Hi Leadsled,
I have been using the CNS17 for my first indoor grow. It seems to be going a great job. See below.
For bloom I am using the three part Cutting Edge Solutions, Micro, Bloom and Grow. Was going to stick with the brand and use Mag Amp and Plant Amped but didn't like the price. So I looked at the ingredients and came up
with Azomite for Magnesium and trace elements, and Ferta-All Calcium 12 for calcium.
Bud Factor X is one of
Advanced Nutrients newest products at a street price of $85 a liter. It's 0.5% Magnesium and not much else. Recommended dosage is 8ml per gallon of water for hydroponic usage = 112 gallons. Cal- Mag is about 1/6th of the price.
Azomite provides the same amount of Magnesium plus about 60 micro nutes that are mainly beneficial to Marijuana. None of them are harmful to weed.
A 44 lb bag is $32 and will dose 4,400 gallons of water. If you bought Bud Factor X for the same quantity of water it would cost you more than $3,300.
So the Bud Factor X is more than 1,000 times the cost of the Azomite.
Fert-All Calcium 12 $28 for 2.5 gallon and is 12% with citric acid to aid absorbtion. Plant-Amp is $85 a gallon with a 1% solution of Calcium.
If you use the recommended dosage for each the Fert-All costs about 1/100th of the the price of the Plant-Amp.
It pays to read those labels.
The Reef