Lucky Okie

First of all, thanks for having me! I first grew weed in 1977 In Colorado Springs. I've since grown it in Oklahoma over the years as a useful hobby. I've always been a gardener, and gardens are always in soil. Right?
With our state's recent legalization, there have been a lot of entrepeneurs vying for the cash. I was known locally for some nice buds, and was referred to a man who needed a grower. His previous grower was leaving, and I was offered the job of finishing the last 4 weeks of about 100 plants flowering in one room, and another 50 in their last two weeks of flowering in another room, as well as 6 big mommies, a hundred unidentified dixie cups, and another hundred or so plants in their second or third week of veg.
The system in place is a drain to waste coco setup, with controller based Gavita 1000 DE's, humidity control, CO2, and timed drip irrigation from a central fertigation mixing/tank room. We're using House and Garden nutrients, and I've been so impressed with what I've seen so far, that I abandoned my plans to talk him into soil.
The last guy abandoned the 100 plant room and the lights were left on for 24 hours a day for a week and a half without anyone knowing. Those plants started dying and fruited wildly! (?) We had to harvest them 4 weeks early. I've brought the dixie cup generation up and through veg and their third week of flower now. Going strictly by the House and Garden chart. THEY ARE FREAKING MONSTERS!
We vowed to follow the "book" for my first full crop, in order to establish a baseline. I already think they're being overfed, but they are the picture of health! I will be supplementing with a little Overdrive, but that's it.
Plants in the flower rooms are each getting a liter and a half every 6 hours. Plants in veg are hand fed at my discretion.
I feel like I learned how to drive, and then got handed the keys to a Ferrari.
Any advice from House and Garden users would be appreciated.

Nutes are nutes are nutes.

I have to agree that nutes are nutes for the most part. I have found a few additives I Iike over the years and run Advanced nutrients base nutes simply because I liked the results I had back in early 2000's and since then they have added the ph perfect to it. It just makes it easier for me it's another step I dont have to worry about.

But in all honesty if I had an operation that big I'd run dry salts (well if I owned it, if was just growing for someone else and was paid salary or hourly I'd run Advanced nutes). The reason being like the guy above said nutes are nutes some are just easier to use and some are cheaper. So unless overhead effects your pay somehow then I'd stick with house and garden or whatever nutes you like and are used too. If you have a stake in the company then your wasting money on bottles that are partly water.

Floraflex makes great dry nutes check out ig to see some awesome results from them, I'm really thinking of making the switch but I don't go thru nutes very fast anyways and ya know what they say if ain't broke don't fix it.

Also what you doing in newb section I hardly ever look in here and It sounds like your hardly a newbie. If you have more questions later you might get more and better answers in another section.

Sorry to keep posting but have you used overdrive in the past and had good results? I've used it a couple times and don't care for it I just run big bud a lil longer than recommended and seem to do better. I think maybe it's the fact that big bud has a Coco specific formula and overdrive doesn't but it seemed to cause a lot of foxtailing for me as Coco puts off it's own p or k can't remember which rihht now but one or the other and too much of it can cause fox tailing from what I've seen and read.

Apalchen said:

Also what you doing in newb section I hardly ever look in here and It sounds like your hardly a newbie. If you have more questions later you might get more and better answers in another section.

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I figured since I "just joined", I was a Newbie. I'll figure this out, too.