Just ran out of epsoms and have got some algamic. Is this stuff any good?

Read somewhere that it's good to use 1ml per litre to keep mag and calcium levels topped up throughout the grow.

Can't find anything doing a search.... Surely someone is using it?

Help meeeeee.

Cheers.

You only need Epsoms for Mg Def, which is not actually all that common. Could you post pictures of the plant in question?

I don't think alg-a-mic will help with Mg def if that really is the problem.

Can't squirrel, sorry. I've got no mag problems now, just that I've got no epsoms either, and have a bottle of this algamic lying round.

I was thinking, seeing as how I've used epsoms to good effect in the past, that rather than waiting for mag problems to strike then countering them, maybe I could keep the levels topped up throughout the grow. I've noticed that some people do this with cal-mag or cal-max or whatever it's called. Question is, will alg-a-mic do the same thing?

Also, is the stuff any good? Or should I ditch it and just get me some more epsoms?

Thanks.

You don't need to give them epsoms unless they are showing Mg def. Even if they were, you normally only need to give it once in a whole grow, you don't need to keep it "topped up". Mg def is actually quite rare.

I haven't used Alg-a-mic, but reading the blurb on it, it looks very much like another expensive additive that doesn't do much of anything except separate you from your money.

I have seen 'all green' grows done with GH 3 part, the lucas formula, Ionic and Canna. Must be others but can't remember. That's with no additives, just the basic nutes.

If those nutes give healthy plants with no defs, then any defs when using them must be a result of either the ec or the pH being out. So rather than fix a fault with a fault, the correct way is to get the ec and pH correct. pH to suit the growing system and ec to suit both the growing system and the lighting.