Hordi

Originally Posted by collective gardener

Those mixes look very similar to my first go around with AN. Only I used Cutting Edge 3 Part (also in a 1/1/1 porportion) every other day. I originally used your AN bloom booster choice and have stuck with it. If I could pick only one base and one additive, I'd use Connoiseur base and B-52. The B-52 is Humic Acid and Seaweed (the 2 additives Simon of Grotek told me would be his first choice if allowed only 2 additives). Since the B-52 gets used in veg too, all that would really be needed is to add Sensi Grow for a complete nute line start to finish.

People can say what they want about AN. Hell, I avoided their products for years cause I thought they were all hype. They do have their fair share of hype, but the products work great and are very easy to use. The only thing I'm having some trouble working out is exactly when to stop the Big Bud and start the Overdrive. I really don't like basing these decisions on what week in bloom the plant is in. My plants finishing time can vary up to 2 full weeks depending on size, room temps (just a few very hot days can knock a week off my finishing times). I prefer to determine stages by looking at the pistils. Are new pistils still growing? Have any started to turn brown? What percentage is brown? Last run I used the Overdrive when about 50% of my pistils were brown. This run I've started when all pistils are still white...but just before they start to go brown. Basically, when the plant starts to come off that big run of heavy nute and water usage. It's so easy to tell by just lifting the pots prior to watering. One week they'll be almost feather light, the next week they still have lots of water. It seems to be around week 5-6. Overdrive is advertised to give the plants an additional surge of bud growth. We'll see. This is typically the time I start reducing ppm and watering frequency.

All I can say to the Haters is go out and try some. You don't have to tell anyone. This, of course, doesn't apply to Kitty. When we hear about some maniac driving a truckload of explosives through the AN factory....well....we all know who that is.