how and when to add nutrients

[doctor paulson]

I have started my grow, still in the veg stage but have a few questions after stretching about nutrients. I have aquired the following nutrients but unsure of which ones to use at what weeks. If anyone can help me it would be greatly aprriciated. I have:

Big Bud
Bud Candy
Tarantula
Sensi Grow A&B
Sensizym

Oh and its a 9 week grow. If anyone has any tips or if i am missing a nutrient please let me know.

Thanks,
Dr P

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

The manufacturers web site is a good place to start. Take it easy on the amount, especially if you're combining different stuff in one application. Might not be a bad idea to start out half strength and adjust from there.

 

[FreezerBoy]

Personally, I'd avoid all that stuff until your first few grows are in. While they increase your expenditures by 500%, I doubt your yield will increase as much. You don't NEED any of it other than the Sensi and frankly, AN has better solutions. AN Micro and Bloom use half the bottles and provide better nute proportions at all stages.

 

[doctor paulson]

thanks disco for the info. iam looking to see what weeks i add what nutrients and in what order i add them into the res.
thanks dr. p.

 

[Dr Dog]

Personally, I'd avoid all that stuff until your first few grows are in. While they increase your expenditures by 500%, I doubt your yield will increase as much. You don't NEED any of it other than the Sensi and frankly, AN has better solutions. AN Micro and Bloom use half the bottles and provide better nute proportions at all stages.

best advice I have read in a few days now

You dont need any extras. A good nute formula with maybe some cal mag and possibly some humic acid is all I really ever use

 

[doctor paulson]

Thanks Freezerboy! The deal is I bought this guys entire set up and these are the nutes he had... basically just turned everything over to me, but if you say to only use the sensi maybe I will just get a bottle of the Micro and Bloom for the first grow.

 

[ChaosCatalunya]

As the others say, keep it very simple, most of the happy grows here use just A + B, sometimes a PK booster for weeks 4/5 [ish] sometimes Cannazym [or similar enzyme] to help clear up brown/dead roots, otherwise you usually just see problems, especially till you have a room dialed in and pumping out benchmark yields crop after crop. Once you do, try some little side by side experiments to genuinely move forward, not changing 17 different paramaters and claiming "abc doubled the size of my buds ... or...xyz is rubbish"

KISS is so true when it comes to Hydro, it is almost as important as the "Do not tell anybody you grow" rule.

 

[doctor paulson]

thanks everybody for the advise it helps alot. keep it coming

dr. p

 

[Hydro-Soil]

Thanks Freezerboy! The deal is I bought this guys entire set up and these are the nutes he had... basically just turned everything over to me, but if you say to only use the sensi maybe I will just get a bottle of the Micro and Bloom for the first grow.

Sound advice. Wonder if the guy you bought the stuff from had issues using all those additives.

Personally I'm a huge fan of the General Hydroponics FloraNova Bloom. I use it in both veg and flower with great results. (Lucas Formula in one bottle)