

The redeeming quality is that they have good amounts of calcium. Joking aside, you can use that fert, and it will work. (you could get an analysis fairly easily done from a soil sample, at any time during your grow) It ends up either in your drain, or in the ground, where there's probably still enough P leftover to toxify your soil plants. Fertilizers should be built to maximize the nutrients the way they get used, and not burn up precious ppm that penalizes EC, or otherwise forces a situation where one needs to flush, or risk toxicity. (which makes the names on their bottles fitting) We don't need to high P anything. The guys who build it support the product well - even if they formulated it from pot growing pseudo-science and mythology. The true test of a good and knowledgeable fertilizer company, is how well they make a single part formula. There is usually very little that one fert maker does better than another, unless one fert maker has an inherent flaw in their formulation.

You could make one that would do just about everything, but it would put a lot of peeps out of business. I'll just reiterate that dollar for dollar it's not cost effective. I just try to keep it straight and honest. Sorry, didn't mean to startle or stun you. Even our soil samples for our 19 raised beds didn't show any signs of high/very high phosphorus. I guess after 11 years of growing "things", I was comfortable enough to introduce this line of fertilizer with little to no degradation to our normal rotation of crops. Yes, it requires a different level of "care and feeding" (no pun intended). Yes, NTG may not be for the average user. I'll agree with your conclusion, but with a caveat. Some 'ole backyard science tells me that everything is playing well together. To what scale and what metric of grow is this compared to? Nothing is dying, browning, burning, or sick-looking. Using this line of nutrients in conjunction with "Down to Earth" powdered fertilizers, I've experienced nothing but growth. Acknowledge the high phosphorus, but my indoor/outdoor grow bags showed any detrimental signs of damage to my peppers, cucumbers, or butternut squash plants. This is my 2nd'ish season with NTG with very promising and repeatable results. Most plant foods have a transition week and the 20-20-20 is pretty close to what the transition week calls for.Wow, I definitely wasn't expecting that type of response. And there is no sin in dosing them with the 20-20-20 for now, you want to be OK on nitrogen when you atrt flower. might be better IMO like the 20-20-20 but it would be better to have less N. GH Bloom 0-5-4 three part so they do add some other nutrientsĪlso a balanced fert. Here are some NPK numbers for you to see what most of us may use for flowering, the basic feed first But like I said I never used either so I can't give advice on them.

Also high levels of phosphrous are needed but if it's too high you lock out other essential nutes in hydro. I think both 54-10 and 30-5 are a bit too unbalanced IMO. I think both those two might be a bit out of whack but what do I know. What I can say is they like lots of P-K and little N during the flower stage.
