Bigger Flowers | Advanced Nutrients

You’re on the right track if you’ve decided that adding phosphorus-potassium to your nutrients program will act as a potent flower stimulator that gives you bigger flowers.

That’s because phosphorus and potassium are key elements necessary for massive flower growth and size in hydroponics gardening.

According to recent scientific studies that have added to the breadth of hydroponics information you need, most phosphorus-potassium flower stimulator formulas do not contain the right types or ratios of phosphorus and potassium. This is the kind of hydroponics information that can help you get the right formulas so you can get bigger flowers.

The problem starts with the fact that most PK formulas available on hydroponics store shelves are PK 13-14 bud stimulator formulas (the numbers 13 and 14 refer to the amount and ratio of phosphorus and potassium in a bud booster).

But here’s what the world’s top international plant scientists have found about PK 13-14 formulas: they contain too much phosphorus, not enough potassium.

Studies show this ratio is likely to create phosphorus toxicity that negatively affects your blooming plants. It also robs your plants of the generous amounts of potassium they need so they can give you the large harvests you desire.

You might ask yourself: if PK 13-14 formulas are so bad, why do they dominate the marketplace?

The reason is almost all hydroponics manufacturers and hydroponics stores offer PK 13-14 formulas, and until now, unfortunately that’s pretty much all you’ve had available when you wanted to add PK to your bloom phase nutrients.

Too bad the 13-14 ratio has been so pervasive in the market place of general hydroponics supplies. Fact is, the 13-14 ratio isn’t the ratio that your specific types of plants need for producing bigger yields.

Instead, the 13-14 phosphorus/potassium ratio is based on field crop agricultural research that’s many decades old and totally inappropriate for your hydroponics gardening plants.

The 13-14 ratio was created because phosphorus leaches out of soil quickly, especially when orchards and field crops are irrigated.

When hydroponics indoor gardening started to demand bloom boosters, most hydroponics nutrients companies took the lazy way when they decided how to make a bloom booster...

All they did was just adopt the 13-14 ratio that only works for outdoor ag field crops like corn and soybeans.

Fortunately, now there’s breakthrough scientific research that reveals the ideal PK ratio for your high-value crops. Here’s a hint: it’s not PK 13-14!

HAMMERHEAD IS THE PK BLOOM BOOSTER I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR “Like a lot of people, I am doing hydroponics gardening because I want to win at something. I want to be able to put together a recipe of ingredients along with my hard work and then I want to see the verified results. Which is usually going to be a big, fat harvest of the nicest flowers that anybody can make.

But nothing that’s worth doing is going to be easy. I like the challenge of it. I like finding new hydroponic nutrients formulas and giving them a try. But I only do that after I do my homework. I can’t afford to make mistakes like I used to.

That’s what happened when I first started using the PK formulas. I really think that I was brain dead to believe that just throwing in what the bloom hydroponics nutrients base fert already had was going to automatically upgrade my harvest production so I would get bigger crops.

Like when I used Kool Bloom and all it did was make the tips of my leaves curl up and I swear the buds got smaller. I was expecting bigger buds but I got smaller buds. What’s up with that?

Then I went to a couple other formulas such as Gravity and Bushmaster and saw nothing in the way of improvement. These are the kind of hydroponics supplies that you really don’t want to get, as far as I am concerned.

I had basically given up on PK formulas until I went to the shop and Hammerhead. It was intriguing to me that you had different ratios because I had begun to think that the these other formulas are the wrong ratios.

So in about 3 weeks I was ready to add PK in this latest bloom cycle. I was already using your CarboLoad and SensiBloom two-part. Within a couple of days I saw the buds going bigger. Then they were really bigger and bigger blossoms, and no burning of the leaves.

By the end of harvest, my girlfriend and her brother were agreeing with me that this was my biggest harvest ever. So really I can say that it was the Hammerhead, because nothing else was different in this season. It was the same clones as usual and the same number of weeks.

The only downside of this is that now I don’t need to keep on searching for new formulas because your PK is the one I was looking for, and now I’ve found it. I still have the curiosity bug, but I’ve found what I am looking for, so there’s no need for me to be curious! When people talk to me about PK, I send them to Hammerhead.”
- Zach, from Hilo, Hawaii

Using PK 13-14 formulas that are only useful for corn and soybean fertilizers isn’t the right way to get bigger blossoms using PK boosters in your specialty hydroponics gardening.

Nor did hydroponics gardeners realize that excess phosphorus accumulates in your crop’s root zone, where it can burn roots, interfere with absorption of other hydroponics nutrients, and harm your yield potential.

You can check for symptoms of phosphorus toxicity by seeing if brown spots or leaf tip burning is developing on your crops.

But the bottom line is that your plant’s floral metabolism and tissue-structure rely on potassium (primary) and phosphorus (secondary) far more than they rely on nitrogen.

So you want to give your blooming plants way more potassium than phosphorus, in a ratio of two to one. And you already know you don’t feed your plants much nitrogen during the bloom cycle.

The startling realization comes when you notice all but one PK bloom booster have virtually equal amounts of phosphorus and potassium. This isn’t the right balance of PK for your plants.

The good news is there’s one PK bloom booster that contains the correct ratio and type of phosphorus and potassium: Advanced Nutrients Hammerhead PK 9-18.

When you use Advanced Nutrients Hammerhead, you get the 9-18 PK ratio your plants need for larger harvests. In tests run using rockwool, aeroponics, and other hydroponics gardening systems, Hammerhead’s 9-18 ratio is found to give you the fastest, most productive flower growth.

DUTCH GROWER LOVES HAMMERHEAD “As a grower for two of our local coffeeshops, I used a Euro-made phosphorus and potassium booster. I got some increase in yield, but I also saw an increase in the mold and in burning of leaves and resin glands. I suspected that the ratios of phosphorus were incorrect. When I saw your product at the trade show, I thought that this might be a good fix, because your mixture had more potassium. I tried it and the results were larger yield and less mold and none of the leaf burning and curling. I agree with you that the 13/14 experiment was a failure. I am adding Hammerhead to my bloom cycle feeding from now on. It has the right numbers.”
- Johan, from Haarlem, Holland

According to studies done in a wide variety of hydroponics gardens, 9-18 is the correct flower stimulator ratio that produces bigger flowers from your hydroponics gardening.

What’s more, Hammerhead also contains magnesium. This is another important element that helps your plants create large floral growth.

Along with giving you increases in the size, weight and density of your flowers, Hammerhead’s precise combination, type and ratio of potassium, phosphorus and magnesium has been found to increase essential oils, aroma, and potency in hydroponics crops.

And it’s interesting to note another benefit of this 9-18 formula…it decreases the occurrence of gray mold and other pathogenic attackers that eat crops in late harvest cycle.