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Old 11-23-2008, 02:56 AM
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Stinkbud does know his way with aeroponics. One thing though, don't plan on using the same Botanicare nutrients, they will clog up almost everything, unless you plan on cleaning every sprayer at least once or twice a week. I suggest checking out House and Garden Van De Zwaan and look at the aqua flakes and then additives, it's designed for circulation systems and is deisgned not to clog shit up. Just saying this is if you plan on running the ppms he does (2300-3000), this is after being convinced by two hydro stores worth of employees telling me that hands down that it would clog everything, unless you clean it ALL the time. I don't know about you, but not only is that a bitch, but it is probably going to damage the roots every time you have to pull the pipe with the sprayers out of the tube if you aren't extremely careful. If you were planning on going organic too and that's why you were excited to use the botanicare nutrients, so was I, but no worries cause the House and Garden nutrients are 90% organic, which is close enough. Not only that, but the nutrient line was just released from holland a year or two ago and they are one of the only nutrient companies that have their own labs that do their own research. That means they have products that other companies don't even have and work better than most to begin with because they do all their own testing. The nutrients are actually so good the damn guy who made them had legal rights on them for years and wouldn't let anyone sell them but him. Heh, the guy created a monopoly on his nutrient line because he wouldn't sell products that other companies don't have and yet want. For example, Top Booster, one of their flowering stimulants, basically tells the plant it is dying about 4 weeks into flowering and the plant in turn goes crazy trying to produce flowers before it dies. Sorry, don't mean to be ranting or raving, just trying to help you out cause I am relatively doing the same setup. All in all just know that with areoponics you have to clean everything at least once a week or else your chances of getting root rot go sky high as well as your chances for stuff getting clogged and not working as well. The thing is that the House and Garden Van De Zwaan nutrients are just more suited for the system than botanicare's nutrients are, especially at 2900 ppm's.

If you want to check out the nutrients in action I'm currently using them myself and they are working like magic, nothing has gotten clogged at all. Hope this helps with choosing your nutrients. Not saying you should buy H&G's nutrients over everything else, it's up to you, I'm just saying to watch out for Botanicare's stuff when it comes to aeroponics. Good luck with everything guys, ttyl.

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