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B'Cuzz Bloombastic..

Herborizer

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I really like bloombastic, but since I started with my blumats I dropped it because I couldn't keep the shit from settling to the bottom. It was also a pain because it was clogging the hose on my blumats and making my reservoir a little smelly after just 3-4 days. I'm using a 40 gallon botanicare res with two 132 gph sump pumps circulating the nutrients. If someone could come up with a solution for my cloudy, smelly & clogging res w/bloombastic I'll go back to it in a heartbeat!!

D2G

It's not the bloombastic. I run a 30gal res with blumats and have zero clogging issues using canna nutes and bloombastic. I had clogging issues once due to using enzymes. I am never putting enzymes in my res again. I will only use them occasionally with a hand watering.
 

growshopfrank

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I really like bloombastic, but since I started with my blumats I dropped it because I couldn't keep the shit from settling to the bottom. It was also a pain because it was clogging the hose on my blumats and making my reservoir a little smelly after just 3-4 days. I'm using a 40 gallon botanicare res with two 132 gph sump pumps circulating the nutrients. If someone could come up with a solution for my cloudy, smelly & clogging res w/bloombastic I'll go back to it in a heartbeat!!

D2G

understanding that you have two circulating pumps try adding a air stone(and pump) you might be amazed i had similar res issues with additives while running circulating pumps and out of desperation i added a dual outlet air pump and a couple of air stones and the res cleared up
 

Herborizer

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understanding that you have two circulating pumps try adding a air stone(and pump) you might be amazed i had similar res issues with additives while running circulating pumps and out of desperation i added a dual outlet air pump and a couple of air stones and the res cleared up

I also run two airstones in my res. By the way, air pumps use a lot less electricity as well.
 

down2grow

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My mix with the clogging was maxibloom, a little sm90, drip clean, some protekt silica, and a tiny bit of AN ph down. That was a couple of weeks ago. I'm currently using maxibloom, drip clean, powdered koolbloom and diamond nectar with no issues in the reservoir whatsoever. PH is also way more stable now than with bloombastic. The buds are still stellar, but not as dense as when I use bloombastic. The pumps are set up the same way as when I was using bloombastic. What kind of airstone are you guys using? Do you notice the clay settling on the bottom at all? With bloombastic I was getting a PH swing of .5-.6 every two days. Current mix I'm getting .1-.2 every two days.

D2G
 

headees

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Bloombastic makes my ppm's skyrocket. I am using GH/Lucas for base nutes at 1.7 EC. After adding bloombastic my EC is like 2.6. Should I dilute and bring my EC down?

My EC barely changes when I add bloombastic. Does everyone have a jump in EC/ppm when adding this stuff? I add 1-2ml per gallon.
 

farmdalefurr

I feel nothing and it feels great
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i hope this stuff works as well as everyone says it does. i just got a bunch of it for free from my shop. also got a bunch of rootbastic for free
 

Rolldaddy

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I just finished a run with bloombastic and it came out nice. I don't know how much better it's because of the bloombastic. The strain I run is frosty on its own. On a newer run I started using bloombastic at 1/4 strength at week 2 and I am noticing some benefits
 

RetroGrow

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My EC barely changes when I add bloombastic. Does everyone have a jump in EC/ppm when adding this stuff? I add 1-2ml per gallon.

Yes. It does boost the EC. I lower my base when using it, but also raise the PPM or EC when at this stage of flower anyway.
 

JamieShoes

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just used this for the first time on a round of zamalxhash... this time around they look like theyre a week to 10 days behind where they were last round (with no bastic) I'm also seeing a lot of dead pistils at 7 weeks...colas haven't filled out at all, last round they looked ready ish by now, this round looks like 2-3 weeks to go... this round I have crystals on the fan leaf stems, great... I have no use for fan leaves or their stems.

used in combo with Canna A+B and nothing else..


Don't think I'll use it again, not saying it doesn't work, maybe in your set up it will.. didn't do anything good for me though.

EDIT: that said, I havent actually finished this round, so maybe I'll come back here in 2 weeks and tell you that I just pulled th heaviest stinkiest load of ZH ever and it only took an extra 10 days.. who knows eh ;)
 
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