Trust all is well,

Just wandering what nutes are being used by the majority on here, and to what degree of success, any feedback would be great. Also any additives used.

This isn't exclusive to the Hydro boys, would also like you muck lovers to have a say aswell!

Take it Easy,

VRG

Hey VRG,

Only done 3 grows so not much to compare.

Did my 1st grow (hydro) using Ionic Veg, Bloom and boost. Peace of piss to use and had no real problems with my grow. Managed over 8 oz off 2 plants so can't be bad.

Moved over to coco in 10lt pots so have been using the Dutch masters range, apart from the Superbud (which does what it claims), i can't praise these nutes highly enough, other than the SB I used the Hot Coco, Max Boost and Potash+, and had no nute probs at all. Had plants come into my GR looking sickly and yellow, a week or so on the DM nutes and all is fine. Think the extra potasium does the plants a lot of good during flower. Also ordered some of the DM guardian and silica so will also be using those from now on.

SB

HydroTops !! Recomended by your good self VRG

Can't give alot of feedback at the mo though because i'm still waiting on my clones growing up

- Kafka

biobizz all the way! -why not add it to the poll? - there's loads of people use it!

So dutch masters get the from SB!

I've written this poll and realised i've not included the one i've been thinking of trying out, HESI, if anyone has any experience with this it'd be great.

Kafka

VRG

Not sure how to edit the poll mate, maybe you could do it for me? ta,

VRG

must admit, can't edit this forum - I'm "pots,mud, magic and mystery" forums only!

Done it for ya

Voted Canna. Have tried various others, but for Hydro, I always end up coming back to it. I get outstanding results with it, just need to take no notice of their recommended dosage tho, cos its always a bit on the high side. Keep the cf around 1.8 - 2.0 and wash through every fortnight, and it performs like a dream.

Gonna try the Biobizz for my next one - then I can have a comparison between hydro and growing in shit

OMH Cheers Bud!

I'm currently using Hesi in "shit" as OMH put it

I found that I've had good results with this brand, no deficiencies at all and quite a healthy grow.

Would be good to see how your grow comes along webby! I've heard rave reports about Hesi, are you using any of the additives? TNT anyone?

VRG

Hi VRG,

I'll take some piccies of me Snow White an stick em in the indoor budshots tomorrow

Arrgghhh bugger just remembered that I've been flushing through for 3 weeks now so the leaves are a tad yellow

Sod it I'll post em anyway I'll take some BBJ snaps to post an all.

I done me first grow using that Cellmax crap. Me plants at the time didn't like it, some shrivelled up, others had all sorts of deficiencies, then a tad bit of burning Perhaps it were just me

I'm using Hesi Grow, Bloom and extra PK

Ive been using canna coco for a while now.

Im no expert but i find it performs well. Nice healthy plants, (except for cindy! )
Last year my outdoor plants were mostly all in coco under glass. Had some really nice results. Everything except the above that i have grown using canna coco has been more or less trouble free.

I generally stick to biobizz but but am currently using maxicrop, it's good cheap alternative to the canna specific nutes and imo performs just as well as any.

Im using HYDROTOPS nutrients and all the additives -bactivator,root stimulator,triple f ,foliar feed ,flower feed ,floral boost and the flush .
certainly keeps me busy mixing it all up! but excellent results and BIG yields.
Ive tried B CUZZ for coco aswell and that worked ok but im gonna stick with the HYDROTOPS .

HIGH all, Ive been using Hesi since I started 7 months ago first in soil (shit) Now in hydro and had no real probs and nice tasting bud its won a couple of awards for hydro and soil and does a coco range. I use there super vit and root stimulant. With my last two grows (in soil) I have used a bloom boost called Monsta bud by Ozi magic gro juice, its meant for hydro but thought id try it, it must have worked as one of my plants is in cream of the crop. Peace all
BGK

I'm just uptting to gether my second indoor grow arranging cutings of Inca strain rather that Stav's but going to do it with canna coc nutes A & B. So I'm not voting yet !

Canna Aqua for hydro, and before that, Canna Terra for soil!

RD

Canna Substra for Hydro....Good for hard water areas.

Don't do as I did and Buy 5ltrs A + B of Canna aqua if you live in a hard water area.It has no buffer in it and you'll be in the shit like me and sticking loads of nitric in regularly....Bad shit!

I was not told and didn't now better.....Now I'm going to use it in the garden.

Canna has been good and stable...But might try Hesi this time round just to experiment.

Bu.

I've tried most and found Green Haze Grow/Bloom to be best for my setup. I also use Cannazyme throughout the grow and Canna PK 13/14 during flowering.

Using ionic as i have done for a few years now. I've tried quite a few over the years. Found a fantastic one once, buggered if i can remember the name, but it was a hydro powder! All granular etc but it had a very high P content which is what i was into at the time.

Webby, i had excellent results with cellmax. I would have used it again but the local grow shop doesnt stock it and i didnt want to get a big bag of the stuff through the post.

Canna Terra....

Top shit....

Used to use the BioBizz..loved the organic ideals, but mgot a pretty rogue batch of the veg feed once.....and did sometimes find nute issues.....could have been me of course, believe BioBIzz to be a great product....

BUT, afyter trying a run on the Canna Terra I ain't looked back....

Great...

Mono...x

For flowering...
Used various brands over the years but keep coming back to Sensi Seeds Bloem, 2-part powdered concentrate with nitric acid.
The dogs dangly bits!!!

i have always used canna terra for soil. been doing this on and off for a few yrs. starting using B'Cuzz soil booster and some other b'cuzz product for flowering on top of the canna. had no real probs so far but i dont know if i will try something new next time.

Ionic Grow, Bloom, Boost & Maxicrop + Fe. It's all ya need!

edit: anyone ever tried fox farm (organic)?

I was at a hydro shop yesterday and 3 farmers came in and bought some rockwool slabs and fox farm nutes. He said they work just fine for him, but I'm not sure what he was growing

[B][FONT=Impact]Why am I missing the Cellmax in the line of nutrient labels here. It is being used by quite soome Grower's in the UK and they love it more than others.

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

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

I just hope that you are willing to try Cellmax 4 a change...

Peace out!
Team Cellmax!

[Link Removed OMH]

hi
just voted 'other'
i am using advanced nutrients they are the dog's dangly bits!

im using europonics grow bloom and most ppl say this is shit which it may be compared to other ferts salt level can go high ive been changing ress water and cleaning every 10-14 days and no probs with it so far all plants have been healthy throughout growth and flower


it will be changed to a better nuet next grow tho

my first successfull compost grow was done using a mix of B&Q tomato food + miricle gro

i use coco now, mainly with the B'cuzz range which i find work nicely, but maybe a little short on the Mg (could just be my hardwater though)

this is what i use mainly:

> B'cuzz coco nutrition A&B
> B'cuzz booster
> B'cuzz root stimulator
> J Arthur Bowers epsom salts
> Chase Organics SM3 (seaweed extract)
> malt vinigar (pH down)

i sometimes use a little superthive as well


[B-Dr]

I'm currently using, and have in the past used, an Aussie brand called Nulife Technologies. I've used their two part and one part hydroponic nutrients called "hypergrow" and "powergrow" in both veg and bloom types, and I've had good results with em here.

Love hearing about all the organic recipies though, it's something I'm an avid person about, (given I also garden with other plants and have an orchid addiction) and I'm sure I'll end up doing a total organic indoor grow one of these days. It's just a matter of time and getting round to doing it I suppose, as well as adjusting my system to compensate.

But yeah, that's what I use, mostly cos it's cheap, works well and I get a good deal from my hydro shop on nutrients generally. I've used Dutch Master products in the past before as well, but I'm a bit iffy about them now, after the whole superbud/paclobutrazol fiasco.

Oh, and Nulife Technologies also make a "coco-feed" brand designed for use in organic medias, specifically coco, but I've had good results with it in soil as well, and at low concentrations for other plants in coco-perlite mixures of media.

Just thought I'd share an aussies personal habits in nutes.

anyone growing NON-hydro in either compost, soil, or coco and using CANNA or BIOBIZZ nutes... u mind posting any bud pics showing the size and quantity or the yield? I'm trying to decide between the two

You can get an organic brand called A + B organics nowadays which is used in hydro. But in this case, no, the "coco-feed" is a nutrient salt based, not organic based nutrient.

given a straight choice between Canna and Biobizz, the latter wins by miles on all fronts - its organic, it works well, and the plants look and grow a damn sight better'

Just smoking a bud from a HydroTops grow. Can’t see me smoking anything else in the near future.

canna ...

my plants have grown 200% in size since the day I fed them their first dose of bio bizz grow and bloom ferts,

its definetly 200%, and only about 2 weeks ago too

!st timer! using a product called "Tree of Life" from Esoteric Hydroponics, are you familiar with it ?

looks to me like a rebranding of one of the cheapo hydro ranges

Hi,
when i first started growing there wernt the nutes around then like there is now, well not specific nutes anyway, so i used to go down to the local garden centre and used a food made by uni-pack or chem cant really remember it was a while back and it was for cactus plants, anyway there was a few in the range and african violet was one of the range which was in a purple pot and the cactus being in a red pot, the npk however was very good for the flowering cycle so we used it with good results and i believe they still sell this product, i think i may give it a go as we used this food growing in soil with no probs at all, i will go down the garden centre tomorrow and see if i can purchase some and ill try it in hydro as its soluble in water and see what results it brings!
Has anyone else tryd these nutes in hydro? because it was very good and a qtr of the cost of commercial nutes!
But no fear if you have not heard of it, and they still sell it ill buy some and post some pics

//Tri

iv used canna a+b, ionic, and now im using advanced hydroponics of holland with gr8 results in e+f. its hard to tell yet if its any better than canna or ionic.

i also use nitrozym, i foiler feed on my moms 1 week before takein cuttings this sh1 t is amazin try it youll see the diff in the plants in 24 hours, shoots appear from every where. i would advise every 1 to get this stuff if you want to see amazin growth in 24 hours. THIS STUFF WORKS!

Biobizz or canna but mainly biobizz

I'm new to hydro and have just started using Vitalink as I have seen good results with it. I really like the look of the one part General Hydroponics nutes.

What annoys me about the Vitalink is that you have to buy the extra "Buddy" to use in flower, the bloom is 10:9:19 and the Buddy is 0:36:24.

Basically they are making you buy two products instead of one. Also if you want Silica or other additives you have to buy them seperately.

Looks like the GH one part already has the right NPK ratios and also includes Silica and other "organic boosters".

I am very tempted to mail-order some as most of the hydro shops dont stock it, perhaps because they wont make much money if they do.

Hi VRG, I use mainly BIO BIZZ nutes, However on my latest grow iv done a little experiment, Three of my AK's have been feed from start to finish (next Sunday) with Miracle Grow , Yep i know i know but i wanted to see for myself how taste was effected, Ill say one thing though compared to my others these 3 are looking the best of the bunch, They really seemed to have liked that blue shit.
Ill be giving a sample of bud from a MG and then a BB plant to a pal who knows naff all about growing but lots about toking and then ill get an honest answer because he wont know which is which, Ill let you all know how it goes.

AM.

Nice one ActionMan.

I'll look forward to hearing what he says. I grew with that mg once and I have to admit, if you get the dosage right (low), it grows good weed!
I don't know what stage you are at but I never fed mg after 5 and a half weeks cuz the N level caused burning...

NiFty out...

hydrotops for me cos my water is pants and they will mix your food to suit your water.my water is laced with magnesium and i ad no end of probs but its sorted now.

I've used canna, canna aqua, vita link and some other brand I forget the name of. Of these 4 makes, I have to say that Vita Link is imo the best. I've had very few problems while using these nutes, a bare couple I guess.

A close`ish 2nd place would goto canna aqua, these are NFT specific nutes. Like the vita links these too seem to hold their pH very well, which is not a feature of some nutes in hydro, perhaps they even hold the pH better than the vita links, but - 1 part of the 2part formulation in both grow & bloom is this very dark red coloured nutrient. For some reason you get this hard limescale like substance in it, it's the only way to describe it really, like the flakes of limescale you get in hard water areas in a kettle, like that but dark red in colour. Similarly, in the nft tank after the crop & it's time to clean the hardware - they're in the nute solution too, not alot but all these bits of hard residue. These will reduce the life of pumps I'm thinking....

I do like the sound of those General Hydroponics 3part nutes, they are damn expensive though, and perhaps reality says Mr. Average grower is better off leaving the ratios of NPK to the pro's at vita link / canna etc. Has anyone ever tried them? Are they worth the extra, extra hassle & cost...

Flux