Quote Originally Posted by mmjman
Feed your plants every water during flowering and flush the last two weeks. What book did you get the 'every other or third watering during flower?' Just curious. Been watering evertime in flower for the last 16 harvests starting at 1000ppm in week 1 with a peak of 1250ppm at week 6. I don't see the advantage of starving your plants.
Actually mmjman, advanced hydro growers run a feed/starve cycle at least 2x during flower. It promotes faster and denser bud development; the plant reacts to the reduced nutrient intake by focusing on bud development in a race to survive. I do this between week 3 and 4 (in soil). But that is a different discussion. Starving the plant during flush induces additional bud development. It is part of the rational for flushing at the end of the grow.

I don't advocate starving plants and yes, during the middle weeks of flower I feed consecutively 4 - 6 times. But during veg and the first 3 weeks of flower it is every other or every 3rd watering, strain dependent. This advice is especially relevant in this case as the grower is using a soil that includes added nutrients. Different strains can tolerate different nutrient regimes, which you surely know from experienced gained over 16 harvests.

Here is the point mmjman. You need to consider your audience. You are talking to a new grower. New growers almost ALWAYS overfeed their plants leading to burned plants and/or pH lockout and a discouraged first time grower. And judging from the array of nutrients proposed, this grower stands a pretty good chance of doing the same. An underfed plant will survive whereas an overfed plant may not. Similarly, an underfed plant can recover more quickly and more completely and thus outproduce one that is burned or suffers from lockout. ALWAYS advise a new grower to start slow on the nutes until they get a feel for it. It is the best advice you can give. Also, I never recommend that a new grower (or any grower really) follow the feed directions from the manufacture as they are always formulated for a greedy plant grown in optimal conditions, something the new grower is unlikely to achieve.

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