Hi, I'm growing indoors under one 1K HPS. My plants are in 7 gallon smart pots this cycle but may switch up and down between 7 and 5 depending on my space. I use a combination of soils: happy frog, ocean forest, and roots organics potting natural & organic potting soil. I add perlite to this mix.
I start by putting my clones in rapid rooters, and spraying them once with Thrive Alive B1 Green (by Technaflora) it's 1-1-1 and organic OMRI listed, contains some kelp and vitamin B1. That's actually the only time I ever foliar spray, I sprayed other times my first grow during veg and didn't really notice a difference. I think I'm going to start using this weekly on my vegging plants. What do you guys think?
When they are ready for their smart pots I add 2 or 3 of the Xtreme Gardening organic feeder paks and transplant them with my soil. These things are amazing I highly recommend them, the NPK value is 8-4-4.
I veg for a month and a half or so.. I use
Hygrozyme every watering (2ml/gal) and every 3rd watering I use FloraNova Grow with
Florablend vegan additive 1-1-1 (contains sea kelp, alfalfa meal, its 100% mineral based. I use this until the very end),
Floranectar 0-0-1 - sweetener, contains molasses and cane sugar. I think this might be able to be replaced with an organic alternative, I also use this until the end).
Floralicious Plus 2-1-0 - 1ml/gal until the end. organic i think, contains 2% humic acids and 20% sea kelp. says its a super concentrated organic enhancer. I think it's good.
Silica blast - by botanicare, silica helps build beastly cell walls. look it up and how it helps your plant. This is the silica additive I've decided to use.
I use Mykos Wettable Powder as a Mycorhizzal innoculant but I think I will consider switching to the kind you add during transplant instead of adding the powder to my waterings.
during early veg/after transplant I use 1ml/gal of SuperThrive
When I switch to bloom last grow I only switched my base nute by using FloraNova Bloom 4-8-7 and Liquid Koolbloom 0-10-10 but this cycle I'm trying Bloombastic and Purple Maxxx on-top of those. I might even finish with Koolbloom Dry. Purple Maxxx was free, I'm not going to use it next cycle and I'll notice if it made a difference. I think I'm going to use bloombastic regularly during bloom though. I think it really works.
This morning I was looking through my hydro mag and seen a bunch of amazing looking additives and wondering what exactly I'm missing out on. Fox farm big bloom looks good and with little npk value it wont affect me.. I rarely exceed 1000ppm. Xtreme Gardening Azos is a beneficial bacteria I should be using too I think. What do you guys think?
Btw, I can't imagine trying to use floranova in these pumps (http://www.4hydroponics.com/growroom/items.asp?ItemNo=1ozPump) and I plan on using these in the future. I recommend these for any pain/arthritis patients as well. saves a LOT of work, one squeeze dispenses one fluid ounce (29.5ml). A friend of mine uses these and it made me very jealous lol. anyways, I want more organic microbial activity. The only non-organic part of my grow is the EDTA in the floranova I think.
I start by putting my clones in rapid rooters, and spraying them once with Thrive Alive B1 Green (by Technaflora) it's 1-1-1 and organic OMRI listed, contains some kelp and vitamin B1. That's actually the only time I ever foliar spray, I sprayed other times my first grow during veg and didn't really notice a difference. I think I'm going to start using this weekly on my vegging plants. What do you guys think?
When they are ready for their smart pots I add 2 or 3 of the Xtreme Gardening organic feeder paks and transplant them with my soil. These things are amazing I highly recommend them, the NPK value is 8-4-4.
I veg for a month and a half or so.. I use
Hygrozyme every watering (2ml/gal) and every 3rd watering I use FloraNova Grow with
Florablend vegan additive 1-1-1 (contains sea kelp, alfalfa meal, its 100% mineral based. I use this until the very end),
Floranectar 0-0-1 - sweetener, contains molasses and cane sugar. I think this might be able to be replaced with an organic alternative, I also use this until the end).
Floralicious Plus 2-1-0 - 1ml/gal until the end. organic i think, contains 2% humic acids and 20% sea kelp. says its a super concentrated organic enhancer. I think it's good.
Silica blast - by botanicare, silica helps build beastly cell walls. look it up and how it helps your plant. This is the silica additive I've decided to use.
I use Mykos Wettable Powder as a Mycorhizzal innoculant but I think I will consider switching to the kind you add during transplant instead of adding the powder to my waterings.
during early veg/after transplant I use 1ml/gal of SuperThrive
When I switch to bloom last grow I only switched my base nute by using FloraNova Bloom 4-8-7 and Liquid Koolbloom 0-10-10 but this cycle I'm trying Bloombastic and Purple Maxxx on-top of those. I might even finish with Koolbloom Dry. Purple Maxxx was free, I'm not going to use it next cycle and I'll notice if it made a difference. I think I'm going to use bloombastic regularly during bloom though. I think it really works.
This morning I was looking through my hydro mag and seen a bunch of amazing looking additives and wondering what exactly I'm missing out on. Fox farm big bloom looks good and with little npk value it wont affect me.. I rarely exceed 1000ppm. Xtreme Gardening Azos is a beneficial bacteria I should be using too I think. What do you guys think?
Btw, I can't imagine trying to use floranova in these pumps (http://www.4hydroponics.com/growroom/items.asp?ItemNo=1ozPump) and I plan on using these in the future. I recommend these for any pain/arthritis patients as well. saves a LOT of work, one squeeze dispenses one fluid ounce (29.5ml). A friend of mine uses these and it made me very jealous lol. anyways, I want more organic microbial activity. The only non-organic part of my grow is the EDTA in the floranova I think.