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The other day I was having a conversation with another grower I know about, what else, growing! In particular we were discussing grow lights and we had a bit of a disagreement over what was the best in terms of actual performance, overall cost, cost compared to performance, and so on. Obviously...

That article is here - http://www.rosebudmag.com/hydroponics-industry/did-sunlight-supply-poison-hydroponics-medical-crops Not sure if you guys saw this. It's a disturbing situation, especially when you read the comments at the end of the article and see what happened to these...

jimmy1life, a few things. First, the pH Perfect nutrients aren't guaranteed with coco (nothing is). Coco coir is just way too biologically active for anyone to be able to say what their nutrients will or won't do with it. There's a huge amount of variation in quality, cleanliness, and so on...

I know there are other posts about the pH Perfect nutrients that Advanced Nutrients has come out with but I really want to limit the scope here to people that have or are actually using these new nutes and what their experiences have been. I'm sure there's a lot more opinions about these nutes...

The key difference is the source of nutrition. In hydroponics the food is delivered via the solution and the rockwool or other media (when even present) is just there for the roots to hold onto, retain solution, and so on. In soil growing fertilizers are often added, but a certain amount of...

I would strongly recommend against using any of Fox Farm's nutrients in an aeroponic system. Nothing they make is clean enough for sprayer heads like that, you'll spend all your time fixing clogs. With aeroponic systems the nutrients are really the key to success. Save yourself a lot of...

I can't claim any experience with that exact mix of Advanced Nutrients and Canna, but I would expect it to work. I usually prefer to use just one line instead of mixing them because each company formulates their products a little differently and they're all formulated to work together. It's...

It can go either way. When you cross a whole bunch of things together in a few generations you don't get predictable results. There's nothing wrong with that so long as you recognize the potential problems. A stable strain is one that generation after generation will produce essentially the...

Awesome cabinet! I dunno why, but I've always loved the dresser-cabs. Yours is very nicely done!

Good to know. So they stay away from the smell or something? I've had trouble with them eating my wife's tulip bulbs once in awhile, that could be just the deterrent I'm looking for. Of course you have to keep the mint under control or it'll end up worse than the squirrels.

Wow, your plants are really bushy for a CFL grow, even with LST. Since you just watered/fed not long ago my advice would be to leave her alone as much as possible. Check your humidity and temps, make sure everything is in range, and then don't mess with anything else. Give her a chance to...

I would have to agree with pretty much everything here except I'm springing for the first three packages in the series - the hobbyist and expert you mentioned and the professional grower bundle too. I always grow with SensiZym and Tarantula so I'd be adding them anyway and the pricing is like...

For what it's worth, here's my experience with house and garden's coco nutrients. Not a bad product really, you can easily do worse. I didn't stick with it because I couldn't justify the expense. At least where I am the house and garden stuff costs the same as Advanced Nutrients, and the AN...

If you're looking for a more classic "Plant Tonic", the kind of thing where you've got a kind of one-size-fits-all solution to basic vitality or health problems, you need a different product. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with Super Plant Tonic. I'm just saying that if we need a post...

Sounds like it's going pretty well with the Bio Bizz. Always smart to start out lighter than the bottle suggests but some plants can take even higher doses than advertised. I did okay with Bio Bizz nutes but I never really got the kind of drool-inducing buds you see in the magazines until I...