Dyna-Gro vs Advanced Nutrients Connoisseur (AK47 Grow)

Is one teaspoon of grow, bloom, and protekt good all through flower. It brings me to about 1000ppm, with 220-250ppm from the tap when I mix it.

bookechu said:

Is one teaspoon of grow, bloom, and protekt good all through flower. It brings me to about 1000ppm, with 220-250ppm from the tap when I mix it.

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It looks like you have a hanna meter or are at least on the .5 conversion as your combination above equals about 2.0 EC. Soil or hydro?

During flowering you want to use Just Bloom & protekt, obviously start lower say 400ppm to begin with and up it to about 1200 or whatevfer your plant will take without showing issues. You shouldnt use as much grow during blooms. use about 1/5-1/4 of grow during flowering and up your bloom amount... During bloom you need much less Nitrogen and more P, which is what the bloom formula offers, ading Grow to the mix just gives a little more nitrogen as homebrewer feels bloom is lacking a little N.

Your on the right track though!

Homebrewer... you thought about your next test? Looking forward to your next journal, I have learned a lot from you!

I'm in soil and using a blue tds meter that I got off of eBay. So 1 teaspoon of bloom and protekt should be enough?

bookechu, they have a feeding chart PDF on the Dyna-Gro website. Use it as a guide and adjust based on the needs of your plants.

If you are in flowering stage...
ad a small amount of Grow (maybe 200ppm), test water with meter, then add your protekt, test water, then use Bloom as much as you can to bring up the reading to 1000-1200

I vote for Canna Aqua Vega/Flora as the next nute showdown.

I'm at 1000ppm with a teaspoon of all three and my tap water but HB is saying that that is to much and that I'm using the .05 conversion.

bookechu said:

I'm in soil and using a blue tds meter that I got off of eBay. So 1 teaspoon of bloom and protekt should be enough?

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If you were using a promix type soil with no food in it, I'd suggest about 1ml of grow and 2mls of bloom and a teaspoon of protekt per gallon. Make sure that much protekt doesn't throw your pH off. Add enough protekt to get to a pH of about 6.5 which could mean only 2mls of protekt, you'll find out soon enough.

1000ppm shouldnt be too much if you are flowering stage... just back off the Grow formula and raise it up with Bloom formula.

medicine21 said:

I vote for Canna Aqua Vega/Flora as the next nute showdown.

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I'd love to see this as well. I have been told their substra line is excellent for DTW- and seen pics to confirm. I am supposed to use it as a benchmark and will against dyna when I get going myself with the new setup...

Yeah, just looked at the site and I'm using way to much. I'm going to flush and do 2ml of bloom and protekt and continue to throw in the grow when needed. Could this be why my slh has a P deficiency? 8wks today flowering on querkle, slh, jtr, and ww x bb.

Hell I would donate for the next test, if there was a way to! I think homebrewers showdowns are some of the best and honest there are. His tests help everyone!

reverof said:

Hell I would donate for the next test, if there was a way to! I think homebrewers showdowns are some of the best and honest there are. His tests help everyone!

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Absolutely agree... He offsets handfulls of trolls

bookechu said:

Yeah, just looked at the site and I'm using way to much. I'm going to flush and do 2ml of bloom and protekt and continue to throw in the grow when needed. Could this be why my slh has a P deficiency? 8wks today flowering on querkle, slh, jtr, and ww x bb.

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Flowering plants need all the P they can get, lack of P will effect harvest... This is why I have stated to UP the amount of Bloom nutes.

reverof said:

If you are in flowering stage...
ad a small amount of Grow (maybe 200ppm), test water with meter, then add your protekt, test water, then use Bloom as much as you can to bring up the reading to 1000-1200

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The directions explicitly state to add Pro-Tekt first and then add grow/bloom and supplements. I think the reasoning behind adding the Pro-Tekt first is so the other nutrients do not get locked out or something like that.

Advice is always appreciated but sometimes I wonder if some advice is unsolicited. This is hb's thread is it not?

Encomium said:

The directions explicitly state to add Pro-Tekt first and then add grow/bloom and supplements. I think the reasoning behind adding the Pro-Tekt first is so the other nutrients do not get locked out or something like that.

Advice is always appreciated but sometimes I wonder if some advice is unsolicited. This is hb's thread is it not?

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It just says never mix concentrates together....I always do it the way reverof described

bookechu said:

It just says never mix concentrates together....I always do it the way reverof described

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Guess I shouldn't have stated that the directions are "explicit" without actually checking the bottle again. I could swear that on the bottle of Pro-Tekt it states to add it first to your water and then start adding other nutrients as the silica in Pro-Tekt can precipitate out.

Encomium said:

The directions explicitly state to add Pro-Tekt first and then add grow/bloom and supplements. I think the reasoning behind adding the Pro-Tekt first is so the other nutrients do not get locked out or something like that.

Advice is always appreciated but sometimes I wonder if some advice is unsolicited. This is hb's thread is it not?

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If you don't add protekt first you will get a chemical reaction that turns (whatever) into crystals. That's what I've heard anyway.