[ChaChaChiba]

Hi great read here. Did I miss it or has anyone added eggshells for calcium? Is it a good idea/source?

[Hydro-Soil]

Originally Posted by ChaChaChiba

Hi great read here. Did I miss it or has anyone added eggshells for calcium? Is it a good idea/source?

There are other threads for that topic around here somewhere.

Assuming everything else is correct in the grow.... if your nutrients don't have the required calcium, you're going to have to supply it some other way.

IME... GH Maxibloom and GH Flora 3-part at 6/9 and 8/16 have enough calcium, even if you're using R/O water. Some strains will look like they need nitrogen.... simply add a TINY pinch of epsom salts per gallon, they'll green up nicely. Cal-Mag products will just F-up your nutrient profile.... don't do it.

Any nutrient profile that matches the Lucas Method profile.... can be used in R/O water without anything but epsom salts as a (sometimes) necessary additive.

Stay Safe!

[PHANTOM]

Hi guest,

I've just rebuilt an indoor grow room and am gonna hit a coco run following a successfull indoor soil grow that I wound up in 2008.

Good thread with lots of good advice.

Hope it goes well.

Peace.

PHANTOM.

[E.CoastCannabis]

Ive been using House & Garden with my coco for a few years now, I would personally recommend the A&B to anybody. The other micro-nutrients in the line are very good but some of them are expensive and are replaceable with other similar nutrients that aren't as much dough. They have a easy guide to follow for beginners and will make experienced growers happy as well. Hopefully that helped somebody out who was curious about it.

[Cannaloupe]

Originally Posted by E.CoastCannabis

Ive been using House & Garden with my coco for a few years now, I would personally recommend the A&B to anybody. The other micro-nutrients in the line are very good but some of them are expensive and are replaceable with other similar nutrients that aren't as much dough. They have a easy guide to follow for beginners and will make experienced growers happy as well. Hopefully that helped somebody out who was curious about it.

Hey ECC... do you use tap water with this stuff or RO??? any calmag???

thanks

[OH grower]

Originally Posted by pray4pistils

That guide recommends a 12/12 hour vegging schedule... Won't that lower the yield? I'm sticking with my 18/6, but to each his own.

dude you cant veg under 12/12 at least ive never heard of it. maybee autoflower plants but ive never messed with them so i dont know

[OH grower]

Originally Posted by ChaChaChiba

Hi great read here. Did I miss it or has anyone added eggshells for calcium? Is it a good idea/source?

sounds like a waist of time to me. if you are having issues with calcium defficensies just implement some brand of cal-mag into your feeding scedual

[sticky367]

i agree that Canna or House and Garden are solid A&B's

[HOVAH2.0]

iM thinkn bout adding air to bottom of my Coco buckets in form of airstones. These are 5gallon buckets and will be half full with water. This should lower the water requirements and effectively become DWC/coco... in Theory, onless someone has beat me to the punch and had success.. please chime in. Thanks in advance, Jesus of Bud landia (SF).

[Mr Twister]

Originally Posted by ChaChaChiba

Hi great read here. Did I miss it or has anyone added eggshells for calcium? Is it a good idea/source?

Great ask ChaCha....I was just wondering the same thing the other day. Just from remembering what my dad always used for his house plants. He always had a mason jar under the sink with egg shells. He could grow anything. He had a green pepper plant that he kept going for 8 years. Brought it in during winter and replanted it back out in the garden in spring and it only produced outside in summer.

I'm applying several horticulture memories from my childhood. Grandma had one hell of a garden and took cuttings from everywhere she seen a plant she liked, wrap that up in a paper towel, (which she ALWAYS had) and stick it in her purse. She used to steal them from places like the Dr's office, she was a real rebel but man she had a great garden.