Additives during flower, worth it?

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anyone use any additives during flowering in conjunction with their bloom nutrients?
I'll name a few name brands
Bud Candy, Monster bloom (pink crystals), Vodoo juice, overdrive fertilizer, Bud ignitor
 
Thanks that seems to be the overall response
Appreciate it.

You can use any high PK product to boost PK in late flower. I don't think it does much. But, $6 for a lifetime supply of Grow More Hula Bloom (or Hawaiian Bud & Bloom, depending on whether you want a some N with your salts) is better than spending big dollars on cartoons. You can use this spreadsheet to workout how much of whatever product to get a reasonable NPK ratio and strength (how to reduce your base nutes and get back to the original strength at the new ratio). I think 1-3-2 is a decent "booster" ratio. I try to end flower around 1-2-1.8. If I boost, I'll do 1-3-2 once or twice.

I'm not familiar with some of those products, but I'm sure Voodoo Juice and Bud Candy can be recreated using generic products.
 
Botanicare's Sweet Raw works pretty good for what it is. (Just another form of "bud candy")
BUT - $65 a gallon is simply stupid! Make your own (that's better) for about a buck ($1) a gallon !!!

8 TBL Epsom salts
1 1/2 tsp DARK brown sugar
1 gallon RO
1 Opaque gallon jug

Bring to a full boil 4 cups of the RO water.
Add the dry ingr. and stir for about 3min to be sure everything is in solution.

Pour the hot water into the gallon jug containing the rest of the water and cover and shake well.

You now have "sweet raw" that works better then Botanicare's!

Use
5ml per gallon in the last week before the light flip.
10ml per for 3 weeks after the flip
15ml per till week 6
20ml per till harvest

You will increase trich and terp production quite nicely....
 
Botanicare's Sweet Raw works pretty good for what it is. (Just another form of "bud candy")
BUT - $65 a gallon is simply stupid! Make your own (that's better) for about a buck ($1) a gallon !!!

8 TBL Epsom salts
1 1/2 tsp DARK brown sugar
1 gallon RO
1 Opaque gallon jug

Bring to a full boil 4 cups of the RO water.
Add the dry ingr. and stir for about 3min to be sure everything is in solution.

Pour the hot water into the gallon jug containing the rest of the water and cover and shake well.

You now have "sweet raw" that works better then Botanicare's!

Use
5ml per gallon in the last week before the light flip.
10ml per for 3 weeks after the flip
15ml per till week 6
20ml per till harvest

You will increase trich and terp production quite nicely....

Thank you will this be safe in hydro? DWC is what im running .
 
Thank you will this be safe in hydro? DWC is what im running .

The high PK products I mentioned are safe. I don't know about recreating bud candy and voodoo juice. I think that would involve sugars, fulvic acid and beneficial bacteria. I don't think that would be desirable (with the name brand or not). But, I've read about people doing it. Maybe someone who does hydro can share some info

IMO, the risk is using the high-PK "boosters" without knowing the actual NPK ratio you're creating. We see that a lot.
 
anyone use any additives during flowering in conjunction with their bloom nutrients?
I'll name a few name brands
Bud Candy, Monster bloom (pink crystals), Vodoo juice, overdrive fertilizer, Bud ignitor
yes i do i use humic and fulvic acids also i run omegazyms roots xl sea exstracted juicy bud link rhino drive and mosterbud all on out doors and in doors from a few years ago they have improved awesome not in size well if i let them go they would be were i live i cant get hung for that shit were i am but any who the smell the thickness of the stems how lush ans full they look yeild has improved by heaps also the taste and smell of my outdoors is just wild better then most hydro that gets around so yes addatives work awesome if done right
 
I use FoxFarm's Beasty Bloomz 0-50-30 once during week 4 and 5 of flower.

The stuff is amazing.

Of course, additives like these should only be used sparingly and as a special "treat" for your plants. Misuse or overuse of additives can severely hurt your plants.
 
Ok to chime in I use the stuff and it works. My first grows were decent without them yes. But I've seen more weight, and dankness using them. My grows are so small I just buy small amounts (like 250ml) bottles. According to the small amounts used at specific stages of growth....I get several uses with a one or two plant setup. Heres the rundown on what I have used:

Bud Candy- frosted things up like never before, but left a slight synthetic taste I didnt like.

Botanicaire Sweet Raw- using this now instead of bud candy. Works great as a carb/sugar and imparts no taste. I like the results better than unsulphured molasses.

Big Bud- swells them up fat, I use liquid form every grow. This is probably one I wont do without. I see what happens within a week of adding this, compared to adding no such product.

Overdrive- The jury is still out on this one. Seems to keep things green and healthy. Dont see any huge difference in flowers or yield. It does seem to keep things going and I dont see any fading or yellowing anymore in the later stages of flower. Things stay green to the bitter end. You could do without and save a buck.

Bud Ignitor- bought a teeny bottle of the stuff to try out more or less. Used during the first weeks of flower. I did get a shit load of budsites all the way down to the dirt. Hard to compare this to how much youd get without it. It did seem to jumpstart flowering opposed to the usual slow 2 week slow onset. This is one to experiment with if you have a few extra bucks, but I will likely not buy more.
 
Ok to chime in I use the stuff and it works. My first grows were decent without them yes. But I've seen more weight, and dankness using them. My grows are so small I just buy small amounts (like 250ml) bottles. According to the small amounts used at specific stages of growth....I get several uses with a one or two plant setup. Heres the rundown on what I have used:

Bud Candy- frosted things up like never before, but left a slight synthetic taste I didnt like.

Botanicaire Sweet Raw- using this now instead of bud candy. Works great as a carb/sugar and imparts no taste. I like the results better than unsulphured molasses.

Big Bud- swells them up fat, I use liquid form every grow. This is probably one I wont do without. I see what happens within a week of adding this, compared to adding no such product.

Overdrive- The jury is still out on this one. Seems to keep things green and healthy. Dont see any huge difference in flowers or yield. It does seem to keep things going and I dont see any fading or yellowing anymore in the later stages of flower. Things stay green to the bitter end. You could do without and save a buck.

Bud Ignitor- bought a teeny bottle of the stuff to try out more or less. Used during the first weeks of flower. I did get a shit load of budsites all the way down to the dirt. Hard to compare this to how much youd get without it. It did seem to jumpstart flowering opposed to the usual slow 2 week slow onset. This is one to experiment with if you have a few extra bucks, but I will likely not buy more.

Might try big bud from your experience.

This is how it's looking at week 2
 

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Might try big bud from your experience.

You can hit that same (0-1-3) ratio for *a lot* less with any high-PK "booster" (like the Hula Bloom I mentioned) and some potassium sulfate from Alpha Chem Int'l on eBay or Amazon. 1.5lbs of Hula is about $15. The same weight of pottassium is $7. That amount would last you for decades.

Just an option.
 
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