LOL , hey u live and u learn.
u know ive been going at it for now like 3 years without using bud blood... actually i dont use any of the additives, ive come to think that alot of AN additives are just a marketing scheme as tghere the most expenive.. i mean im sure the help someway or form but very minimally.
I have found getting to know your strain and your room is much more important then some fancy additives, all i use is micro , grow, bloom, with some b to keep there vigur and health.... And i have had better results now then back then when i was using the whole line of AN. But who knows maybe thats just me
I have a good level of communication with a Professor of Plant Biology and Genetics which has done studies on Cannabis. Although this is no longer his priority, plants in general have the same base needs.
I have done some research on Plant Tissue Cultures and it proves how hormones can make a different in plant growth. With that being said, alot of people forget Advanced Nutrients is based in Canada and.... it's seems they get away with putting certain hormones in their products that U.S. based nutrients lines are unable to.
I agree some of there base stuff is just as "good" as a cheaper product, but the Bud Blood, Big Bud, and Overdrive all have a special set of auxins, cytokins, and other plant hormones that plants benefit from.
Ohh, and their JumpStart rocks. I was cloning with Straight water, after using JumpStart I can tell you, it works. The days were reduced by 3-5 and my success rate/percentage went up 30%. (I am getting closer to 90% now, as apposed to just over 50%. There is obviously rooting hormone in it. This of course is coming from a cutting that was only originally dipped with rooting hormone, then given water as a foliar, with no nutes.
I also saw a Case Study which tested the levels of N - P - K in cannabis throughout it's flowering stage and the amount of P is not as high as people think. The "Bud Blasters" out there with a huge 0 - 50 - x rate is not good. It seems that Advanced Nutrients and House and Garden are the only two nutrients lines (that I am aware of) that makes sense of this and provides a low P rate, and higher K rates... It also proved that plants need Nitrogen during Veg.
I have actually burned the shit out of plants with Supernatures Bud Blaster (1-52-31) and even Humboldt Nutrients Big Up (0-33-2).
I will be honest, I have not attempted to prove or disprove this logic, but it makes sense. I used 50% of the recommended values on both occasions, and both fried my crops. I don't forget it could have been combined logics, but seeing the Lab Results of N - P - K of plants during the flowering stage made a believer out of me.
I am actually running a Case Study on VHO and Colossal Bud Blast from Advanced Nutrients. I am doing both, then both with Dutch Master Penetrator.
https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/231124-case-study-vho-colossal-bud.html
I have some plants in Flowering right now, but haven't decided if I wanna do a case study on them. I just flipped 12/12... I am gonna use Big Bud and Overdrive, but was thinking about taking a couple plants and doing Shooting Powder instead of Overdrive. Haven't decided yet.