Anyone have any experience with Hortimix powder

[Grow for the love]

Any one grow with Hortimix powder  before not sure how good it is Vs GHE  any advice ?

[Gnome]

i had good results with it 8 or so years ago when i grew indoor

did you get the feeding schedule with it

[Grow for the love]

Yes I did is it good tho I'm a noob at this lol

[Gnome]

its sufficient

[Grow for the love]

Well this is the problem I'm having brown spots on leaves that's why I'm asking and new growth is yellow 

[420SA]

What medium are you growing in and what ratios are you currently feeding?

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[Q9550]

Let's us know what PH you feeding at as well. I had something similar with an out door coco grow. Turned out my PH pen was not calibrated and was 2 points off. I thought I was feeding at 5.8 but it was 7.8  

[Grow for the love]

Good morning guys I'm growing in DWC I believe my problem was that I was under feeding from day one so over time I've upped the feeding alot as for pH I was using a colour pH test kit in the start I kept it to long at 5.5 now if got a pH pen and the pH is 5.8 IV also added a cal mag boosted to the mix witch I feel is helping alot my ppms are 750 and the new growth is starting to green up now abit so I'm not sure if it was just the feeding or the booster of cal mag that fixed the problem  or a combination of both I'm at  end of week 4 at the moment it's lsd 25 into early flower not sure if I should run it for one more week or start adding in some bloom nutes at this point will post some pics taken right now 

[Trailblazer420]

It looks like you spilled nute water on those bottom leaves. Remove them, they're just straining your plant.

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[RedEye]

I use the hortimix powder, have never used other nutes before. i find them working well, just dont follow the chart they give you.

[highchome]

Resurrecting this thread... What dosage & schedule should I be following for using hortimix for soil?

@RedEye you say don't follow their guide, what do you recommend then?

So far what I've been told/seen is this, let me know if any of this is wrong?

• Mix as per https://hydroponic.co.za/hortimix-nutrient-preparation-and-usage-table/
• Do flush with water every 3 weeks - 1 month
• Weekly dosing, roughly following the guide above, but back off if there is any burning (checking Ph of mix before watering)

What do you think, does that sound reasonable?

Edited May 28, 2019 by highchome

[SkunkPharm]

Re calibrated pH meter.

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[highchome]

@SkunkPharm are you saying, also make sure to calibrate the pH meter weekly etc?

[Jimmy-z]

Resurrecting this thread... What dosage & schedule should I be following for using hortimix for soil?
[mention=1920]RedEye[/mention] you say don't follow their guide, what do you recommend then?
So far what I've been told/seen is this, let me know if any of this is wrong?

• Mix as per https://hydroponic.co.za/hortimix-nutrient-preparation-and-usage-table/
• Do flush with water every 3 weeks - 1 month
• Weekly dosing, roughly following the guide above, but back off if there is any burning (checking Ph of mix before watering)

What do you think, does that sound reasonable?

That chart wouldn't work very well with cannabis because of the shorter veg cycle.

By the time you hit pre-flower, you should be at 2 EC or 1000ppm or slightly higher, depending how the plant handles it, & then once in flower you reduce A & B, and start adding C. Tapering A & B off till harvest/flush

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[highchome]

Thanks @Jimmy-z, that helps a lot.

So as far as I understand then, I'll use the calcs from the spreadsheet at https://hydroponic.co.za/detailed-dosage-breakdown-element-ppm-npk-ratio-hortimix-andor-ehg/. Aim for ~1000ppm at pre flower and work out the weekly dosage to build up to that.

But does that mean for flowering I should be aiming for ~2000ppm?

 

[Jimmy-z]

Thanks [mention=749]Jimmy-z[/mention], that helps a lot.
So as far as I understand then, I'll use the calcs from the spreadsheet at https://hydroponic.co.za/detailed-dosage-breakdown-element-ppm-npk-ratio-hortimix-andor-ehg/. Aim for ~1000ppm at pre flower and work out the weekly dosage to build up to that.
But does that mean for flowering I should be aiming for ~2000ppm?
 

The highest you should aim for is 1000 ppm or 2 EC, A, B & C combined. Some plants can handle higher, but you risk burning them.

Very dark leaves, usually mean almost too much nitrogen, burnt tips usually follow if you increase your concentration. It's all about reading the leaves. Lol

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[highchome]

Right, that makes sense. Thank you.

(I'll start the timer now to see how long it takes for my first post saying "is this nutrient burn?" )

[CleanGreen]

Also use the Hortimix, got minor brown spots but all in all my girls seem to like it. I tend to use 10-20% less than what the instructions say and keep a close eye on the leaves. Also i have noticed that I never have to adjust the PH.

[RedEye]

On 5/28/2019 at 4:53 PM, highchome said:

Resurrecting this thread... What dosage & schedule should I be following for using hortimix for soil?

@RedEye you say don't follow their guide, what do you recommend then?

So far what I've been told/seen is this, let me know if any of this is wrong?

• Mix as per https://hydroponic.co.za/hortimix-nutrient-preparation-and-usage-table/
• Do flush with water every 3 weeks - 1 month
• Weekly dosing, roughly following the guide above, but back off if there is any burning (checking Ph of mix before watering)

What do you think, does that sound reasonable?

So this is a table Iv been using for a couple grows which has been working with no issues for me. Note that the res used in the table is 150L, so just divide by 150 to get ml per L, then work according to your sizes res.

[highchome]

54 minutes ago, RedEye said:

this is a table Iv been using for a couple grows

Thanks @RedEye, I'll use that as a starting point for mine.

FWIW I've converted it to excel and attached: 2019-05-30_17-21.xlsx You can customise by changing the 150L value. I'll fiddle more and upload again if I think it may be useful

[highchome]

I've switched to coco/perlite, for anyone doing the same I think you can follow the EC targets on this page with hortimix: https://cocoforcannabis.com/ectargets/

 

Seedling	Early Veg	Late Veg	Early Bloom	Late Bloom	Ripen	Flush
400* – 500	1100 – 1400	1200 – 1500	1100 – 1400	1300 – 1600	800 - 1100	0 - 200

*EC units are expressed in microsiemens. 400 microsiemens = 0.4 millisiemens

[greenkush]

My friend swears by this stuff now, and his results show it works. I might grab some just to do a control test, 1 - Green house powder feed, 1 - Bio (fish/bloom), 1 Horitmix.

[PsyCLown]

This is probably quite a n00b question, but how do the schedules work as it has week 1 to 9, but a grow will take longer than 9 weeks - even with autos they're generally 11 or 12 weeks.

 

I know you generally do not feed until week 2 or 3, then if you want to veg for 2 months you have 5 weeks still which will take you to week 5 on the schedule. 

Then flowering can easily take 8 - 12 weeks on top of that, but the schedule only goes to week 9.

 

So what am I not understanding regarding these schedules?

[highchome]

41 minutes ago, PsyCLown said:

how do the schedules work as it has week 1 to 9, but a grow will take longer than 9 weeks

As far as I understand what you are trying to do is gradually increase the nutrient dosage to get to the final result. You typically would not want to go higher than the maximum recommended EC or ml depending what you are measuring as that would cause nutrient burn. So I think you have two options

1) Start with the initial recommended dose, and then each week increase it a little so that by the end of the grow you are at the maximum recommended value
2) Start with the initial recommended dose, follow their schedule and then keep it at the maximum once you get there even if that is for a few more weeks.

Perhaps one of the more experienced growers could say which is better (I'm guessing option 2). But whatever you do you'll need to watch the plan to see if there are any signs of burn or deficiency. 

I hope that helps  

[PsyCLown]

As far as I understand what you are trying to do is gradually increase the nutrient dosage to get to the final result. You typically would not want to go higher than the maximum recommended EC or ml depending what you are measuring as that would cause nutrient burn. So I think you have two options
1) Start with the initial recommended dose, and then each week increase it a little so that by the end of the grow you are at the maximum recommended value
2) Start with the initial recommended dose, follow their schedule and then keep it at the maximum once you get there even if that is for a few more weeks.
Perhaps one of the more experienced growers could say which is better (I'm guessing option 2). But whatever you do you'll need to watch the plan to see if there are any signs of burn or deficiency. 
I hope that helps  

That makes more sense, especially option 2.

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