No. That looks like organic fertilizer. I wouldn't combine that with the AN line, but it looks interesting if you were going with organic soil growing. I'm taking about something like this that's just beneficials with no NPK
Huh, I have interacted with many of the moderators and staff on this site and I am surprised any of them would have given you that advice for plants that look that healthy.
Nice catch, now it makes a lot more sense.AN support. Not AFN support. AN = Advanced Nutrients. And they sell a flushing product, so naturally I would assume they would be in the "pro-flush" camp since it's a sale for them.
Thanks for taking so much time to answer my question. Much appreciated!Yes, agree with @Olderfart above. I tried the AN line once myself. Nice stuff but a bit tricky at anything other than full strength 5ml/gal and definitely responded best to RO/distilled water.
The BioBizz light mix works pretty well on it's own the first 3-4 weeks. The advice I got and used successfully with BioBizz and AN was to pH to around 6.3
I found that mixing the AN nutrients and letting it sit for at least 20 minutes was necessary for the pH to stabilize before attempting to adjust it. Give that a try. AN is very strong so test the EC/ppm if you can.
Also, you probably don't need to feed everytime. Water, water, water, feed, and repeat. The soil probably won't need to be watered every day either. Good luck.
Again, thanks for the great advice.@Kilbarrog Why flushing most commercial soil usually does not end well. Dolomite lime is a good source of calcium and magnesium. It is inexpensive and persistent. It is only slowly water soluble. This as well as many other organic sources for the elements our plants need are dependent upon the soil organisms to make the IONs of these elements available to the plants root system. When you flush soil like you did you flush a large component of the organisms out of the pot, You flush all of the IONs that are available to the plant out of the pot. You also wash out some of the Dolomite lime and other hard minerals. So you have a blank slate ---- not really. How much lime remains? The hard minerals do not all wash out of the pot. No way to know. You cannot just replace it, you don't know how much and even if you had a good guess it takes weeks for the microbes to repopulate and weeks longer for them to establish some kind of balance to the pot. This does not even touch on what has happened to the PH or the other hard minerals.
All is not lost but I believe you have buggered up a good start. I would Add Recharge today and a full dose of BALANCED nutrients tomorrow.
What you need to learn about watering will come with practice. Here are the basic rules: Never let the soil dry out. Soil and or coco can become hydrophobic if allowed to dry. This means it repels water. This in turn will create dry pockets in the soil and the roots and microbes will die there. If your soil - coco have accidentally dried out use a surfactant to help re-wet it. I like yucca powder. Don't let soil remain soggy by watering too much too often. Root rot, damping off, molds, fungus gnats and other problems start in soggy soil. When you do water water the entire pot. How to learn when to water starts before you plant the seed. Fill your container with fresh soil/coco and weigh it (heft it) this is the lightest weight and consider it a dry pot. Now slowly water until the soil/coco will no longer absorb the water and run-off begins; weigh the pot (heft it) this is the maximum water, the wettest the pot can get. The difference between wettest and driest is the maximum water weight, for ease of explanation lets just say the water weighs 20 pounds. When the pot loses 10 pounds (half of the water weight) it is time to water again. Slowly wet ALL of the soil until run-off begins. There is an art to watering. Coco can be fertigate many times a day if you want to continually present fresh balanced nutrients to the roots.
AN wants you to water to run-off because they want you to use more product. Organic soil that is maintained properly never needs to be watered to run-off just to run-off.
Peat based soil without Organic components can be watered to run-off but if you budget your nutrient inputs it also is not needed.
Coco should be fertigated to 15%-20% run-off every day it is fertigated.
Learning how much and when to fertilize is probably the hardest thing to learn about growing. Don't feel discouraged Farmers never give up!