No my friend, please let me clarify. I recommend A&B at 50-75% (I say 75% because I feed them 75% last night) and then products such as : Roots Excelurator, Algen Extract, Cell Splitter, Multizen, Bud XL, Top Booster, Shooting Powder, and Drip Clean I recommend being ran at 100% full strength. Drip Clean should always be used, especially if you are going to be running high PPM's. I don't care how much flushing somebody does, if you run PPM's to high your buds is going to taste like it. Drip Clean helps fix this, it binds itself to certain salts and ensures that excess salts are expelled in the waste water. I don't use this product often, I usually run low PPM's and can't tell when I've used it or not. But I would recommend it just in case your trimeter breaks like mine did last round.
After adding A&B my PPM's should be between 400 - 850 for the majority of large plants with just the A&B. Those PPM's all depend on plant health, size, and how many additive I'm going to add. After adding all my additives I like my PPM's to be between 800-1300.
The only additives I use besides my H&G complete line up is Sweet Raw and Liquid Karma by Botanicare, as well as a CalMax by Growtek and ProTekt by DynaGro. If you do not have access to the Cell Splitter product you will need all these (a ca/mg supplement will always be needed unless you are using hard tap water) the Liquid Karma, Sweet Raw, and Protekt provide me with the few missing components in this line-up: Humic Acid, Amino Acids, Carbohydrates, Silica, and a little bit of extra Sulfur.
Another thing I have been noticing, I do not see so much of a calcium deficiency as I do see a magnesium deficiency, that seems to be what H&G is really missing. They sell a Magnesium supplement, but just like the wonderful Cell Splitter product, it is still not yet available for use in the US. But this is why we order online, or sweet talk our H&G reps until they give up their personal stash of it.
But all it is really missing is a good carbon/carbohydrate/humic acid/silica additive, which is what the Cell Splitter is, you can use Liquid Karma from Botanicare to substitute, which I still use every now and then between feedings instead of ph'd water, because Liquid Karma is great shit. You can also add additional carb additives, which is as simple as molasses, brown sugar, or (God forbid) white processed sugar, and this will help as well. You get a good amount of carbon initially from the Algen Extract and the Roots Excelurator (that's how they spell it, not me, man) and then from there on out it's kind of up to you, if you are hip to the importance of lots of dark black carbon in the mix! And of course, like many fertilizer line-ups are lacking, a ca/mg supplement, but they already have a mag supplement which is all that you really need with H&G, but again that is not available in the US. Unfortunately I do not have access do that, so you have to buy a ca/mg from another company... which actually all depends on if you are using tap v dechlorinated v R/O. And I'm sure you already know the differences so I don't need to explain anymore than that.
