I am wondering if I should water with nutrients every time I water? I am growing in soil. I only have to water every two days. Anyone with experience or ideas on this would be very helpful. Thanks.
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I am wondering if I should water with nutrients every time I water? I am growing in soil. I only have to water every two days. Anyone with experience or ideas on this would be very helpful. Thanks.
I've used Fox Farm and they have a schedule and mixture amounts charts. :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by grow4u
I use Nutes at every water with soil. Grow and Karma for Veg room and Pro Grow and Karma for flower room. Also use a LITTLE PH Down. I'm 1-2 weeks from harvest with no degredation in size, leaf, bud, etc..
If we're not supposed to nute at every water, my girls don't know any better.
i feed on monday and water on thursday and i only feed half strength......
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If you're watering every 2 days I wouldn't give them nutes every feeding unless its cut to half strength. Once a week with nutes works good in most cases. If your using a soiless mix or hydro you may need to nute more often.Quote:
Originally Posted by grow4u
Remember that more nutes doesn't ALWAYS mean bigger, better, higher-yielding plants... if you're watering as often as every 2 days, i'd at least stagger the waterings with nutes only every other time. But if they aren't complaining (showing yellowish or burned leaf tips), then it's probably fine.
One thing you may want to try is to change your watering cycle to every 3-4 days and then increase the nute percentage, but even then i'd at least give them a break between nuted water by only using nutes every other time.... just my 2 cents. =)
I know folks who get an average of 4 lbs of dried buds per plant growing Purple Kush. They normally fertilize with every watering but they had a wake up call last summer. One of their trees (some yield up to 7 lbs of dried buds) started suddenly wilting and dying even though it had been adequately watered. They had another guy come by and take a look and they decided the plant was getting too much nutrients and was shutting down. It would have died within a week if they did nothing. So they got the flush product the folks use at the end of the season to flush the nutrients out poured it on and watered the daylights out of it. They saved the plant but it never fully recovered and ended up being the smallest plant.
If you use nutrients with every watering make sure not to over do it.
If you do overdo it, Clearex or a similar salt leeching/clearing solution will do you right and get your soil back to zero more or less (check pH) then you can start clean, most likely with less nutrients.
N is the easiest to clean out, as it can be washed away with nothing but water... so if you think that's the culprit, just flood them really well until you are getting totally clear runoff.
And yeah, I use soil and water about every 2 days as well (less for my big one in the 3 gal) and feed every other watering. I'm using BioBizz Grow and Bloom, GH Organic's CalMg+ when needed, and Roots Excelurator in the beginning and after transplant.
I feed every watering usually, once a month or so doing a flush with plain water.
If you start seeing problems, try to clear out the nutes like others said and either go to every other watering or half strength at each watering until you come upon what works for your situation.
Every grow is different and you have to take into account things like the pot size, soil type, nutrient formula/strength, lighting, and strain grown when adjusting your feeding schedule. Some plants can eat up as much as you can give them and others can't really handle anything, soils have some nutrients in them already and sometimes can have enough where you don't need to give any additional nutes for 3 months or more, larger pots will hold onto nutrients a lot more and can build up with salts easily if overfed, lighting and co2 are two of the 3 things (along with nutrients) that the plant uses the most for growth and if either is lacking too much then adding more nutrients won't do any more good.
With a little trial and error you should get it down pretty well, it's not too hard: it's just finding the proper balance.