Am I feeding them too much?

[Porky101]

what watts bro?

Im using Luminus cobs, and i have 300 watts available. I rearly use all 300, maybe peak them for a hour or so a day, but usually im around 200-225 watts.

I dont use dtw or ebb and flow, i use cocoloco, more soil media side. So, i cant really give a ton of info your your situation, but rule of thumb is watts=PPMs.

You wouldnt give a 3week veg, the same nutes as a 3 week flower, but you also wouldnt give a 3 week veg, the same amount of light of a 3 week flower, make sense?

If you know your total PAR at the very top your canopy can get best penetration over your area, You must let the veg plant grow with the light.

If you know that your max limit is 900 PAR, that is the amount you need for the last 3 weeks of flower, and at the beginning of flower set, your PAR should be no more then 450 PAR at that point of the grow. When you flip to flower, You should have HALF available PAR Left to use till finish. So, if you have a 10 week flower, you should be increasing light PAR, 450 worth, divided by 7, and i say seven, because last 3 weeks of flower is maxed at 1000.

So, from flower beginning, you should be adding about 65 PAR per week, till maxed at week 7 to finish. At week 3 of flower, FOR YOU, Your PAR shouldnt be more then 675 this week.

AND, you max PPM, shouldnt be more then 900 EVER, and this week, your flower PPM should be 650-675 PPM this week, or 1.3EC



Same with Nutes, slowly increase PPMs per week.

Wow.

This is mind blowing for me.

1.3EC???

That seems way too low?!


If I veg my plants I usually start clones @1.0 small plants 1.2 bigger plants 1.4-1.6EC.


My flower plants are getting about 1.6EC with a high of 2.0


If I was feeding too much, surely I would get burn??


In terms of watts, I am 350 watt Cxb3590 led 3000k. Par at canopy is 700.




Thank you for your post InTheValley. I will post a picture of my plant later tell me what you think!peace out dude, your cbd looks sick!


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[InTheValley]

Thanks Bro!

and yes, its sounds and seems crazy, but why does it seem crazy? What have you learned about YOUR nutes? Back of the bottle says, "blah blah blah" Feed chart said week 4, 1200 ppms? Heck MegaCrop says i should be at 630PPMs ( 6g) at this point. that would hurt this plant. I truely think stalk size is indicitive to PPMs the plant can take, AND the PAR it can take. Its goes hand in hand. I think anyways.

 

[InTheValley]

Yeah, i think you over feed, and WAY to hot bro. Forget that 84F BS. Get it to 80, and 55%RH.

I take it you sprayed for the mites? Did you actually see one? Sometimes its better to vacuum the plant, then see if you find more. Next time, mix cinnamon in your media, does a great job with pests.

 

[Porky101]

Yeah, i think you over feed, and WAY to hot bro. Forget that 84F BS. Get it to 80, and 55%RH.

I take it you sprayed for the mites? Did you actually see one? Sometimes its better to vacuum the plant, then see if you find more. Next time, mix cinnamon in your media, does a great job with pests.

Thanks man!

Yes I have seen the spider mites i have them.


I have lowered the feed to 1.6ec.

I will bring it down a bit further becuase of your suggestions.


The flowers are looking decent.
But yes, next run I won't go more then 1.5ec.


I'm running co2 and led. I need high temps to make use of the co2...

I'm @93F 75 percent rh.

Plants are getting bigger every day!

Peace dude!