Humic acid is a heavy acid that is produced organically by decomposition. It is the dark stuff from plants and animals rotting in a swamp or bog. You should use fulvic acid in conjunction with humic. The fulvic is light weight and goes through out the entire plant allowing it to cleanse it's self. Humic acid usually has lots of trace elements also. Fulvic acid also contributes a 0-1-0 nutrient content often, so it helps those roots and buds. They are both chelate acids that keep nutrients in an uptake available form. Something about adding an ionic charge to negative elements or something. I am very high, it is my day off lol. Chelates will remove rust and and calcium buildups. I always use both.
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I would say first off, Don't get in the habit of adding stuff to your rez if you have no idea what it will do!
2nd Humic acid acts a chelator, which helps plants take up the nutrients you have supplied. Don't over do it.
3rd You are mixing and matching products from different vendors. I do not encourage people to do that unless they are really familiar with the individual products. Most vendors formula's are very different and you can easily run into problems combining products that leaves you having too much of one thing or not enough of another. I tend to recommend staying with a product line until you have a firm grasp of the chemistry going on in your rez.
PS hydro store sales clerks are generally low wage employees without a whole lot of experience in growing and certainly not with autos
You reminded me of why I no longer use a ph meter. Those things are so finicky, that I do not trust my readings. I went back to test fluid and never looked back. I only aim for a 6 or 5. I do not care if it is 5.3 or 5.7, it will shift anyway.
You should not be adding the nectar. It is a finishing product for flavor. I also do not recommend adding anything "sweet" to coco. That is asking for a mold and bacteria problem. The mycos will eat nutrients. That botanicare should not be in there. You already have three General Hydroponics products in there, and two other additives. That is not going to play out well. If you are using more than three additives, you are doing too much. Flora nova is so well done you add nothing to it. That stuff is the only patented fertilizer around. You should dump that batch and make one following the directions on the Floranova grow bottle to the minimum strength.
Maybe a little silica and cal-mag. Very light on those two. Like 1/4 teaspoon per gallon, because the Floranova is so complete. It already has fulvic and humic acids and calcium. Go half bloom and half grow when you first get flowering. Stay on that half and half schedule until structural growth stops. At that point just the bloom formula.
Grey bear you are so right about grow shop folks MOST not all are like car salesmen. Just the other day he tried selling me some new light that compares to some sun index it was only ten percent off from the real sun lol. Thanks but no thanks.
Ill cut out the flora nectar it does have some sweetness to it and the last thing i need is mold and such. So i should get rid of the blast off? Seems harmless very low p and k 0.1- 0.1
Ill cut out the flora nectar it does have some sweetness to it and the last thing i need is mold and such. So i should get rid of the blast off? Seems harmless very low p and k 0.1- 0.1
If you are staying with Flora series, then get rid of that other stuff. Only add the silica and cal mag at low rates. I would also add a ball bearing or galvanized nut into the bottle of Floranova. It will help you mix that thick shit up. Like a spray paint can.
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