Quote Originally Posted by drudown11
a good rule of thumb with a soiless medium like sunshine mix is feed-water-feed-water. Just alternate them back and forth, making sure that all solution given to the plants is within proper ph range. If you see signs of overfertalization, tone it down a notch. Be cautious with the cal mag when you get into flower, the extra nitrogen it provides will sometimes give you the dreaded "claw" on your buds. The thing to understand is that the plant will tell you what it wants. It just takes a while to learn each strain.
Good response, although reading your post I wanted to comment for other newbies.
I got the "claw" effect when I transferred a recently rooted clone into 5.6 pH de-chlorinated tap which had no nutes added at all(40 ppm). There was no nutrient or pH changes, although, there was a temp/humidity/airflow change moving to the new environment.
Just curious if your experiences also had changes in temp or humidity. I'm sure that my plants had no excess nitrogen, just open stomas and more airflow. The 'claw' effect can also because by other stressors.