tyke1973
Well-Known Member
If you are reading this and have been growing for a while or just started then this could be well worth the read,I have used most of the nutrient package's on the market untill my last grow then i decided to give advanced a go i have always shyed away from advanced because of the slagging it gets on most of the growing forums.Most of the slagging is to do with the price,so like i say i gave it a go the last grow the strain was blueberry 600hps in a tube.By useing the cool tube this had cut the overhall size of the crop down by a good bit because cool tube's 100% take away a good ammount of lumans from the light been used,i would go has far has to say that a 600 hps will be taken down to a 400 hps in a normal bat wing reflector so avoid cool shades and opt for the bigger cool hoods where possible.I'm not saying cool tubes don't have there place in growing because they do but not in mine any more just bought a cool hood and the light intencity is far more bright.Back to the nutes i was useing sensi a and b in a soil grow it can be used in hydroponics or soil there is no need to ph it is ph perfect but i always check to make sure but it has always been spot on ph wise.The mother plant's are kept on a 5ml per litre of a and same b with 1 drop of superthrive per litre,this take's the ppm's to around 800 and the mothers love it.The clone's was started on nothing more than water has i always do apaert from soaking the cubes in sensi a/b bloom yes bloom it has been shown that clone's like p/k in there root development stage,they have legs showing within 7 10 day's by day 14 0f been in the propagator the clone's have realy good root structure and can be put into small pots and started on a low 300 ppm's for the 1st week of growth after this i grad build up to 5 ml over the next 2/3 week i flower at 1 ft just because i realy don't have the space for monster plants plus when you weigh all the time's up by vegging longeryou can do less crops per year so you may has well do a few less and flower at around 1/1/2ft tall slowly rais the nutes[veg]up too 5ml per litre around week 3 of veg by this time the plants will be shooting up.Once they reach 1/12 ft i flipped em to 12/12off but i always flush with water ph of 6.5 let the major part of the water run of in the bath then add the 1st set of flowering nutes on the same day this ammount of water will not hurt the plants at all has long has you let them dry in the final week of vegging.I started them on 300 ppm's on the 1st /2nd week but i also added bud blood during this time you can get this in small packets just enougth for the 2 feeds,i only water 1 a week i like the plant's to dry out this produce's good root structure.At week 3 stop with the bud blood and move over to dr hornsby's big bud and the sensi a/b ppm's around 600 till week 4 you will be ammazed at the size of the buds at such a young age if you have never used advanced before like i did unreal.At the end of week 4 you want to be on the magic 1800 ppm's,At the end of week 4 i flipped them onto overdrive instead of the big bud but maintained the same ppm's 1800.The final flush was done at the end of week 8 and water ph of 7.0 was just fed for the last week to get rid of any of the nasty's that remained in the soil.I normaly pull 5 oz dry per plant min 7/8 max but i got a min of 12 a max of 14 of a plant flowered at 1/1/2 ft great stuff give it a go i swear you will not look back.All the nutes that i have mentioned sound alot money wise but i found 1 small sensi a and b veg will do a good few grow's or keep mothers happy for a while it's only 16 english pound compare this to say vitalink or canna and there is not that much differance,bloom is the same price £16.dr hornsby's big bud is about £22 and this will last at least two grow's if useing a small ammount of plant's i did 6.Overdrive is the same price but this will last several grow's and it realy does put the plant's into overdrive i have never seen crystal's like what was on the blueberry plants thick crystals the smell alone nearly put me on my back lovely jubbly.So if we just recap on that i got on average 7 ounce dry per plant extra to my normal yeild this speaks for it's self.Also realy a ph or ppm metre is not realy needed if you go by the back of the container it will come up the same reading but take into account the ppm of yr water before adding nute's.Any new grower's out there are struggleing to get the weights they want then you must try this but no matter what nute package you are useing make sure that your room is keyed 1st by this i mean good air intake good air outake temp's around 25/28 lights on no lower than 15 lights off and you will produce some pukka stuff that will have yr friends full of envy.............tyke///
