Nutrients Foliage Pro only?

[MrObscura]

Hi, I'm a new grower only a bit over a week into my first grow(a couple mephisto autos in soil) and after doing some research have realized a simple approach to nutrition is the way to go, not with a 20 bottle lineup.

I pretty much settled on the dyna gro line but have heard some things about people having great success with using nothing but foliage pro the entire grow. I would love to hear more about that. Anyone try it?

 

[Bigg Al]

No, haven't heard of that. But I've have big success with Mega Crop from Greenleaf Nutritions. You can get a sample bag from their site just pay for shipping. Also look into sweet candy, and bud explosion. If you need cal/mag they have that also.

 

[Animatey]

Hi, I'm a new grower only a bit over a week into my first grow(a couple mephisto autos in soil) and after doing some research have realized a simple approach to nutrition is the way to go, not with a 20 bottle lineup.

I pretty much settled on the dyna gro line but have heard some things about people having great success with using nothing but foliage pro the entire grow. I would love to hear more about that. Anyone try it?

The Dyna-Gro lineup is great. I am using the 4 bottles but have seen at least a few people use just Foliage Pro with great results.

The guy credited with demonstrating this is called Homebrewer over on RIU. He basically says that for container gardening (including soil) you can use FP start to finish. He did a couple grows comparing Dyna Gro to Advanced and GH using clones and showed results with lots of pictures. Dyna Gro was superior in both cases.

FP is also a liquid which in my opinion gives it an advantage over 1 part dry nutrients like megacrop or maxibloom because I dislike trying to dissolve dry nutrients as an added step.

 

[Bigg Al]

FP is also a liquid which in my opinion gives it an advantage over 1 part dry nutrients like megacrop or maxibloom because I dislike trying to dissolve dry nutrients as an added step.

Sorry, but a little warm water would help dissolve Mega Crop or any of its additives. Just take out a 1/4- 1/2 cup of water first warm it then add dry. That's how I do it!

 

[Animatey]

Sorry, but a little warm water would help dissolve Mega Crop or any of its additives. Just take out a 1/4- 1/2 cup of water first warm it then add dry. That's how I do it!

I get you can make it dissolve with some various methods but I'd rather have it I'm liquid form to start.

Also to make sure you get proper ratios in megacrop you have to mix a certain amount at once. Notice there is small balls and also powder in the bag, and if you don't mix enough at once, then your nutrient ratios will be off as the little balls are N and Ca. Too many little balls, or too much powder and who knows what your ratios actually came out to be. If you mix enough at once this might not be an issue, but for me that's too much hassle.

I'm not saying megacrop is a bad choice, lots of people have had success with it. However, I'd personally rather use Foliage Pro. It's highly concentrated, has all trace elements, and works great straight out of the bottle.

 

[MrObscura]

After doing some more research and based on what I could find I've decided I'm going to give the foliage pro only approach a go. That and a little molasses.

 

[parsing_trees]

After doing some more research and based on what I could find I've decided I'm going to give the foliage pro only approach a go. That and a little molasses.

Please keep us posted! I use Foliage-Pro in veg but switch to Dyna-Gro's Bloom in flower, usually as the flowering stretch is finishing up. Still a one-part nutrient line, just different NPKs for veg and flower.

 

[MrObscura]

I've heard bloom can hurt production actually but idk... I do know the head guy at dyna grow said foliage pro provides everything a plant needs and bloom nutes are just marketing. Though that was before they released pro mag which I'm curious about.

Anyway I'm day 52 now and still feeding nothing but foliage pro. I'm not even going to do the molasses.

 

[parsing_trees]

Foliage-Pro has pretty high nitrogen (9-3-6) compared to Bloom (3-12-6). If you were going to do one thing all the time, their Grow (7-9-5) might be a better fit? I think that's what some of homebrewer's threads on rollitup comparing Dyna-Gro to General Hydroponics, Advanced Nutrients, and Mega-Crop used, though some of threads were from before Foliage-Pro was added to the product line.

I tend to grow a couple different strains together in a SOG. They don't usually start flowering at the same time, and I've seen minor nitrogen issues (deficiency on one side, toxicity on the other), so being able to switch from a high-N to high-P formula (or a mix) seems worthwhile.

 

[MrObscura]

Homebrews done some foliage pro comparisons. He thinks it's the best nutes for container growing in soil. And I'm pretty sure he's one of the people who suggests not using bloom. Which makes sense since the idea that plants needs more pk in bloom is just a marketing scheme.

Anyway, Foliage pro is really just an improved version of grow tailored to meet the exact 3 1 2 ratio that best suits plant growth.