wiid206
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First of all, I will never say you are doing it wrong. Cultivation is a learning experience and there is no wrong and right. There is only better. You get better as you go. I can offer advice based on my experiences, but it doesn't mean you won't have a more effective method to suit your needs. If you got some good bud, you did it right, that's how I see it. But you can ALWAYS do it better.
My tap water is ph balanced, usually hovers between 5.8 and 7. So I never futz with lime or neutralizers or any of that. And I only ever grow 5 to 6 plants at a time. So AN nutes is not for me. I can assure you, all of those things I named and more, serve a valuable purpose to people who know how to use them. On the other hand, it isn't absolutely necessary, you are right about that. It isn't necessary to harvest a pound per plant either, but I sure do give it my best shot every time.
You can have a successful grow with AN nutes. I have had a couple good runs with them. But this thread isn't just to bash, it's to glorify the products that have better traits, and point out the negative traits of products recommended to avoid. If you like AN nutes, then by all means, use them. If you have a good grow, I'll smoke some with you, I'm not a fanatic. But if you make the switch to more reliable product, your plants will love you for it.
So.. not exactly how it works. See, all those chems I named are different solutions that come in seperate bottles that are used by many people for many various things. For instance, maybe you want to add lime to your organic soil to give it a little acidity. Cannabis likes it on the acidic side, or maybe you want to add lime and a neutralizer to the soil to help prevent mold and pests, maybe you want to add calcium to induce dense budding. I didn't say I used all those things, I simply said the solutions are just as good as any companies solutions. As far as the nutrients themselves, AN nutes have a bad reputation for going to shit, inconsistant mixtures- get a ppm reader and test three different bottles of AN, ordered 2 months apart, but the same product over a course of say, 6 months. You will see how it fluctuates between orders and over time with overall shelf life. Keep a bottle of AN nutes for a year, then dump it out into a bowl and look in the bottom of the jug and tell me what you see. You have chunks of sediment and this sediment is nutes that caused you to feed your plant unbalanced measures. So no matter how careful you are with your mixture, you still inadvertantly give it the wrong mixture. Unless of course you are growing like 300 plants at once and go through a liter in about 2 weeks. Most of us aren't distributors, we grow for our own purposes and we want nutes that are right for us.
My tap water is ph balanced, usually hovers between 5.8 and 7. So I never futz with lime or neutralizers or any of that. And I only ever grow 5 to 6 plants at a time. So AN nutes is not for me. I can assure you, all of those things I named and more, serve a valuable purpose to people who know how to use them. On the other hand, it isn't absolutely necessary, you are right about that. It isn't necessary to harvest a pound per plant either, but I sure do give it my best shot every time.
You can have a successful grow with AN nutes. I have had a couple good runs with them. But this thread isn't just to bash, it's to glorify the products that have better traits, and point out the negative traits of products recommended to avoid. If you like AN nutes, then by all means, use them. If you have a good grow, I'll smoke some with you, I'm not a fanatic. But if you make the switch to more reliable product, your plants will love you for it.
