id love too see your results from AN
AN kind of ticks me off. And I wrote a bunch of nasty things about them, but I edited it out because I'm a refined gentleman... with a pot farm.
I like using AN's carboload in my earthworm tea along with molasses, I like how many different sugars are in it, normally I would use a product made by a local and support him, it is basically a discount version of carboload but in a dry formula, I think it's a little more complex too. I don't pay attention too much, I just know I like them both. I would have never bought the Carboload, it was gifted to me by a vendor. I didn't really feel like listening to him, but he was all riled up because I was an avid H&G farmer, so he wanted to get me stuck on AN. Luckily I still have the free sample, I don't know if I will ever pay for a product and support them.
As long as somebody works hard and loves their garden they should be able to get great results, whether it is H&G, AN, Fox Farm, TechnaFlora, Botanicare (CNS17), Heavy 16, or one of the many GH line ups, they should get great results! All be it, I've never been able to pull the results with Fox Farm as I have with the rest of those, but I'm sure I wasn't understanding their entire product line well enough.
I've seen some impressive results with a 25 dollar Grotek starter kit, no lie, it made some dank stank! But I love my H&G and that is why I stay with it. I haven't used pH adjusters in months. My pH is ALWAYS perfect, as long as I use their entire line up it is always perfect, and my plants always preform. Last time I had a sick plant it was my fault for purchasing the wrong calibration solution for my PPM meter, I purchased .5 factor instead of .7 factor, and I have 4 plants recovering from an N deficiency. My flavor is great, my nugs couldn't be any denser, they get so dense they have to grow pillars on top of pillars of calyx's on top of the nug. It's not foxtailing from heat or light stress, it is the bud building itself a crown. My buds know they rule. haha. It's the shooting powder that gives that effect, an amazing product!
To be honest, it is rare that a fertilizer fails the farmer, the farmer fails the fertilizer. The few times I could blame the fertilizer is Fox Farm in DWC, it just doesn't preform like it should, at least as far as I've seen, I've seen it kill a grow or to over night, mainly because it was mixed with fertilizers that didn't play well together (General Organic CaMg+) I still don't see the vigor I should get in cannabis from Fox Farm in general. My vegetables and roses love it though.
But my buds personally speak for H&G, and most people agree that the money I spend on my fertilizer is justifiable by my end results. And at this point it's paying for itself.
Lately I've been following along with some greenhouse grows, and even though it isn't flower season yet, the Maxsea product seems to be extremely popular with greenhouse growers this year, and I'm seeing some beautiful veg results. I didn't ever expect to see vigor like that out of an all purpose fertilizer. They also have a bloom formula.
Oh! And Happy Father's Day to all the hard working father's.
Kids; have you called your fathers yet?
