thanks to all you guys for the good feedback. and for florida girl i was looking at the different botanicare products and it looks like the pure blend pro comes in different versions, one for soil and one for hydro? dont know if that is correct but when i ordered mine there were the two different listings. maybe you were using the soil version? idk just thought i would throw that out there.

what other botanicare supplements do you guys use other than the nutes? i was def looking at getting some of the Clearex, i think thats what its called, for when i am flushing.

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as stated earlier... i'm using Sweet(berry). never tried it before but it's supposed to make the bud taste better and the plants love it. Whenever i water with just sweet, about 3 hours later the plants are just reaching for the light. leaves straight up like they just scored a touchdown.
NPK wise it is 0-0-0 but i know it has lots of beneficial stuff other than sweetener. IDK, maybe it does the same as Molassas, but it sure seems to help, and it's easy to use. I'll have to get back to you on the taste factor though.

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edit: I'm considering getting clearex for the final flush, but i want to find out a little more about it first.

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sorry didnt see that, yeah it sounds like it would do the same thing, because both are providing carbs to help fatten up the buds. if anyone use gravity from AN im curious if that is essentially the same thing

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yeah that would be cool. i like to keep it as organic as possible. do you ever get any nute burn with foxfarms in your experience? i was thinking about going with them on this grow but i dont like the fact that it does have some inorganic nutes in it.

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i think its mostly to help the roots and increase nutrient uptake to the rest of the plant

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I've had really good luck so far. I started with the FF Ocean Forest soil, and didn't feed them anything for about 5 weeks in veg. Even then i didnt' think they really needed anything, but i fed the Grow BIg at about 1/2 strength. Didnt get any nute burn, but my plants were very dark green. I think i started the tiger bloom at 1/2 but now im giving 100% strength and the plants are taking it just fine. Big Bloom always 100% throughout.
I've since found out that if you use the Ocean Forest soil, that you really don't need teh Grow Big, but everything is ok. I guess if you use the Fox Farm stuff, just start slow and feed more as you know they can take it. I definately wouldn't start off at 100%.
I hear ya on wanting to be all organic, I would have gone with the pure blend pro, but i didn't know if it was organic when i was buying nutes, and the hydro store guy (the store i don't go to anymore for various reasons) said that FF liquids are approx. 80% organic sooooooo... that's what i went with.

anyway, my plants are doing beautifully, and I'm happy.

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Good thought but nope... the one I have is for hydro, coco and soil (says so on the label). Not sure if you read the whole thread.... but I did post a link to where a hydro shop is reporting that many hydro growers have noticed the same issue with the product. My guess is that the feeding instructions on the back are for soil.... although they don't state that on the label...

Don't get me wrong... I do like the product now that I understand the issue and have it under control.... I only posted my responses so that others new to hydro don't make the same mistake I did (which was to just go by what the label said).

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Are you guys who are burning your plants using 30ml per gallon of PBP using tap water? I have an aero system and use 30ml of PBP Bloom with no problems at all ... but I use RO water. That could be the difference.

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yeah i knew that alot of hydro growers were having that problem. maybe they just put the same thing in both but put a hydro label on it

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i've been using the grow and karma, first grow but it looks great IMO.