So after being out of commission for about 5 months I am finally getting back into doing my favorite thing in the whole world to do. You all can guess at what that is. I am forever banishing Advance Nutrients and going to give Dyna Gro a couple runs. I run hydro and after alot of reading Dyna Gro is my choice for a complete base nutrient without the need of multiple supplements to grow a healthy crop.
So a little background on my experience with Advance Nutrients for all you who are curious about the title. I have used AN nutes exclusively for 2 years and my overall experience has been fair at best. I can say I have grown some quality product with decent yields but I cant say that I have ever had a healthy crop from start to finish. There always seem to be a deficiency or over fertilization problem somewhere along the road. I have used the 3 part, Sensi and Connoisseur along with most of their supplements excluding of few of their outrageously priced beneficial products such as piranha and tarantula. I only ran 3 different strains perpetual so my grows were dialed in. I broke all of their nutrients down in order to find the proper ratios but could never find it. I realized I had to keep purchasing additives to correct this or that and it pissed me off when I realized this was the point lol. I was to deep and had to much time and money invested to switch nutrients during that time but now I am starting from scratch. I almost purchased the new Ph Perfect line but then I started thinking about how I got sucked in last time and I was NOT going down that road again.
The Strain:
As of now I am flowering some dirt plants that I took clones from to sex them out. They have been flowering for 8 days now and should be showing sex soon and then I can proceed with my rooted clones. The strain is supposedly a medical grade from Washington that has been grown by some old timers outdoors for years around here. It made it through the drought with no additional water so one thing for sure it is a strong breed. Not sure how the indica/sativa mix is yet. I havent snapped any pics of my current setup but I will as soon as they are sexed. For now I will give some pics of my AN grows.
Nutes:
Dyna Grow & Bloom, Magpro, KLN, Rhino Skin (Protek was out)
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Equipment: All on hand but wont use both 1000w until enough plants are ready. Might throw a 400w MH in with the HPS to mix it up a bit. All was recently purchased from ebay, amazon, Lowes and Hydro store for around $1000.00 including all the little stuff you dont realize you need until after you spent all your money.
2 - 1000w magnetic HPS ballasts w/ eye hortilux bulbs (Flower)
2 - 400W MH ballasts with cheap bulbs (Veg)
1 - 4 bulb 32w 4' fixture, some T12s and cfls for cloning and early veg
Air Pumps, Stones and Air line
Oakton PTTester 35 (PH and PPM Combo) .7 conversion
Hana Ph cheapo
I have an open floor plan that I can make bigger or smaller in a few minutes so I think I will be experimenting with Ebb & Flow along with running coolers for dwc.
I have a 2'x3' tray, 396 gph submersible pump and Ebb fitting kit. I am not a big fan of rock wool and have a shit ton of hydroton so Im working a on a few ideas as we speak. Looking for simplicity and as little as maintenance as possible this go around and Ebb and Flow seems to offer that so Im gonna work into it but stick with what I know for now.
Well thats about it and I will get some updated pics in the next few days when I get stuff cleaned up and plants show sex. Here is a few pics of my previous grows using AN.
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Well you may be right! Just have to wait and see wont we.
