Greetings

i have purchased the canna hydro nutes for use in my bubbler.
now i have looked at thier site, it seems that i needed the aqua nutes instead.

so the question is, will it make a lot of differance if i use the hydro?
cause im gonna struggle to find more money if i have to buy them again

cheers
chris

should be fine

Just finished a grow using Ionics nutes meant for drippers in a bubb, not a single prob. Think this nute thing, of this is for this and that is for that is a load of bull personally, unless your in soil

bubblers are hydro mate so shouldnt be a problem ........

carpingkid

i did wonder that the other day when i was looking at nutes.
it seems canna hydro is designed for run to waste systems, and aqua is for circulating systems.

I use aqua in recirulated, tip of the day, make sure you shake it well before each feed, put some in a clear 2 litre bottle and could see powder at the bottom, hard to notice in the containers they send them in, quick jiggy jiggy and problem sorted.

thanks for the relies guys.

bit the bullet and brought the right vega ones in the end, to paranoid about harming my babies!

i thought that hydro would mean its fine, but as stated here hydro is not for recirculating systems.
now im not very experienced at this growing lark but i cant think of a hydro run to waste system? what would be a example of one?

cheers
chris

As i posted in my diary, the more and more I use Canna nutes the more i think their quoted ratios are too high. I am currently running 0.8/1.0EC and they are the healthiest i've seen them on Canna.

Rockwool and Coco are almost always run as drain to waste systems, Rockwool has pH issues that mean recirculating would be a real handfull.


Take care with pH issues too when you bubble, aeration can cause it to rise all on it's own, so keep a close eye on it, especially at the beginning and bearing in mind you are "changing stuff" - using a new type of feed for example.

When I first started buying Canna nutes I thought the Aqua was the right choice for my Aquafarms but the bloke in the grow shop told me I should use Hydro instead, (something to do with living in a soft water area). I followed his advice and have had no problems. Last crop was 27oz of dry bud from 3 plants

You're right about the ratios been high, In veg I aim for 1.2 max and in flower 1.4/1.6.

Hey Keye, absolutely spot on mate, took me a while to get my cf sussed but now they rarely go over 12 at their peak (growing Chronic, fat indica phenotype)...

good call on getting the right nutes g.d. you'll use those run to waste nutes one day... be a good excuse to build a new system in the future

iv used both in varios hydro systems and found that the hydro is much better in any system especialy if you have hard watter its says un to waste but it was the only hydro nute canna did for years and can be used in any hydro system recurculating or run to waste then they brought out aqua i hate it it has no ph buffer and caused me loads of probs but the hydro was much better im my opinion

i find i get no large ph swing in my nft system using rockwool actually with my green dream nutes i hardly get any change of ph at all

as i have both sets of veg and bloom nutes and also 3 seperate bubblers, i will conduct an experiment to see if there is any differance.
results will be in my grow diary.

chris

By "Using Rockwool" do you mean you use 3" blocks ? Surely you are not running a NFT system under slabs ? I do not really count 3" blocks [or 1" for that matter] as growing in Rockwool... it is NFT.

I had never heard of green dream nutrients, but have seen different brands do different things at different times. I just looked at of green dream and the talk about buffering was sounding right, so you might have a feed that is very pH stable, friends use Optimum for the same reasons.

Been using canna Aqua for years in Aquafarms never PH'ed never EC'ed never had a problem i only ever flower one plant at a time and strain dependent rarely get less than 20 oz dry per plant.