Anyone familiar with Raw line of chemicals
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Herb & Suds
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Never ran the Raw line but if it is like the Raw humid acid be careful
A couple granules per gallon is all you need
That little measuring device is full of it
A couple granules per gallon is all you need
That little measuring device is full of it
OldMedUser
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You need to know what you're doing to use ferts like that properly. I'd stick the all-in-one stuff you have for each stage as you learn more about plant nutrition about when and how to use the various things you have there.
Those are all fertilizers of one type or another that need to be mixed with water.
lusidghost
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When I first started growing I used Canna Coco AB and pretty much all of Raw additives. Then after a few successful harvests I got bold and switched to Raw's all in one bloom and grow formulas. It burnt up my plants really quickly and became my first catastrophic failure. I went back to the Canna and stayed on it for years, too afraid to try anything else. I still use the little 10lb Raw buckets all of the time. One of them is my Jack's box which holds a scale and containers of the salts with small beakers for pouring / measuring. It's pretty handy.
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You guys wouldn’t believe me but I don’t would mix all the raw products you see minus the all in ones, with all the products you see in the pic here, not to mention I would mix the tribus bloom and grow together and I would use the same feed from veg to harvest watering and feeding every other time my plants called for water so that means I fed it nutes sometimes twice in a week and I did that for 2 grows with generally no issues lol well non that I knew of… untill I started researching the raw products and what there for and seeing that the tribus is meant to be used separately lol I went through a lot sort of
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lusidghost
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I was just in my Bonsai mother thread, and I noticed the other white Raw bucket holding up my seedlings. Pretty handy indeed.
lusidghost
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I will say I like the idea of blending individual nutrients. I know it's not as simple as adding and subtracting each salt, but it would be nice to reduce nitrogen during flower, boost phosphorus in early flower, ect. It would be great to have my own personalized feeding schedule. I know you can order customized blends or the salts for much cheaper than Raw.
I would like to understand it all better. Like how does Calimagic only have 1 part nitrogen? Raw is 9. Jack's is 15. I know there are different types of calcium, but I haven't researched enough. It seems to me that calnit would be more useful if they were separated. Is there any benefits to this compound over whatever Calimagic uses?
I would like to understand it all better. Like how does Calimagic only have 1 part nitrogen? Raw is 9. Jack's is 15. I know there are different types of calcium, but I haven't researched enough. It seems to me that calnit would be more useful if they were separated. Is there any benefits to this compound over whatever Calimagic uses?
OldMedUser
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There's a long thread in Advanced Techniques I think about building your own custom feeds from basic salts. The first hydro nutes I ever got back in '82 were in ziplocks marked with felt pen and a basic list of blends for various vegetables. Dude pointed at the tomato listing and said that's the one for 'special' tomatoes, wink wink.
I'm a retired chemist and I'm quite happy using bottled nutes with various ammendments and just do the calculations in my head. Close enough for the girls I hang out with.
Rurumo
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There are far cheaper base salts out there if you want to mix your own nutrients, there are also some good threads that tell you how to do it. RAW is grossly overpriced, one of the worst in the business. The 2 oz packages of soy protein or humic acid that they sell for like $20 are ridiculous. You can buy a pound of the exact same soy hydrolysate for less than their 2 oz package. This industry is full of creeps trying to rip you off.
xtsho
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There is nothing special about those RAW products. You can buy the same stuff for 10 times less.
For example the RAW calcium is just calcium nitrate which can be purchased at under $20 for 5 pounds. Same thing with the potassium which is just potassium sulfate and can be purchased for $10 for 5 pounds.
RAW is nothing but repackaged salts marked up to ridiculously insane prices. Complete and total rip off.
For example the RAW calcium is just calcium nitrate which can be purchased at under $20 for 5 pounds. Same thing with the potassium which is just potassium sulfate and can be purchased for $10 for 5 pounds.
RAW is nothing but repackaged salts marked up to ridiculously insane prices. Complete and total rip off.
hotrodharley
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Calimagic is calcium carbonate. Jack's is calcium nitrate. That's why the disparity in nitrogen.
lusidghost
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I forgot about this, but I'm still wondering why Jack's uses calnit. Why not boost the nitrogen in the part A and keep the calcium more isolated? Is it just more cost efficient for them?
Also wouldn't it be a good idea to use Jack's Part A and magnesium, then sub the calnit for calcium carbonate during flower when the excessive N isn't necessary? It seems like would prevent any chance of nitrogen toxicity while eliminating calcium deficiencies. Especially if you're using RO water.
lusidghost
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Sorry to hijack the Raw thread. This did make me check out what I still had left, and I found a decent amount of silica and fulvic acid that I might as well use.