You will like everything about it except the price. It's like $200 for a quart
What's actually in it?
You will like everything about it except the price. It's like $200 for a quart
Its your grow OVO .... but personally , i wouldn't be adding all kinds of things i've never used before on the word of others . ( nothing bad meant towards anyone !!! Had to throw that in there so ya'll know ) if you want to try new things thats great ! i do it myself ...... BUT , i would take 1 additive at a time & add it to a base nute that you know works well & how it performs all by itself before adding any one thing to it .Great, I'll test it out this run. Base of: PBP, CAMG, Silica, and Aquashield with additives: BloomBastic, Canna Boost, and YB Final.
You are just starting out in coco & theres alot to know about how to keep the coco Happy & keep the balances in check
There actually isn't much to know at all, dans.
I've got to say dans, with all due respect, the only things you really need in order to keep your coco in balance, so to speak, are properly buffered coco and properly balanced ferts.
I've been saying for a long time now that coco is in many ways easier than soil. There's not as much variability from batch to batch, and the actual watering is so much easier because coco does not become hydrophobic when it's dry. You also don't have to rely so much on reading your plants at first, and using ml per L guides as reference. The ec pen takes away so much of the guesswork. It's so straight forward.
Don't worry about that. Cannastart, or any first feed for that matter, should be roughly the same. In fact, even though I've always used starter feed for seedlings, I think any 1-bottle veg nutrient fed at 1.0ec will do the same thing. I ph with citric acid.
But thats what i'm trying to get at . all coco is not buffered right off the bat & not all nutrients are suitable to just straight feed to coco .I've got to say dans, with all due respect, the only things you really need in order to keep your coco in balance, so to speak, are properly buffered coco and properly balanced ferts.
i agree with this & you completely !!! but like i said ... all coco is not ready to use right out of the bag or from expanded brick . & thats why alot of people / newbies to coco have alot to learn about it . i knew nothing about coco or the cations when i started with it & didn't know which coco was good to use right away or which brand had to be flushed & prepped .The whole cation exchange/calmag/potassium release thing... it's the misapplication of knowledge and facts. Yes, coco can come with excessive amount of potassium, which will release gradually with every watering, but not one which has been properly washed and buffered. And yes, coco will lock and hold onto certain elements, but again, not one that's been properly washed, buffered, and expanded.
I believe a lot of these theories and beliefs come from a time when coco as a medium was quite a new thing and a lot of it was not up to today's standards. People are still living by those rules now, regardless of how much the coco market has changed over the past decade.
The option is there to buy good quality coco and good quality coco nutrients. Once you've got those two things, growing in coco is no more complex than growing in soil.
If it were me ...... i'd be using the V&B on 1 tray all by itself & another tray with your PBP regiment & add either bloomtastic or canna boost ..... not both on the same run .
Its your grow OVO .... but personally , i wouldn't be adding all kinds of things i've never used before on the word of others . ( nothing bad meant towards anyone !!! Had to throw that in there so ya'll know ) if you want to try new things thats great ! i do it myself ...... BUT , i would take 1 additive at a time & add it to a base nute that you know works well & how it performs all by itself before adding any one thing to it .
take that base nute & try 1 additive at a time per flower cycle . if you like the way it works .... keep it in your line up & next run .... try another additive . you go adding all kinds of shit in at once & things go haywire ..... which one caused the problems ???? see what i'm getting at ???
keep it simple brutha & you'll have alot less problems & alot less to figure out if shit does go wrong . dig it ???
If it were me ...... i'd be using the V&B on 1 tray all by itself & another tray with your PBP regiment & add either bloomtastic or canna boost ..... not both on the same run . try 1 first .... see how ya like it .... if you do & it works great ..... keep it & next run add another .
I understand that retro .... but like i said .... if he has a problem & has to narrow it down .... he has 2 things that could have caused it instead of 1 . thats all .... never said they were going to conflict .
thats why i recomend trying 1 additive at a time . in case theres a problem .... its easier to narrow it down if you only changed 1 thing in your feed regiment at a time .