Also what order are u adding your nutrients?
If your adding a silica supplement like silica blast, or dyna gro-protekt... your gonna wanna add the silica first and let it mix thoroughly with your water first, then add your base nutes in whatever order the manufacturer suggests... then add any supplements, and then your cal/mag last....
if you are NOT adding any kind of separate silica product, you'll wanna add the cal/mag first and let it mix thoroughly with your water, then add your base nutes; and then your other supplements...
I run blue planet nutes 3 part which is similar to the GH 3 part... I use theyre silica product so I add my silica, micro, grow, bloom, my 2 bloom boosters, and then my cal/mag (I run zero veg clones so I don't really veg hence the 2 bloom boosters)... also in between adding each product... I have a submersible pump circulating the solution around the res so it mixes properly for a good 5-10 minutes before adding the next product, or if I'm in a rush I'll watch until ppm stabilizes at the least before adding anything else...
i guess if u add silica at the wrong time it can cause some combining issues with your other products as will cal/mag if you don't add it first...
I guess with certain product lines you can add it whatever way u like as some products won't cause an issue but some will and I'm going loosely by what my nute manufacturer told me awhile back that I can't recall all the scientific terms he used as to why (the word precipitation comes to mind) but I've followed his instructions since and have had nothing but good luck..
if you ever wanna try a simple to use, much cheaper than GH, 2 or 3 part nute line; give blue planet a try... I can't say a single bad thing about them other than I hate the weekly 24 hour plain water flush to minimize salt build up but I guess that's what you get when u run synthetics... eventually I plan on switching up to something like mills or canna but for now the simplicity of BPN is helping an old dert grower bang out some pretty sweet hydro product... I need to work out my formulations for each strain but that comes with time... but I've contacted bpn 3 or 4 times and every single time i got a detailed response from someone usually in less than 24 hours as long as it wasn't on a weekend or something....
Personally I refuse to do anything with advanced.. theyre product lines are so expensive and rediculasly over hyped that you're paying more for the labels I'm thinking than anything else... as far as the ph perfect shit, when I mix my 3 part, the ph lands squarely on 5.5-5.6 most of the time so I guess bpn's cheap ass nutes are ph perfect as well... don't get sucked into the hype of snake oil... AN's products work, but you can get the same or better results at half the price im willing to bet....
