OldMedUser
Well-Known Member
Maybe I can save you some time @Hemposaurus as I've done a lot of experimenting the last 17 years. With a diploma in environmental chemistry in my background I have some expertise in the scientific method.
B1 is the only B vitamin plants need. VitC in the form of ascorbic acid is beneficial and the elements, zinc, selenium, chromium, vanadium, and iron in tiny doses are also of use to plants. I use all those myself so pulverize some up and give my girls a bit.
Definitely have seen improvements in ailing plants but no noticeable difference with healthy ones tho they get a dose too in mid-veg and the start of flower. Hasn't hurt so why not eh.
Oils are more likely to coat root tips and reduce nutrient uptake so stick to humic and fulvic for better root health in soil/soilless grows. They must be of some use in hydro grows or why would AN add them to even their lowly 3-part nutes that I've used for 17 years.
I doubt active carbon will scrub roots clean but won't likely hurt anything so might as well try it. I add some super-fine decolourizing carbon to my soilless grows as a carbon source for the plants tho I'm pretty sure they get plenty from the breakdown of the peat moss.
A lot can be gleaned from searching the web for all sorts of studies done with all sorts of plants. Tomatoes have near identical needs to pot so data about them is more pertinent than say corn.
Re-inventing the wheel can be fun but a bit wasteful of what time we each are allotted.
Good luck tho.
B1 is the only B vitamin plants need. VitC in the form of ascorbic acid is beneficial and the elements, zinc, selenium, chromium, vanadium, and iron in tiny doses are also of use to plants. I use all those myself so pulverize some up and give my girls a bit.
Definitely have seen improvements in ailing plants but no noticeable difference with healthy ones tho they get a dose too in mid-veg and the start of flower. Hasn't hurt so why not eh.
Oils are more likely to coat root tips and reduce nutrient uptake so stick to humic and fulvic for better root health in soil/soilless grows. They must be of some use in hydro grows or why would AN add them to even their lowly 3-part nutes that I've used for 17 years.
I doubt active carbon will scrub roots clean but won't likely hurt anything so might as well try it. I add some super-fine decolourizing carbon to my soilless grows as a carbon source for the plants tho I'm pretty sure they get plenty from the breakdown of the peat moss.
A lot can be gleaned from searching the web for all sorts of studies done with all sorts of plants. Tomatoes have near identical needs to pot so data about them is more pertinent than say corn.
Re-inventing the wheel can be fun but a bit wasteful of what time we each are allotted.
Good luck tho.
