Mazar i Shariff
Active Member
A member on here sent me a msg the other day in regards to nutrients, and I figured due to the effort I put in that email that I might as well copy & paste it for others to see and use for their own benefit ...
Members Q:
"hello just wanted to say nice grow you have a nice green house...
My question is how do you go about mixing so many nutes? do you get tired of it?
I really wanting to know about the iguana juice, I want to give it a try but would like to hear feed back from someone who has actually used it....? Is the iguana juice you base nutes?"
My A:
"Thank you for complimenting the GH!
No, I don't get tired of having so many nutes. I actually really enjoy doing my own mixing, as I have a keen eye for identifying all the various nutrient defeciencies and find that it allows me to hone in on their exact health & requirements, and feed accordingly. If my plants are lush, with ideal quantities of Nitrogen, Phos, & Potash (NPK), and just come across some micro nutrient defeciencies, rather than add an all-in-one, I can now add that nutrient only to my plant. The reason why this is good, is that if all your other levels are in the ideal range, and you use an all-in-one to try to fix one problem, you will find that the other levels that were once ideal are now way TOO HIGH. So what was once a cal-mag defeciency or something, could now be a Nitrogen burn and lock out your plants, stunting growth & causing stress that can increase chances in males & hermaphrodite plants.
I've had too much experience in my earlier years in burning with strong chemical formulas, and have also found in my research that these products can also be to blame for harsh & unwanted flavors in cannabis when used at too high of a dose (which for many newbies, is ALWAYS too high). So I wanted to take the advice of growers who have been in the game for between 10 to 30 years, and see what they recommended. It all came down to ORGANICS. While an organic nutrient is less readily available to a plant than synthetic, there is still plenty that can be absorbed on the spot when you feed due to the the fact that they have already been broken down to liquid form. But this is also good, because the slow release prevents you from burning your plants if you actually give too much, and also allows your soil to stay fertile n require less frequent feeding than hydroponics, where you are feeding multiple times a day, or aeroponics, where the roots are being misted 24/7.
It all comes down to personal preference. While the synthetics claim to gain more weight than organics, I had yet to experiment with this, so I wanted to see if that was true. In my opinion, it seems to be a myth. I actually have never seen such healthy plants in my life. And am getting comments from growers with that 10-30 yrs that mine look much better than theirs ever have. So it's been nice to see what works best for me, and from the smell of my buds, has really worked well for them as well! Rather than that harsh, nutrient filled skunk smell, I have a natural, sweet grapefruit aroma mixed with a nice original trainwreck scent on my StarTrek. The White Widow is sweet, piney, & earthy as it's supposed to be. The Mazar won a cannabis cup submitted as 'Lemon Kush', and has a beautiful lemon odor. And while these CAN be brought out with synthetics, I have not smelled odors to this degree on a synthetically grown plant."
I hope this helps ... ONE LOVE!!!
Members Q:
"hello just wanted to say nice grow you have a nice green house...
My question is how do you go about mixing so many nutes? do you get tired of it?
I really wanting to know about the iguana juice, I want to give it a try but would like to hear feed back from someone who has actually used it....? Is the iguana juice you base nutes?"
My A:
"Thank you for complimenting the GH!
No, I don't get tired of having so many nutes. I actually really enjoy doing my own mixing, as I have a keen eye for identifying all the various nutrient defeciencies and find that it allows me to hone in on their exact health & requirements, and feed accordingly. If my plants are lush, with ideal quantities of Nitrogen, Phos, & Potash (NPK), and just come across some micro nutrient defeciencies, rather than add an all-in-one, I can now add that nutrient only to my plant. The reason why this is good, is that if all your other levels are in the ideal range, and you use an all-in-one to try to fix one problem, you will find that the other levels that were once ideal are now way TOO HIGH. So what was once a cal-mag defeciency or something, could now be a Nitrogen burn and lock out your plants, stunting growth & causing stress that can increase chances in males & hermaphrodite plants.
I've had too much experience in my earlier years in burning with strong chemical formulas, and have also found in my research that these products can also be to blame for harsh & unwanted flavors in cannabis when used at too high of a dose (which for many newbies, is ALWAYS too high). So I wanted to take the advice of growers who have been in the game for between 10 to 30 years, and see what they recommended. It all came down to ORGANICS. While an organic nutrient is less readily available to a plant than synthetic, there is still plenty that can be absorbed on the spot when you feed due to the the fact that they have already been broken down to liquid form. But this is also good, because the slow release prevents you from burning your plants if you actually give too much, and also allows your soil to stay fertile n require less frequent feeding than hydroponics, where you are feeding multiple times a day, or aeroponics, where the roots are being misted 24/7.
It all comes down to personal preference. While the synthetics claim to gain more weight than organics, I had yet to experiment with this, so I wanted to see if that was true. In my opinion, it seems to be a myth. I actually have never seen such healthy plants in my life. And am getting comments from growers with that 10-30 yrs that mine look much better than theirs ever have. So it's been nice to see what works best for me, and from the smell of my buds, has really worked well for them as well! Rather than that harsh, nutrient filled skunk smell, I have a natural, sweet grapefruit aroma mixed with a nice original trainwreck scent on my StarTrek. The White Widow is sweet, piney, & earthy as it's supposed to be. The Mazar won a cannabis cup submitted as 'Lemon Kush', and has a beautiful lemon odor. And while these CAN be brought out with synthetics, I have not smelled odors to this degree on a synthetically grown plant."
I hope this helps ... ONE LOVE!!!