Nutrients, what should i get?

I would try fox farms liquid nutes. Grow big or big bloom. I started off in FFOF soil grow and wanted to try hydro hempy buckets. so i got grow big. you just dont wanna over do it. i would cut the recommended schedule in half.

if you wanna go cheaper. get Mexican and Peruvian bat guano but i never mixed it for a hydro grow. Grasshumper would be of more help here

 

Is this going to be your first grow?

Like previous person said, Fox Farms has great products.
I also like Advanced Nutrients Bud candy, General Hydroponics
Kool Bloom and even some unsulphred molasses.

 

Well Big Bloom is my choice, and I use about 1/2 the amount recommended on the same schedule. i Might have gotten it confused with Grow big, but I 'know' its the one with the 6-4-4 N-P-K levels.

EDIT : I would use only one. you dont wanna burn them with too many nutes. And the reason the 6-4-4 has worked well for me during flowering is. The fan leaves and plant go through less drastic stress when dispersing their nitrogen to the plant. Your plant wont take as much stress damage when flowering, because it has the nutrients needed readily available. Resulting in longer flowering stage, we all know what that means

but again when it comes to nutes vita420 and grasshumper are who i listen to due to previous experiences

 

got a few friends using roots organics...gonna try that out next...using FF rite now...

 

I'm on my first grow, so simplicity and ease of use were most important to me. I'm using GHE Bloom and GHE Micro in a 2:1 ratio like with the Lucas forumla (Not using the Grow part).

With the lucas formula you calculate how much of the two parts to add depending on how big your resevoir is.

For simplicity I just mix up a batch, then add it to the resevoir via a syringe until the EC reads what I want (which is 0.4 at the moment). I did a fair ammount of research and this seemed to be the best compromise between simplicity and results. Subsequent grows i'll start looking into additives and boosters.

Hope that helps (and I posted before you went shopping)
Orient

 

dchydro.com has a 400w digital ballast for $79 bucks with a 3yr warranty. I am using it and have no complaints. They also have a 400w lumatek for $129 if you want a bigger name & have more money. I would try to go with a digital ballast.

I use Lucas formula for nutes. It is easy and my ph stays nice and steady with RO water.

Here are a couple of links you may be interested in:

Grow with less than 250w?
http://forum.grasscity.com/lighting/321592-thinking-about-using-150w-hps-dont-bother-heres-why.html

Digital vs eballast:
http://forum.grasscity.com/absolute...ht-works-tackling-question-4.html#post7485229

 

Fox farms trio nutes also get superthrive, hygrozyme and calmag. I've done a whole lot of research and i plan on using this line-up.

 

If this is just your first time around, just keep it simple. All the fancy products are really for you only once you've really got your set up dialed in. They won't help much if you don't. Just get some basic line up, it will work fine.

I used FloraNova Grow, Bloom, Floralicious Plus and Kool Bloom liquid my first couple times out and had great results. I added some blackstrap molasses during flowering but that was it, just keep it simple.

Plus when you have fewer products it's easier to tell when something goes wrong. If you have 20 bottles of stuff it's harder to know where to start looking for the problem imo.

You don't have to go with GH as I did but I would just get your base nutrient. Grow and bloom of your choice( One part, a+ b or a 3 part) , a catalyst type nutrient(Floralicious Plus, Liquid Karma, Bio Gen Synergy, etc) and a bloom booster.

It's could be easiest to pick one nutrient company you seem top like and follow their recommendations for feeding on their websites.

Look around and see who's products you like then jump in. The simplicity of GH lineup won out for me but I encourage you to see what you like.

 

First grow, DWC????

I would suggest Dyna-Gro. 1 part, 100% complete and ~$20 will cover you for several grows, both veg AND bloom.

Dyna-Gro has been around for ~45 years+ and there is a reason you can get it in 55gal drums. Quite a few large commercial operations use it. The ones that don't listen to hype or look at fancy labels, just use what works.

Do your research before you spend all your $$$$$ on marketing hype.

But .... YMMV

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