I personally think that the "blame the nutes" statement is probably most accurate. MG is a balance fert that does contain Mg,Ca, Zn, Fe, and other micros. I'm personally not sold on the cannabis specific nutes myself. Read the plant then feed the plant...
It works for the rest of my garden why not my mj?
Mind you, what do I know.
Hey.I am wondering why i see so much negative print against "miracle grow." A friend of mine is using it and his plants are huge !!
Does anyone know what is up with that ??
Good GP food. Just not new or popular. If you are not tyring to out spend or out grow the next guy you are often considered an idiot who should not be growing.I personally think that the "blame the nutes" statement is probably most accurate. MG is a balance fert that does contain Mg,Ca, Zn, Fe, and other micros. I'm personally not sold on the cannabis specific nutes myself. Read the plant then feed the plant...
It works for the rest of my garden why not my mj?
Mind you, what do I know.
exactly.. other than that MG is ok. I use it for my bonsai mums.. which i want to barely keep alive.. and i nute them before i take cuttings. If you were growing in soil and looking to have good yields though.. i think one wouldn't use MG. Its not about shitting on it.. theres just better productsMg is missing calcium, magnesium, trace elements and sulfur I believe. Other than that its an OK nutrient for soil only, it cannot be used in any hydroponic application.
Go get a miraclegro grown bud tested at a lab for analysis of elemental heavy metals and leftover fertilizer salts and then compare that with an organic grown bud and you will see what the difference is....pretty sure High Times or similar magazine did an article on why not to use miraclegro for medical marijuana growing. BIG time no no if you are growing medical marijuana for a dispensary or patient and many of the really good dispensaries test for this to ensure the BEST pot possible for the patient. MG has levels of arsenic, cobalt, mercury, lead....Cannabis takes up heavy metals and stores them in leaves and buds.
no magnesium or calcium, also the ratio is based very roughly on a cannabis vegging profile. Flowering it wouldn't fit very well.
he posted the old ass box of MG, from when it was new on the marketFirstly, using High Times IMO is a biased source. They are driven by advertising dollars and by publishing an article that stated "MG is just fine for your cannabis" is clearly not in the best interest of a magazine depentent on cannabis specific sponsorships...
Secondly, independant research published in this article of the seattle times states the opposite of what you are saying;
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20000326&slug=4011973
For those who don't want to read the article...
"Alaska Fish Fertilizer products, widely sold in organic food stores, were a little over background level in arsenic and mercury, as you might expect from fish, but still well within the state standards.
A company called Down to Earth Distributors Inc. had mixed results with cadmium, mercury and lead. Blood Meal, Earth Feather Meal, Cottonseed Meal, Bio-Turf and Rhododendron Azalea Mix were cleaner than Vegan Mix, Aged Bat Guano, Seabird Guano and All-Purpose Vegetable 4-6-2, which were slightly above soil background level in two toxic metals.
Products from The Scotts Co., the largest fertilizer distributor to America's hardware and garden stores, were very clean overall. Scotts submitted 163 test reports to the state; 84 were below the soil background level in all five toxic chemicals.
Scotts' Miracle-Gro was exceptionally low in contaminants. Nine of the 10 Miracle Gro products tested would have passed the strictest test proposed by environmentalists - a test opposed by Scotts, whose lobbyist argued there was no proof of harm from higher levels of toxic metals."
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Looks like there is a 0.5% Mg content to me...
Additionally, plants typically take up what they require out of the soil. Unless there is an excess of other nutrients or pH issue that block certain things from being draw out.
I was wrong Ca is not listed however, as stated on the package "is to be used as part of a complete system". Personally I use bone meal when transplanting anything, that adds plenty of Ca to the mix IMO.
I've had a veggie garden for years and never had a problem.
Again, this is my first mj grow so what do I know...