So, do you believe it possible to grow successfully w little to no “bloom” nutes. Like flora bloom, as im using the 3 part+calmag. Wondering if its possible…. May have to experiment a bit more
I don't use "cal/mag" because I have calcium and magnesium in my fertilizer…like every other fertilizer sold in the cannabis market. A lot of growers, when seeing something that they think is going wrong will, encourage other growers to "add cal/mag" or "turn down the lights".
"add cal/mag" is a running joke on other forums. And the reflex decision to cut back on light is, almost always, as soundly based as bleeding the patient was in pre-scientific medicine.
I have no idea if this is true but, per another forum, Jacks never offered a "bloom" nutrient because they did not believe that there was a need for it with cannabis. Jacks has been around for decades so I figure that they have significant expertise. They have added a "bloom" fert recently
in response to customer demand.
Do I believe that you can be successful using the same mix?
Absolutely. I don't know of a scientifically demonstrated reason to use anything other than the same mix, assuming that the "standard" mix provides adequate levels of the 18 chemicals that plants require to maximize their genetic potential.
My decision to use the same mix from seed to weed is based, in part, on what I read in the thread by
@farside05, by the significant number of growers who use Jacks 3-2-1 and use the same mix throughout the grow (they're on another cannabis forum), by the fact that Jacks recommends the same mixture from seed to weed for their nutes, and by the fact that, in the hundreds of hours that I've spent reading research on cannabis growing, I have yet to come across any data from a controlled study that shows a benefit.
And, seeing that I'm a Bugbee fan, the only comment I've seen from the infamous Dr Bugbee was, essentially, "meh".
Oh, yeh - I stumbled across the nutrient mix that Bugbee uses for his cannabis research and, lo and behold,
he uses the same mix throughout the grow.
I'm more than happy to add almost anything to my res to get a better crop but lacking evidence that there's a positive and direct cause and effect, I don't.
Bugbee's nine parameters are in the attachment. The biggest impact is adding CO2 but personal growers rarely have a grow environment that can "trap" the air so we're limited to ambient levels of CO2 (410 ppm ATM). Putting that aside, if you go through each of those parts of your grow and bring them up to "good", you'll get a
lot of weed. If you optimize them, you'll get a "metric shitton" of weed.