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Lets talk about botanicare readygro aeration formula!

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What's up everybody.

I'm getting myself out of a year long Dwc nightmare. I'm done constantly battling micro organisms that love to munch on roots. Yes I did the Heisenberg tea. It did help me rid my plants of root slime, but only during the winter. Once air temps went up the tea wouldn't cut it anymore. It was constant sterilizing buckets, root drenching in h2o2, reinniculating with bennies....over and over and over for nathen, nada!
(My winter harvest were amazing, Dwc can be awesome but it can also be a bitch. Keep it small if you are
Leaning that way)

Anyway, that was the past (like 3 days ago lol)
I removed my plants from there Dwc buckets and tossed them into 1 gal pots of readygro aeration. So far so good. And now I have a shit load more space in my grow room lol.

Anyway I had 6 newly rooted clones and like 16 Dwc transplants. All the root systems were super weak so I am treating them all like new clones.

I watered with fresh ro ph'd water the First day, with tea, I always use tea. The second day I watered with really light (300 ppm) dyna grow veg. Good one part btw.
I have all my 1 gal pots in a 3x3 flood table. So I flooded the second day. And now I'm flooding every 1.5 days or so since the medium is staying wet. Even tho the bag says to water 4-6 times a day. We'll get there.

I just wanted to get other peeps perspective on readygro aeration mix.

Do you treat it like soil?
Like coco?
Like hydro?
Drain to waste?
Flood n drain?
Drip?
I'd like to see how everyone else uses this stuff.
Do you use coco nutes?
Do you think they are necessary?
Cal-mag?

I ph at 5.8-6.0
Feed every water recirculating in a flood tray. Using RO water with no cal mg as its in the high N formula from dyna grow. I Plan on flushing every couple weeks. Or during res change.
I'm almost out of my dyna grow high N formula and will be using the rest of my gh 3 part and root excellrator (did not use root exel in Dwc, I know it causes probs) so I'm really just trying to keep it simple.

Another great thing about this mix:
When using rockwool cubes to clone, in Dwc the cubes stay drenched and that caused me problems, but with the aeration mix, it actually pulls water from
The cubes to make it only as wet as the soilless readygro mix. Not sure If that's been a prob for anyone else but that shit would keep my roots from expanding out from the cube properly. I'd only get good root growth when those cubes were almost dry to totally dry. Which is really hard to manage when dwc'ing

Anyway, would love to hear your readygro stories, comments, whatever.

Thanks
Peace
 
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Oh btw I posted this thread on another site but didn't like the asshole giving me shit, so now I'm here :)

Hope you guys are cooler lol
 
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welcome to the farm.
top drip recirculating should work great(I got my best yields from using this)
Ive found botanicare coco to be really salty, but since youre already in it....
I went from rdwc back to coco a couple years ago. too much hassle, and worry.
you and your plants will love it. I use a tea once a week as a flush, and it works great.
good luck.

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Thanks for warm welcome!
Just to clarify, the stuff I'm using is Botanicare readygro aeration formula. Not just botanicare coco. I think they are two different products. I could be wrong. I'm gonna check. But this stuff is supposed to be per washed and treated and amended with quite a bit of stuff plus bennies and perlite.

What coco did you switch too? Do you amend at all? Thanks for your info sealed!
 
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Botanicare ReadyGro is a specialized blend of perlite, coir fiber, compost accelerator, earthworm castings, Agrimineral 72 silica clay, polymere hydro-crystals and Rootshield bio-fungicide. ReadyGro Aeration formula is specifically designed for 4-6 waterings daily
 
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I just realized that says fungicide... That can't be good for bennies....
 
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I run canna.
I add about 30 percent perlite.
youre right, ive never tested the runoff from ready grow, Just cocogro. which came out at 1500ppm!
 
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Botanicare Cocogro is aged 18 to 24 months to avoid pH and nutrient imbalances. It has optimum air to water ratio with 30% air content. Cocogro is fully decomposed with stable pH & EC and is flushed of excess sodium. It is inoculated with mycorrhizae and trichoderma fungi. « less
 
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The coco grow seems better to be honest. Just add perlite. I definitely read that readygro was mic and trac fungi. I need to find that again
 
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do the test!
take a 2 gallon pot, fill with medium.
take a gallon of 0 ppm ro water and pour through the medium.
test the runoff.
Ive done this test with a ton of different brands of coco, and canna came out the lowest @ 150 ppm.
Just a little food for thought.
 
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Here it is....

Botanicare ReadyGro Aeration is a specialized soilless growing medium formulated for hydroponics gardens that require multiple waterings each day.

It is virtually impossible to over water plants with ReadyGro Aeration. Your plants can sit in ReadyGro with 1 to 2 inches of water and, through the process of capillary feeding, hydrate and feed as needed!

This premium blend of natural and organic ingredients contain an optimum air to water ratio for superior growth rates and yields.

Why do gardens love ReadyGro Aeration formula? It contains:

Coir fiber
Perlite
Pumice stone
Earthworm castings
Agrimineral 76 silica clay
Sea weed meal
Sea weed concentrate
Leonardite ore (natural humates)
Organic compost
Mycorrhizae fungi
Organic root innoculants (beneficial microorganisms)

ReadyGro Aeration Formula resists compaction while delivering growth enhancing micronutrients and cell-building supplements plants love.
 
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sounds copy/pasted right from their website.
there is alot of marketing in this industry.
 
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I feel like since its not pure coco, and has amendments it wouldn't really be a conclusive test. If I was using the cocogro, them I would certainly work. Ian try it anyway. All these products se
Like great mediums. The moisture formula and cocogro all look great.
 
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True story man. Lots of marketing in this industry. The description on botanicares web page has less details then I what I found shopping around from online retailers. I'm gonna email them. I don't want fungicide in my mix....
 
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Honestly I'm confused, are u asking opinions here or are u advertising for them? No need to copy n paste all ur info on the product. If I was curious, i would do the research. Sorry to hear about ur misfortune in dwc. I use readygro aeration at 20% in my medium mix. I mainly use it to loosen up my base of sunshine #4. Don't like running it straight, it does have a salt build up issue and I don't need all those pre ammended ingredients. They don't suit my needs. For 22$ a bag, it shouldn't make or break ur grow. Like sealed stated: run a side by side and post ur findings, that's something literature can't compete with. Much luck. Z
 
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Just posting the info man. Thanks for your input
 
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Do you add anything besides readygro to your sunshine mix 4?
 
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I used readygro for about a year and a half. I had some really good runs using it. I liked the no mixing aspect. I eventually moved to 50/50 Canna/perlite and found it much more predictable without the amendments. Then went to a chow mix with even better results. Depends on your style of growing. I would treat the ready gro a little more like soil because of the amendments. Personally I like Gold Labels 60/40 mix!
 
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What is this chow mix? I keep seeing post about it but havent found an explanatiCan someone explain the chow mix please?
 
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Ive been using the ready grow for a long while. Its light, so its easy to carry. I don't have to mix anything, I just fill the pots and go. And it works good enough. I treat it like soil and water when the pot gets light, I get my plants on a every other day hand water, no run off at all, No major problems. I wish they wouldn't put water 4-6 times a day on the bag, You know how many grows that fuks up.
 
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