collective gardener
Well-Known Member
Great post. Thanks for taking the time to do the test AND document it.
I, too, went all out early in my growing life on nutes. Did the AN thing a few years back cause I truly thought they may have been onto something. Not so much.
I've used GH 3 part for around 15 years, and recently switched to Cutting Edge 3 part with a single Mag/Sulf additive. I hang with quite a few commercial growers and the Cutting Edge seems to be the most popular, with GH picking up the slack.
I hope some of the newer growers read this. It's so much more important for them to concentrate on getting the atmosphere and canopy shape right, than worrying if they have the right additive. Most worry more about nutes cause there's more nute advertising than atmosphere controls and canopy management. Yet, the grower with the right canopy will out perform the grower with a poor canopy every time regardless of what nutes are used. I visited a grow several years back cause a guy wanted to know if he was using his nutes right. When I walked in the room was 93 f, and the humidity 80%. Yet, he wanted to know if he should be using nute bottle 13 or nute bottle 14.
I, too, went all out early in my growing life on nutes. Did the AN thing a few years back cause I truly thought they may have been onto something. Not so much.
I've used GH 3 part for around 15 years, and recently switched to Cutting Edge 3 part with a single Mag/Sulf additive. I hang with quite a few commercial growers and the Cutting Edge seems to be the most popular, with GH picking up the slack.
I hope some of the newer growers read this. It's so much more important for them to concentrate on getting the atmosphere and canopy shape right, than worrying if they have the right additive. Most worry more about nutes cause there's more nute advertising than atmosphere controls and canopy management. Yet, the grower with the right canopy will out perform the grower with a poor canopy every time regardless of what nutes are used. I visited a grow several years back cause a guy wanted to know if he was using his nutes right. When I walked in the room was 93 f, and the humidity 80%. Yet, he wanted to know if he should be using nute bottle 13 or nute bottle 14.