There are major advantages in using hid lamps over led too. Here's one. My soil dries so much faster with hid lighting. I used to grow with 100% led and actually used to feed up to 7ml per 1 liter of bloom nutes. Maximum 4ml on the bottle, so almost double, on auto's too. Had no problems at all then. It took almost twice as long for the plants to dry, so they got almost twice as much feed.
That's ok with bloom. Imo with bloom, if you add too much it isn't a problem! However if you use too much nitrogen, then that can create all kind of problems. Maybe this can explain why my plants have done all the nitrogen in so fast!
I have enjoyed trying out certain nutes. Some I rate, some I don't.
Next grow I'm going to try bio bizz fish mix with bud candy for pretty much the whole lot! Then when they are 1 month away from harvest and dark green. I'll switch to overdrive for 2 weeks. They can then yellow at the right time in the last 2 weeks, instead of the last 4 weeks, whilst being on plain water only, in the last 2 weeks.
I'm also going to knock plain water feeds on the head! I'm done with them, no good for me, just slows shit down and causes my plants to be hungry! I make sure the ph is perfect anyway. Bio Bizz fish mix at 2-3ml per 1 liter with bud candy added makes my bubbled tap water with feed in - ph 6.3. No coincidence why the plants love that feed! Lots of nitrogen, balanced ph with fish things in
It's cheap too! Much cheaper than all the other nutes I've used. It's organic and fish mix will be used for 80% of the grows from now!
I need to get more of that asap!
I'm also going feed them with epsom salts about 2-3 hours before every fish mix feed. Give them the magnesium they need, to take up the nutes I'm feeding them.
Now I've got this new ballast I think I'll try and get a 600w 7200k lamp for it for veg too. Keep them nice and healthy under those lamps for most of the grow too, then just switch to 1000w hps when when they are in flowering and have finished the stretch.
I've got my elite C'99 clone#2 clones going nicely now, fed them grow feed last night, I'm going to dig out a few pots later, nice big air pots and get some going.
Growing real tired of growing so many plants. Imo the more plants you grow, the more chances of making mistakes you have! Especially when you grow so many that the sofa spends the entire winter on its side.
Things will settle soon. I'm glad I chopped 4 more yesterday.
Plain water feeds for the rso plants tonight. All 14 are lightweight and real thirsty.