need help please....

[westbuds]

ive got 15 white rhino in 3rd week of flowering in a ebb & flow..
my question is i just put 10 jock horror plants in the same flood table with the white rhino. what should i keep my nutes at to keep all plants happy...
is this possible since the white rhino has been flowering for 3 weeks and the jock horror is just starting, what would be a good feed program and not mess anything up. i use gh nutes.
please help anyone....thanks all:rastasmoke:

westbuds Reviewed by westbuds on 08-02-2008. need help please.... ive got 15 white rhino in 3rd week of flowering in a ebb & flow.. my question is i just put 10 jock horror plants in the same flood table with the white rhino. what should i keep my nutes at to keep all plants happy... is this possible since the white rhino has been flowering for 3 weeks and the jock horror is just starting, what would be a good feed program and not mess anything up. i use gh nutes. please help anyone....thanks all:rastasmoke: Rating: 5

[herbie the love bud]

This is a good question. First, I use technaflora which has one recipe throughout until the flush, so for me there isn't that issue. Other brands have their own formulas but if you look closely it is mostly an even recipe of macronutrients that just rises around the 4 th week and falls back 2 weeks later. So you could just continue flat and not rise and that would be just fine by the plant, or you could average the two (especially on a light feeding schedule) and use that number.

The other reason though not to mix strains is because one strain may drink certain nutes out at a different pace than the other leaving one more deficient and how would you do your flush at the end?

Those are your challenges!

[westbuds]

gocha...
i usualy dont mix strans but had to this time to see what the jh plants were male or female.
but thanks for the response you helped alot...

[stinkyattic]

Your fert strength is going to depend on strain, life stage, and plant size. So it's an impossible question to answer clearly without experience in both strains. I'd run as 'hot' as you can before you see slight tip-burn, and then ease off on the nutes by 10%. You are limited by the lighter-feeding plants in any system.

[herbie the love bud]

That's interesting Stinky, you like to run all the way hot and then back down a bit, huh? Advanced Nutrients told me that too on the phone once. I wonder myself how much value you get maxing out your nute concentrate. Do you see a measureable difference yourself doing that?

[stinkyattic]

I've never measured my harvest weights- I've run perpetual all along so it's kinda pointless- but if you are trying to max out yield from a strain then you should know where its maximum feeding level is, measured in EC, rather than ppm as I've been advised; there are 2 different ppm conversions that are relative to the EC/ppm relationship with Sodium chloride and straight EC is the number you want. \

Now, running all the way hot is the way that a cashcropper or anyone growing really intensively is going to find levels on a new strain. For just the plain ol home grower who isn't looking for those last 10 grams under his k, the other way to go is start weak and go up until deficiency symptoms stop. I'd recommend doing that in a new SYSTEM that you have never used before, or running new nutes. I just set up an ebb n flow in a new space and started real low- like EC=0.6 lol- because I didn't know how the tender clones would take it, combined with whatever high temps I may have had to battle. Once I decided that the temps were good and the clones were toughened up, I cranked up to 1.5 and am sitting there right now. It's a 2x4 tray of MIXED strains and in a situation like that you have to remember you are limited by the lightest-feeding of your strains.

Um- this is kinda long winded I guess but if you are going for total max production in your space, and know that your equipment is configured optimally, hell yeah crank up those nutes (try 1.6 EC to start, and work up .1 every couple days, looking for crispy tips) as much as the plants will eat.