bender420
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Lookin spectacular man! That is gonna be some killer smoke. I am so envious that you are getting close and I am just starting. As for the organics in hydro, I am pulling the Bloom from my line up all together. I added it a few days ago and my reserviors are layed with slime already. I am so pissed, because now I have to drain and clean them. It is back to the H&G line only, I never had any issues with keeping the res clean until I started the Bloom. It would probably work well for soil or hand watering, but not for hydro. I might just use it fro my outdoor plants.
I wanted to ask your opinion on something. I know you did a lot of research on H&G and I have a lot of cocos A/B left that I want to use up, but I am going to switch to rockwool. I know the aqua flakes is what I should be using, but from what I understand the cocos just has extra cal/mag in it. Do you know if it would hurt anything to use up my cocos before buying the aqua flakes?
Hey bro, thanks for the kind words. Last round you were ahead of me and I was envious. LOL it is just back and forth mang.
I agree with the call on dropping everything and going back to your orig regimen.
I don't know all the differences between the coco and aqua flakes. I do know that the NPK ratios are almost identical, with N and K a tad bit higher in the flakes. As you said I would suspect the cocos to have a bit more ca.
I am pretty sure you can use it with minor adjustment in cal-mag dosing, most likely decreasing the cal-mag a bit. Just keep a close eye on it, you should be able to adjust the problems quickly by balancing A and B along with the Cal-mag.
Also flakes are suggested over the cocos for recirc systems, even for coco as the medium.
Looking forward to seeing you run RW, really want to get your final input and see which medium you like more.