Old Reviews Calling all General Organics nutrients users; past or present

[The Squid]

Hello friends. I also add molasses and silica blast. Love silica blast. I still Ph'd my feeds and had issues if I didn't, but I'm certain it varies.depending on your initial water source.
On bigger plants and with strains known to take it, I have used full strength with no issues at all.

 

[dogsnut]

I'm using a GO box for my current (1st) grow. In retrospect I would have used maybe 1/2 cup of Biotone instead of 2, and added some epsom salt to the water I rinsed/hydrated my coco with. As it is, adding .5L water mixed with .5mL of the root,grow,weed,marine,black and CaMag as my initial feeding was causing me to have some type of nute issue. I originally thought it was Mag deficiency, but I now suspect that my problems were likely ph related and may have self-corrected. It appears that you have to start out super light with these nutes (like even less than 1/4 ml per liter) and ramp up as you get your micro herd rocking and your roots more developed, otherwise you can have ph problems. That is my take based on everything I've read in many different journals and reviews. My initial problems that (so far) have seemingly self-corrected would follow along with what folks are saying they've been told by GH: "Yes the ph is not optimal when the tea is mixed up, but your bugs will take care of that." or something like that.

Unless I'm mixed up I think I read somewhere that you can aerate the tea for a period of time at a safe temp prior to use and the ph would change. Not sure on that one though.

 

[hank]

I have been using them. I have had some big plants and some not so big.

Are you all using them with every watering?

Anyone seeing salt build up from them? I would think you could with the calmag.

my tap water is around 8.3-8.5 I found that when I use the calmag it brings it down to 6.0-6.8 and most of the time when I add the bloom and bio marine it comes out to be 6.2-6.7
Anyone else get this too?

Also what I see with the calmag it raises PPM pretty high, however the bloom and marine dont bumb it as much.

I run in soil, ocean forest and light warrior.

 

[Bud]

Hey Hank, I've been using them for about a year and a half with pretty good success.

I feed mine every watering but real light in the beginning....I'm using the OF too. I'm finding that alone can get me well into veg.

Yeah...I notice some salt build up from the Cal/Mag. So far it's been nothing major.

My tap water is at about 7.0 - 7.2 pH and after I add my nutes it's around 5.2 - 5.0. I end up raising it to bring it into a soil range. :smokebuds:

 

[hank]

Do your PH up your water?

Are you all finding they really build up in the soil? Im watering heaver this time to try to flush anything out. Seems at the end my PPM coming out will be 2000+ at the end of a grow. And it takes a few watering to bring it down.

 

[late]

I am on my 3rd grow with a Go Box. I like it, and I suggest it to newbies using soil.
I am not going for max growth, and I am looking for a healthy plant that is vigorous,
and GO nutes certainly do that.

But... I am slowly replacing it with other things, if I think it might be better.
I bought a bottle of Alaska fish fertiliser at Lowes today for about $8. Haven't opened it,
and because it's 5-1-1 (and I have a plant in flower) it will be used in the garden. In the Fall,
I'll try it on a AKR.

Here's the way I see it, there's several brands of liquid fish fertiliser, and I seriously doubt
Alaska is anywhere near the best. But how much does it matter? I use potting soil with nutes,
and I will either add some blood meal to the lower half of the container or continue using liquid
nutes of some kind for the veg stage.

If I want cheaper, and I may, I might try Grow More. But I don't mind spending more if I think there
is even the possibility of an advantage. While I suspect there isn't one that justifies the expense, I like
fussing over the plant and fine tuning the witches brew.

I don't know why GO splits things up into so many bottles. They have seaweed by itself, and then tell
you to stop, but there is seaweed in the bud booster. There is also seaweed in some other bottles in
their lineup, so why have a separate bottle for that?

I think it's the gee whiz factor. As I mentioned, a lot of this stuff is about the gee whiz factor with
the pretty labels and clever names. That doesn't mean I don't like that... "Stirring"

 

[ChalkSticks]

I am brand new to growing, have 3 regular plants started using GO, so far they look perfect. I am about to begin an AF Bio Diesel, but have no clue what feeding schedule to follow. The GO box has its own schedule for regular plants, easy enough, anybody have some advice?

 

[briman]

You are going to want to post this in the Organic forum for a faster response. Look for a guy that goes by EYES on FIRE, he is a great organic grower!!

 

[ChalkSticks]

Thanks! Will do

 

[Anthropolis]

Welcome chalksticks! I'm a GO Box user for awhile now, along with organic soil mix and ammendments. I think the common agreement is to let the seedling start off for awhile without any food, let it get it from the soil if you're in soil. Then start at 25% to 1/3 strength for awhile and work up. So, on the GO Box, if it says 5ml/gal then like 1.5~2ml/gal to start for example. Then half strength for awhile, and many say Autoflowers are happy with half strength from then on. Personally, I ease them up to full strength on the GO Box charts, but some strains seem happier with this than others lol. Just remember the key to organics is feeding the soil not the plant. Feed the soil and all of its lovely microbes, and then the plant will feed itself from the soil

I am brand new to growing, have 3 regular plants started using GO, so far they look perfect. I am about to begin an AF Bio Diesel, but have no clue what feeding schedule to follow. The GO box has its own schedule for regular plants, easy enough, anybody have some advice?