Did not think I was and very cognizent of overwatering is a bad thing but somehow I definitely overwatered her. I have a few week old DurbanxCindy99 going again. I will take pics tonight. Time for a transplant anyway so this will all go away if I pay better attention.
Will document before and after for posterity.
Here she is before I goofed.
Well not proud of her but here is the BB Cupcake. I will be chopping this in a few days. Hard to tell and I did not keep track so gonna have to go back to my posts to see how long since she showed budlets. She is only at about 7 weeks. I will see what I can see with the loop and thinking about chopping this weekend.
Most if not all of the damaged leaves have been trimmed as she has grown a bit. Looking much better albeit droopy atm due to lights off in an hour.
Have no idea if this is a thing but due to my situation, I did not have a tent to hang my harvest so I lightly layered it in the bottom of a tote and set it outside in 45ĀŗF weather for a few hours. Been setting it out to get cold, then putting the tote in my dark closet. I have had no airflow and it is still drying nice and slow. Starting to smell very good. I think I may actually get to a 14 day dry using this unintended method.
Neverending zoom, pretty cool
I lean on people that have real world experience with products I am unfamiliar with. I realized my nutrients are out of date. I have been trying to decide on a new line and keep coming back to AN products. I am simple and do not want to buy anything I do not need. Could you give me a short list knowing I grow in soil?
It seems like they have the same products with different names like the Sensei and Conniseur looks like the same thing.
I am looking at Grow/Micro/Bloom for base nutes
I already have Rhino Skin
Options: Overdrive, B-52 and Bud Candy
I appreciate your time!!
To answer your first questionā¦
Youāre correct, Advanced nutrient has the standard base micro grow bloom, sensei, and connoisseur line of Base nutrients. The only difference is slight variations in NPK throughout the three.
Connoisseur is a very good one however, I stick with the three-part micro, grow, bloom as it gives me a little more opportunity to add more or less of NPK in different stages when needed.
With that said you canāt go wrong with any of the three base nutrient lines.
What else do I recommend
Iāve used a lot almost all of their products. Iāve narrowed down what I consider a decent starter line that consists of in my opinion must have by advanced nutrients.
1.) B-52 youāre already familiar with this product but it is a must have.
2.) Big Buds this stuff truly sets your flowering stage on fire. It gives you that little boost of phosphorus and potassium that you need when them buds are ripening.
3.) voodoo juice - hands down one of the best microbial life additive you can use. I would never go without it.
4.) Bud Candy as you know molasses offers a nice snack for the microbial life. Bud Candy is a seven course meal! One of the best feeds for microbial/fungi on the market
You say you have rhino skin at the end of the day itās silica. I found that the cheaper brand Bloom city silica is just as good if not better. The only difference I see is rhino skin cost more.
As far as overdrive I never saw a difference in using it versus not using it.
Sensizym I love looking after the root zone and soil. Sensizym is an enzyme that at the end of flowering I use as it converts all the root zones organic waste and turns it into valuable uptake-able nutrients. Itās not really needed (per se) but when you take the plants nutrients away during the last two weeks it gives them a little something to munch on by cleaning up the useless organic matter and turning it into food
Once you figure out what line of Base you choose the four additives that Iāve listed above are truly all you need for a wonderful grow.
In closing, Iāve found that people who have used advanced nutrients for a long period of time usually will end up with The connoisseur line
Iām a very hard sell when it comes to additives. I believe less is more.
I hope this helps my friend.
Thank you so much. I have made a decision. I also appreciate the Voodoo input as I did not realize that was the microbe product and I am out of Mykos and Azos so I will add this to my purchase.
Here is my complete purchase;
Grow/Micro/Bloom
B52
Bud Candy
Voodoo
Big Buds instead of Overdrive (Both appear to be bud enhancers)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!
Sounds like a plan to me. I wish you all the best let me know if you have any questions regarding any of them. Enjoy your holidays brother man
For the record, thereās a 800 number on the bottle you can call directly to their tech support people. Theyāre very knowledgeable and willing to assist you with any questions in any type of grow scenario. I used them many times back in the day until I was able to draw my own conclusions!
I downloaded the feeding chart from the website as well.
Well crapola, my grow store had every type of AN available EXCEPT Grow-Micro-Bloom. Oh well, tried to keep my money local, now gotta call Bezos.
This is my home sweet home here in the forum.
I decided to start tattooing again. Did my apprenticeship in the pen and now I have this super cool rig. If I can lay ink with a norelco beard trimmer motor, the E string from a guitar, a bic pen shaft, a paper clip and a couple of rubberbands, I am pretty sure I will be a beast with an actual rig and all of the needles in differing sizes.
Congrats on the new equipment best of luck tattooing! 
I will post pics in my thread once I get rolling.
@Borderryan22 Since coco isnāt soil I was wondering about microbes. I would keep them going in soil with a dash of Mykos and Azos. Do you add something to promote microbial life in coco? I switched to AN and could grab some Voodoo juice if so.
Happy Friday!!
I have a different feeding approach to coco. I mean, now Iām using the bottom feeding self watering bases, so microbes once a week arenāt being flushed out. I only do about Ā½ dose tho so I donāt get any ppm or pH spikes.
But when hand feeding, I really only feed to like the most minimal of runoff. Maybe a couple ounces. But I would feed 2x, sometimes 3x in a 24hr period, high ppm, just a loose high fertigation method. Then, once every week or so, I would do a full on soak and add Ā½ strength microbes. So I never really rinsed them away.
At transplant however I do add a generous amount of Myko. First a thin layer worked in about ā of the way up in the coco, then directly to the root ball before dropping in.
Thanks Brother. Just what I needed. Still have Mykos and Azos so will use it til its gone then get the voodoo or may just stick with the M&A. Have a great weekend. My babies still havenāt grown. Might be cullin a few that are really bad. I really wanted to show off this grow off. Ho humā¦
So what were you watering like the frat week or two. Gimme a breakdown if you can. I always change the grow, but I start almost the exact same way every time.
Do the germination thing, and when ready to plant, I have my coco expanded and a solo cup full with a small sprinkle of Mykos about halfway in the cup. I make sure my coco isnāt too wet by grabbing a handful and squeezing it out. Thatās about the consistency I want when planting, then when I put the seed actually in, I put like 20ml on and around the seed.
From there, I wait for sprout, then dome them. I only feed if the cups feel like the coco may have dried out too much, and then itās only enough to rehydrate it. Iāll feed 20ml or so with a dropper from the holes in the bottom of the cups every couple of days once the leaves really start forming. I let the leaf tips get to the sides of the domes, then give one good soak, and wait like 2 or 3 days for the coco to dry just a tad cuz for me it holds better when dropping to the next pot. So 1 runoff feed in the solo cup before uppotting.
Then I only feed enough for the older coco and new coco to sort of grab each other I guess. Iāll feed around the rim for the next week or two. Then, total soak to full runoff. May be a day or three before it needs another full soak, but eventually itāll get to every day.
This also helps. With what I got goin on now is just triage. I started in soil in solos. dried out too much, tap root died back. transplanted into 2.7 qt containers and the new coco. I calmagged the coco prior to using. It is pre buffered and phād to 5.8 with a .02 EC outta the bag. I am assuming since they still arent going vertical they are re tapping. Most of them are still green, just havenāt grown more than an inch. So yeah at this point just triage. Hoping I can save them and if not, I will start a new grow off on the right foot and watch the coco magic happen.
