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[Lil Dab]

I'd probably have to buy a couple years worth or drippers and grow bags to hit $100. The only nutes you really gotta buy for a while are the b1/b2. I don't use a lot of the v1/v2 and the foliar bags will last for years

I got 1 pound of everything except I didn't get the foliars and 2 pounds of the B's thinking it's enough for 2-3 grows we shall see

 

[JP1]

I got 1 pound of everything except I didn't get the foliars and 2 pounds of the B's thinking it's enough for 2-3 grows we shall see

Should be. I only had to buy more because I was running through it with the skunks. But autos I max out around 2.5gs/gal. I pretty much run the no calmag full tilt low strength feeding chart but I start with 1g/gal for seeds

 

[Mike20132]

I got 1 pound of everything except I didn't get the foliars and 2 pounds of the B's thinking it's enough for 2-3 grows we shall see

I got a huge bag of their base nutes a little over a year ago and wow was it hygroscopic! I wound up putting a boatload of those silica desiccant pouches in there and it STILL lumped up after a few weeks. It was mostly my own fault as I knew it would be enough for dozens of grows for me. Probably should have known better.

Just thought I'd share....

 

[Mike20132]

Yeah, I do lots of stupid things. Like the time I nearly blew my oven door off in a poorly-conceived plan to dry off some ethanol soaked molecular sieves.

 

[Lil Dab]

Should be. I only had to buy more because I was running through it with the skunks. But autos I max out around 2.5gs/gal. I pretty much run the no calmag full tilt low strength feeding chart but I start with 1g/gal for seeds

That's exactly where I was going to start unless you told me different. I did get their calmag too just incase. Figure I'll just buffer with that to keep it all thier products

 

[JP1]

I got a huge bag of their base nutes a little over a year ago and wow was it hygroscopic! I wound up putting a boatload of those silica desiccant pouches in there and it STILL lumped up after a few weeks. It was mostly my own fault as I knew it would be enough for dozens of grows for me. Probably should have known better.

Just thought I'd share....

I haven't had the floraflex salts lump up anything like megacrop. The v1 and b1 will lump up a little but easily fixed by just squishing the bag. No hammers required

 

[Lil Dab]

I got a huge bag of their base nutes a little over a year ago and wow was it hygroscopic! I wound up putting a boatload of those silica desiccant pouches in there and it STILL lumped up after a few weeks. It was mostly my own fault as I knew it would be enough for dozens of grows for me. Probably should have known better.

Just thought I'd share....

I haven't had much issue with green leaf products doing that so I hope that's not a issue but I'll definitely be looking out now thank you

 

[JP1]

That's exactly where I was going to start unless you told me different. I did get their calmag too just incase. Figure I'll just buffer with that to keep it all thier products

I'm still buffering with an old bottle of botanicare calmag+. But I haven't used any at all during a grow in a long time. At least the past couple brands of nutes I've used (and I've tried a few). But I like these nutes a lot. pH is pretty stable and the plants have been nice. Only issue has been using the full tilt part if I've got plants that finish weeks apart

 

[Mike20132]

I haven't had the floraflex salts lump up anything like megacrop. The v1 and b1 will lump up a little but easily fixed by just squishing the bag. No hammers required

I was worried the extra moisture would throw off the weights and I was not smart enough to do the math to compensate.

As for the oven door thing... I was trying to make some effective sanitizer near the beginning of the COVID thing. I was not able to purchase strong enough booze so I had to get 100 proof Vodka and somehow turn it into about 120 proof. I have a crappy 'still and was only able to get to around 110. So I tried some sieves that would just absorb the water. That actually worked, but I had to run the stuff through a few times as the beads got saturated. First idea was to put them in the oven. After all, it is water they were soaking up so that should be good, right? I neglected to consider that they were also coated in ~120 proof ethanol.

After the first BOOM! I dismissed it as a sound coming from my neighbors house. While I was in the kitchen, BOOM! number 2. This time I actually saw the oven door fly open. Scared the bejesus out of me.

 

[JP1]

I was worried the extra moisture would throw off the weights and I was not smart enough to do the math to compensate.

As for the oven door thing... I was trying to make some effective sanitizer near the beginning of the COVID thing. I was not able to purchase strong enough booze so I had to get 100 proof Vodka and somehow turn it into about 120 proof. I have a crappy 'still and was only able to get to around 110. So I tried some sieves that would just absorb the water. That actually worked, but I had to run the stuff through a few times as the beads got saturated. First idea was to put them in the oven. After all, it is water they were soaking up so that should be good, right? I neglected to consider that they were also coated in ~120 proof ethanol.

After the first BOOM! I dismissed it as a sound coming from my neighbors house. While I was in the kitchen, BOOM! number 2. This time I actually saw the oven door fly open. Scared the bejesus out of me.