Need help choosing a base hydro nute.

jin420 said:

So after days searching the web I've only been further befuddled and given a occular migraine so I figured I'd ask what my bud brothers and sisters here at RUI what they are using. Have used gh bloom/micro with the lucas formula, h&g aqua flakes and an bloom/micro again with the lucas formula but its been awhile and my memory is off due to a undiagnosed neruological disease. Using CES 3 part right now and am having k deficiencies but that may have been due to me being rusty and being out of the loop a few years. I also started these girls in perilite hempys instead of starting in drip totes with hydroton and moving to perilite hempys during flowering like I used to so I'll be going back to that method.

The additives I have already are x nutrients amino blast, uncle johns blend, bontaicare cal-mag, protekt silca, an bud candy and ultra snow storm. I'll be getting gravity and looking into moab, bud blood and overdrive.

My main concern is what would be the best base hydro nutrients I could use. I found a old thread here where somebody said plain maxigrow and maxibloom beats an and h&g. I don't care which brand it is I'm just trying to find the best base nutes I can use. I have a high end milwaukee combo meter so adjusting ph and ppm levels is not a issue. Sorry if that was a long winded post I appreciate any input on this.

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jronnn said:

it seems like a bunch of people are using maxigro and maxibloom, thats what i got. from what I've read everywhere the best method is the KISS method (Keep It Simple Stupid) I'm not sure if you know who Al B. Fuct is but he would say on his posts thats its retarded for people to try to make their own formulas with other peoples products, its just throwing down dozens of years of research down the tube. So basically i would either use something super simple like 8-16 lucas formula or maxigro/bloom (most economical) or flora nova(most expensive). i suggest looking at this website http://lucasformula.com for more info. I'm not qualified to be giving out advice but its quite clear GH products are the most used ones of all others

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Aeroknow said:

Actually, in the end, the floranova is about the same price as using the floraseries or just two parts of it
5ml/gal of floranova bloom is just about as strong as 15ml/gal of a floraseries bloom formula. Same with grow.
Floranova is 3X's the potency but costs about 3X's more per volume than even the micro.

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jronnn said:

it seems like a bunch of people are using maxigro and maxibloom, thats what i got. from what I've read everywhere the best method is the KISS method (Keep It Simple Stupid) I'm not sure if you know who Al B. Fuct is but he would say on his posts thats its retarded for people to try to make their own formulas with other peoples products, its just throwing down dozens of years of research down the tube. So basically i would either use something super simple like 8-16 lucas formula or maxigro/bloom (most economical) or flora nova(most expensive). i suggest looking at this website http://lucasformula.com for more info. I'm not qualified to be giving out advice but its quite clear GH products are the most used ones of all others

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shorelineOG said:

Been growing hydro for years and have used many products and done side by side comparisons. Use tap water and dyna gro. Use cal mag by botanicare because it also has iron. Top off with fresh water. No additives. Follow directions for strength, learn to read the plants some plants are heavy feeders. Don't worry about ppm. After a couple of weeks into flower I switch to botanicare pure blend bloom base nutrient. Then flush for a week or two until the plant fades in color.

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jronnn said:

i have calmat plus by botanicare and i recently got the 2.2 bags of maxi bloom and gro you've found dynagro is the best out of all of what you tried? you've tried maxi, flora nova, 8-16 lucas formula and canna and all the other stuff too?

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shorelineOG said:

Not the best because they are basically all the same thing. Dynagro is cheaper and simpler to use. Maxibloom is also a good choice and will give the same results.

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jin420 said:

So after days searching the web I've only been further befuddled and given a occular migraine so I figured I'd ask what my bud brothers and sisters here at RUI what they are using. Have used gh bloom/micro with the lucas formula, h&g aqua flakes and an bloom/micro again with the lucas formula but its been awhile and my memory is off due to a undiagnosed neruological disease. Using CES 3 part right now and am having k deficiencies but that may have been due to me being rusty and being out of the loop a few years. I also started these girls in perilite hempys instead of starting in drip totes with hydroton and moving to perilite hempys during flowering like I used to so I'll be going back to that method.

The additives I have already are x nutrients amino blast, uncle johns blend, bontaicare cal-mag, protekt silca, an bud candy and ultra snow storm. I'll be getting gravity and looking into moab, bud blood and overdrive.

My main concern is what would be the best base hydro nutrients I could use. I found a old thread here where somebody said plain maxigrow and maxibloom beats an and h&g. I don't care which brand it is I'm just trying to find the best base nutes I can use. I have a high end milwaukee combo meter so adjusting ph and ppm levels is not a issue. Sorry if that was a long winded post I appreciate any input on this.

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kmog33 said:

Get whatever's on sale, they're all, more or less, the same. I'm using general hydro and botanicare pure blend right now. It's more about feeding you plant what it wants when it needs it than having the most expensive or newest Nutes out there.


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jronnn said:

oh alright the maxi was cheap as hell. i actually just calculated the difference of price per gallon and assuming you use 7g of maxibloom per gallon of water and 15ml of dynagro per gallon (recommended on nute chart) and you compare similar priced amounts (15$ for 2.2 of maxi and 17$ for 32oz of dyna) you pay 10.56 cents per gallon of maxi and just under 30 cents per gallon of dyna, although if you bought 128oz of dyna for $48 it comes to 19 cents per gallon which is cheap but still not cheaper then the maxibloom. unless maybe your hydro store sells the maxibloom for more then $15 but its cheaper for me to get maxi

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guardiangk said:

Amazon -

Dyna-Gro Foliage Pro $7.63 / 8 Fl oz. or $0.16 / tsp. I use 1/4 tsp per gallon in Veg which is bout $.04 / gallon. I am not doing the math on Maxibloom but $.04/gallon is hard to beat.

Some very experienced growers usedit all the way through. I would personally recommend FP in conjunction with Pro-Tekt (Do some research on silicone). 1/4 strength in Veg, 1/2 strength in flower. Tweak to your taste.

Cheap, simple.

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