@JCashman I don't like AN's marketing schemes, and I believe most of their products are just hype. They may use 2% pharmaceutical grade ingredients, but the rest is crap. AN is the same shit ingredients as GH, only priced much higher and packaged with fancy names and logos.
@greenthumbdanny I used GH 3- part for years, always customized to particular strains and did it rather well, if I do say so myself. The point of this thread is that I loved my GH for reasons of control of the micro and N-P (K stays high across the Grow and Bloom formulas). I just don't like the flavors anymore from GH now that I switched. As far as flushing, I usually do a minumum 2 week flush, 1 week with
Hygrozyme, and 1 week clean water. GH's cheap source of rock phosphates make it damn near impossible to flush and ALWAYS leaves a residual metallic taste. I didn't believe it or admit it either until I switched....
@KidTwist On point as usual, homie! Lookin' damn good...can't wait to rock that cut! You are vegging in coco and transplanting to
ProMix! Whoa...its like you read my mind! I'm doing the exact same thing! But plan on feeding only organic teas in bloom. Figured if I start getting crazy deficiences, I would instantly switch to H&G Bio-1 with GO
CalMag. Isn't this similar to pigfarmer's recipe? Although i think he vegges with H&G Cocos then drops em into
ProMix.
@mrdizzle Base nutes can make a massive difference in flavor, but using the wrong additives at the wrong times or wrong amounts can do it too. Honestly, I don't use much boosters, unless I am trying to stop stretch, then I give em a hard K boost at week 1, 2, or 3. Yes, they are all basic salts, but what are they derived from? Urea and ammonia (ammoniacal) based salts tend to be less readily absorbed and also tend to flush slower for the same reason, nutrient mobility. Not only does the form of the nitrogen or phosphorous molecule make a difference, i.e. phosphite vs. phosphate or nitrite vs. nitrate, but so does the source and processing of the given salt to reduce or eliminate any residual impurities. I don't have a link for the thread right now, but there were tests done by the Washington state Department of Agriculture on all of the leading hydroponic nutirents. GH,
FoxFarm, and AN all test extremely high for heavy metal impurities, i.e. arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury, boron, copper, etc. The main source of these impurities are urea/ammonia based nitrogen and rock phosphate sourced phosphorus. In face, the 2 North American mines for rock phosphate are some of the most contaminated in the world, up to 22% impurities, where the Chinese mines only produce around 2-8% impurities.
And once again, of course you can get the flavor to shine well in GH with a good flush, as I said, I always flushed 2 weeks, if not more, but GH does always leave a metallic taste, especially if you went hard on the
FloraBloom and/or KoolBloom, as that is where most of the rock phosphate ends up.
Sorry, I think its only Canna, H&G, or
Botanicare from here on out...although I like the GO line!
