,water is too little nutes in 6 months of using this. If plants are big and containers small, obviously there will be a need to water more frequently. In this situation I would tweak it to 60% strength feed,water,water as there may be a build up over time at full strength.I generaly water every three days.I am not a fan of keeping things moist unless you are full hydro.

Landragon is correct on all things. feed water water. and yes you should use both for veg and for flower, just in diferent stregths for different growth periods.

I also have encounterd small stem growth It is working well for me even though my PH stays at about 7.5 constantly It worrys me but i dont even bother checking it anymore and everything is slow and steady. I like PV alot and would recomend it to everyone and esp. beginers who dont want to have to get a PH pen or bother with PH adjustment. GL Pe@cE

I am using PV also, but I never heard about not adjusting the PH.. I have been adjusting it occasionally back to 6.2 or so.

This is my first grow and I thought the stems seemed kinds of thin to me, but all else looks good.

Question - Do any of you add anything to your PV? I am in a Ebb?Flow hydro setup and have read where some people like to add Mag/Cal since they feel PV is low on it.

Thoughts?

Ive just started using PV for flowering but I also mix a bunch of other products with it. I use an ebb&flood for flowering.
Here is my recipe (based on the technaflora recipe for success)...
Per 1 gal. (4 litres):
1/2 teaspoon (2.5 ml) Green Gold's Ocean Bloom 2-10-12
(all the rest is technaflora)
3 teaspoon (15 ml) PuraVida Grow 6-4-3
4 1/2 teaspoon (22.5 ml) PuraVida Bloom 2-6-6
1/2 teaspoon (2.5 ml) Thrive Alive B1 Green 1-1-1
1/2 teaspoon (2.5 ml) MagiCal 2-0-0
2 1/2 teaspoon (12.5 ml) Sugar Daddy 0-0-0

PPM = 1400
PH = 3.5 (with tap water which has a PH between 7-

I adjust to 5.5 with 2 1/2 ml potassium silicate

And for foliar feeding i mix the Thrive Alive B1 Green with Wet Betty (both are now register OMRI)

As for the recipe itself, I tried to be as organic as possible. I will be changing the Sugar Daddy for a more organic version. And from my understanding u can only get the calcium and magnesium right chemically (dont know if anyone knows of an organic source?). As for the Ocean Bloom and PuraVida they are not completely organic themselves... Ive been looking for an OMRI feeding recipe for hydro... but to no avail

As for adjusting ph and stuff, best try to stay in between 5.8 and 6.5 but you shouldnt have to adjust it too often or else check your PPMs (Ive burnt my plants once cause I just kept adjusting it with a bunch of PH- to the point of having a PPM of 1600)

Happy growing