Your Personal Favorite Nutes

Alright I'm tired of soil I just cant stand it any more and im putting together my first hydro grow. As we speak im waiting on parts to come in and assembling a custom stadium on the weekends.

I've done some research into nutes but I've literally seen people say terrible terrible things about like every product on the market so here I am. I work full time and im sure you're all aware that there are absolute absurd amounts of nutrient products on the market and I just lack the time to do thorough enough research to trust my own judgment alone

What nutes do you guys swear by? Im looking for some tips on what to get to cover my ass from clone to cure. Help very much appreciated.

Will be interesting to watch this thread...I have toyed with the idea of hydro myself, but the attention to detal, labor and expense have so far scared me off.

Cutting Edge Solutions. Tad heavy on the salt but I add Sea Green an hour before I water everytime and it works very well breaking down the salts. I run a soil-less mix and foliar feed all my additives. They have an organic line as well which is showing great numbers but is a little light on N which imo needs to be supplemented.

I think when it comes down to it, you really got to ask yourself what kind of results you are willing to get.
I find that mineral base nutrients make a significant different over a short period of time,
The organic based nutrients are not always cost efficient and with all honesty the quality isn't much better either.

Therefore with my personal opinion, I prefer the mineral based nutrients. The brand I am with right now is Floratonic, and they are kicking nuts!

I am not saying that any nutrients in particular is better than other's but that's just my opinions and I am getting really satisfying results!

Hope that helped...

BONTICARE, their other line ORGANICARE, GENERAL HYDROPONICS flora series, and ADVANCED NUTRIENT (additives only)

Currently using FLORANOVA GROW for veg dang did a lot better then the FF grow big i was using

I like advanced nutrients line up grow micro and bloom along with the sensi a&b

My personal favorite is Humboldt Natural.

The bases are amazing to work with.
Grow = 3-1-3
Bloom = 0-10-0
Deuce Deuce = 0-0-22

Bloom has a shit ton of Ca (10%). Start with Grow, then start adding bloom in there, then start finishing with some deuce deuce in there.

General Organics line is my second favorite. It's one part, so you are either using grow or bloom and not both like with humboldt natural.
Grow = 4-3-3
Bloom= 2-4-4

I guess BIOBUD is GO's equivalent Deuce Deuce. (.5-.1-1) I try to look at it more like a 5-1-10 since the decimals throw me off.

What really makes me like GO is the additives. A bottle of nothing but seaweed(BioWeed), or nothing but humic acid(Diamond Black), or nothing but cold compressed fish(BioMarine). They are lacking a carbohydrate bottle however.... But i use them combined with HONEY ES and beneficials to make a killer Microbe Brew.

Although we are talking hydro right?

For hydro 3-parts are probably my favorite. One parts require supplements so they might as well be multi-parted. I haven't personally tried Humboldt's 3 part, but i want to. GH's flora 3-part is generic, but a standard among the industry. Some claim nasa uses it.

I don't like botanicare because it lowers PH like balls when you first mix it in, and even after you wait an hour for the ph adjustment to settle, as soon as you put it in the reservoir the PH starts to climb. Doesn't happen to me all the time, but after a couple days the ph will sometimes be at 8.4, when I know i put it in the reservoir at 5.8. The fact that I still haven't figured out what is done differently when PH does sky rocket makes me not like botanicare. Sometimes, everything is peachy keen, the base nutrient drops the ph of the solution to 4, i raise it and it stays steady for a week. Sometimes, it doesn't. Then the fact that they recommend Pro Blend SOIL for the finishing of bloom pisses me off to no end.
---If the feeding chart for Pure Blend Pro in a hydro system requires Pure Blend Pro Soil, then YTF call it "SOIL"?!!

If I were to pick a favorite hydro nutrient without concern for how it was derived, I'd completely go with DutchMaster Gold.

Humboldt Nutrients is one of the most expensive lines that you can run. I did a bunch of the product testing for them and for any type of hydro setup it is just way too thick.

For a soil based nutrient line i would go with BioBizz, they have so much molasses in the entire line and plants love Fish Mix and Alg-A-Mic

I use the Botanicare PureBlend ProGrow and Pureblend ProBloom also half way through flowering I use Atami Bloombastic. The only real setback I've had from this is lack of mg so i use Epsom salt to correct that.

DynaGro Grow and Bloom, cause they have nice NPK numbers, and 15 macronutrients already in the mix so no need to add micro. And they're concentrated so you don't add much to the mix, they last a long time and aren't that expensive.

Really interesting info so far. Lots of brands ive never even heard of before im really interested to hear from some more people keep these responses coming please!

I grow in coco and my favorite nutrients are pretty close between CANNA and House & Garden. Both are fairly pricey but it would take a a miracle to get me to switch to another line....although that's not to say I haven't heard good things about others

Okay...
CES, Floratonic,Botanicare, GH, AN, Humboldt, DynaGrow, Canna, House and Garden...

I hope that you got what you wanted!

Here's how I feel on the subject:
All Macro nutrients are based on one of three formats. There's the One-Part, the two-part, and the three-part.
In addition there is a vast variety of supplements one can use. These range from Macro ratio adjusters, Micro ratio adjusters, chelates, Vitamins, hormones, carbohydrates, plant extracts, and organic compost tea concentrates.
As a grower you have to decide what kind of system you want. A one, two, or three part macro system. Then you need to decide if you will require any supplements to modulate the ratios of these static base systems.
When not working in Organics these systems are fundamentally the same, but made in different concentrations. The salts they use, Potassium Nitrate, Potassium Phosphate, Calcium Nitrate, Magnesium Phosphate, etc, etc, are all at their essence basically the same. Where you get a "better" system is when you have nutrient ratios that suit your specific phenotype.

One-Part systems will be the least concentrated because all of the elements are contained within the bottle. Everything from Magnesium to Potassium to Nitrates is in one bottle. These systems usually are in a Veg and Bloom system (sometimes with an additional "ripening" component) and can be confused with Three-Part systems. The big difference between the two . Two-Part systems are designed to be used in equal ratios of A+B at all times, this can carry a higher concentration because reactive elements are kept apart. Three-Part systems are made to be used in varying ratios throughout growth and usually use a "grow, micro, bloom."

I don't think I have found my favorite system yet. Next up is Botanicare CNS 17.

I do know what I do like. Advanced Nutrients Big Bud powder I like. Botanicare Liquid Karma is something I like also. Everything else is up in the air. I have been using Canna Coco A+B to good results. Organicare really let me down.

I have a feeling that when I get into brewing organic tea, that's going to be my favorite stuff.

i've settled on dyna-gro foliage pro and bloom for base nutes. i use plant success granular to inocculate the soil any time i plant/transplant, along with some liquid lime. during veg i use botanicare silica blast from time to time. for comparison in the past i have used the foxfarm liquid trio and jack's classic bloom. i like the dyna gro the best.

General Hydro 3 part is a never fail and the ratios let you play with your own mixes easily, and i have always found them to be great as a stand-alone or when using some addatives. there floranova 2-part leaves too much buildup or me, and fox farms tends to be a little thick or me. also DM gold range has worked fantastically for me before and i used it with some DM add.27. may even be going back to that i can't figure out which i like best GH or DM

Rcb said:

Currently using FLORANOVA GROW for veg dang did a lot better then the FF grow big i was using

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That. Floranova is the bomb, 1 part formula, no mixing, awesome results. You might need calmag+ as a supplement depending on your water source.

eden bioscience messenger for plant health. hydro gardens fish emulsion 5-1-1.5 for veg, botanicare pure blend pro soil bloom 1-4-5, and 7.0ph purified h20 for flush. try it you wont be dissapointed.

my "fav" nute is my urine lol

always within reach and couldnt get more cheap.

plus im always kinda surprised at just how effective it is. hey something wrong with the plant, dont care what it is, bit of urine, few days later, plant fine (bit of urine, then water as normally, urine straight from the "cow" is best, unmixed (but water afterwards)) (oh maybe a coffeecup per plant (above gallon size roots)

liquid gold indeed lol

Well I will get in on this one!
GH Maxibloom.Koolbloom, cal-mag, molasses, lemon juice to balance ph, and amend soil with bloob,bone meal, de from autozone, mycos and ewct once a week! cheap easy and grows just as good as every other fert line out there! I have tried most and keep coming back to this! B safe