This post will probably drag on longer than the Twighlight saga so i'll get started. I'd say my first three grows were pretty successful. All over an lb with 600w hps Readygro and CES nutes. Sometime during the final weeks of my last grow I read an artical on Kushman Veganics which gave me an instant woodie for plant based nutes. I wanted to try the method my next go-round so I go to my local hydro shop and ask if they have anything plant based. He walks me over to the House&Garden section and starts pitching Aqua Flakes(which they had a surplus of now that I think about it). The clerk starts telling me how great it is, how he uses it, how it's not even comparable to CES cause "it's a whole different beast" blah blah blah. Tells me it'll work in a coco dtw system when I ask then convinces me the entire line is necessary because it's the only way to change the formulation for bloom. Anyway, I walk out with the full monty. 2.5 gals each A-B and all the additives to the tune of $420 exactly. What a coincidence. He must have seen my fat pocket when I walked in.
I get the nutes home and run them as per his "bomb recipe" and after harvesting a mere nine oz of fluffy foxtail buds that never swelled from twelve deficient plants, I did a little research. Come to find, Aqua Flakes is soft rock phos based and designed for recirculating hydro. I had been had. I do have one good thing to say thoe. The oil content was good, which lead me to believe H&G could still be good stuff.
I have been trying to figure out how to if at all possible make the Aqua Flakes compatible with coco since I have over two gals A-B left and some additives. I know from info on the H&G website that they drasticly under claim the percentages on their guarenteed analisis for lame reasons and dont even have enough info listed on the GA to appear complete. This makes it next to impossible for me to feel comfortable trying to reformulate using a nutrient calculator.
I would love to not get totally screwed on this deal and be able to use the rest of the nutes with success. Are there any botanical geniuses out there that can help me with my problem?
Thanks for any and all replies.
Future sig... If it ain't broke...
I get the nutes home and run them as per his "bomb recipe" and after harvesting a mere nine oz of fluffy foxtail buds that never swelled from twelve deficient plants, I did a little research. Come to find, Aqua Flakes is soft rock phos based and designed for recirculating hydro. I had been had. I do have one good thing to say thoe. The oil content was good, which lead me to believe H&G could still be good stuff.
I have been trying to figure out how to if at all possible make the Aqua Flakes compatible with coco since I have over two gals A-B left and some additives. I know from info on the H&G website that they drasticly under claim the percentages on their guarenteed analisis for lame reasons and dont even have enough info listed on the GA to appear complete. This makes it next to impossible for me to feel comfortable trying to reformulate using a nutrient calculator.
I would love to not get totally screwed on this deal and be able to use the rest of the nutes with success. Are there any botanical geniuses out there that can help me with my problem?
Thanks for any and all replies.
Future sig... If it ain't broke...