Nutrient help needed!!! Fox Farm during veg, Advanced Nutrients during flower???

Hello Canna Family,

Here's my dilemma. I normally use advanced nutrients during veg and flower. However, I'm in the 2nd week of veg on my current grow and need to make it to week 6 veg. I'm about to run out of advanced nutrients grow, micro, and bloom and don't have money to buy more. I do have some fox farm grow big though. I want to know if switching to fox farm for the remainder of the veg cycle will harm the plants? I basically want to know if I'll be okay using fox farm for the remainder of the veg cycle and switch back to advanced nutrients for the flower cycle? I'm thinking I may be able to as long as I keep my reservoir filled with plain RO water for a week. Let me know what you guys think?

I am using ebb and grow (htg supply big boy system). my reservoir is filled to 45 gallons with a 600gph air pump.

Check and compair the labels of the 2. The labels should have the exact percentage of what nutrients are in each product. Simple deduction should answer this question.

@gopher. Thanks for the reply. I am aware that I can do deduction. I was more worried about the chemical composition as to whether there would be some sort of incompatibility at all. Also, if it would be necessary to let the system flush out the Advanced nutrients that are already in the plant tissue for a week. I spent almost $400 on seeds and don't want to mess them up from running out of nutrients.

While I can totally get why you’d want to try to just switch to something else, the Advanced Nutrients products are supposed to be used together, no matter what anyone else has told you.

I tried that once – bad stuff.

I think that, like any nutrient company, AN probably takes a lot of time trying to develop products that work together. And if you use anything else, it MIGHT work, but is it really worth wasting your time and energy to find out if things are going to do what you want them to do?

Personally, I don’t want that to happen.

Stick with the same nutrients all throughout a grow.

That's what I would love to do but have to figure a way to come up with an extra $100 to get grow-micro-bloom gallon size. That would get me through the rest of veg and take me through all of flowering. I'll see what i can do over the next couple of weeks.

Cannabis Philsopher said:

That's what I would love to do but have to figure a way to come up with an extra $100 to get grow-micro-bloom gallon size. That would get me through the rest of veg and take me through all of flowering. I'll see what i can do over the next couple of weeks.

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If only Santa would bring you more nutrients....LOL

@decrimCA. That would be amazing if it were possible.

IMO if you are unsure of the effects it would have then all you are left with is to just flower early. Better to get something than to risk getting nothing

@Mc260377. Flowering early is not an option. LOL. I wish it was. I was able to do a budget and figure out exactly when I could afford to get some more AN. I should be good by the time flowering time is scheduled to be started. I originally wanted to know what I could do in case I couldn't afford the Nutes.

gopherbuddah said:

Check and compair the labels of the 2. The labels should have the exact percentage of what nutrients are in each product. Simple deduction should answer this question.

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That's a misconception. There are dozens if not more of different sources for any of the macro or micro nutrients. If you peed in a bottle there would be a nice high N value but it would be worthless to a hydroponic plant because it's not bioavailable. Just because two things have the same percentages of the same nutrients doesn't mean they're the same (doesn't mean they aren't, either). In many ways the NPK on a labels is pointless to even look at because unless you know what went into it to create those numbers you don't have any real clue what the functional NPK is as far as the plant is concerned. Great ratios made up by things the plant can barely absorb don't make a great nutrient.

But to the original question I would say this: if at all possible don't switch nutrient schedules on your plants. Any shock can stunt growth and stress the plants (and stress is a common cause of hermies). HOWEVER, if you can't afford to buy more nutes it's better to switch to FF to keep your plants fed. Some food is better than no food.