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Maybe kool bloom's reputation for hermies is undeserved. But maybe it isn't. It could be that Brett Farve's sexting scandal was blown out of proportion or completely fabricated. It doesn't mean I'd leave my daughter alone with the man... It all comes down to how many black marks on a...

Wow, sure a lot of sphincters replying to you. I wish I could say that surprised me. I'd caution you not to listen to any one person too closely. As you learn more you'll realize that claims about what brand "college educated" people use are ridiculous, particularly considering that virtually...

This is all good advice for soil, which I'm guessing you're using, but if you want to go to hydroponics you'll have to change things. Blood meal, if you even get it dissolved properly, will reek beyond your wildest imaginations (trust me on that). The stench grows day by day, too. Just when...

It's a common fallacy that appeals to elements of logic but doesn't necessarily contain the truth. One side argues that because it costs more profit-driven motivation accounts for all the evidence that it's good. Thus any argument made by the other side is either profit-driven or ignorant...

This kind of problem isn't a thing of the past anymore... Sunlight Supply just added it's name - or re-added, depending on whether or not it can be proved they were involved in the toxic tents - to the list of companies that don't care enough to not use toxic chemicals in food-grade...

How did it make it out of the factory? Simple. That's what happens when you stop caring about the quality of the product you sell. Nothing Sunlight Supply has done has given me any reason to believe they care even a little bit about the quality of their products, their customers, or anything...

Actually, if you're using Advanced Nutrients I would say to track down some Sunshine Mix #4. That's the best stuff if you want to use AN - it's basically like hydroponics in that there's no plant food of any kind in it, it's basically inert. But it also has the advantages of soil. Kind of a...

Looks like you got things under control. How are you liking the nutes? I was really impressed the first time I ran AN's nutes.

My gut would say you've got a pH issue, but I haven't seen anything quite like that myself. I've never had any trouble with Advanced Nutrients so I'd be skeptical that the nutrients are the root of the problem. It looks like it could be Calcium, Magnesium, or a little of both. A supplement...

It only says a lot about someone if you can somehow prove the pictures they post are their own. Is it likely? Sure. But certain? Hardly. Just get over the fact that I don't post pictures. That's simply the way it is. I don't compromise my security and that's the end of it. I don't need...

Apart from security, this is the main reason I don't post any pictures of my grows. First off, there'd be no way to prove it was mine. Second, there'd be no way to prove the "better" picture belonged to whoever posted it, or that a particular nutrient was used to grow it. C'mon guys, it's...

Yep. Flora-Kleen is a flushing agent like Final Phase is, but not as good. I always stick with Final Phase... if I've gone all the way through a grow why would I risk the quality of my harvest by getting cheap with the last additive?

Your environmental temps are a bit high. I'd look to try to bring them down at least 5F, 10 wouldn't be a bad goal. Try some different configurations. I would start with a fresh air intake near the bottom of the cabinet to bring in cool, fresh air to the plants. That cooler air should drop...

You're welcome. I guess we'll see how close I was to getting it all right. Just a thought here, but how can you be sure that it wasn't the Botanicare Cal-Mag that was causing the instability? It could be that it just doesn't play nice with the new AN line. I've never once had any trouble...

You can use microbials in hydroponics too, so long as it's microbes that are picked specifically because they tolerate a hydroponic environment nicely. Not all of them do. I use AN's microbials in my system and I've been very pleased with the results. I even dump in my garden the extra left...

The short answer is that you don't need all that stuff. And I have NEVER heard anyone that actually works for AN say you do. Sure, the hydro shop guys will try to sell me a bottle of every damn thing in the store if I act like I've got money, but that's apples and oranges. The AN guys will...

To be more precise, it does keep your pH within a certain range through the use of buffers. That's not the new tech - any decent hydroponic nutrient employs buffers to keep the pH within a certain range. The thing is that the buffers only work for so long before they're used up, and they only...

Not that it's cool to be bashing on bigsourD but it's not exactly cool to treat people like they're rubes if they buy nice nutes. Lots of people use Advanced Nutrients. Maybe some of them buy AN because of the advertising. But to just stereotype everyone as suckers is insulting and...

That's exactly right. Advanced Nutrients used to have a coco-specific base nutrient called Monkey Juice, so obviously everything else works fine with it since you could use it with the Monkey Juice. If I had to guess I'd say they discontinued it for just this reason - it's simple enough to...

I haven't been able to figure that out. The amount of "never tried, never will" people confuses me too, since I have tried it and know that it works. I mean if it didn't work and everyone agreed that it didn't, I could understand following that advice. But even people that hate on Advanced...