I've always grown in rockwool with the 6" Hugo's and like someone else mentioned I've heard that organics cause algae and bacteria builds up over time and not your good bacteria. A good friend of mine makes a home made organic tea that he uses once a week on his plants and I've seen what it does for the plants so I was trying to incorporate it somehow in my grow. That was back when I had a ebb and flow setup, I have a automated drip setup now. Also yes
Athena Cleanse will kill them off. As far as microbial products in the rockwool I've also used Orca and recently threw King Crab in the mix and my plants love it. You have a pretty long list going there lol not hating or anything it just brings back memories when I was using GH's full line of nutrients and had like 10 different jugs for everything lol I DO NOT miss those days. I use salts now like you were mentioning and will NEVER go back. I've been using
Floraflex for the last almost 2 years and love it. It's SUPER CLEAN, easy to mix and you're not mixing up 10 different things in your res or to water lol. 2 parts for veg and 2 parts for bloom and then they have their Bulky B/Full Tilt to throw in during flower and that's it man. I only add my Orca/King Crab and PowerSI which I now only foliar spray. Anyways, I just wanted to share what I was running with my cubes and let you know that you can definitely run microbes on rockwool.
Thanks bub. Yeah it definitely does cause algae growth.
Yeah I have 4 ebb and flow rooms and 1 larger drip feed room. Flower rooms.
Haha yeah I know that list is stupid long. This is my modified list per some thinking and our conversations. Lmk if similar to your
floraflex in the ways I am wanting to change back to like you do for keeping the medium clean.
Also is that
power si more than just silica I keep hearing about it and my partner left a bottle behind.
For a decent well rounded schedule I like to say there are the essential categories like base, Micros, silica, enzymes, Aminos, acids, Vitamins and then hormone or natural pgrs that promote hormones for growth. Like kelp and auxins and cytokins and tricantnol etc. I chose products based off covering those bases. (Might have left one out).
Veg.
1.Tps Silica Gold (silica)
2.Hvy16 A&B (marcos & micros)
3.
Calmag (micros)
4.TPS N-Primer (xtra macro)
5.Bio cozyme (made of different meals but the alfalfa is what I like, see pic)
6.Mb ferts secret sauce veg formula (has auxins and tricantnol and b vitamins).
7. Hvy 16 finish (for humic acid) any other product for that essential.
8.
Athena cleanse. (You know)
9 Tps root Boost (microbials)
Flower
1.Tps Silica Gold (silica)
2.Hvy16 A&B (marcos & micros)
3.
Calmag (micros)
4. Tps bloom (xtra Macros and more)
5. Liquid Koolbloom (bulking)
6. Powder koolbloom (booster and ripening)
7. Tps signal (terps and more)
8.Bio cozyme
9. Hvy 16 finish
10. Mb ferts secrete sauce flower formula.
11. Cleanse
12. Florakleen (just last week)
Now how does it look. Oh yeah and alfalfa extra at a few key weeks during both veg and flower. Maybe 4 times during the whole veg and flower. And also the big dog of my products.... vitamyze only once in veg and once in flower. You gotta try it. See pic.