What are you favorite nutrients?

I am growing in a DWC setup with a scrog and COB LED.

I currently use GreenLeaf's MEGACROP with CalMag and Great white(baccilus). I am thinking of trying their Sweet candy, bud explosion and their Kelp concentrate.

What do you guys use and have you tried the above? If so what are your experiences?

newguy123 said:

I am growing in a DWC setup with a scrog and COB LED.

I currently use GreenLeaf's MEGACROP with CalMag and Great white(baccilus). I am thinking of trying their Sweet candy, bud explosion and their Kelp concentrate.

What do you guys use and have you tried the above? If so what are your experiences?

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My buddy uses Megacrop and has pretty good success with it. Only other nutes I think he uses is some kinda flower fuel.

I use Floranova Bloom (if I'm right it's a 1 bottle version of the Lucas Formula) from seed to harvest, CaliMagic (but only when needed), and Liquid Kool Bloom for most of flowering but switch to Powder Kool Bloom in the last week or two before flush. . I use Great White like you, I used Hydroguard before for a year or so but honestly the GW seems to have a more diverse microbe profile, a longer shelf life, and is cheaper because it stretches further. I've really not tried many nutrients, I've stuck with the FLB because it's worked but I want to try Mega Crop as I've been hearing a lot about it. I wouldn't recommend Floranova Bloom for anyone use a recirculating system, I only use it because I've standalone buckets. The stuff is so thick and sludgy that I'd be a little nervous using it in a RDWC, I think at that rate I'd just use the 2 bottle Lucas Formula.

GH Flora 3 Part with Armor Si and Calimagic

My favorite beneficial bacteria is Tribus Original. That stuff makes for explosive root growth. It has the bacteria strain they use in the Hydroguard and a couple others. They believe that less different strains of bacteria at stronger concentrations is better. I got an explanation from the Tribus representative as to why less is more and here is what they said:

"The bacteria in Tribus are the most dominant bacterial species in the cannabis rhizosphere (because the plant selects for them) and provide a number of advantages in practical application: their spore-forming ability helps them persist in unfavorable environments and means they can be tank-mixed with incredibly concentrated fertilizers and/or pesticides, they produce an incredible diversity of enzymes, antibiotic compounds, and even some phytohormones, and they are ultimately capable of promoting plant growth through every known microbial growth-promoting mechanism (i.e., nutrient cycling, pathogen resistance, improved water uptake, etc).

Tribus is composed of a limited consortia of microbes (3-7 species) at extremely high concentrations (10 billion CFUs/ML). Older gen. inoculants (like Great White by Plant Success) have 20+ microbes at lower concentrations. You will hear these companies pitch the benefits of microbial diversity in their product. The problem with that is that is two-fold: 1) the plant is highly selective in its rhizosphere microbiome and rarely supports more than a few dominant bacterial species and 2) no one in the world has the ability to quantify the interactions between dozens of microorganisms. There was a paper published recently by a biophysicist that looks at the maximum number of microbe-microbe interactions that we can quantify in an ecosystem (soil, petri dish, or otherwise); he concluded that when there are more than ~17 microbes interacting with each other, there are more possible microbe-microbe interactions than their are atoms in the visible universe. In turn, products with that many microbes cannot be quantifiably analyzed for efficacy. What we can do today, however, is pick the 3, 4 or 5 most productive species that the plant selects for in its root zone and actually quantify what's going on.

We are trying to keep things simple- by focusing on the most productive species at high concentrations we can better quantify and attribute growth to microbe interactions. Our inoculants are purely bacteria and water, and nothing else. We know they aren't competing with each other in the rhizosphere which we can't confidently say for older-gen inoculants with 10+ species. Also, the high concentration ensures there is also a consistently high population of our good bacteria in the rhizosphere! At 10 billion CFUs/mL we are over 50x more concentrated per mL than most other inoculants."

Really great info right there...months back you had mentioned this too me, but I had completely forgotten about it! Thanks for the info Ren!

Jacks 321, easy as can be and super cheap.. nothing else needed from seed to harvest.

Not bagging on the Megacrop product as I'm sure it works well in larger scale outdoor soil grows but at 4gr per gallon in NFT it just didn't cut the mustard

Also for those who mix small volumes (gal etc) I think it is important to note the consistency of the dry product.

To this day Floranova Bloom as a 1 part start to finish with the addition of Floralicious+ gave me the best end product.But fuck the stuff gets messy.

Have used around a dozen other lines over the years.