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Advanced Nutrients for hydro

Jason, I use AN in hydro, and I like their products. Their website is too flashy and sensational, it's hard to find the basic information, but I did find it and I worked out the schedule of when to add what and how much. Growing 4 plants in my big growbox with around 6 gallons of water, I get up to about 50% their recommended dose, slightly less, by around the 4th week of flowering. I've called their help line a few times, and have an intelligent conversation with the person. That is a definite plus: I like to get my questions answered.
 
Thanks for the insights! Now I know where to look.
I agree the AN site causes sensory overload. If you have good nutes and good feeding schedules for hydro, why all the emphasis on corrections or deficiencies?
Not a very good gateway presentation in my opinion.

Now waiting on clones for the next grow.
 
Yes I use Advanced Nutrients, in coco, seems to me, that they are just as good as any off them, I'm using full strength an have had no problems so for.
 
LuckyAcres Sonic bloom is basically a really sweet smelling MPK, just 3x the cost. Buying raw MPK for $14 a kg allows me about $40 for sweeteners for the sweet smell. Most big p-k ferts are mpk based . I also use potassium sulfate (0-0-52) that's another base for a lot of high $$ nutes that can be had cheap. Just follow dosing instructions from foxfarm until you get it right.
 
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Waltermelon thanks for the info man! Much appreciated! At a 1/4tsp per gallon this sonic bloom should last me a while though. Someday when I have more time and space I’ll get into making my own soil and skip bottled nutes all together!
 
> Too stable could potentially rob the girls of nutrients. I like my pH to range and have no problems adjusting as needed. pH Down and air stones pretty much do the trick with that.
Nah, sorry, that's a common theory but it's not so for modern, high-tech fertilizers that we use. They're chelated and buffered and compounded with different molecules just so they stay in the ideal pH range and so they can deliver nutrients across a broad range of pHs. You really don't need the pH to move around OR to be some exact value.
 
I refer to the chart published by GH for use with their Flora Trio. It shows which nutes are absorbed at different pH levels. According to the chart, 5.5 to 6.5 insures all nutes are absorbed.
I know nothing. Just follow directions.

From the GH site....
How does pH level affect plant growth?
pH is important because it affects availability and absorption of several of the 16 atomic elements needed for plant growth. Maximum absorption of these elements is found at pH readings 5.5 to 6.5. When pH falls below this range many of the macro elements (N, P, K) have less availability, and absorption of the micro nutrients can reach toxic levels.

Are there nutrients that work differently, and don't need the ranging pH. I can believe that, but I don't currently use them.
 
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