WHATS YOUR FAVORITE NUTRIENT COMBO??

Whats up guys, sitten here researching some stuff and was just curious to know what everyones favorite nutrient combos are?? I mean all kinds, root feeding foilar whatever.. Me personally I love what i use now, I use the 3 part Advanced Nutrients (grow,micro,bloom) the advn nuts Bud Candy for that smooth sweetish taste and their Big Bud mixed together with a few ML's of Liquid Karma.. But my by far FAVE to use are The Homboldt Countys Own solutions, their Purple Max & Snow Storm Ultra (which i know is basically the same stuff just the ssu doesnt turn ur shit purple) that legit make my bud sites look like snow lol, their Gravity for the nice dense budz and their Bushmaster which IMO is a god send to anyone with height/ceiling issues! All their products i know are a bit pricey but they work at least for me they do lol.. I been using this combo for about 3 grows now and so far (knock on wood) been having pretty awesome results.. My last grow I harvested off of only 2 (but big) girls 18.5 dried cured ready to smoke ounces and the quality was UNREAL i swear ta god lol.. SO what does everyone else out there got going on???

future indoor grower would love to hear more about nutrients

my outdoor is feedin on some MG tomato food, molasses and schultz cactus fertilizer cheap as you can go

Fox Farm Ocean Forest and water. A small dose of BloomBastic at 21 days in flower. Buds as big as my arm

welcome back WW.

How do we know if these exotic blends of nutrients are actually producing the nice buds and how much of it is simply genetics? I'm just saying how do we know just using blue MG for veg and the purple MG for flowering isn't good enough? The MG has a 30% rating for phosphate and the organic suff I was given is 15%. Which is better?

Hahaha so glad u brought that point up Purple Daddy bc I have always wondered that! My next grow I just ordered some Green house seed co White Widow and im going to grow 3 as usual and 2 COMPLETELY organic well not even organic lol im not going to give them anything but PURE water so we'll see! But I can testify ta one thing is the first grow i tried the Purple Max from homboldt countys own on I only used it on one girl just to experiment with and it made a HUGEEE difference in crystal development like crazyy i swear it was so much stronger but idiot me mixed all the buds together at harvest so i couldnt really try one then the other know what i mean?

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Originally Posted by Purple Daddy

How do we know if these exotic blends of nutrients are actually producing the nice buds and how much of it is simply genetics? I'm just saying how do we know just using blue MG for veg and the purple MG for flowering isn't good enough? The MG has a 30% rating for phosphate and the organic suff I was given is 15%. Which is better?

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Genetics doesnt mean shit unless you are half way competent. Any idiot can grow good weed, the plants grow themselves. It takes a skilled grower to achieve a huge yield and make marijuana truely "dank".


What exactly do you mean by "exotic blends of nutrients"? When i use hydroponics, House and Garden is the only way illl ever grow. The PH is buffered really well and hardly ever needs adjustment. I see no burning and its by far the highest Quality plant food ive ever come across. Its specfically designed and manufactured for recirculatory hydroponic systems. You cant just throw some MG in a 55 gallon res and grow some plants.
If im doing a soil or soilless grow, Humbolt nutrients is the way i go. It focuses more on feeding the growing media, than feeding the plant(which is the main principle in true organic gardening)

Regardless of what your stance is on expensive nutrients, as a human we all know eating healthier, more wholesome, will result in better health. I would assume plants are no different. Go to the cannabis cup and find out who uses miracle grow. NO ONE!

MG is made using the cheapest and crappiest ingredients they can find. If it were a prostitute, it would be the 70 year old crackhead bum trying to sell her body on a street corner. Ive used both and personally, the difference is between night and day.

Some people make the expensive nutes sound waaaaaay more expensive than what they really are.... A 1liter bottle might run you 40bucks but that same 1liter bottle recommends a small dosage at a time.... Depending on the size of your garden, that bottle will last you at least a year....

So for me, who was spending 300bucks a month on meds, a $40 dollar bottle actually seemed cheap, considering how long it's going to last.... Now I can save those 300 per month and have all the nugs I need, and then some.... However I do have 8 of these $40 bottles....

So looking at the bigger picture, even though I'm using expensive Advanced Nutrients, I'm still saving a ton on having to buy my own meds....

Now, if you were to know a few people who also had/have recs, and you trust them, hook them up with the excess and before you know it, you are being paid to grow.... Might not be enough to make a living but enough that it reimburses you for your growing expenses....because not everyone can grow med grade....

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MG is made using the cheapest and crappiest ingredients they can find. If it were a prostitute, it would be the 70 year old crackhead bum trying to sell her body on a street corner. Ive used both and personally, the difference is between night and day.

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crackheads dont live to be 70 lol

MG is made using the cheapest and crappiest ingredients they can find. If it were a prostitute, it would be the 70 year old crackhead bum trying to sell her body on a street corner. Ive used both and personally, the difference is between night and day>>>>>>

Yeah, but it works well! Go into any garden shop and there are 100 different kinds of options, for a beginner they can't really go wrong using miracle grow! It's inexpensive and it works!

Miracle grow also contains urea nitrogen...correct me if i am wrong, but i thought i read that this cannot be compeltely flushed out of the plant.

Absoluetly without a doubt in the Nutrient world at least in my opinion you get what you pay for 4 sure! The homboldt county's usualy run anywhere from 25 ta 45 buks for the smallest bottle but (at least for me) lasts well over a year so i dont see how you can possibly go wrong with investing some money that inturn will pay off 10 fold..

Properly ph'd water.

The Fox Farms Trio. Pretty-much to their instructions on the website. (not the bottle directions, which I believe assumes use as a stand-alone nutrient instead of a nutrient system) If in FFOF soil, use WAY less and sneak-up on a maximum if so inclined. I know WW grows great shit with his system, so don't discard it as too minimalist. More is hardly ever better in growing cannabis.

A quality potting soil of consistent mix and ph. I recently started using FF Ocean Forest, which is ph buffered and gives the plant pretty much all it needs. I'm using way less of the trio, but I did find myself thinking the plants could use a little bump of nutes during the growth phase.

Soil Syrup (humic acid) at half recommended dose, for after the monthly flush. (once of nutrient age through to harvest)

Unlulphured molasses (Grandma's, Brer Rabbit...) from mid-flower stage till harvest. Excellent source of carbs, iron, calcium and magnesium. Go easy on nutes while using it.

Ok, I'll bite, bored right now anyhow.

Fox Farms Ocean Forest on a regime that includes repotting about once a month into the next size up pot... 4", 1/2 gal, 1.5 gal, and 3 gal pots
At 21 days in flower Bloombastic 1/2 ml per plant. Repeat in one week. DO NOT REPEAT again.
Molasses once or twice thru the entire grow, maybe.
PH'd tap water ... fresh without offgassing.

The BloomBastic is a bulking agent, one of many that could be used, very high P&K content.

IF I NEED to bolster N at any time I use dry powdered bat quano. Very rare, I am still on the same 1 qt bag I bought 5 years ago and only half way into it.

Attachment 277584Attachment 277585For veg I use House and Garden aqua flakes at the recommended dose. I also innoculate the media with "Great white" every other week to make sure my benefiecials are maintaining healthy populations. I also like to foliar feed with a product called dark energy(its basically fish hydrolysate, which is a higher quality form of fish emulsion).

1st week of flowering i use bushmaster to jumpstart flowering and control stretch. If your worried about stretch, grab yourself some bushmaster and it will solve your problem.

2nd week of flowering i give no additives other than Humbolt honey(food for my beneficials) and my aqua flakes base formula.

3rd-4th week I use advanced nutrients big bud and humbolt honey( a fancy hydroponic form of molasses) to plump my buds up in earlier flowering.

5th week I use House and Garden's Top Booster(a product that forces the plants to finish blooming). Ive used it many times and i dont know how or why it works, but the plants reaaaallllly start to grow resin after i use this stuff.

6th-finish ill use A product called PeaK which is a late flowering additive and hardener. It adds the quality to my buds that im looking for. The last week before harvest i cut off all nutrients and use plain Ph'd water until i feel the plants are ripe enough.


This is in a hydroponic system in which the plants only get what i give to them. FFOF is a heavily amended soil that has about a monthes worth of nutrients already packed in. A minimilist approach would be appopriate because the plant has access to nutrients at the right rates at the right times. If i gave my hydroponic plants plain water and a little bit of gauno here and there, my garden wouldnt last 3 weeks.

Personally i like to be a little more exact with my plants nutrition. Some tend to take the hippy approach(just give them some water and mollasses duuuude, let nature do its thiing), and some tend to take the scientific approach(Give them nutrients and oxygen in amounts that worth be virtually impossible to do in soil) Its all a matter of opinion and strictly depends on your own growing environment.

I use all advance nutes, b52 iguana grow, bloom, big bud, bud ignitor,bud candy, rhino skin, piranha, tarantula, voodoo juice sensi cal mg. Started with the basics n kept getting better results as I added extras. (The more expensive microbials) now I get 6-9 o's on plants from 4-6 foot. Easy to use and lasts longer than u thank.

I know everyone has different thoughts about any and everything! Here's a bit of info I'm able to contribute..

I use Botanicare.
Grow
bloom
calmag
hyroplex
That not worth a crap! Snake oil "Superthrive" 10 drops per gallon of ph'd water.

There are several recipes that would work for folks! This is what I'm comfortable with! Use them every watering with no ill affects! But the proper way to water is feed/water/water or water/water/feed or water/feed/water.I would'nt think it could be any simpler than that! Never a screw up if you use your nutes properly! Like ... Saying to yourself "since they ain't had no food in 2 waterings,I'll double the amount to make them grow faster!"

Not!! Your sure to end up with problems that will take weeks to reverse.Where will that leave ya if you are on a schedule or just need meds?

Just leavin' all ya'll a KISS! Keep It Simple Stupid! Not calling anyone stupid! KISS is a recipe for success!

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