Overdrive from Advanced Nutrients is a late flowering booster that takes over where Big Bud leaves it. During the plants life cycle, needs change depending on where it is. Many other brands use a single booster to cover the whole bloom phase, which is fine but not effective as separate products. A.N use a team of scientists and botanists to tune their additives to exactly what the plant needs at a specific time of the grow. Overdrive dials into the plants cycle and makes the fruits bigger and heavier while at the same time improving the quality.
Can’t I just use Big Bud all the way through?
Big Bud is an early flowering booster. It causes the plant to develop more flowering sites using different chemistry to Overdrive and so isn’t really best for use to the end. Overdrive comes in and encourages the plant to start packing on weight at all the flowering sites Big Bud made. They made them into two products to really dial into what your plant needs, right when it needs it. This combination has many loyal followers that swear by its effectiveness!
Overdrive is suitable for use with all of the pH Perfect nutrients in the range and will not interfere with their self-levelling technology. It is also suitable for use in all medias from soil and coco coir to all available hydroponic substrates. As always, be sure to follow the instruction for best results! Never mix nutrients and additives in concentrate form as they can have an adverse reaction and bind up important elements. This would mean the plant could suffer malnutrition or expensive boosters being wasted.
There is loads more information on the Advanced Nutrients Website (clicking opens a new window). You can also use their Nutrient Calculator which is very handy for giving you a tailored grow schedule. Just put in you grower level, water tank size and which base nutrient you’re using and it’ll do the rest! Alternatively, their grow schedules are on our website, here.
Alternatives to Overdrive
At Canterbury Hydroponics, we have a range of flowering stimulators available from a broad range of brands. These include Advanced Meta Boost, Sumo Boost, Flowering Enhancer, Monkey Boost, Canna Boost and many more. You can find all of these and more on our website – here.
