What is your preferred nutrients and why?

[nakes]

Just wondering what nutrients do you guys prefer.  And what do you use as bloom boosters.  I used bloombastic but it's very pricey..

[AK-47 Gold Arabesque]

With this grow for the first time I'm now trying FloraCoco DualPart, Grow and Bloom. Also have FinalPart and the FlashClean which I'll be using.

[TheLazyFisherman]

For now....Same as AK but Tripart instead. Reason : i struggle catching deficiencies quick enough with organics

Hoping to do water only organic run next

Edited December 3, 2023 by TheLazyFisherman
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[Bos]

We grow organic outdoors, I use a lot of different amendments in my soils, which are basically built from scratch. The wormfarms were a game changer, castings for the soilbuilding and topdressing as well as wormtea.

Liquid nutes I prefer Biobizz,  with Seagrow and molasses for AACT.

Also use numerous liquid extracts and FPJ's during veg and flower.

So far, so good.

[DesignatedDave]

Depends if I'm growing organic or not at the time.

 

If non-organic, my preferred nutrients are the Gold Label nutrients, but they are wack expensive. Alternative to this is the TA Tri-part, I'm had fairly ok success with the TA nutrients, but overall, my success with synthetic nutrients has been "questionable" in general.

If organic, I amend Dirty Hands Elemental Blend into the green bag of freedom farms (1L Elemental Blend to 20L of FF soil) and then I feed with around 50% of the bio-bizz recommended nutrients (depending on stage of growth, I use more around week 4  - week 6 of flower), this method has worked the best for me.

The only "catch" being that you probably need to give CalMag for the first few weeks of veg. I don't know why, but every plant I stick into freedom farms has an immediate Calmag deficiency, but is easily combatted with one dose of Calmag a week for the first 3 / 4 weeks of veg, then its fine after that. If you anticipate this, its great easy growing.

With organic I find you just need to work 2 weeks ahead of where your plant is in development. For example, if you going to flip to flower, start pre-loading your soil with the nutrients the plant is going to need in a week or two's time. This gives the microbes time to break it down into a form the plant can uptake when it needs it.

So take a bloom booster for example, it's basically just Potassium, so in week 4 of flower, I start pre-loading the soil with lots of potassium so that by the end of week 5 or start of week 6 the plant is able to absorb as much potassium as it wants.
The same happens at the end of the grow, from week 7 I start feeding water only so that in week 9 I can harvest. 

[SHiNi]

Sorry to jack the thread but is this TA Organics really fully organic like BioBizz?

https://hydroponic.co.za/hydroponics/terra-aquatica-pro-organic-starter-kit/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA1MCrBhAoEiwAC2d64X2d5Ep6HEdNCIsNi73bHnFvt6f3vroYSXhGvV0T497Nqqe8-6SyWBoCCO4QAvD_BwE

[DesignatedDave]

16 hours ago, SHiNi said:

Sorry to jack the thread but is this TA Organics really fully organic like BioBizz?

https://hydroponic.co.za/hydroponics/terra-aquatica-pro-organic-starter-kit/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA1MCrBhAoEiwAC2d64X2d5Ep6HEdNCIsNi73bHnFvt6f3vroYSXhGvV0T497Nqqe8-6SyWBoCCO4QAvD_BwE

Yup, it's completely organic and they even make mention that you need lots of microbes in order to break it down.

[Bos]

5 hours ago, DesignatedDave said:

Yup, it's completely organic and they even make mention that you need lots of microbes in order to break it down.

Thats key with organics as the microbes do most of the work.

[SHiNi]

Thanks for the info guys I appreciate it