Fox Farm Hydro Nutes?

Are the Fox Farm brand hydroponic nutes ok to use in RDWC setup? I use their soil nutes in my soil grows but just got a RDWC system to try so was wondering if the hydroponic nutes is ok to use.

TIA

So long as it's free of organics, it'll work fine in a DWC setup.

As a general rule, it's MUCH more economical to buy dry hydro nutes like MaxiBloom rather than liquid bottles (water's expensive to ship).

Agree 100% with @Billy the Mountain.

I grow in hydro and used Fox, switched to Botanicaire, and then went to a dry fertilizer. The biggest issue was that, regardless of the pretty pictures on the label, they all provide the same 16 (18?) chemicals to the plants and, second, it doesn't make a lot of sense to pay FedEx to schlep a gallon of water+tiny amounts of chemicals.

On that basis, I switched to Jack's 3-2-1 a couple of years ago and haven't looked back.

They sell a variety of different sized bags so you don't have to buy a Costco-sized bag. I bought 25 pounds of Part A and a 25 pound bag of Part B and store them in Home Depot buckets + air tight lids. I'm 68 years old and suspect that I now have enough ferts for the rest of my life.

My cost breakdown:



That's $1.18 for 28 gallons of nutrient solution.

Results - excellent but, to be blunt, the biggest variable in the growing equation is the grower's ability to not dick things up.

Feed plants lightly, give them as much light as they can tolerate, and LTFA and the results are amazing.

The varieties of brand nutes is limited where I’m from and will have to import most of the brands i see being used. The Fox Farm is easy to get. The Jack Classic is available here also will just have to check the NPK numbers. I will have a look around to see what dry nutes are available in the plant stores. In the past i have imported the Botanicare brand liquid nutes and it was a little costly

Delps8 do you use the Jacks 3-2-1 the whole time during Veg and Flowering stages.

Thanks for your advice gents.

punit said:

The varieties of brand nutes is limited where I’m from and will have to import most of the brands i see being used. The Fox Farm is easy to get. The Jack Classic is available here also will just have to check the NPK numbers. I will have a look around to see what dry nutes are available in the plant stores. In the past i have imported the Botanicare brand liquid nutes and it was a little costly

Delps8 do you use the Jacks 3-2-1 the whole time during Veg and Flowering stages.

Thanks for your advice gents.

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I use the standard formulation from "drop to chop". I have used a "bloom booster"' twice, once in my early grows (could have been Fox or Botanicare, I don't recall) and then again last year. In both cases, it was a total PITA and I won't do it again.

I've attached a couple of papers that have proved helpful to me and below are some links to a website run by a PhD chemist who is the author of HydroBuddy.























If you read the highlighted section in the Bugbee paper, it will shed some light on the limitations of using EC.

Ok thanks for that info.