Indoor A-Train's Purple Kush

[A-Train]

No DD is 0-0.5-0 lol but yeah pretty much @Rifleman

The fact is that Advanced nutrients WORKS. but their labels and guranteed analysis is lacking to say the least. Armor si is guranteed at 10% silica rhino skin is guranteed at .4...... im sure theres more to it but when im buying the product im buying it for the benifits of adding silica to my plants cell walls during veg and early flower. The armor si is 11 dollars cheaper and should perform the same or better than rhino skin

 

[Waira]

Rifleman! How goes it bud? On the Si products, it's all Potassium silicate in most,... my Dyna-grow Protekt is 0-0-3 (7.8% Si),... Wow, the Armor Si is pretty concentrated, an even better deal! I'd make sure it doesn't get too cold, or it's likely to start precipitating crystals.... That Rhino is thin stuff-- bastards! DD will have a low P numbre for sure,... Allow me to link you a great article on Si bene's-- https://www.autoflower.org/threads/link-to-silica-benefits.47356/

>> you read my mind A-T' on the formulations,... the phosphate won't contribute to pH buffering like the carbonates will, which in some nute' lines isn't desirable... How are you liking the NFTG line so far brudda?

 

[A-Train]

I completed a whole grow with them. Im not switching to them but the ONLY reason im not is i hate ph pens and buffering. The nectar line was a bad ass bottled organic. Plain and simple. But i really hate adjusting ph and calibrating and storing ph pens. With AN i mix and feed

 

[Rifleman]

@Waira, so the DD would pay havoc with the AN buffering ? If that's the case I'll stick to the GO. It's worth it to me to keep my pH pen in storage.

 

[Waira]

...it can, since it's the carbonate anion that's involved with pH buffering,.... I guess it depends on your water source too; if you use low ppm water, with little to no CaCO3 in it, the little extra carbonate may not mess with the self buffering products much,.. higher amounts like in tap water could tax the buffering capacity in the nutes..
-- A-Train, AN recommends using RO/DI water with their nutes, I think?

 

[Rifleman]

@A-Train, I just read the armor si bottle warning about pH... no problems ?

@Waira, yes AN suggests RO. My tap water goes through a charcoal filter and comes out between 145-160ppm. I'm still not willing to risk swinging pH in 15L reservoirs to change now. Dumping the pH pen was a game changer for me. :smoking:

 

[Waira]

oh, that's right! Si supp's raise the pH some,... I'm not sure of the chemistry behind it, but it do! In fact, I'd really like to know, so I'll probably have to ask the company about it- ..Charcoal removes Chlorine, certain organics and heavy metals, but not the minerals like Ca-/MgCO3,... Remember, with no buffering minerals in the RO, even tiny inputs can create major pH swings,...and pH meters don't like to try and figure out what the pH is either, just the chemistry and how they work,... not that you two sweat that shit any more, lucky fekkers! One last word of caution: the auto-buffering in those nutes works for the solutions they make, but not after it hits the pot/reservoir! Too many other influencing factors get in on the act at that point,, and their capacity to manage this is not very robust, if things start to go tit-up!

 

[A-Train]

This girl is a autoflowerMONSTER shes gonna be one of my biggest to date. Never expected this. Ill put her next to another plant for refference later

 

[Waira]

daaaAAaamn-- Check the hash bats on her! I want close-up porn too dewd... the buds look fantastic, solid, frosty,... how's she stankin'?

 

[MeefChief]

I completed a whole grow with them. Im not switching to them but the ONLY reason im not is i hate ph pens and buffering. The nectar line was a bad ass bottled organic. Plain and simple. But i really hate adjusting ph and calibrating and storing ph pens. With AN i mix and feed

Hmm.. Sounds familiar, kinda like myself hahaha. I'm glad I've had time to sit down and go through the forum again. This is the best forum I've ever been on and you're really selling me on getting another grow tent. I'm very jealous of how many different strains you get to grow. I need to get my ass back in gear!