Cheapest nutrients?
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I dont know how it holds up in soil personally but dyna-gro is pretty good, cheap, and does well in hydro. I would imagine you would get similar results in soil by following the directions and measuring ph runoff, etc. If you dont give a shit about chelated salts, environmental run-off, and/or organics then you get a pretty good bang for your buck. It's also pretty simple, and hard to fuck up.. Im sure others will vouch for it as well, if not here, then on other forums.
GOLDBERG71
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I'm a dyna gro voucher. I'm not very familiar with chelated salts but I've read somewhere that some of the salts are chelated in dyna gro. I use soiless mix as a medium.
D port Growth
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as shitty as it sounds GH flora series if you want to get everything you need for a cheapo setup . grow, micro, bloom , cal-mag and a bag of kool bloom powder. 5 products that will work for you. or just get a cheap starter pack from roots or technoflora cheap cheap cheap.
BobBitchen
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D port Growth
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roots uprising grow and bloom powders do well also for 20 bucks
Carolina Dream'n
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Ionic has a one part designed for soil.
Klause Flouride
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The General Organics Go-Box is like $40. It has everything you need in smaller bottles and you can just buy the larger bottles as you need them (like $20 a piece) when you run out. It will get you through a couple of grows at least.
a senile fungus
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Maxsea or dynagro.
I use maxsea on some stuff.
I use maxsea on some stuff.
elfo777
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The cheapest way to grow is to make your own soil in my opinion. You can reuse it and it gets better every time you do. You can look up the the recipes in google, from basic to subcools supersoil.
Basically you add earthworm castings, bat guano, fish bone meal, dolomite lime, epsom salts, blood meal, etc. It may be a bit more expensive at first but you can reuse it reammending it with 1/4 of what you used the first time. Very cheap long term and very efficient, organic, and you only have to add water.
Basically you add earthworm castings, bat guano, fish bone meal, dolomite lime, epsom salts, blood meal, etc. It may be a bit more expensive at first but you can reuse it reammending it with 1/4 of what you used the first time. Very cheap long term and very efficient, organic, and you only have to add water.
Chorse
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Not counting the extra myco and perlite I add to my cheap low end Promix... My use of Jacks Citrus, Epson, and K2SO4 amounts to less than $1.25 per plant and each plant averages 3.5 zips.
Or in other words my nute costs for 6 plants (21 zips) is around $8. Read it and weep.
Or in other words my nute costs for 6 plants (21 zips) is around $8. Read it and weep.
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Chorse
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What would you estimate the per plant nute cost then?
OneHitDone
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One thing everyone left out is - what is your time worth? lol
How much time mixing, dissolving, top-dressing, soil blending etc are you wanting to do?
Also, your on soil but are you looking for a mineral or "organic" approach?
I have not used Ionic soil but the standard product is Rockin on quality and simplicity in DWC
Also look at the Jacks powder as a cheap option or Flora Nova (very low usage rate makes it cost effective)
For Organics, it seems a lot of people are shifting towards the Dr. Earth products available at most garden centers
How much time mixing, dissolving, top-dressing, soil blending etc are you wanting to do?
Also, your on soil but are you looking for a mineral or "organic" approach?
I have not used Ionic soil but the standard product is Rockin on quality and simplicity in DWC
Also look at the Jacks powder as a cheap option or Flora Nova (very low usage rate makes it cost effective)
For Organics, it seems a lot of people are shifting towards the Dr. Earth products available at most garden centers
elfo777
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I have no idea man, but buying all the nutes I needed cost me 120€. I bought fish bone meal, bat guano, peruvian seabird guano, earthworm castings, blood meal, rock phosphate, seaweed fertilizer, trichoderma harzianum and plagron supermix which includes feather meal and bone meal and much more. I've done 3 grows since then (each with 11 plants) and I still have more than half of every nutrients I bought. 10 months without buying any other nutrients. But as I said, you have to spend a bit of money at first, but it pays off.
Plants are healthy and I went a bit overboard with nutrients.
Chorse
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Nice...but not sure you can claim the "cheapest".
elfo777
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I made my own recipe but Im sure you can get similar nutrients or a more basic supersoil that works very well for less money.
Im sure you can grow with just cheap veg and bloom bottled nutes, I guess that would be the cheapest.
Freddie Millergogo
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Isn't Scotts and Miracle Grow pretty close to MonSatan aka Monsanto?