Nute Line of choice ?

I’ve done some searching but can’t find too much recent stuff or much actual results/ after the fact.

Just curious what everyone in the hydro world is running these days for nutes?

I’m trying out HUmboldt Secret for a second run, seemed good enough the first round.

Been using that along with Awesome Blossoms, Cal Mag in flower. Then in veg trade the cal mag for the Micro from AN.


Are these poop? The results seem decent to me at least but have no idea what others run and how their results are differeing.

Obviously more than just nutes go into a grow, just wanting to see what else people were running with.

I’m in a 10 bucket( currently) rdwc jn flower room.
Vegging in rockwool cubes in trays with hydroton. Getting water/nutes usually daily or every other

Also was contemplating getting hydro guard.

Is there any benefit to using hydro guard over adding hydrogen peroxide to the res to keep them a bit cleaner ?

I like the GH trio line, its clean and does the trick, plants seem to like it and its decent priced compared to most
Hydroguard may be a little better than H2o2 but from ive been told and what ive read, H2o2 will serve the same purpose only for much much cheaper

Also Many are using HTH pool shock rather than h2o2 or hydroguard. Its the cheapest of the 3 options and a bag lasts forever apparently.

trapdevil said:

Is there any benefit to using hydro guard over adding hydrogen peroxide to the res to keep them a bit cleaner ?

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2 different styles: sterile vs beneficial bacteria. pick one, not both.

Hydroguard uses the same bacteria bacillus amyloliquefaciens that is in many other products like Tribus and Garden Friendly Fungicide. Can't be used with a sterile res as that will just kill the bacteria. Beneficial bacteria don't make for a clean res but they can improve plant health. Some have better luck with a sterile res, some have better luck with bennies.

GH Three Part with Calimagic is the best value for your buck when it comes to bottled nutes. Some like the Jacks, other like Megacrop. If on a budget then the dry salts are the way to go.

Renfro said:

GH Three Part with Calimagic is the best value for your buck when it comes to bottled nutes. Some like the Jacks, other like Megacrop. If on a budget then the dry salts are the way to go.

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this is my preferred, tried a few others with no real differences. I'll probably switch to dry once I use up my current stock. I run bennies, so growers recharge + hydroguard.

Maxibloom

just picked up a gallon of gh trio so im sticking with that for a while, now just need to decide to run sterile or bennies.

my first rdwc and i think im leaning towards bennies

Sterile. H202 to pool shock for the win

Some find running sterile works for them and some find running beneficial bacteria works. And some just don't have luck with DWC regardless of what they try. Perhaps strain is a variable that is often overlooked as well.

I suggest going with the sterile route first because it keeps the system cleaner and when using pool shock it's so cheap it's not even a cost to be concerned with. A pound of pool shock is a few bucks and will last the average home grower for a very great many years.

If the sterile route fails to produce healthy roots for you regardless of maintaining proper nutrient temperatures then beneficial bacteria may be the way to go.

When I grew in DWC I used beneficial bacteria, I was using Orca at the time. Running sterile just didn't work for me and I was even trying the pool shock at 8 PPM. That said, the strain I was running was Kandy Kush and she just loved living the life in DWC with the beneficial bacteria. I tried running an OG Kush and a few other strains in the room with the Kandy Kush on a run and wow what a big difference. While the Kandy was just trucking right along the OG Kush was having issues with root rot. I didn't try running the OG in a sterile setup as I didn't have time to play around losing crops. When people burnt out on the Kandy Kush so did I on the DWC.

My point being, what works for one may not work so well for another so always be open minded and willing to make changes as needed to find your Goldilocks zone. I have found this to be true with many growing variables. pH being the biggest. Some growers find their plants like a pH of say 6.0 in coco where others find 6.5 works for them even when growing the same cut in the same brand of coco. In the end it is up to you to determine what works for you.

1ml/gal Armor Si Silica
4ml/gal Cali-Magic
3ml/gal Florablend
1ml/gal Floralicious Plus
2ml/gal Flora Micro
3ml/gal Flora Bloom
1ml/gal Flora Grow
Last 4-5 weeks of flower, add 2ml/gal KoolBloom.
That comes to 800 to 900 ppm and 1000 to 1100ppm midway. This is for a 700ppm conversion.
I hand feed Recharge and Mammoth P daily mixed in RO water
as another poster said, don't sterilize if you're using bennies.

Just had my best grow ever using NPK RAW

GH Maxi Grow and Maxi Bloom. Floralicious plus as a growth stimulant. 35% H202 in your reservoir at the rate of 3ML/gallon for sterility. Nothing else is needed unless you enjoy wasting your money. Happy growing

Gh trio and gff .

Therrion said:

1ml/gal Armor Si Silica
4ml/gal Cali-Magic
3ml/gal Florablend
1ml/gal Floralicious Plus
2ml/gal Flora Micro
3ml/gal Flora Bloom
1ml/gal Flora Grow
Last 4-5 weeks of flower, add 2ml/gal KoolBloom.
That comes to 800 to 900 ppm and 1000 to 1100ppm midway. This is for a 700ppm conversion.
I hand feed Recharge and Mammoth P daily mixed in RO water
as another poster said, don't sterilize if you're using bennies.

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Recharge wouldn't eat the Mammoth P? IDK.

hybridway2 said:

Recharge wouldn't eat the Mammoth P? IDK.

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No, but I switched from Mammoth P to Tribus, because they kept scratching off the manufacturer date.

Therrion said:

No, but I switched from Mammoth P to Tribus, because they kept scratching off the manufacturer date.

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Gotta watch that date too. My Mammoth P bottle is a few yrs old n never really got use it. Shame cuz its a big bottle n not cheap.
I asked cuz i was under the impression that Re-Charge was that Piranha bactria that eat up everything.
Hate to see someone cancel out at that cost.

Renfro said:

GH Three Part with Calimagic is the best value for your buck when it comes to bottled nutes. Some like the Jacks, other like Megacrop. If on a budget then the dry salts are the way to go.

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Which nutes do you use yourself?

Keesje said:

Which nutes do you use yourself?

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@Renfro
And additives?
Tell me through pm if ya want pls.
Don't mind compensating for valuable information either. Thnx!
I ask because i see so many tempting additives by GH. How could you pass them all up? Figured you'd be using a Floralicious or something?

Keesje said:

Which nutes do you use yourself?

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GH 3 Part, Calimagic and Armor Si (optional)