Humboldt Nutrients: worth the money?

[Team Microbe]

Title says it all here, I'm debating between a TGA charge pack and Humboldt's Organic line.


Which to go with?


TGA soil would need to be cooked if I'm correct, but would be cheaper.

Humboldt's line would be ready to go when I receive it, but is more around $300.


*It's too cold to cook soil outside right now where I live, so if it's unsafe to do so indoors then TGA would be no good. Not sure yet if I'll be able to cook.

 

[Team Microbe]

Nobody yet?


it's TGA super soil vs. Humboldt organic nutrients



Go!

 

[Epiphyte]

Mixing soil can cost much more in the end.... No mix is perfect. Bottled nutrients with correct ph is much easier than all the possibilities that could happen with a soil mix... I mix my own and it took a while to figure out what, when, and why certain problems would happen and that learning curve can be much more costly

 

[Epiphyte]

I've also used and had friends use things like happy frog which can be too hot for some strain/ setups...

 

[TheCleanGame]

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[Team Microbe]

I suck at soil. It's difficult to match 'amended' soil exactly to each 'cut' of cannabis you're running. Over amended soil makes for unflushable cannabis.

That being said... MaxiBloom from GH is $15 for a 2.2lb bag and grows rockin cannabis. lol

How much did you budget for nutes again?

Keep it Clean!

$300

 

[TheCleanGame]

$300

That's an entire light or a fan and filter setup worth of budget there.

What most people fail to realize when they're beginning to grow cannabis is just how much information you're going to be exposed to. Until the grower understands how the plant grows and changes... it's suuuuper handy to use a drop-dead simple way to feed them. Using a single powdered nutrient vastly simplifies the number of variables to pay attention to and your learning curve with the plant is quicker.

In no way implying it can't/shouldn't be done with more complicated nutrients... just saying that the price paid for the nutrients isn't going to affect the quality in any significant way. So keep it simple to start with if you can.

Keep it Clean!

 

[Team Microbe]

That's an entire light or a fan and filter setup worth of budget there.

What most people fail to realize when they're beginning to grow cannabis is just how much information you're going to be exposed to. Until the grower understands how the plant grows and changes... it's suuuuper handy to use a drop-dead simple way to feed them. Using a single powdered nutrient vastly simplifies the number of variables to pay attention to and your learning curve with the plant is quicker.

In no way implying it can't/shouldn't be done with more complicated nutrients... just saying that the price paid for the nutrients isn't going to affect the quality in any significant way. So keep it simple to start with if you can.

Keep it Clean!

I've been growing for 7 years lol, but thank you for your concern.

I have 2 lights with a passive ventilation system set up in a 5x10 grow tent i just built from scratch w/ 2x4's and panda film. Have a Phresh Filter being pulled on by a Hurricane fan, they put me back $600 actually.

I have to correct you about the nutrients though, one-step powders lack a lot of things full-lines provide for the plants. I agree they're for the beginner, but I've been from soil to hydro to coco and back to soil (thanks to Teaming with Microbes - I HIGHLY recommend this book for any serious organic growers) so I'm looking to really get full potential out of my runs this year. Humboldt's Organic line is bad-ass. It provides everything an amended organic soil mix (super soil) would provide, but in a bottle-form giving you ultimate control of your garden really.

My beef with super soil is that each strain requires different feeding regimens, therefore how could one run the same soil-ratio'd mix with all his/her plants? They can't, which is why I feel like this is more for the breeder-type grower that is focused on one or two strains per year and can actually dial in that perfect ratio for those few strains that they actually run.

I'm running Critical Kush and Critical + (I'm an old-school skunk lover, so I rly love this strain bc it gives you that skunk taste but with that big bud yield if you find the right pheno!) plus a hand full of dank freebies, so Humboldt is really my main choice in bottled organics. So the price does matter, being that organics aren't cheap to make. It's not like they're synthetics ya know?

How long have you been growing?

 

[Folate]

I'm trying their Equilibrium (CalMg+): it has some interesting goodies in it, in addition to whats on the front cover.
I can stir 5ml into a gallon of H2O and a small percentage will fall to the bottom once the momentum from stirring has stopped. As with a few items I use to CYA, not sure if it makes a difference.
I'm hempy w/coco.
Folate

 

[TheCleanGame]

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