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    BIONOVA - innovative Dutch fertilisers and substrates are valued by professionals and home growers alike

    Carbon-neutral BioNova is another manufacturer from the land of tulips that certainly deserves attention. In this article, we will take a detailed look at the range of this popular brand, not least because plant nutrition from Bionova has long been regarded in gardening and cultivation circles as quite possibly the most effective in the world in terms of the ratio between purchase costs and application results. We can therefore say that it makes quality more accessible. Discover premium products for organic agriculture, indoor cultivation in indoor or outdoor in soil, as well as hydroponic plant cultivation.

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    A distinctive range of products for growing plants at home and outdoors is easier to create when an ecological approach is combined with modern technologies and continuous innovation. When BioNova first introduced its products to the world, its representatives already had extensive experience and also had a wealth of feedback from leading professional large-scale growers at their disposal. Its success may therefore also be due to the fact that nothing ever reached customers unless it had already stood up to the toughest competition among products for commercial or even scientific use. This innovative manufacturer from the Netherlands continuously improves its products and production processes and maintains cooperative relationships with external laboratories, while paying great attention to the environment and the future of our planet within sustainable agriculture. BioNova’s research team also works just as intensively with feedback from customers among home growers.

    When should you choose BioNova products?

    • If you are looking for sufficiently high-quality fertiliser, stimulator or growing medium offering the best value for money on the market. BioNova also prides itself on always sending out fresh stock.
    • Are other customers usually your greatest inspiration? Then you have one more reason to choose Bionova products! For example, the lightly pre-fertilised soil substrate with a purely natural composition has been breaking sales records in the peat substrate category for quite some time. BioNova Cocomix Plus, on the other hand, leads the rankings when it comes to coconut substrates. Do you want to grow autoflowering varieties? The bestseller in the AUTOFLOWERING category is again BioNova fertilisers, specifically AutoFlower Supermix. That would be enough for illustration.
    • If you are looking for a discounted set with plant nutrition. No other brand offers growers across different categories so many refined options, so that everyone can truly choose. And as you may already know from some of our previous articles, well-tuned, intelligently assembled nutrition sets are the best way to become familiar during the growing cycle with a brand’s nutrition, in other words its real effects on the development of your plants. Below, you can also see that with BioNova it is possible outdoors in the garden (outdoor), in a greenhouse or comfortably at home in a grow tent (indoor) for any growing method and plant type. Choose everything you need for your first harvest with the BioNova brand:

    TIP for luxurious flowers and fruits: BioNova Boost Pack

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    BIONOVA and organic plant cultivation

    These words certainly go together! If your number one priority is a bio-quality harvest or if organic agriculture is your field, be sure to read the separate article we dedicated to the increasingly popular, and above all purely organic, range of fertilisers and additives: BioNova Veganics – fertilisers not only for vegans.

    In this article, two purely organic products will also be featured, ideal for preparing your own soil mix within bio-quality cultivation and organic agriculture.

    BIONOVA and growing plants in soil

    Let us start with the soil itself, or rather a completely unique, purely natural mix of white and black peat, crushed and sieved compost, and perlite for perfect aeration. This is the above-mentioned bestseller among substrates - BioNova Soilmix, whose composition is additionally enriched with organic vegan fertiliser in an NPK 7-3-3 + 2 MgO composition (3 kg/1 m3). This naturally follows on from the organic plant cultivation mentioned above. However, this slightly pre-fertilised peat substrate with a perlite admixture can also be used without any problem with the below-mentioned range of single-component mineral fertilisers for soil BioNova Soil Supermix.

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    Our TIP: Do you want to make the most of a first-class soil mix? Then put it into HERCULES aerated pots!

    BIONOVA and growing plants in coco

    As with growing in soil, let us begin this section with a closer introduction to the growing medium. BioNova coconut substrate is sold in two forms:

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    • BioNova CocoBrick are compressed coconut bricks. These are blocks of compressed coconut fibre in a dehydrated state. This option is very practical in terms of shelf life, storage and handling.
    • BioNova Cocomix Plus is a proven classic, made from crushed and sieved coconut fibres from Sri Lanka. Technically speaking, it is a coconut substrate in a 50-litre, recyclable bag. Just like Soilmix, it is therefore ready for immediate use. Unlike Soilmix, however, it contains no nutrients (NPK 0-0-0) or perlite admixture. You will look in vain for any animal or chemical additives in it, so it is 100% compostable. It is carefully washed and buffered to pH 6.5. Thanks to the absence of nutrients combined with above-standard absorption properties, it offers growers similar characteristics to inert media, and so you can confidently use it for hydroponics.

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    BIONOVA and hydroponic plant cultivation

    In hydroponic plant cultivation, the plant root system develops in an inert medium, which is usually expanded clay (Hydroton), rockwool (mineral wool) or perlite. If you decide to use hydroponic systems, you will probably also achieve a more interesting harvest and higher yields. This is because you have all growing processes, led by plant nutrition from the first day of the growing cycle, fully in your own hands, and also because classic inert media, but to a large extent also high-quality coconut substrates, retain water and nutrients extremely well. Unlike growing plants in soil, however, there is not much room for error here. We mean, for example, overwatered plants, incorrect or unstable nutrient solution temperature or obvious signs of important nutrient deficiencies as typical problems that especially beginners often face. If hydroponics appeals to you, but you do not yet have enough experience, be sure to take this into account, and before choosing a specific hydroponic method, learn more at the start, for example in a separate article: Hydroponics – what does it involve and how do you start?

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    Hydroponic fertilisers, especially BioNova Hydro Supermix, must be dosed correctly. Manufacturer’s dosing charts make nutrient application easier not only in the case of hydroponics, but also when growing plants in soil or coco using the relevant fertiliser range (Soil, Coco,…).

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    • Hydro Supermix has long been the best-selling and most user-friendly plant nutrition in the category of fertilisers for hydroponics. The nutrients contained in this single-component bio-mineral fertiliser are characterised by excellent absorbability. At the same time, they are present in such a ratio that the resulting all-in-one composition supports plants both during the growth phase and later during the flower or fruit formation phase. In addition to the basic hydroponic fertiliser Bionova Hydro Supermix, do not forget to add phosphorus and potassium in the form of the product Bionova PK 13-14.
    • Nutri Forte A+B is a two-component organo-mineral plant nutrition containing directly absorbable minerals in “food-grade” quality. Trace elements in chelated form mean better usability of Nutri Forte A+B fertiliser across a wider pH range. If you use hydroponic systems, this nutrition will again take care of you both during the vegetative phase and during the flowering phase. Although Nutri Forte is among two-component fertilisers, it is very easy to apply. Simply measure the same amount each time and mix first one component, then the second, into the water. If your plants show a deficiency of important nutrients, specifically nitrogen (N), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), iron (Fe) or some other micronutrients, apply only component A to the roots and leaves. Rapid absorption of nutrients will soon compensate for these deficiencies. If crops show a deficiency of phosphorus (P), potassium (K) or sulphur (S), apply component B as a foliar spray.

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    BioNova hydroponic fertilisers are compatible not only with hydroponic systems, but also with aeroponic systems, in which growers have the opportunity to make even greater use of their potential. However, for these purposes we will introduce below the specialised fertiliser range Aero Superimix, which in practice is also suitable for the hydroponic method NFT (Nutrient Film Technique), about which you can read more in a separate article from the series Hydroponics made easy.

    Our TIP: Discover vertical hydroponic systems NFT!

    BIONOVA and aeroponic plant cultivation

    The aeroponic fertiliser BioNova Aero Supermix is pH stable and also has several characteristic features identical to the Hydro version:

    • All-in-one composition for the entire growing cycle
    • Food-grade nutrients
    • The need to apply Bionova PK 13-14 as a flowering booster throughout the flowering phase except for the last week of the growing cycle, when the plants must be flushed.

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    Let us pause for a moment on flushing in the last week before harvest. Flushing or flushing is very important, whether you are drawn to aeroponics or hydroponics. When the growing cycle is nearing its end, certainly do not underestimate its importance for the final quality of plants or agricultural crops. On this topic, we recommend a separate article: How do you flush?

    This premium plant nutrition was developed so that growers of different experience levels can more easily deal with the most common pitfalls (so-called plant burn or, for example, dehydration) associated in practice with cultivation in an aeroponic system. 

    Aero Supermix is also very suitable for vertical cultivation, for example in green walls.

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    This fertiliser is fully compatible with all stimulators and additives from the Bionova brand.

    BIONOVA and effective support for plant development

    Enjoy record yields thanks to stimulators and other additives from the BioNova brand for effective support of healthy development and the resulting higher yields. However, all additives from this brand are so exceptional that we have decided to dedicate adequate space to them in another separate article.

    Universal products for cultivation with the BIONOVA brand (Bionova Universals)

    Plant protection

     

    • Bionova Novafoliar - natural pesticide for clean and healthy plants
    • A strong and highly effective biological preparation (biopesticide) based on garlic, which protects plants against pests while also cleaning the leaf surface.
    • The composition of the product prevents the pores (stomata) from becoming clogged by organic dirt from beetles and pests, so your plants can breathe freely.
    • Perfectly clean leaves also stop being attractive to further pests, whether they are various types of insects or fungi.
    • You will achieve the best results in combination with Bionova Freeflow wetting agent.
    • When growing in an environment with a high risk of contamination by insects and fungi, use Novafoliar as a preventive treatment every 10-15 days from the start of cultivation until the first week of the flowering phase.
    • If you have pre-grown seedlings in a propagator and are about to transplant them into a larger growing space, treat the young plants by completely immersing them for a few seconds in a solution prepared from 2 litres of water and 1 litre of Novafoliar.
    • Novafoliar is used exclusively as a foliar spray. During flowering and fruit formation, do not spray it directly on flowers or fruits.

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    Non-liquid fertilisation of plants grown in soil:

    • Bionova Profimix is a 100% organic grain fertiliser, developed primarily for creating your own nutrient-rich soil mix, which you will use especially for outdoor plant cultivation and for the purposes of organic agriculture. (You can also read a separate article: How to grow outdoor?) Simply mix 100-150 grams of Profimix into a 15-20-litre pot and then just add water. You do not need to measure the at all, because the microorganisms inside the product naturally balance it in the substrate. The organic matter containing beneficial microorganisms that makes up Profimix contains not a trace of animal waste, so it is a 100% VEGAN product with the following effects:
      • Supports intensive growth and flowering.
      • Stimulates microbial activity - the soil ecosystem.
      • Improves and speeds up the rooting process.
      • Stimulates the natural resistance of plants to pests and epidemics.
    • Bionova Microlife is a comprehensive non-liquid fertiliser full of beneficial soil microorganisms, used from the first week of the growing cycle until harvest. All the nutrients contained are very readily available to plants, and the results certainly will not take long to appear. After all, it is enough to examine the composition in more detail.

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    pH adjustment:

    • Bionova pH + is a potassium hydroxide solution with a concentration of 24.5%. It is used to increase the pH level.
    • Bionova pH - is a phosphoric acid solution (24.5%) for lowering the pH value of the nutrient solution.

    When it comes to adjusting the pH of the nutrient solution, you may also find the following separate articles useful:

    In conclusion, we can only refer to the all-explanatory slogan of our favourite Dutch manufacturer: “YOUR PATH TO GROWTH”. If you have any questions about the BioNova range, you can ask us via the well-known e-mail address info@higarden.cz. We look forward to your questions!

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