Thinking of switching nutes, need advice.

Currently I am using Ionic Grow in my DWC and have almost gone through the entire one liter bottle. Before I go back to the hydro store to get more nutes, what do you use/reccomend for hydro application? Is there a hard water version?

For hardwater, I've used Lucas Formula. It's a two part mix, General Hydroponics flora micro and flora bloom, get the "flora micro for hardwater."

Although, I recently decided to try dyna-gro two part veg and flower nutes, using the same hard water, and my girls in veg are doing much better then Lucas Formula or even GH's proper vegging formula even with the micro meant for hardwater. I'm looking forward to seeing how flowering goes with dyna-gro.

vh13 said:

Although, I recently decided to try dyna-gro two part veg and flower nutes,

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Are u using the Foliage-pro 9-3-6 or something like that? I thought that had alot of urea in it for N and is not good for hydro. Ratio's are good but the urea..... I'm thinking of Botanicare CNS17 CoCo that has 3-1-2 no urea.

Edit: I'm sorry I see you are using two-part but it also has high amnonical N in it. Working good hu? Was thinking of trying it too since it is economical

patlpp said:

Are u using the Foliage-pro 9-3-6 or something like that? I thought that had alot of urea in it for N and is not good for hydro. Ratio's are good but the urea..... I'm thinking of Botanicare CNS17 CoCo that has 3-1-2 no urea.

Edit: I'm sorry I see you are using two-part but it also has high amnonical N in it. Working good hu? Was thinking of trying it too since it is economical

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It's working better for veg then GH veg, and Lucas, but honestly I've seen better health and richer aromas in plants using soil and nothing but fish emulsion and molasses for nutes. Too bad soil is so slow.

I looked at the Botanicare CNS17 as well, I liked that it also has no urea. My only complaint with the dyna-grow is that it does use EDTA. I don't know if Botanicare CNS17 uses EDTA, but I've yet to find a reasonably priced proper hydro nute that doesn't. Also, a friend of mine mentioned the higher phosphorous content in dyna-grow allows plants to switch from veg to flower faster then with Botanicare CNS17.

Btw, I avoid using urea nitrogen because it causes hollow stems, but why do you ask about ammoniacal nitrogen?