canna boost accellerator VS AN bud candy

or what about using a combination of AN's overdrive and big bud?

To replace the CannaBoost you're going to need a few items. Specifically, the B52, the Big Bud, the Nirvana, and the Bud Candy. This comprises a complex of carbohydrates, B vitamins, and amino acids with a phosphate and potassium booster. Which is basically what the accelerator is minus their "magical rain forest extract."

In reality these things are all just glorified organic blooming tea you could make yourself for less.

If you have the money to spare I say you give it a go and let us know what you think of it for future reference

Thanks for the reply.

Well I've ended up getting some big bud and overdrive today and I've still got some accelerator left so I can do a bit of a side by side test. I've just been getting sick of paying so much for the accelerator but looking at the list of nutes you've put maybe its not gonna be cheaper to switch to those instead. I think maybe for next time ill work out which other of the AN ones youve suggested I can offord to get for the same/or less price as accelerator would cost and take it from there.

im wondering the same thing potdj, i switched from pk13/14 to hammerhead also, yes i thought it was good, but i cant tell the difference between them tbh im using 25ml of hammerhead instead of 20 per 10l wich they advise and still no signs of overfert i think its a bit weaker then pk [maybe??] and ima push it to 30ml per 10l in my next watering, i started using pk from 2 n half weeks in to flower then changed to hammerhead bout week 5, i searched long n hard [<--gay] to find advice for using pk and found some one on this site who had written to canna asking them when to use it and canna written back contradicting the advice on the bottle, they basicaly said start using it bout half way thru flowering and continuse using it till signs of overfert, hammerhead say use it all the way thru, i would love it if u do a side by side using hammerhead and boost [same as me] and using bigbud and overdrive so we could see a clear winner, but then also consider boost gives it flavour

You need more nitrogen and bulk building nutes you asswipe

have a look at the dyna-gro set of nutrients they look good to me been told they're used by true pros and what not.. dont work out too expensive either but theres only once supplier in England n thats in oxfordshire

Originally Posted by Imaulle

the people who go to college and get a real education in horticulture use Dyna-Gro

I highly recommend you get the following

dyna-gro foliage pro - http://www.hydroponics.net/i/133215
dyna-gro bloom - http://www.hydroponics.net/i/133534
dyna-gro pro-tekt - http://www.hydroponics.net/i/133537
dyna-gro mag-pro - http://www.hydroponics.net/i/133535


and then if you want a root accelerator (the best I've found so far, but open to others' input) - http://www.hydroponics.net/i/134358

quote from other thread

True story.

In flowering it does seem like some people over do it with their nutrients. I personally use coco, so Canna has been a really natural fit for me. Their two part nutrient is used from start to finish which allows a grower to have a foundation of nutrient levels, with a 5:4:3 ratio of nutrients. During bloom the nutrient needs of the plant changes but so does the profile of the coco as it has retained a healthy calcium and potassium buffer. So the grower can keep using this formula while providing elevated levels of the nutrients in need.

Providing bloom nutrition via CannaBoost at like $90 per liter in coco is expensive over time. At 10ml per gallon that's only 100 gallons, and at 15ml per gallon it's only 66.67 gallons. That's more than $1 per gallon in CannaBoost...
Their system also lacks the appropriate amount of Magnesium for this period of time so a grower does need to look elsewhere for nutrition.

Using the AN lineup of Big Bud, Bud Candy, B52, Nirvana, and Bud Factor X, would be expensive at first to accumulate all the bottles (probably like $300) but you'll be using around 2ml of each per gallon for about 5 weeks, which is going to allow for up to 500 gallons of mix. That's five times the amount of gallons for about three times the price.

Still though, it' about having a ratio and deciding what you really need. I mean, Nirvana is just worm casting tea concentrate with some alfalfa extracts and other junk. The Bud Factor X is pretty much just a $25 bottle of Epsom Salt mixed with water. The Bud Candy is pretty much just Molasses. The B52 is debatable whether B vitamins or amino acids are needed at all. Even the Big Bud is just a mellow pk booster without the EDTA chelator.

So...

It's up to you. I have used the BioBoost before and was very unimpressed. So now I'm trying out a couple different Bloom Boosters on a few different plants to see for myself what works. I'm trying Big Bud and Nirvana on some plants, KoolBloom on some other plants. I've even switched some plants off of Canna Coco A+B over to Sensi Bloom A+B. I have the luxury of having a tent to experiment in.

I haven't tried out the entire Dyna-Gro system yet but the above poster is saying basically what I've heard before. It isn't bad stuff and I do have some Pro-Tekt on my shelf. I am planning on getting some Aeroponics systems next year and have been thinking it would be a good fit for that.