Need Help Nutrient Schedule

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Datkiid420

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Hey Guys It's Been 3 Days Since I Last Fed The Plants I Gave It Some Big Bloom At 1/4 From The Recommended Strength On The Fox Farm Trio Feeding Schedule Which Was A Teaspoon And Ahalf And They Took It With No Problems At All The Plants Are 27 Days Old From Seedling Sitting In 3 Gallon Pot With FFOF Soil Now For My Next Feeding Do I Just Feed Water ? Or Nutes ?

Also When Should I Start To Bump Up The Strength ? And How Much Should I Bump It Up Till Im Following The Recommended Strength ? The First Plant Is Topped At The 5th Node & The 2nd Plant Is Topped At The 4th Node
 

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dopeleader

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ok so measuring with teaspoons is just not good enough for the answers you seek.
I strongly suggest that you buy a Nutrient truncheon which will measure the PPM (parts per million) of your nutrient solution, will probably be around $50-100.
This is the feeding schedule that you are after, in future please spend even just a few minutes with a simple search before you post a thread for help but either way im glad to help.
However be careful how high you push the EC and PPM levels, as 3.0 EC is a pretty high dose (unless soil is different than coco?)
but 1.8 EC for the whole flower phase is about as far as I push it unless the plants really respond well to strong doses of nutrients.
 

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dopeleader

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Also that bigger plant is canoeing and curling upward, signs of a nutrient overdose or too high humidity or plant too close to the lights that your using.
I can't personally tell from the picture which it is, but by feeding a bit weaker and making sure the plant isn't too close to the light and making sure the heat and humidity isn't too high you can eliminate the cause one by one.
Its not a major issue YET, but if you don't adjust it could ruin your plant.
 
sunny747

sunny747

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Looking good.

Yea, get a TDS meter. It's the best. Follow the feeding schedule online, not on the bottle. Amazon has pens that work well for around $20. I think it's GH or HG TDS meter. I have one. Works just fine.

Feed - water - water, feed-water - water.. repeat..

They are not quite ready for more nutes. 1/4 strength for now.

Make sure you are getting good runoff. this flushes out the old nutes and re-balances the nute environment.

Remember that light is food, not nutes, so you just need enough to keep them healthy in the beginning..
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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dopeleader said:
ok so measuring with teaspoons is just not good enough for the answers you seek.
I strongly suggest that you buy a Nutrient truncheon which will measure the PPM (parts per million) of your nutrient solution, will probably be around $50-100.
This is the feeding schedule that you are after, in future please spend even just a few minutes with a simple search before you post a thread for help but either way im glad to help.
However be careful how high you push the EC and PPM levels, as 3.0 EC is a pretty high dose (unless soil is different than coco?)
but 1.8 EC for the whole flower phase is about as far as I push it unless the plants really respond well to strong doses of nutrients.
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Look at the Hanna instruments. Don't buy into "it has to be an expensive ass Blue Labs" BS. I suggest a Primo 4 with the cabled probe. In the future you might just be checking reservoirs that are hard to reach. Buy a small bottle of the calibration solutions or powders at the same time.
 
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Datkiid420

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sunny747 said:
Looking good.

Yea, get a TDS meter. It's the best. Follow the feeding schedule online, not on the bottle. Amazon has pens that work well for around $20. I think it's GH or HG TDS meter. I have one. Works just fine.

Feed - water - water, feed-water - water.. repeat..

They are not quite ready for more nutes. 1/4 strength for now.

Make sure you are getting good runoff. this flushes out the old nutes and re-balances the nute environment.

Remember that light is food, not nutes, so you just need enough to keep them healthy in the beginning..
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Awesome will do my question is how will I know when to bump up the Nutes and how much should I start to bump it up by when they are ready ?
 
KushCreator

KushCreator

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What Ive Been Doing Is Every Other Watering I Feed Them Nutrients then water then nutrients... and so on.. I slowly worked my way up during VEG i worked my way up to 1 Tbs of each big bloom and grow big and then when i switched to 12/12 I worked my way up to 1 Tbs of tiger bloom as well. only thing about this is im noticing im going through nutrients fast but my plants are loving it!!!!! Good luck. bongsmilie
 
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Datkiid420

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KushCreator said:
What Ive Been Doing Is Every Other Watering I Feed Them Nutrients then water then nutrients... and so on.. I slowly worked my way up during VEG i worked my way up to 1 Tbs of each big bloom and grow big and then when i switched to 12/12 I worked my way up to 1 Tbs of tiger bloom as well. only thing about this is im noticing im going through nutrients fast but my plants are loving it!!!!! Good luck. bongsmilie
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Thanks it's kinda confusing when your using fox farm ocean forest because it already contains nutrients
 
KushCreator

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i start with big bloom then slowly add grow big.... then when i switched to 12/12 I used tiger bloom worked my way up slowly to 1Tbs dont want to use to many nutrients at once.

Got my journal here kinda explains everything i do. > cannabiscreator.blogspot.com
 
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Datkiid420

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KushCreator said:
i start with big bloom then slowly add grow big.... then when i switched to 12/12 I used tiger bloom worked my way up slowly to 1Tbs dont want to use to many nutrients at once.

Got my journal here kinda explains everything i do. > cannabiscreator.blogspot.com
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Awesome at what strength do you start at first
 
KushCreator

KushCreator

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i start @ 1/4th tablespoon of big bloom starting @ week 3. then in another week or so i do half tablespoon of big bloom and 1/4 strength of grow big and then in another week or so i move up to a full tablespoon and a 1/2Tbs of grow big till u get to 1 tbs. but thats just what I do. seems to work for me but everyone has different ways you will learn what u like!
 
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