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What Nutes/Additives/Supplements Do You Use and How?

What Nutes/Additives/Supplements Do You Use and How?

  • Fox Farms

    Votes: 80 25.4%
  • Earth Juice

    Votes: 20 6.3%
  • Humboldt Nutrients

    Votes: 15 4.8%
  • TechnaFlora

    Votes: 13 4.1%
  • B'cuzz

    Votes: 8 2.5%
  • General Hydroponics

    Votes: 79 25.1%
  • Dyna-Gro

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Emerald Triangle

    Votes: 2 0.6%
  • Miracle-Gro

    Votes: 12 3.8%
  • Advanced Nutrients

    Votes: 44 14.0%
  • Botanicare

    Votes: 67 21.3%
  • Composts n Guanos Only

    Votes: 26 8.3%
  • Lucas Formula

    Votes: 30 9.5%
  • None

    Votes: 30 9.5%

  • Total voters
    315
  • Poll closed .
I use a combo of AN Iguana Juice (base fert, with Bud Candy, Rhino Skin, Organic B, and Nirvana), Botanicare (Aquashield, Liquid Karma, and Cal-Mag if needed), Roots Organic HPK for bloom boost... I mix my own Fulvic and Humic solutions... I also use GH Rare Earth to add some humic to my soil mix... for micro beasties I use Great White, or Roots Oregonism XL, or Blue Mountain Organics SPT... Pro Mix is my soil of choice although I have used FFOF and LW many times as well... I just got the new General Organics Bio Bloom and Bio Bud and i'm gonna see how those work out on my next run
 

OjoRojo420

Feeling good is good enough.
Veteran
Living in a 3rd. World Country

Living in a 3rd. World Country

Makes your ass become real fast. I use what local farmers use and the rest is pure organics.

For vegetative I almost exclusively use Worm Castings Tea mixed with fresh urine (5.8 PH and 800 PPM).

As for flowering, I still use Worm Castings Tea plus wood ash. Urine is excluded since has much N. Molasses are added as soon as pistil clusters are forming (1-2 tbs per gallon).

At the beginning of flowering I use 10/30/20 several times (along tea) at 1200 PPM / 5.8PH to stimulate the process.

For stubborn sativas additional 10-50-10 is included to speed up things.

I've found that Worm Compost Tea as well as fresh urine tend to repel pests. I also notice healthier, more natural green color.

Gals just look happy!

Harvested products taste and hit righteous!

Much Love!
 

maryjohn

Active member
Veteran
I mix up a soil with everything in it, then give water from start to finish, with some fish fertilizer once a month or two.
 

Stinkymutt

Active member
Fox Farm

Fox Farm

Recently I used GH 3 part nutes but am going back to Fox Farm 3 part . Had no problems with FF but Gh seemed to be a lil more picky about PH . FF I used as directed by there own feeding chart , and GH used as recomended except 1/2 strength. Molasses for 2 weeks and then straight water for a week to flush .
peace
mutt
 

nyy27

Member
Interesting... I always find it amusing that international growers tend to use BioBizz, Dutch Master, and GH alot. Don't get me wrong there is a good faction using Advanced Nutrients as well, but from my experience I've had the most success with Advanced Nutrients. Good poll, like I said interesting...
Cheers
 

indifferent

Active member
Veteran
Interesting... I always find it amusing that international growers tend to use BioBizz, Dutch Master, and GH alot. Don't get me wrong there is a good faction using Advanced Nutrients as well, but from my experience I've had the most success with Advanced Nutrients. Good poll, like I said interesting...
Cheers

AN aren't that popular in UK and EU, hard to sell us a 20-odd bottle line-up when we have had very effective solutions with no more than 5 bottles for 20-odd years.

I'd say 90% of the growers I know in the UK use something like the following:

Canna Coco A+B (or Hesi or House & Garden)
PK13-14
Rhizotonic (or H&G Roots Excel or B'cuzz Roots)
Cannazym (or Atazyme, Hygrozyme or Sensizym)
Liquid Silicon (any one of a few brands)
Seaweed Extract (Vitax or Maxicrop)
Humic/Fulvic acid product
Canna Boost or B'cuzz Coco Booster

That's 8 bottles and all you need, us UK folks aren't fond of spending more than we have to on nutes. The rest tend to be organic heads who use Biobizz, which is very popular for being so easy to produce top quality with.

I don't know many who use GHE, they tend to be the older more experienced heads who like to stick to what they know and have used for years.

Maybe it's indicative of a difference in disposable income between your average US grower and your average UK one, but it is a VERY hard sell to persuade a UK grower to spend the kind of money you need for something like AN Connoisseur or the 2+ program.

Holland is like the UK - folks are extremely reticent to spend any more than they have to for their nutes as they know that the stuff that's been on the market for years works very well and you really don't need to spend a lot of cash on nutes.

AN Conoisseur, 60-odd quid for the 2-litre A+B set, not sold many places in the UK, I don't know anyone who uses it:

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Canna A+B, 12 quid for the 2-litre set and has grown so much bud for so many people in the last 15 years that everyone knows how well it works.

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So like I say, a very hard sell to get us europeans to use expensive stuff. Who wants to shell out for all of this:

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when you only need this to get equally good results (with much less effort to mix it all up too)

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M

milehighmedical

I've always used foxfarm soil's with botanicare in the past, but this round I'm using the three-bag MSM FF mix and amending it with FF Peace of Mind dry fert and some perilite. It's really good stuff and I should be able to get through using just plain water. I'll probably pick up a bottle of liquid karma and throw a little bit in with every watering though. Then probably add some molasses when I need to. Just because... why not?

That would make this next round 100% organic. No PBP, no Cal-Mag...

Wish me luck... I don't see any issues with the mix. Should be solid.
 
my bad Abe, didn't mean to be rude. I'm just a big fan of the CANNA line, it's a great product I'm sure many will agree. you know what else work well is batanicare's pure blend(for flowering) and liquid karma for that organic touch. keep doinn what you do bro big ups , great thread. 100
 

dizzlekush

Member
holy cow, am i the only person that uses dyna gro here? all 16 essential elements people? 3X more concentrated than the average company? 10.3lbs a gallon, one bottle complete nutrient? 3-1-2 perfect ratio for grow? cheapest source of neem oil and potassium silicate on the market? How does miracle grow get 15 votes and Dyna zero? dude im so confused.
i use foliage pro in veg, foliage pro with Jacks Hydro 5-12-26 in first half of bloom, Bloom pro with jacks hydro 2nd half. i add Pro-tekt, cal-mag from botanicare, and cold processed seaweed extracts during all stages. this gives me insane amounts of Mg in bloom with the cal mag and the jacks, so far no negatives.
 
Ive used AN's Sensi Bloom with Big Bud, Overdrive, B-52, and Voodoo and it was/is amazing.

Just switched to Dutch Master Gold because AN was dropped from my shop of choice. Although I live in BC so getting AN straight from AN is usually the best anyways. 20% off and quick shipping

DM Gold seems good with the .27 add and whatnot, not too pricey, 5 bottles for flower stage if you skip the foliar program.... but I still kinda like AN's feeding schedule with using different bottles at different times, whereas DM Gold you us same bottles thru out whole flowering.
 
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