BunkerMonkey
New Member
OK...this is my first DWC grow and my plants have only been in the buckets a little over a month but they are beautiful and thriving. You may not like my nutes since I'm not "organic", but I've been following a grower who calls himself Hygro Hybrid on You tube for the last 6 months or so and I'm basically doing what he does since what he does brings in an average of gram per watt and since I'm not a shareholder in Consumers Power I want to grow the most and best weed possible (who doesn't) for my electricity dollar. Hygros recipies have been changing lately but when I started putting my plan together he was using RO water and -
H2O2 (industrial strength 29%) to kill unwanted bacteria and so forth, also is an oxidizer, but is probably used up quickly in that role.
Silica Blast or its equivalent. Plants love silicates. It's also supposed to make them more pliable for LST. I bend the hell out of branches.
CalMag or its equivalent (calcium and magnesium and some iron) because plants love CalMag. Also found naturally in most non-RO water.
General Hydroponics FloraGrow/FloraMicro/FloraBloom for N-P-K and micro nutrients.
General Hydroponics Rapid Start until the roots are well developed.
Adjust pH back to 6.0
All nutrients are ONE HALF of what the bottle says and you should end up with about 600-700ppm in RO water. I don't know how to mix nutes using well water or city water, but I would assume you could drop the CalMag and have a higher final ppm if those elements are present in that water, which they should be.
I'm all for "organic" weed, but I didn't want to start fooling around with beneficial bacteria in something so new to me. Maybe with time I might add some so-called "organic" nutrients, but I also didn't want to stink up the basement with bat shit, if you know what I mean.
I stumbled upon HygroHybrid last fall when I got my MMJ card and decided to get serious about growing and supplying the dispensaries with my "overages". Hygro rambles a lot and mispronounces a few words but he seems to know his shit so I started following his grow videos and making notes. Unfortunately his videos were getting reported to YouTube and they were pulling the videos down so Hygro had to a Subscription Channel, but it's only $0.99/month. Damn cheap in my opinion! He's doing a LED/HPS grow off experiment right now to settle that matter once and for all. He's using Black Dog LEDs. Is that what you are running?
H2O2 (industrial strength 29%) to kill unwanted bacteria and so forth, also is an oxidizer, but is probably used up quickly in that role.
Silica Blast or its equivalent. Plants love silicates. It's also supposed to make them more pliable for LST. I bend the hell out of branches.
CalMag or its equivalent (calcium and magnesium and some iron) because plants love CalMag. Also found naturally in most non-RO water.
General Hydroponics FloraGrow/FloraMicro/FloraBloom for N-P-K and micro nutrients.
General Hydroponics Rapid Start until the roots are well developed.
Adjust pH back to 6.0
All nutrients are ONE HALF of what the bottle says and you should end up with about 600-700ppm in RO water. I don't know how to mix nutes using well water or city water, but I would assume you could drop the CalMag and have a higher final ppm if those elements are present in that water, which they should be.
I'm all for "organic" weed, but I didn't want to start fooling around with beneficial bacteria in something so new to me. Maybe with time I might add some so-called "organic" nutrients, but I also didn't want to stink up the basement with bat shit, if you know what I mean.
I stumbled upon HygroHybrid last fall when I got my MMJ card and decided to get serious about growing and supplying the dispensaries with my "overages". Hygro rambles a lot and mispronounces a few words but he seems to know his shit so I started following his grow videos and making notes. Unfortunately his videos were getting reported to YouTube and they were pulling the videos down so Hygro had to a Subscription Channel, but it's only $0.99/month. Damn cheap in my opinion! He's doing a LED/HPS grow off experiment right now to settle that matter once and for all. He's using Black Dog LEDs. Is that what you are running?