Stealth Hydroponics: Micro/Grow/Bloom - Good to Use? Plant needs help!

Just checking back in. I have my three potential ladies cooking in the common Bubbleponics system. I have made the right step in acquiring these fairly expensive Control Wizard Accurate Ph 2 & Accurate PPH 2.5 via a grow store, they are being picked up tomorrow, and I've attached a common image of them for someone to comment who might have used either of these before and what they think of them.

My main plant, Lemon Skunk fem., front and middle, is rapidly outracing the White Dwarf, who is literally dwarfing away to nothing in the back left row. On the far right row, the once seedling of Power Kush is now catching up to the Lemon Skunk. Lemon Skunk is now bursting with growth, and there are several locations of roots coming down.

My question is, I have added a 1/4 solution of Stealth Hydroponics pre-packaged Nutrient Packs; Micro, Grow & Bloom. I added 1/4 of the Micro, 1/4 the Bloom, and I am wondering when to add the rest? The water was last cycled about 5 days ago to fresh water. The pH sticks I am forced to use until my digital equipment arrives say that it is between 5.25-6, but you never can say for sure. Wireless temp reads that the highest it has gotten was 84 and the lowest was 68. Gotta love technology, too bad I am broke now. At least this crap is medical so I can celebrate it without paranoia!

When do I add the rest of the nutes? I know I should use other nutes, but should the Stealth Hydro Pre-Dosed Micro/Grow/Bloom work well for my first run? How often should I add half of the nute pre-packs and then the other half? What is the optimum PPM and pH for three different strains, including the struggling Auto-flowering White Dwarf? I need some guidance from a know it all pro. I've thrown in some of today's pictures. You can tell who is who from the images and my descriptive short-story posts. :-? Help the bubblehead-newb with the tiny penis, people!


600w MH runs all day, and then those fluorescents seen in the picture stay on with them, and on at night when two two foot fluorescents hang down and the HID takes a break. Good technique for 24hr lighting? Would the health of the various strains of plants and the weak White Dwarf benefit more from a dark cycle?

Thanks for all of the help, encouragement, and suggestions. I love it. That's the Christmas spirit. Santa Bogarted and power puffed a fat ass blunt right from my stocking and smothered the roach on the Government's sphincter. The end.
 

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i am a first time hydro grower and i am using advanced nutrients (liquid) micro,gro,bloom . according to there instructions i am using them all together in a 1:1:1 ratio starting with half strength . my plants are bushy,healthy,and i am getting 2 and 3 nodes per inch. at 4 weeks i could easily sex them . i am doing a cabinet grow and have just started flowering at 4.5 weeks and 11 inches tall from seed . the point of useing bloom nutes from the start is that your plants will have the nutes avaliable when flowering time comes around and you should get a bigger and earlier harvest . the best way to know if the nutes are good is to follow the directions - dont deviate and watch out for misinformation - alot of it comes from information about dirt growing ( which i use to do ) hydro is entirely different as i have seen for myself already in the quality of plants .
 

FryingPanFlyer

Active Member
Hey guys, I can't talk much right now, Christmas night and all, but in veg you only use the micro and grow nutes, flower is used when you go to 12/12 lighting and start to flower the plants. Check out my grow from the start (link in my signature) I've explained exactly how I handled the nutes.

The SH nutes were great for vegging, again, check out my grow, I've got proof. But their blossom nutes suck. I've covered that in my journal too. Read it and get back to me with questions. I'll help however I can.
 
Hey guys, I can't talk much right now, Christmas night and all, but in veg you only use the micro and grow nutes, flower is used when you go to 12/12 lighting and start to flower the plants. Check out my grow from the start (link in my signature) I've explained exactly how I handled the nutes.

The SH nutes were great for vegging, again, check out my grow, I've got proof. But their blossom nutes suck. I've covered that in my journal too. Read it and get back to me with questions. I'll help however I can.
Yeah, I was not planning on adding bloom any time soon. The goal was to have three plants in this system and make them beasts.I plan on taking the razor to a few bottom branches to get a shelf of clones going so that I can keep my three plants constantly yielding. I figured that since the Lemon Skunk is so big and developing so quickly with a firm root system, that the 1/4 nutes were fine two days ago, and now it's time for 1/4 more. Hopefully my PPM and pH arrive today so I can be certain of my levels.

What would be the best thing for the struggling White Dwarf seedlings survival? I defiantly did not want to loose her because I was intrigued by the auto-flowering idea...:hump:

Best to all!
 

pgm420

Member
I'm currently using the Stealth Hydro nutes for my first grow and so far I have been very happy. Obviously I have nothing to compare them too but I have been very impressed. If you want to see some pictures check out the link in my sig.
 

snutter

Well-Known Member
Hey guys, I can't talk much right now, Christmas night and all, but in veg you only use the micro and grow nutes, flower is used when you go to 12/12 lighting and start to flower the plants. Check out my grow from the start (link in my signature) I've explained exactly how I handled the nutes.

The SH nutes were great for vegging, again, check out my grow, I've got proof. But their blossom nutes suck. I've covered that in my journal too. Read it and get back to me with questions. I'll help however I can.
Not true....the bloom nutes can be used in conjunction with the gro and micro nutes... Or you can use the bloom nutes to get rid of the gro nutes altogether....such as in the Lucas formula. There are lot's of ways to do lots of things. Not all of them good...But the guy a few messages back says he's getting great results using all 3 together, and I believe him...

-S
 
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