I'm using commercial potting oil with homemade kitchen compost, Maxi-crop and a couple of doses of Epsom salts.

Have been growing indoors under lights

Hi I am using Advanced Nutrients Sensi 2 pack Bloom with AN Big Bud and Bud Blood currently used a Gibberelic Acid foliar spray by No Mercy first time I used so dont how good it is first time Ive used An and they seem to do pretty well see pics

are you growing the plants just for seed? - Giberellic acid rang some warning bells, so I googled............
"DO NOT CONSUME bud from the plant treated with giberellic acid nor from any plant pollinated by such a plant. Giberellic acid washes off easily, but is toxic if smoked or eaten. Always wear gloves and eye protection as well as any other protective gear necessary to prevent exposure to giberellic acid. After using giberellic acid, do not reenter the area for 72 hours without proper safety gear."
My reading is that this dreadful stuff should only ever be used with extreme caution as part of breeding/seed production - you should NEVER smoke the results of any plant treated with it....................

I am totallly horrified! - after digging around on the net, I found the company website - they are selling this dangerous product, with a recommendation to use it on flowering plants...............no mention of the dire effects of consuming a plant treated with it, just a little "disclaimer".............."No Mercy Supply assumes no responsibility for possible side effects due to the complex hormonal activity of this stimulator."
From where I'm sitting that is tantamount to misrepresenting a dangerous chemical in the interests of making a fast buck from the gullible

i use GH. I thought it was cheaper than Canna. I guess it is if you eliminate one of the bottles and just use the bloom and micro sol. as in the lucas formula 8- 16 ml per gallon during flowering.

Was interested by your posts re Gibberellic Acid, Vlad. Done a bit of looking myself, not found any more details re health implications, but I did find this :



Source

That's direct from Ed Rosenthal. IMHO seems like this is just another of the philosophers stones that nute companies keep digging up and banging out, at best a waste of money & at worst downright dangerous. I'll keep digging if I don't get sidetracked & see if I can find owt else.

to be honest i have used several brand name nutes such as canna gh ionic and bio bizz and have found that as long as you keep a beedy eye on ph and ec any nutes will be good all are very good products all good quality
people seem to worry about what brand to go for instead of looking at it in a more scientific approach
canna aqua is excellent though

Grew with Canna in coco for some years. Great product in that medium. Also know maybe a dozen other people who swear by it in coco.

However some how I drifted to Dutchmaster which i now love. Use their whole range of products (except superbud,which people did not like the final product). I get a really distinct green colour in my growth which pressess my buttons. All subjective though and after some study on the situation have found myself often to be full of shit on various issues. Make of it what you will.

Kenneth Loveweed

Just read ice-O-lator

he has it right i think.....

Vitalink for my first grow... fingers crossed

Ionic - First hydroponic grow.

Well here goes....................

Rudebwoy123

Have used cellmax.....they probably should have been on the list but....................

"Dutch Master makes us laugh being an Astralian guy with hormones in his liquids.....

Hesi havin huge fluctuations in rockwool ans NFT systems...."

Please explain your view on Dutch master a little...............these are crucial issues.........I use them (though not superbud) and have found them to be more than satisfactory...

Thanks

Loveweed

Bump for Mr Cellmax....would love your feedback

loveweed.Its a year ago mate .I dont think you are goona hear owt

Tee Hee.....thanks mate....its an upgrade for me to be only a year behind...

I actually sent him a p.m earlier. So if he is around I'm gonna prod him gently with a stick and see if i can get feedback. Even with their extreme bias nute manufacturers must be the most informed in that specific thing. I am hoping to get one or two to comment on why their particular product kick's ass and why the other guy's is crap.

i am expecting to get little from it but you never know....

Ionic Hard water formulation Grow and bloom used it in dirt, coco, bubbler.

Easy everytime all i ever did is just pour what i thought was right in the nice FLAT CAP and chucked it in, .. good on the Ph swings too

I tried canna but that was my fault !!

Bit late but hey

Used to use Ionic's.

Then was converted to Vitalink. Grow, Bloom & Buddy. PH stays stable, plants stay healthy, better results.

I also add Oxy-plus and superthrive.

i started with the power gro,the free shit u get wen buying hydro units, the minute i put me babies in the tank tho i had trouble so i gone and invested in the ionic veg n' bloom stuff. cant rely add much to how good they are but i can say that its pulled my babes back from a disaster and there all looking good again.

Canna for hydro, supplemented with Advanced Nutrients B52
Noticed Earth Juice is v.unpopular. Why's that? Used to love it for organics, but local shop can't get no more.
Any 1 no where 2 get sum? Like BioBizz atm 4 coco. Advanced Nutrients Pirahna also.
Any1 used Pure Blend/Pure Blend Pro?

canna substra, bcuzz bloom, canna pk13 14, GH ripen works for me

yeah i used GH Ripen too also missing link and algaemix to my aforementioned list

I'm going to abstain....Used canna for last grow but bought in some Biobizz for next grow, and I have a feeling that will become the nute in my garden judging by results on this board. For the sake of my body and the planet!

For the new grow I'm gona try a brand named Maxicrop, on the bottle it says made from seaweed extracts. I'm wanting to try an organic grow. See what the results will be.

Hi VRG

I dont do hydro I'm a compost boy, but for what its worth, I use all of hesi's nutes for compost, and I find them to be very good.

Mr P

i just started growing in cana coco in hydro, once you get it rite its a peice of piss,,
great stuff, does anyone know how hi i can take the cf levels to before damaging them ???????????

'Osmocote' in the compost and 'SB Plant Invigorator' for foliar feeding and all round pest control

VRG you seem very wise and I like that

i just started hydro and i love your posts!!!

I use dyna grow veg and seaweed 100% organice hydroponic ferts.. in a bubbler type system...

I like the bio canna range i use bio vega for vegging and bioflores for flowering i also like to use bat guano and tripple f as my super boost works great and outside plant has reached a whooping eight and a half foot tall and its only been flowering about three weeks now . but i think there are a multitude of great feeds out there and we would all like to think we are usein the best but rarely we are i say keep it %100 biological and you cant go far wrong.
your grow buddy DOPEMAN

Thanks for the feedback peeps!

Keep It Green!

VRG

Well i think most regulars on this forum know what i use these days.

But back in my hydro days i swore by General Hydroponics, i loved the 3 part make up of it, and the taste weed grown with it had! you can tailor it to whatever needs, fantastic in run to waste systems, not so simple in recirculating systems i found the PH was all over the place after 3 or 4 days in the rez and that pissed me off, but that was my fave for taste!

For massive buds, that i did not want to smoke or anybody else infact, stable as hell but minging taste inducing, was Power Grow, back then was the one for (i dont care) commercial pot, taste left everything to be desired, awfull to say the least! do they still sell that shit with NFT tables ?

I also spent a small fortune on all the diffrent "organic" additives that were about at the time, such as O.G.P, Nitrozime,Earth Catalist and such, i must admit, i never did a single hydro grow the same not even once, cos there was allways new nutes coming out, and additives that my local grow shop swore was the best new thing!

But for taste and quality GH was my number 1, as far as hydro nutes went!
I know a lot lot more hydro nutes have been tried and tested since those days, but GH was my nute of choice back in them days

Bom!

Wow, looks like everyone has thier own fave juices. I have noticed that no one seems to use my choice which is Ecolizer (dutch made.)I love the fact that the base nutrient is bio mineral and the additives are all 100% biological and extremely concentrated(cost effective) and easy peasy to use.I must say my yield and quality has never been so good as it is now.Any other Ecolizer users out there?

hydrotops more than does the trick in pebbles and you dont have to use a lot,the boost is only 5ml per 10ltr

GOT to BE Mother Earth Organic bloom had fantabulous results every time

General Hydroponics is the three part for me in my rockwool run-to-waste garden. I had great sucess with Canna while I was in the UK with an NFT system. and Ionic did well also, for that one passive hydro grow at the very start...

Recently I have used Atami Organics for vegging and found it a very good nutrient.

I am currently adding Sweet Leaf, an organic flavour and aroma enhancer, to my feed to see if it does indeed produce sweeter buds.

And I am also thinking of giving Ozi Magic a go at some point before long. Anyone else used this?

Am currently flowering with Mother Earth Super Tea, another organic fert, which I also think is ok, though I have not done a full flowering with it yet.

I don't know why you would not have Advance Nutrients on that polling list. My choice is A.N. All the way.

Canna all the way have never had a problem with it and will never use anything else now

Hello
Anyone heard/used Hytro?

Thanks

Sorry should be Hy-pro and not hytro.
Misheard someone.

Ive Used Hesi For All My Grows Mostly In Soil But The Last Grow Was Hydro(The Full Hesi Range From Clon'in Nute To Flower'in Bloom). I Went By There Dosages Stated On The Label & Neally Wiped Out All My Plants(Amsterdam Flame 3 Off Them) Managed To Get Them Sorted & The End Result Was Ok. Id Recommend That You Give The Plants A Third Of The Dosage & Work Your Way Up To Half The Recommended Dosage.........Cos That Nute Burns A Right Little Fooker.........



HP11

Canna from the start,aqua to begin with,with rhizotonic,cannazym and pk 13/14,uesd that for just over a year,Now im using the canna cogr range with the same additives as above, but with b-cuzz coco boost and bloom boost,same good results from the cogr but a slightly better taste,Just read the labels and keep an eye on the e.c,I use pure rain water to feed all my plants and canna's food does not need any ph down to bring it down to ph 6 and it stays faily constant all the way,when it starts to drop i just flush and empty/refill tank with fresh solution

Advanced Nutrients... its what the grow shop recommended and its all I've used since.

biobizz all the way!

Nutes ive used worthy of a mention

Nutes
canna coco
Hydro generation coco with or without kelp + natural hormones
Growth tech range


Additives
Canna
and some of HY gens
Bio bugs

For my Waterfarm hydro systems I use Canna Aqua Flores, for soil it's the Bio Bizz range.

Depending on the above and finances I will also add some of the following additives:

Soil - Bio Bizz - Fish Mix
Soil - Bio Bizz - Alga Miix
Soil - Bio Bizz - Top Max
Hydro - Canna Rhizotonic
Hydro - Hesi SuperVit
Hydro - Bio Nova - BNX -Cel
Hydro - Canna PK 13/14
Both - Canna - Cannazym
Both - Canna - Boost Accelerator
Both - Canna - pH down (grow and bloom)

whats everyones take on earth juice products. I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere. Is it any good? also what nutes can I use for both hydro and soil?

used 5 diffrent types..hesi for me all the way

It's gotta be ten years since I used Earth Juice. Back then it was a hassle, may=be they've sorted it out now. I found I'd have to make my food up a week in advance, and leave it to stand, so the pH could coem up from about 4 to 5.5ish. AND IT STUNK!!

Since then I've been using non organic hydro nutrients, with organic additives to round it all out. DOn't want to put you off, but look into it first before starting a whole season on it.

well i would like to start by saying hi to all uk420 member,s and wondering if any of you good grower,s could help me with my problem ,.,i decided to start a grow so went to an hydroponic shop and asked best thing for my grow in soil as i did not have a clue as it was before i found this site and thought best person to
ask was a hydro shop and he gave me ,ozi magic grow juice monster bud,ozi magic grow juice ozi tonic,
terra vega canna,terra flores canna,but did ask how and when i was to start using these and what order and how much to use ,i am gonna start from seed and not gonna have resivour just feed as and when by hand from tap water then additives and if you could tell me a good soil mix to bye money no object, thank you for having me as a member and hope to have pic,s and diary on here myself soon