thoughts on DIY hydro neuts

ilikecheetoes

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I've spent the last couple days reading up on DIY neuts. Fatman thread and many more sources on this site and others. This thread is to sort of organize my thoughts and get some input from others.

I'm going back and forth on it.

Pros-
its DIY, i like that.
you arent paying 500% markup on what amounts to salts.
You arent supporting neut companies that buy from DOW which with monsanto are trying to kill us from the inside.
infinite adjustablilty
did I mention not paying shitloads for stuff that costs pennies.
commercial growers dont spend 1000's for watered down ferts
Pot is not a magic plant that needs a wand to grow. its a fucking weed people.

Cons-
You have to be damn accurate with your measuring in the initial mixing
you have to order supplies that are on homeland security watch lists although admittedly not in quantities that "should" be suspicious.
you still have to buy the chemicals and its hard not to get them from dow anyway
is it really as good? I know N=N=N ad infinitum but they add stuff to those bottles that they dont tell you about for state/federal labeling regulations.


other thoughts
what about additives? the base neuts I can see. Even the shooting powder type products that are basically just high P can be done DIY.
what about the others though? For example Top Booster by H&G. Supposedly its some mix of hormones that make the plant absolutely stop veging and do all bud making. Can that be reproduced DIY? They dont label those products so how do you really know what it is to try to copy it?

How about the humic acid additives like Nuts or Diamond Nector?

Root excelurator/jump start? more hormones and B1

Amino Acids?

Commercial growers can exchange yield per plant with more plants. You can always just plant more to make up for not having the 100% best environment and neuts possible.
MJ growers dont generally have that luxury. Not only do we have the cost of neuts but also the lights and air conditioning etc. So it costs a shit load to grow what we do in small spaces so we really NEED 100% efficiency.

Base neuts from the shop arent usually the expensive part. Its all the additives. So I wonder if its even worth DIYing the main neuts if you are going to shell out all the cash for the additives anyway.
Or do we go 100% diy and dont use the additives because they are all snakeoil anyway? fatman and from what i can tell UB (i dont mean to put words in anybody's mouth) dont use additives.

anyway those are my first thoughts. what do you think?
 
II hear rock phosphate is bad for your lungs of still in the plant which is where most companies get the phosphate from. I heard organic nutrients are a carbon molecule while the non organic are salt. And rock phosphate is organic! I hear compost teas are the best way to the best buds for health, but what are the right ratios, I don't know . I would like to be able to put together a great compost tea tho all organic. I am looking at advanced nutrients iguana juice , since it doesn't contain rock phosphate, but it's an arm and a leg. I don't want cheap salt nutes tho in my lungs. Idk I have used jacks classic , combos of organic and nonorganics, subcools super soil and connesouir from AN, and got best and dankest weed that I smoked all day with little burnout I recall. Was way danker than subcools super soil I thought. But organic is organic so ima atleast try the iguana juice at being tripled filtered. I don't support the prices really. I mean damn , really 50 dollars a gallon, its just tea!!! TEA!!!! We evolve billions of years so if they want to deal with taxing then go right ahead , but I don't support it or idiots , but what am I to do for the best organic nutrients. I looked into botanicare and they use rock phosphate. Idk ima keep shopping around for a better deal, at least it is cheaper than connesoir.
 
Until I can figure out how to make good compost teas that are awesome, then again maybe iguana juice is the way to go, I'll find out, I mean the people who told.me its weed looked not the best, still its about.the quality of life. Edit... I mean the bagseed I grew looked better then their headliners. It was connesoir tho, I just don't get it as of yet so probably shouldn't be commenting but oh well. We all need the best and most quality in life. New edit . I never tried dynagro tho and see good things like the run up with connesouir and dynagro by home brewer. Then you hear about cyco protein based nutrients. Yea no thanks i have enough problems without memeing over some 'CYCO' I AM SHAKING MY HEAD HERE I MEAN AHHHHHHGHG
 
What does that even mean protein like amino acid cheleated wtf you know is it just organic and not salt based , why the smoke and mirrors . Billions upon billions of years yea upon billiona to just to reach half spirit half material. Then 60-80 more billion. Maine if I am honest I can cut off 20 billions years . OMFALON MURADO
 
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