Nutrients debAt !

smokebros said:

First off OP let me make sure you understand one thing. If you are gong to be using Fax Farm nutrients throughout your grow than you will need all three of those bottles. The grow, big bloom, and tiger bloom. These are going to be essential nutrients that your plant will need throughout its life as a plant. It will need different amounts of those nutrients at different stages, but all three are necessary.

The other nutrients you posted about are not essential macro nutrients to the plant. Essentially, you don't any of them. How do I know that? I know that because you basically presented the question as (do I cut out macro and micro nutrients and instead use supplemental boosters in their place?). This tells me your a notice grower. Novice growers should make things as easiest as possible for themselves, much like simplifying the playbook for a rookie QB in football.
My main suggestion is to understand what NPK ratios are and how these macronutrient's play a role in a plants life. Cannabis plants are not much different from many other plants and you just need to make sure you are reading the plant's behavior. Someone before me suggested Dynagrow. That is a solid suggestion. If you have already purchased nutrients than by all means make-due with what you have available. But if you still have yet to purchase nutrients, Dynagrow would be one of my top three options.

OP, let me explain to you why.

Like I said before, simple is better. For example, If you used Dynagrow than you would only need to purchase two bottles. First, I would suggest the Foliage Pro 9-3-6 for the entirety of the vegetative stage. Once flowering you would simple switch to a Bloom 3-12-6. Depending on the specific strain of cannabis plant you "might" encounter leaf necrosis during flowering because of the lack of N. In this case you would simply add some of the Grow 9-3-6 to boost the Nitrogen and be on your way without a sweat until havest.

Growing doesn't have to be extremely complicated and it doesn't need to involve hundreds of dollars of nutrients. Most of the nutrients are just junk. Instead of creating a simple and efficient formula such as a 5-5-5 grow, or 3-9-6 flower, they create ratios that make no sense just to make the consumer buy 4-5 different bottles because it's 4-5 times more profitable.

Sorry to rant,
SB

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Applepie/vanilla icecream said:

Mr. zachstern, don't let people make things complicated or turn it into some sort of rocket science. I have had people tell me all sorts of stuff, and I am sure I will get attacks from this thread as well. I like using FoxFarm. It might be a little pricey but a bottle goes a long way. Just use/go by their schedule/ its simple. You'll start off using their BigBloom for beginning veg stage, just cut back on the recommended amount to 1/4 tsp instead of 1 tsp per gallon your first couple of weeks and play it by ear. You'll be able to decide when to move it up. Just grow the shit....have fun.... it's a freaking WEED. They don't die as easy as people all make it out to be. Just one thing, you didn't mention if your doing hydro or soil cause on their BigGrow, they make one for each. Just make sure you buy the right one that you will be needing. I hope your doing soil cause that Hydro is for the birds, and a waste of time cause your weed will taste nothing as good as soil grown will. Sorry, but I had to throw that out there just to piss everybody off. You'll see watch the threads start attacking . Peace brother and good luck on your grow........

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