I’d like to be able to find some products that have multiple uses, to cut down on the number of products used/purchased. If CSL gives enzymes too, could it replace the barley? I also have a big ass bag of malted barley that I grind, and am curious if I could have spent that money more efficiently. Thanks.
When I last bought gallon jugs of AN 3-part it was almost $40 cheaper than the GH 3-part and when comparing apples to apples AN is a much better product than the GH. The others are too different to be a decent comparison other than they are a lot cheaper than both the AN or GH. I got a couple kilos of MegaCrop a few years ago and it seemed to veg the plants fine but did not flower to my satisfaction so I stopped using that.
I stand corrected. I was under the impression AN was more complex and expensive with their base nutes. and I guess I can't really fault them for selling a multitude of kinda weak/unnecessary supplements since GH does the same (is big bud necessary? or silica for that matter). I wonder if their salts are truly "better". I have used GH 3 part and it was pretty decent. Not sure about stability in hydro with them though. So having said all that, why the switch to organics?When I last bought gallon jugs of AN 3-part it was almost $40 cheaper than the GH 3-part and when comparing apples to apples AN is a much better product than the GH. The others are too different to be a decent comparison other than they are a lot cheaper than both the AN or GH. I got a couple kilos of MegaCrop a few years ago and it seemed to veg the plants fine but did not flower to my satisfaction so I stopped using that.
Where the expense comes in is all the supplements that you mostly don't ever need but there are suckers born every minute and evey company makes them and charges an arm and a leg for too so bitching about AN is a little one-sided.
All I used from AN is the 3-part and Big Bud. Some of the Rhino Skin for silica with DWC but I don't use that in potted plants. 3 gal of nutes and a 500g tub of BB powder for $200 and I've grown a couple hundred plants with it and have almost half the nutes left. Nutes are maybe 10% of my total expenses to grow. Power at 30+¢/kwh is what really costs.
I don't give my money to a-hole companies like GH who never once said their products were used for pot and when my buddy mentioned pot to the tech rep on a call he got hung up on. Those a-holes had paid shills badmouthing AN all over the web for years and a lot of AN haters bought it hook, line and sinker. Now that GH is owned by the Scotts, Monsanto, Hawthorne, Roots and now Bayer line of corporate rip-offs that's even more reason to use AN if only for the pH Perfect technology advantage. I've done over 50 DWC grows since '01 and once I never had to test pH again AN is the only hydro nutes I'll ever buy but I'm going all organic now so won't be needing any bottled nutes. Never checked pH using them in ProMix HP and grows always went great. I always use RO or distilled water too as our tap water from the dugout is 400+ppm and 8+pH.
AN is originally a Canadian independent company now manufacturing in the states too using better salts than GH by far so I don't mind paying for that.
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I seem to see you mentioning nectar from time to time. How do you approach such a dauntingly complex line of nutrients? and how do you justify the pricetag?
Using nectar is like if your plant was getting sun and growing on the side of a swamp. Just fresh decomposing goodies everywhere. Approaching it, started with the base line and added kept adding. Justifying it I can't really, it does give some extra flavor and quality, but it is way beyond super expensive. If you have money and your growing for you personally I would highly say give it a go. If you are growing for a profit your gonna give most of that to them lol
Many years back I did a bunch of research on the purity of various nutes and AN was basically the cleanest with GH a ways down on the list.
Jacks 5 12 26 is on Amazon. I think those r the numbers...
The water will have a max where it can not dissolve any longer. At that point things will settle and bond, making sands and chalksA question for you guys that may have used MegaCrop and had it go all mushy from absorbing moisture from the air.
Would it be OK to just add it all to some water to dissolve it and use it like a 1-part liquid fertilizer? I have about 1.5kg of it sitting on a shelf doing nothing and was thinking about using it up in the veggie garden next summer.
I'm pretty sure it would cause problems like precipitation of some of the minerals. When dry they don't combine but once in water and left in a concentrated state they probably would. Same issues with liquid nutes in different bottles so that kind of thing doesn't happen.
Maybe I should just dry it out in a warm oven and grind it up or take it to the dump on my next run and toss it in the area where the farmers dump all their chemical waste.
Hate to waste stuff.
As a retired chemist I'm aware of supersaturated solutions and would dilute it enough that it would have enough volume to dissolve everything that is soluble.
Still have to pay taxes and such when ordering from Amazon, I never would though.Jacks 5 12 26 is on Amazon. I think those r the numbers...
what kind of ragtag black market are you buying fertilizer from where you don't have to pay taxes????
The taxes are included when I buy from the local growshop, but if I order from Amazon I need to pay 24% extra, plus a small customs processing fee. It's very pricey buying anything american.
ahh, makes sense for international