Bloom Enhancers! Advice please!

Hi! So I'm in week 2 of my DWC grow with my unknown strain, I'm using GH's 3 part Flora series and was wondered about some good bloom Enhancers. Preferably ones that are used in transitioning to flowering as well as through out flowering. I like botanicare's sweet line, but was wondering if GH liquid koolbloom will work well. Any thoughts or comments as to what is a generally good enhancer?

Thanks!

MOLASSES!!! Lots of it!!
No lol JK, you don't really need bloom boosters just give the plant a good N-P-K value for hydro flower 10-30-20 would be best all the way through. J.R Peters makes a Bloom Booster 10-30-20 that you can use all the way through flowering with amazing results. IMO

Hi jakefresh....
I have used GH 3 part with liquid koolbloom....I never used as much as the chart said to use but the crop turned out good...Then I quit useing it and just started useing the dry koolbloom for the last 3-4 weeks...lots of warnings on koolbloom about useing to much so be carefull...

I used there pinnapple sweetner also...Here is the chart that I followed...it only has the dry koolbloom on this chart...I also have an older chart that has the liquid koolbloom at transition then later switch to dry koolbloom...

The PPM could be kinda high after adding all the extra nutes...I would mix my barrell then check the PPM and add water to lower my PPM down to 1200-1300PPM

Good luck...

suTraGrow said:

MOLASSES!!! Lots of it!!
No lol JK, you don't really need bloom boosters just give the plant a good N-P-K value for hydro flower 10-30-20 would be best all the way through. J.R Peters makes a Bloom Booster 10-30-20 that you can use all the way through flowering with amazing results. IMO

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Yeah everyone says molasses but I'm still worried about my res getting mucked up! and thanks I will look into that one!

And Harley, I really would love to stick with GH series because I feel they must be tailored to each other, as in I can follow my charts and everything SHOULD be okay haha,but whatever will work the best and easiest will be fine. But yeah I have read the dry is very very potent stuff but couldn't I just use a very little amount as opposed to liquid and then dry? Or is it specifically tailored to just the last 2-3 weeks of flowering. And the pineapple rush was the one I was looking at also! But I have read some mixed results with the Floranectar line and DWC

Thanks guys!

jakefresh said:

Yeah everyone says molasses but I'm still worried about my res getting mucked up! and thanks I will look into that one!

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Molasses is good for soil but doesn't work in DWC, don't believe the hype. You need potash.. It's in basically every bloom formula. By itself it can be dry.. unlike sticky wet molasses that isn't water soluble.

No such thing as a bloom booster.

jakefresh said:

And Harley, I really would love to stick with GH series because I feel they must be tailored to each other, as in I can follow my charts and everything SHOULD be okay haha,but whatever will work the best and easiest will be fine. But yeah I have read the dry is very very potent stuff but couldn't I just use a very little amount as opposed to liquid and then dry? Or is it specifically tailored to just the last 2-3 weeks of flowering. And the pineapple rush was the one I was looking at also! But I have read some mixed results with the Floranectar line and DWC

Thanks guys!

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This chart has the liquid koolbloom on it then near the end you use liquid and dry kool bloom..I went by this chart on my first grow...and results were good...

I run DWC and I didn't have an issue with the pinnapple nectar in with the other nutes...I didn't start useing the nectar until the last 3 or 4 weeks....The PPM is pretty high when you add all these's ingredients....I would just add water to lower my PPM....I would'nt go over 1400...Good luck jake...

The glare messed up my pic.....hope it helps...If you want another pic let me know...

Thank you ! I think I will take a look at the pineapple nectar. Have you finished a grow with and without it? Was there any real difference in yield/taste etc?

And I'm having a hard time keeping my res temps below 69... what can I do? They were 74 this morning and i had a little white foam in 1 of my 2 buckets, I've sinced flushed everything and washed with H202 and started again with 2 gallons of distilled water, 4ml per gallon of 3% H202, and 5ml/gal of CALiMAGic because I noticed a mg def right away

jakefresh said:

Thank you ! I think I will take a look at the pineapple nectar. Have you finished a grow with and without it? Was there any real difference in yield/taste etc?

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No I have not finished a grow with out it....and it was all good....But right now I am useing a new brand of nutes...It is a 4 part...called MOONSHINE PARK FARM....I don't now much about it but the plants look happy....

Molasses is not all that good in soil. It can easily cause a calcium imbalance causing all sorts of issues. The beneficials are in the soil to eat and process nutrients, not feed on sugar......
And they are bloom boosters in name only. A 3-1-2 ration for veg and a 2-1-3 ratio for flower are good starting points for containers....

harley, how far along are you with these new nutes?

jakefresh said:

harley, how far along are you with these new nutes?

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Hey jake...

Oh about 3 weeks....I started with the GH 3 part...everything went real well until I put some of my old floralicaus grow in with the 3 part...I contaminated my system with the old floralicus grow...I think the 3 part keeps pretty good... but the other additives have a shelf life...IMO

So I cleaned everything with h202 and added bennys and started useing the moonshine park nutes...I don't know if these's nutes are better than GH but we will find out....

I have a tread with my grow going at...".CROP #2 useing bubbles".... on this board feel free to drop in there...I will be posting weekly with up dates and pic's on fridays....

sweet i will! Hey so is it possible to use say floralicous bloom in place of flora bloom?

Sweet looks good,but ive been using Liquid Carboload

jakefresh said:

sweet i will! Hey so is it possible to use say floralicous bloom in place of flora bloom?

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I would stay with the 3 part and add floricous bloom...then your last 3-4 weeks add the pineapple nectar and dry kool bloom....anyway thats what I did...just watch your PPM with all the additives.....keep it under 1400 ppm...some plants can take more but to be safe I would add just water to get it under 1400...

I have a 60gl res....so I would make up a 50 gallon batch of nutes my PPM would be as high as 1600...then I could put up to 10 more gallons in the barrell...but I think I only had to add 4-5 gallons to get it dialed in....

nitro I hope someday I run a 60 gal res! Thanks for clearing that up for me. I was giving them 5 ml/ gal Gro and 2.5 ml/ gal of micro as of three days ago, then I added calimagic 5 ml / gal and they seemed to love it! I don't have bloom nutes at all yet as I don't make much money, but I think one of the flora nectar ones will be good. I recently saw FloraNectar Sugar Cane! It sounds really appealing!

And also, your plants need a lot more than mine ever could! As I'm only using about 200 watts of CFL!

jakefresh said:

nitro I hope someday I run a 60 gal res! Thanks for clearing that up for me. I was giving them 5 ml/ gal Gro and 2.5 ml/ gal of micro as of three days ago, then I added calimagic 5 ml / gal and they seemed to love it! I don't have bloom nutes at all yet as I don't make much money, but I think one of the flora nectar ones will be good. I recently saw FloraNectar Sugar Cane! It sounds really appealing!

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OK I see your useing Flora grow and micro....I am not sure what calimagic is...I would some how try to get a gallon of Flora bloom....The GH 3 part you could probably use for the whole grow start to finnish....just go by the chart with the 3 part....Your plants would get everything they need...and the PH stablizies with those three products pretty good....

Do you have a PPM meter?...PH meter?....