Quote Originally Posted by burnttoast
...Most of them seem OK, but I have a 3 gallon container of Fox Farm 'grow big' that seems to have spent too much time in the sun. It has a good amount of brown chunks on the bottom of the bottle. It looks like the chunks came from a single thin layer of material that was allowed to settle and harden at the bottom of the jug. They resemble thin flat rocks that crumble under pressure. The chunks are not water soluble.

My question of course is can I still use this stuff? what problems could I run into? Is it possible that it is just one ingredient in the solution that ill be OK without?
I'm pretty sure it's the salts in the nutes that settle and congeal. Happens to me with every quart I buy, after about 6 months of use. (only a quart or so of Grow Big per year, tho...not 3 gallons, lol) I keep using them till gone with no discernable problems as a result. If you shake the shit hard enough, and long enough, it breaks the chunks down, but I've never been able to un-congeal all of 'em, and I do not remove them.

Were I to get ahold of that much of it, I'd want to find-out if it's still good before use. Would recommend contacting Fox Farms, and asking them. :thumbsup:

Been meaning to ask them this myself, so I shot them (Fox Farms Nutes)an e-mail. Will post results if/when they answer.