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I just read a great article of a study that backs you up 100%. There is a lot more cool information in it too. http://www.advancednutrients.com/hydroponics/whitepapers/download_hydroponics_whitepaper.html You don't have to sign up for the newsletter to download it, btw.

That's good advice - if the whole thing looks too complicated, simplify it. Just start off with the base nutrients and add a bloom booster, maybe another thing or two. Like Rhino Skin which I recently added to what I've already been using. You don't have to jump straight into the deep end...

The way the Advanced Nutrients blooming additives work is you start out with the Bud Blood for the first two weeks (it stimulates more bud sites to form) and then go to the Big Bud to bulk them up. Two weeks before finish you switch to Overdrive to put some extra bulk on them. The way it was...

I only used pure blend pro very briefly. The entire grow I was plagued with one deficiency after another. Pure blend pro was easily the hardest I've ever had to work for the worst harvest I've ever gotten. I've even heard that pure blend pro isn't even really organic. How messed up is that?

I've found the best way to deal with them is to answer the door in your boxers, but make sure you're "peeking" out the front. Act like you don't have any idea you're swinging free and be real enthusiastic about talking with them right there at the door. The couple Mormon guys that ride all...

I like the music in those vids. Where can I get them on mp3?

I had a plant that got spots like that. It didn't look happy, but I still got a ton of great tomatoes off it. Dunno how it might have done without the spots, or if they hurt it at all.

Yup, you gotta get Salvia Divinorum "The Divine Sage". There's a few different strains of Salvia too. Maybe a dozen last I heard. It's near-impossible to propagate by seed so every plant out there is basically a clone of every other plant in that same strain.

That's going to depend a lot on the kind of LEDs you get. They're far from being standardized. It comes down to the same answer as any light source: as close as you can get them without the heat being a problem. Some LEDs run hotter than others so no one can give you an answer without a lot...

Well you can get a lot of it back if you're patient, but that's just not me. I'll either use hydroton or just buy more coco. Mostly I just use hydroton. It's a lot simpler to deal with and it lasts forever and ever. Hydroton and Advanced Nutrients are like the main staples of my grows.

Technaflora? Seriously? If I wanted to teach kids about hydroponics I might use General Hydroponics but if I wanted to do anything more serious than that I'd use Advanced Nutrients. Technaflora is just a tiny step above that Bloom Buster stuff.

That's a good article on the different ways to get shorter internodes. Good info! I just want to point out that Advanced Nutrients has upgraded the two things you mention - Sweet Leaf is now called Bud Candy (and has Carboload added to it) and Barricade is called Rhino Skin. I'm not really...

I think a lot of Americans and Canadians make the mistake of thinking that simply because something comes from Europe (or Holland) that it must automatically be better for growing cannabis. I'm not saying that House and Garden aren't good nutrients, I just don't think they're anything special...

Yeah, water farms are pretty good hydroponic systems, so long as you use them right. I've actually done better with them once the original nutes run out. I do most of my hydroponic growing in an Ebb and Flow system I built myself, but I like to keep the water farm around because it's a nice...

IMHO the so-called Bloom Buster belongs in the same can as the rest of Scott's stuff. The trash can. Well wait, let me correct that. I'll use Bloom Buster on marigolds or hollyhock or something like that. Maybe even on my roses (but honestly I'll pay for better stuff for the roses). But for...