Thanks for going over this. It inspired me to rework my nutrient recipe. Ive used jacks for a long time with great success but was always stumped on how to keep the calcium and sulfur high enough towards mid to late flower without having the magnesium and nitrogen levels too high since i was using calnit and epsom. After hearing you mention the different calcium options I decided to go with gypsum as that was exactly what i needed to up those cal and sulfur numbers while keeping nitrogen and magnesium in check so that i dont end up with extended calyxes, new pistil growth in final weeks and the inevitable calcium def. rusting that comes along with lowering the calnit. My flower week 3-6 recipe is now: Jacks 4.5 Cal-nit 2 MPK 0.5 Epsom 1 Gypsum 1.5 This gives me an elemental PPM of: N 138 P 92 K 292 Mg 97 sulfur 425 Cal 188
That sulfur is loaded! And that’s my issue with this formula. No sulfur included but he suggest running .5 to 1 gram of mag sulfate but is only 16.5 to 33 ppm sulfur. Much lower than all the other top brands
they literally changed the listing after seeing my video to make up for THEIR mistake in not listing it in the guaranteed analysis...but sure...blame me for using the data supplied.
No not Athena. Custom hydro nutrients made the mistake of not including the sulfur in the listing, but they have fixed it now. This masterblend 0-12-24 is 11% sulfur and at the feeding he is using here of 4 grams per gallon it would give you 116 ppm of sulfur.
Well its working friend and thank you 🙏 I was so hesitate about jacks mostly because of the mixing but you clarified what I need to do and made it all understandable so thank you
Long time viewer! Love all the based knowledge you express to us all!!! I’ve learned a lot since I started growing, using your advice! Keep it coming gene 🧬 love the content!!
I like the Jack's, but it was the MegaCrop 2 part that got me going 4.2:1.8 for late flower. I ran that and next time I saw you, you were saying 4:2 also. I was using a zero N CalMag to lower N at final feeds, but I will try this, possibly before I finish the 100lbs of Jack's I got from Grow Green MI for $100 shipped(50lbs ea). I do like that MegaCrop uses Amino chelates vs EDTA. I add Aminos to the Jack's, plus Mr Fulvic and Liquid Smoke for pyroligneous acids. I like the ideas of crop steering, I just don't know about running the high EC and deep, deep drybacks. Frankly, I don't want to know a strain THAT well. I'd rather grow variety and not push it to the absolute max. I'm about to do a grow-off of Vader OGs Yoda Soda, so I watched a bunch of his grows. He was crushing it just running 1.4EC from start to finish. Maybe it's just better to stay safe than to let anything get out of whack for even a minute
Gene, I share your opinion on Athena exactly. Splitting micros between 2 bags makes no since other than to make your customer buy more of your overcharged product in order to have proper plant nutrition. Keep Following the science and cutting through the hype!
Thank you. This is good info 👍 saved me from buying Athena , had no idea they locked their micros to their calnit, that definitely bad practice :/ Also, I will be trying the gypsum last the last three weeks. Great idea. Thank you for sharing the knowledge.
What up Gene 🍻 What would your veg ratio be? I know your jacks is 3/2. Appreciate this info tremendously! 🙏 You haven't steered me wrong over the years brother!
Gidday Gene, I'm just about to flip to flower and was wandering iff I'm able to cut out my calmag and just use magnesium sulphate in it's place at one tablespoon per four litres, thanks for another grouse informative show
You'd be missing out on the extra calcium and nitrogen that is provided in the calmag and I would say lots of calcium and nitrogen will be beneficial those first 2 weeks of flower when the plant is still stacking vegetative growth
Slight caking with my 4lb purchase other then that so far so good. Thanks for this knowledge this nitrogen less nutrient is going to make grows sensitive sativa's so much easier.
Another dude said his was caked up. It's the type of salts they are using. Athena is the same thing. Slightly "hydrous". Nothing wrong with it, just the way it is. Part of the reason I like jacks. For small amount mixing, the dryer the better. The slightly wet stuff isn't as homogenous in weight and mixing.
Sadly in EUROPE / GERMANY we can’t get the 0-12-24 we only get the 4-18-38 Formular for tomatoes over here…can you maybe help out about the ratios for growing cannabis in Dwc? Thank you so much
The next logical step in my opinion is, to start mixing raw nutrient salts from scratch. It’s quite easy with the aid of Hydro buddy, or the Cannastats calculator and, will be the cheapest option in the long run. Weighing and mixing take about an hour if your taking your time and got your recipe down. You can also make stock concentration of certain elements to further save on time. IMHO, what we need focus on, are what elemental ppm and ratios work for certain genotypes and phenotypes. The big boys can do it on the regular with they’re tissue testing and what not but, it would be a great starting point for those of us without regular access to such things. Then we can share them amongst ourselves as a grow community free of charge. Once we all get on the same page mixing our own salts of course! 😁
Just got the 0-12-24 and about to try it. Question?? What do recipe you recommend for using masterB 4-18-38 for seedling and veg? Downloaded hydrobudy to PC but can't figure how to get it open.
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Hi! Thank you for everything you do! The only thing that confused me about all this is the calcium is too high. You suggest 3.25 to 3.5g calnit for the beginning of flowering, which gives us 163 to 175 ppm or more calcium. No other fertilizer has values like that. I’m just afraid that calcium might block the other nutrients (phosphorus magnesium iron especially). In addition, many people use tap water, which already has some calcium. What do you think about this? Are these not dangerous values? And what is our limit, especially with tap water? Thanks!
@@GreengenesGardenOfficial Just trying to figure out what calcium values are most likely to start blocking elements. If you have experimented with high doses of calcium I would like to know up to what values you have not experienced problems. Thanks!
Ya. Just get the Mg up to 60ppm and the S will be plenty. They didn't list sulfur on the site by mistake...they reached out to me after they saw this and gave me fresh numbers. I'll do an update eventually.
Great epy, keep up the great info. Do you have any advice for auto’s. I run 4:2.5 jacks at 1.2 ec after watching your previous video. Been watching a couple years thanks.
Happy New Year! I keep learning from you. Your definitely my favourite teacher. I seen a comparison you made to master blend a few years back and I basically follow your Jacks application with it. Wicket affordable and love how it’s ph buffered. I do struggle with how it’s typically buffered for 6-6.5 ph but I do rdwc. I’m do quite well either way yet science says dwc should be more at 5.5. So I guess my question is about ph. Like I said I do fine at 6.5 but do you believe I should be aiming for 5.5. I don’t think it makes much difference but hmmmm. Also, can’t find your bus stuff so I use voodoo juice. Comparable you think? No where can I find anyone talking about how adding microbial stuff like this changes a sterile system to a living system. Any thoughts on this? I grow all kinds of things including ing vegetables, mostly in DWC. Thanks for all your efforts, love your vids! YELLOWKNIFE Canada.
jacks and peters are pretty much the same company but have lots of different products. but the jacks 3-2-1 and 4-2 that he references refers to Jack's part a 5-12-26 and part b calcium nitrate 15-0-0 and epsom salt as part three.
Peters is the parent company. And who makes it all. The "Jacks Nutrients" specific part is like a branch of peters focused on the canna industry. "Peters Professional" and "Jacks Professional" take care of the big agg and commercial style accounts. Can technically get any mix through either entities I believe.
Hello sir i have a question and im kinda lost. Im using Bioblizz or Plagrons lightmix soil or peatmoss not sure what it is. Can you please tell me how to make a A+B, and Bloomstimulator fertzilizer from Masterblend or something that is in EU. How much and what exactly do i need. Im currently using Bcuzz atami a+b , rootstimulator, bloomstimulator, bloombastic, aptus silica, and enzym+ for my grows but i think i get alot of excess nitrogen from the lightmix soil + upping the a+b dosage at the end.
Another dude said his was caked up too. It's the type of salts they are using. Athena is the same thing. Slightly "hydrous". Nothing wrong with it, just the way it is. Part of the reason I like jacks. For small amount mixing, the dryer the better. The slightly wet stuff isn't as homogenous in weight and mixing.
@@GreengenesGardenOfficial I'm not a fan so far..1, it came hard as a rock..literally and 2..drops ph super low. Just mixed up 12g for 3gal rez of RO h2o..dropped my ph to 3.8. Thought, let me try tap water...same result..3.8. Not fun!
Mines just as awesome as it always has been when using the tomato formula. Got the 4 pound and went back and got the 25lb . No issues whatsoever. If you’re using distilled or RO yea it drops ph of course it does. But I use filtered tap and never need to use PH up or down. 4-2 -1 and it’s money
I've used Jacks for a few years, but I can't stop it from not mixing all the way, and leaving a bunch of shit in the bottom of my rez. I've tried mixing and dissolving in warm/hot water, mixing in warm water then using a mixer on my drill. Cold Water, IDK 🤷♂️ I can't figure it out. It works great, but I hate the way it don't dissolve all the way.
I just got a similar mix . It’s plant marvel 5-12 -26 , yara 15.5 -0-0 and epsom salt . I mixed it at 3 2 1 and it came out at 700ppm . How do I mix it to get 1300 or more ppm ? I’m not sure what ratios I should use ? Thanks
Maybe you'll check this out. Like you I was looking for a way to grow better dope and like you, I grow in 2 gal coco with 2 part salts. In the course of doin my research I've come across many sources saying that Nitrates are the bugaboo, nasty byproduct of ammunition manufacturing. You can find studies of crops that are harvested several times a season(I forget the crop) but seed gets planted, first harvest gets pulled, field gets hit with Nitrates, each successive harvest nutrient content of the crop goes down. Nitrates make the plant take up excess water, lowering Brix and yeilding large watery cells that shrink up more than "organically" grown. There may be some other factors, such as the amount of work that is required of the p[lant toaccess the nutrients or thefact that the plant is more in charge of it's uptake, but I'm tellin' ya bub, I swapped about 50% of my CalNit for Amino Acids and holy shit! I was scrambling for a source of Calcium, simply because I hadn't planned on this experiment. Next round I will get CalMino from BioAg along with their BioSuperSil which is a nano Si product with no pH fuckery. Soil is great, for outdoors!
@@GreengenesGardenOfficial well i want to know if its the same thing as this master blend during fade/flush. i want to start using nitrogen free inputs during the last 3 weeks
My question to you is. You have mentioned that sulfur helps bring flavor in strains. And in this formula here looks like sulfur will be low? It’s nonexistent in the actual 0-12-24 but even if adding 1 gram of magnesium sulfate per gallon looks like that is only 25 ppm mag and 33 ppm sulfur. The formula included mag so that’s not a problem but with only 33 ppm sulfur and you suggest running even less at .5 to .75 grams? (16.5 to 24.5.ppm sulfur? )Compared to the other top brands jacks Athena etc…with over 100 ppm sulfur, this sulfur is very low… so what is your thoughts on this? Do you think that will sacrifice some flavor? Do you think it will make no difference? Anyway for this reason I’m thinking I’d rather stick with jacks.
Ok so I reached out to custom hydro and they told me it was a mistake on their part. It is actually 11% sulfur. And at recommended feeding it is 159 ppm sulfur. He also went ahead and added the info on the product page. Now that’s makes me definitely say I’m trying this out. I also talked to masterblend and they said they made it just for custom hydro and they tested it and it’s been having great results. It shows back ordered on the site but actually he doesn’t have it yet. They are behind on delivering it. She said she should have it to him on Wednesday. So yea ima be ordering a bag of this…
Im not a fan of these 0 N cannabis formulas. I like to keep my N up in the 160mg/L range in veg and drop down to 130mg/L late flower while keeping Calcium below 150mg/L. Doesnt make any sense to me.
@@GreengenesGardenOfficial I'd have to run about 0.91g/L of Calcium nitrate to get to 130ppm N and that would push my Ca up to ~170ppm. With masterblend tomato I can drop that to 0.73g/L and keep N:K:Ca at a 1:1:1 ratio for flowering. For vegative, I'm running the lettuce mix so I can keep N a little higher while still keeping Calcium low. It's my own recipe based on recent research carried out by several universities around the best ratio for secondary metabolite production.
You mention a lot about trace minerals and I’m wondering have you heard of products like sea-90 and sea-crop? It’s just sea salt but because of that all minerals are in sea water and their was a dr Maynard Murray who did tests and found that you could grow with sea salt. I know the first reaction is sodium chloride will cause issues but per the dr studies he showed that because it is complete balance it is ok for the plants and it is simply puttin back in the soil what came from it in the first place. Rain washed the minerals away into the ocean and basically he is saying it’s just putting it back. Now my plan is to run a test using it with jacks vs not using it and see if there is a difference but if you do a google search you can find there have been some tests and they have shown good grown with sea water is more nutrient dense with better flavor. I’ve just been researching it and will give a try but I haven’t actually done it yet so it’s just thoughts. But I’d be curious about your opinion on or if you’re familiar with it
Oh cool, a couple questions… are you running living soil with dry amendments? Or as in like full of poop and stuff? Or little of both? And also at what rate are you applying the sea-90? And have you run any side by side tests with it to see if it made a difference or was it just an obvious difference?
@@ronquando3088 no I haven’t got any tests side-by-side but I can say that my plants seem to be happy with a tablespoon per 5 gallons of soil like I said about every 90 days I use mostly dry amendments no poop and stuff like that unless we’re talking mushroom, compost, earthworm compost stuff like that
I went ahead and grabbed 10lb of the sea-90 going to use it on outside garden food and I want to run a test using it in hydro. The guy Maynard Murray actually was growing tomatoes with only sea-90… I’m going to see if all the trace minerals can make a difference in conjunction with hydro nutes.
How do you get telephone support for their products…….how do you get product support /technical support? I left A/N because Jacks claimed to have a support hotline. I have no luck getting anyone on the phone. I use their products and love them. Waaaaay cheaper than buying watered down nutes….
AN definetly answers their 1800 number and is very helpful have you even tried calling them? Or emailing them? They respond to me and have helped me alot honestly.
why not grow 100% Living Organic Soil? put in two 4x4 beds filled with a good Clackamas Coots soil recipe, some worms, cover crop, water with Yucca extract, aloe vera, coconut water a few Fermented Plant Juices and top dress with Bokashi and Craft Blend and you'll get the best bud you've ever grown.
@@boriskogan7903 my average is 9.8 oz per plant with a 5 week veg. My space is 2x5 with 9' ceiling. I grow 2 plants each in 20 gallon fabric pots and usually get 19-20 oz per grow, with best 2 plant grow being 27.5 oz. Might not be the biggest yields but nothing really beats the quality of LOS and 20 oz every 4 1/2 months is way more than enough for my wife and I to wallow in it.
@@boriskogan7903 absolutely. I grow both organic living soil and synthetic. Organic can only get you so far but synthetic you can push to the absolute limit and get that cut to its fullest possible potential . I love the control of synthetic and the simplicity of living soil.
@@boriskogan7903 yep living soil is pretty simple. Amend the soil top dress maybe every 30 days with a tea once every 10. It’s pretty much water only it gets boring . But yea for some of us it’s the most simple way of gardening . Sure one could make it complicated as they want but done right ( letting the plant use wgst it needs) it’s bout as simple as it gets. I domt use any bloom boosters or anything like that. From start to finish it’s the same formula I amend the soil with from jump. Only boosters needed in living soil is kelp and fulvic acid.
@Greengenes Garden I just did that. My tap is about 100ppm Added Gypsum and got around 200ppm during flush. Is 100ppm a good rate for calcium sulfate (Gypsum) ? Thanks bro !
We need a new video with a breakdown of the new schedule feeds please!
Can't wait to see a new updated feed chart using the MasterBlend 0-12-24!!! Been waiting for this!!
Dude, I appreciate your approach and “why you do it “ ✊✊✊ much love n respect. I’ve learned a lot and about to try the 0-12-24
So refreshing to see someone who is informative as you and not try to be a click bait annoying UA-cam weed person
Thanks for going over this. It inspired me to rework my nutrient recipe. Ive used jacks for a long time with great success but was always stumped on how to keep the calcium and sulfur high enough towards mid to late flower without having the magnesium and nitrogen levels too high since i was using calnit and epsom.
After hearing you mention the different calcium options I decided to go with gypsum as that was exactly what i needed to up those cal and sulfur numbers while keeping nitrogen and magnesium in check so that i dont end up with extended calyxes, new pistil growth in final weeks and the inevitable calcium def. rusting that comes along with lowering the calnit.
My flower week 3-6 recipe is now:
Jacks 4.5
Cal-nit 2
MPK 0.5
Epsom 1
Gypsum 1.5
This gives me an elemental PPM of:
N 138
P 92
K 292
Mg 97
sulfur 425
Cal 188
That sulfur is loaded! And that’s my issue with this formula. No sulfur included but he suggest running .5 to 1 gram of mag sulfate but is only 16.5 to 33 ppm sulfur. Much lower than all the other top brands
they literally changed the listing after seeing my video to make up for THEIR mistake in not listing it in the guaranteed analysis...but sure...blame me for using the data supplied.
@@GreengenesGardenOfficial Athena changed it?
No it’s not like that I wasn’t blaming you man. Sorry if it came off that way.
No not Athena. Custom hydro nutrients made the mistake of not including the sulfur in the listing, but they have fixed it now. This masterblend 0-12-24 is 11% sulfur and at the feeding he is using here of 4 grams per gallon it would give you 116 ppm of sulfur.
I’ve been using Masterblend for a while now with great success. And they are local to me here in Illinois.
Nice. Just drive the truck down and load it up
This is gold, thank you Gene!
Well its working friend and thank you 🙏 I was so hesitate about jacks mostly because of the mixing but you clarified what I need to do and made it all understandable so thank you
Long time viewer! Love all the based knowledge you express to us all!!! I’ve learned a lot since I started growing, using your advice! Keep it coming gene 🧬 love the content!!
Always appreciate the keeping honest attitude.
🤙🏻
that outro was a culmination of why i fucks with u. since the cob lights, til today.
Always dropping that knowledge!!! Thanks for sharing with us! 👊🏻
Have been going away from the liquid fertilizer path. This video has helped alot. Thanks
Glad it helped
I like the Jack's, but it was the MegaCrop 2 part that got me going 4.2:1.8 for late flower. I ran that and next time I saw you, you were saying 4:2 also. I was using a zero N CalMag to lower N at final feeds, but I will try this, possibly before I finish the 100lbs of Jack's I got from Grow Green MI for $100 shipped(50lbs ea). I do like that MegaCrop uses Amino chelates vs EDTA. I add Aminos to the Jack's, plus Mr Fulvic and Liquid Smoke for pyroligneous acids. I like the ideas of crop steering, I just don't know about running the high EC and deep, deep drybacks. Frankly, I don't want to know a strain THAT well. I'd rather grow variety and not push it to the absolute max. I'm about to do a grow-off of Vader OGs Yoda Soda, so I watched a bunch of his grows. He was crushing it just running 1.4EC from start to finish. Maybe it's just better to stay safe than to let anything get out of whack for even a minute
Gene, I share your opinion on Athena exactly. Splitting micros between 2 bags makes no since other than to make your customer buy more of your overcharged product in order to have proper plant nutrition. Keep Following the science and cutting through the hype!
Thank you. This is good info 👍 saved me from buying Athena , had no idea they locked their micros to their calnit, that definitely bad practice :/ Also, I will be trying the gypsum last the last three weeks. Great idea. Thank you for sharing the knowledge.
I use RAW Brand Nutrients. They make it easy, even I can follow the directions. No water, tech grade water soluble
Harlee Smith is a cool kat
If I still used powders, RAW would be pretty much the only company I fuck with. Definitely nothing aggregated.
I'm going to run it with you but in a recirculating system. Been wanting to switch it up. Thanks for pointing it out.
What up Gene 🍻
What would your veg ratio be? I know your jacks is 3/2. Appreciate this info tremendously! 🙏
You haven't steered me wrong over the years brother!
How much Calcium nitrate would you recommend for VEG? Thank you
I run canna coco nutes and have had bad ass results also run Silicium and mammoth P full cycle
Bro 100% thanks for all you information.
Thanks and welcome
Stay boring bro, and dropping info bangers. Last thing this world needs is another whip kit hype man.
What?
Craft farmer?
😂 too true
Man, I needed you! Thanks for this. Having said that I been on AN for 15 yrs. I wouldn’t mind a chat with ya if that’s possible
Love the analysis, as always thank you for sharing. Are you running PowerSI or anything similar these days?
Hay bro I'm learning All kinds of shit from ya so thank you very much I hope your gonna be here for everyone to learn
Gidday Gene, I'm just about to flip to flower and was wandering iff I'm able to cut out my calmag and just use magnesium sulphate in it's place at one tablespoon per four litres, thanks for another grouse informative show
Sorry mate I forgot to mention that I'm in coco and perlite
You'd be missing out on the extra calcium and nitrogen that is provided in the calmag and I would say lots of calcium and nitrogen will be beneficial those first 2 weeks of flower when the plant is still stacking vegetative growth
Slight caking with my 4lb purchase other then that so far so good. Thanks for this knowledge this nitrogen less nutrient is going to make grows sensitive sativa's so much easier.
Another dude said his was caked up. It's the type of salts they are using. Athena is the same thing. Slightly "hydrous". Nothing wrong with it, just the way it is. Part of the reason I like jacks. For small amount mixing, the dryer the better. The slightly wet stuff isn't as homogenous in weight and mixing.
My 25lb I ordered has no caking looks good
Sadly in EUROPE / GERMANY we can’t get the 0-12-24 we only get the 4-18-38 Formular for tomatoes over here…can you maybe help out about the ratios for growing cannabis in Dwc? Thank you so much
The next logical step in my opinion is, to start mixing raw nutrient salts from scratch. It’s quite easy with the aid of Hydro buddy, or the Cannastats calculator and, will be the cheapest option in the long run. Weighing and mixing take about an hour if your taking your time and got your recipe down. You can also make stock concentration of certain elements to further save on time. IMHO, what we need focus on, are what elemental ppm and ratios work for certain genotypes and phenotypes. The big boys can do it on the regular with they’re tissue testing and what not but, it would be a great starting point for those of us without regular access to such things. Then we can share them amongst ourselves as a grow community free of charge. Once we all get on the same page mixing our own salts of course! 😁
Welcome to the channel
This is what I do. Base blend with calcium nitrate and then bloom booster during flower (monopotasium phosphate)
what would you do for Veg? would you use Master blend?
Just got the 0-12-24 and about to try it.
Question??
What do recipe you recommend for using masterB 4-18-38 for seedling and veg?
Downloaded hydrobudy to PC but can't figure how to get it open.
I've got a bunch of FloraFlex to go through but I want to try this Masterblend if I can find it.
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Glad it was helpful!
Just what I assumed. Literally just saw this on customhydronutrients and my jaw dropped.
I’ve watched this 6-7 times probably. Thankful for you all doing these reports ✊Excited to try it beginning week.
Also, ionic. You still use it?
For mother stock, can you please advise how many grab per gal when running cal nit and Epsom?
Is this nutrient selection also valid for vegetables? Specifically tomatos
Yes. More Ca is always good for tomatoes.
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Hi! Thank you for everything you do!
The only thing that confused me about all this is the calcium is too high. You suggest 3.25 to 3.5g calnit for the beginning of flowering, which gives us 163 to 175 ppm or more calcium. No other fertilizer has values like that. I’m just afraid that calcium might block the other nutrients (phosphorus magnesium iron especially). In addition, many people use tap water, which already has some calcium. What do you think about this? Are these not dangerous values? And what is our limit, especially with tap water? Thanks!
You seem to act like you already know? Why is it too high?
@@GreengenesGardenOfficial Just trying to figure out what calcium values are most likely to start blocking elements. If you have experimented with high doses of calcium I would like to know up to what values you have not experienced problems. Thanks!
@@befringe calcium doesnt block much
Just got a bag in. It actually has 11% sulfur and 4% magnesium. Probably leave the magnesium sulfate out yeah?
Ya. Just get the Mg up to 60ppm and the S will be plenty. They didn't list sulfur on the site by mistake...they reached out to me after they saw this and gave me fresh numbers. I'll do an update eventually.
Great epy, keep up the great info. Do you have any advice for auto’s. I run 4:2.5 jacks at 1.2 ec after watching your previous video. Been watching a couple years thanks.
Happy New Year! I keep learning from you. Your definitely my favourite teacher. I seen a comparison you made to master blend a few years back and I basically follow your Jacks application with it. Wicket affordable and love how it’s ph buffered. I do struggle with how it’s typically buffered for 6-6.5 ph but I do rdwc. I’m do quite well either way yet science says dwc should be more at 5.5. So I guess my question is about ph. Like I said I do fine at 6.5 but do you believe I should be aiming for 5.5. I don’t think it makes much difference but hmmmm. Also, can’t find your bus stuff so I use voodoo juice. Comparable you think? No where can I find anyone talking about how adding microbial stuff like this changes a sterile system to a living system. Any thoughts on this? I grow all kinds of things including ing vegetables, mostly in DWC. Thanks for all your efforts, love your vids! YELLOWKNIFE Canada.
Is jacks the same company as the old Peter’s 20/20/20, 15/30/15 powder?
jacks and peters are pretty much the same company but have lots of different products. but the jacks 3-2-1 and 4-2 that he references refers to Jack's part a 5-12-26 and part b calcium nitrate 15-0-0 and epsom salt as part three.
Peters is the parent company. And who makes it all. The "Jacks Nutrients" specific part is like a branch of peters focused on the canna industry. "Peters Professional" and "Jacks Professional" take care of the big agg and commercial style accounts. Can technically get any mix through either entities I believe.
Hello sir i have a question and im kinda lost. Im using Bioblizz or Plagrons lightmix soil or peatmoss not sure what it is. Can you please tell me how to make a A+B, and Bloomstimulator fertzilizer from Masterblend or something that is in EU. How much and what exactly do i need. Im currently using Bcuzz atami a+b , rootstimulator, bloomstimulator, bloombastic, aptus silica, and enzym+ for my grows but i think i get alot of excess nitrogen from the lightmix soil + upping the a+b dosage at the end.
“Greengenes Garden, experimenting so you don’t have to” TM
As always, thank you for the content.
Great informative video . I Wish he would have actually used it on a run tho
Just got my 4lb of MasterBlend 0-12-24...it's a solid rock! Not happy!
Another dude said his was caked up too. It's the type of salts they are using. Athena is the same thing. Slightly "hydrous". Nothing wrong with it, just the way it is. Part of the reason I like jacks. For small amount mixing, the dryer the better. The slightly wet stuff isn't as homogenous in weight and mixing.
Have u found your masterblend drops ph low..like real low??!!!
@@christophermckee22 Never grabbed it. Still in my cart.
@@GreengenesGardenOfficial I'm not a fan so far..1, it came hard as a rock..literally and 2..drops ph super low. Just mixed up 12g for 3gal rez of RO h2o..dropped my ph to 3.8. Thought, let me try tap water...same result..3.8. Not fun!
Mines just as awesome as it always has been when using the tomato formula. Got the 4 pound and went back and got the 25lb . No issues whatsoever.
If you’re using distilled or RO yea it drops ph of course it does. But I use filtered tap and never need to use PH up or down.
4-2 -1 and it’s money
I've used Jacks for a few years, but I can't stop it from not mixing all the way, and leaving a bunch of shit in the bottom of my rez.
I've tried mixing and dissolving in warm/hot water, mixing in warm water then using a mixer on my drill. Cold Water, IDK 🤷♂️ I can't figure it out.
It works great, but I hate the way it don't dissolve all the way.
I think it’s due to insoluble impurities from the factory. If it’s working well, it’s probably just fine
In hydroponics these same numbers apply can I email you by chance ?
I just got a similar mix . It’s plant marvel 5-12 -26 , yara 15.5 -0-0 and epsom salt . I mixed it at 3 2 1 and it came out at 700ppm . How do I mix it to get 1300 or more ppm ? I’m not sure what ratios I should use ? Thanks
@@PersonalStash420 thanks I found a chart for the salts ..
What calcium nitrate do you Recommend using with the master blend?
Yara is fine
Do you run Jacks 4-2 only in bloom or all they way through now? I run Jacks 3.6-2.4 -1.2 would love to simplfy
Maybe you'll check this out. Like you I was looking for a way to grow better dope and like you, I grow in 2 gal coco with 2 part salts. In the course of doin my research I've come across many sources saying that Nitrates are the bugaboo, nasty byproduct of ammunition manufacturing. You can find studies of crops that are harvested several times a season(I forget the crop) but seed gets planted, first harvest gets pulled, field gets hit with Nitrates, each successive harvest nutrient content of the crop goes down. Nitrates make the plant take up excess water, lowering Brix and yeilding large watery cells that shrink up more than "organically" grown. There may be some other factors, such as the amount of work that is required of the p[lant toaccess the nutrients or thefact that the plant is more in charge of it's uptake, but I'm tellin' ya bub, I swapped about 50% of my CalNit for Amino Acids and holy shit! I was scrambling for a source of Calcium, simply because I hadn't planned on this experiment. Next round I will get CalMino from BioAg along with their BioSuperSil which is a nano Si product with no pH fuckery.
Soil is great, for outdoors!
I’m switching to 0-20-42 no Epsom salts in the mix
Have you tried this yet? I just got my 25 lb bag.
Me too dude
@@GiraffeChaserever try it? I just fired it up a week ago.
@@markwright4412 yes I’ve run two runs with it.
If you could change anything on Hydrobuddy to make it better what would it be?
Why
Flora Flex Full Tilt is 0-47-35 please discuss this thanks
you
what about it
@@GreengenesGardenOfficial well i want to know if its the same thing as this master blend during fade/flush. i want to start using nitrogen free inputs during the last 3 weeks
No it is not the same.
Floraflex are crooks. Fuck those guys and their crappy products
@@GreengenesGardenOfficial oh.. i didnt know. thanks
you do great work bruh
I appreciate that
My question to you is. You have mentioned that sulfur helps bring flavor in strains. And in this formula here looks like sulfur will be low? It’s nonexistent in the actual 0-12-24 but even if adding 1 gram of magnesium sulfate per gallon looks like that is only 25 ppm mag and 33 ppm sulfur. The formula included mag so that’s not a problem but with only 33 ppm sulfur and you suggest running even less at .5 to .75 grams? (16.5 to 24.5.ppm sulfur? )Compared to the other top brands jacks Athena etc…with over 100 ppm sulfur, this sulfur is very low… so what is your thoughts on this? Do you think that will sacrifice some flavor? Do you think it will make no difference? Anyway for this reason I’m thinking I’d rather stick with jacks.
S was not listed on the site, but is clearly there by the inputs. Disregard the S part of this video.
Ok so I reached out to custom hydro and they told me it was a mistake on their part. It is actually 11% sulfur. And at recommended feeding it is 159 ppm sulfur. He also went ahead and added the info on the product page. Now that’s makes me definitely say I’m trying this out. I also talked to masterblend and they said they made it just for custom hydro and they tested it and it’s been having great results. It shows back ordered on the site but actually he doesn’t have it yet. They are behind on delivering it. She said she should have it to him on Wednesday. So yea ima be ordering a bag of this…
How much gypsum do you use weeks 7-9 at the end of flower
IDK. Whatever I wrote on the whiteboard in my last run.
1g/gal is 60ppm
@@GreengenesGardenOfficial thank you
why cant we concentrate the calcium sulfate?
solubility. only ~7g/gallon.
Im not a fan of these 0 N cannabis formulas. I like to keep my N up in the 160mg/L range in veg and drop down to 130mg/L late flower while keeping Calcium below 150mg/L. Doesnt make any sense to me.
What you just said is literally what they are for. So you can drop it to 130ppm and still keep Ca up over 100ppm.
@@GreengenesGardenOfficial I'd have to run about 0.91g/L of Calcium nitrate to get to 130ppm N and that would push my Ca up to ~170ppm. With masterblend tomato I can drop that to 0.73g/L and keep N:K:Ca at a 1:1:1 ratio for flowering. For vegative, I'm running the lettuce mix so I can keep N a little higher while still keeping Calcium low. It's my own recipe based on recent research carried out by several universities around the best ratio for secondary metabolite production.
You mention a lot about trace minerals and I’m wondering have you heard of products like sea-90 and sea-crop? It’s just sea salt but because of that all minerals are in sea water and their was a dr Maynard Murray who did tests and found that you could grow with sea salt. I know the first reaction is sodium chloride will cause issues but per the dr studies he showed that because it is complete balance it is ok for the plants and it is simply puttin back in the soil what came from it in the first place. Rain washed the minerals away into the ocean and basically he is saying it’s just putting it back. Now my plan is to run a test using it with jacks vs not using it and see if there is a difference but if you do a google search you can find there have been some tests and they have shown good grown with sea water is more nutrient dense with better flavor. I’ve just been researching it and will give a try but I haven’t actually done it yet so it’s just thoughts. But I’d be curious about your opinion on or if you’re familiar with it
Use that stuff every 90 days in my living soil great product
Oh cool, a couple questions… are you running living soil with dry amendments? Or as in like full of poop and stuff? Or little of both? And also at what rate are you applying the sea-90? And have you run any side by side tests with it to see if it made a difference or was it just an obvious difference?
@@ronquando3088 no I haven’t got any tests side-by-side but I can say that my plants seem to be happy with a tablespoon per 5 gallons of soil like I said about every 90 days I use mostly dry amendments no poop and stuff like that unless we’re talking mushroom, compost, earthworm compost stuff like that
I went ahead and grabbed 10lb of the sea-90 going to use it on outside garden food and I want to run a test using it in hydro. The guy Maynard Murray actually was growing tomatoes with only sea-90… I’m going to see if all the trace minerals can make a difference in conjunction with hydro nutes.
whats the app calculator that youre using
hydrobuddy
I'm digging the shit outta Cropsalt 🤙👊
wak'n and bak'n 👨🍳
Love the information and the open thinking. Only issue is that you are very quiet. Otherwise keep it coming!
Dude would you just make your own nutrient line already 😂 and take my money!!!
Why did you stop using Blue Planet Nutrients?
Never used them.
@@GreengenesGardenOfficial Sorry, but would like to see you do a grow with their organic line Farmers Pride! Ps.
How do you get telephone support for their products…….how do you get product support /technical support? I left A/N because Jacks claimed to have a support hotline. I have no luck getting anyone on the phone. I use their products and love them. Waaaaay cheaper than buying watered down nutes….
AN definetly answers their 1800 number and is very helpful have you even tried calling them? Or emailing them? They respond to me and have helped me alot honestly.
Lmao on the craft farmer comment !
All of a sudden I was like who the duck are you! Had to turn that around. 😂
How do you feel about flavah?
Fermented amino acid. Harley smith explains amino acid. Great info on all nutrients
What about Gaia green
Thank you for doing the math so I don't have to. And ATHENA makes a 0-12-24 also. Great find on the Masterblend 0-12-24 tho.
Talked about athena in the video
My 25 lb bag came in and no caking. If you want me to send you 5 lbs lmk bro.
I'm about out of jacks now so will be running the MB next round probably.
Carbon based seems to be the new thing huh
Carbon based what? All these nutrients are derived from the same base elements. Most nitrates, not carbonates.
@@GreengenesGardenOfficial okay.. carbon based fertilizers seem to be the new thing huh, "the next frontier in fertilisation" some say
@@oztraliangrown8208 Some say.... Like the companies selling those fertilizers. I'm sure they say it lol
why not grow 100% Living Organic Soil?
put in two 4x4 beds filled with a good Clackamas Coots soil recipe, some worms, cover crop, water with Yucca extract, aloe vera, coconut water a few Fermented Plant Juices and top dress with Bokashi and Craft Blend and you'll get the best bud you've ever grown.
@24:56
@@boriskogan7903 my average is 9.8 oz per plant with a 5 week veg.
My space is 2x5 with 9' ceiling.
I grow 2 plants each in 20 gallon fabric pots and usually get 19-20 oz per grow, with best 2 plant grow being 27.5 oz.
Might not be the biggest yields but nothing really beats the quality of LOS and 20 oz every 4 1/2 months is way more than enough for my wife and I to wallow in it.
@@boriskogan7903 absolutely. I grow both organic living soil and synthetic. Organic can only get you so far but synthetic you can push to the absolute limit and get that cut to its fullest possible potential . I love the control of synthetic and the simplicity of living soil.
@@boriskogan7903 yep living soil is pretty simple. Amend the soil top dress maybe every 30 days with a tea once every 10. It’s pretty much water only it gets boring . But yea for some of us it’s the most simple way of gardening . Sure one could make it complicated as they want but done right ( letting the plant use wgst it needs) it’s bout as simple as it gets. I domt use any bloom boosters or anything like that. From start to finish it’s the same formula I amend the soil with from jump. Only boosters needed in living soil is kelp and fulvic acid.
@greengenesgarden is (Gypsum) calcium sulfate and can i use gypsum during flush
Yes they are the same. Yes you can use it during flush.
@Greengenes Garden
I just did that. My tap is about 100ppm
Added Gypsum and got around 200ppm during flush. Is 100ppm a good rate for calcium sulfate (Gypsum) ?
Thanks bro !