How to know when to feed

Ayokiwi717

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So I have autoflowers, and they are recovering from a starvation diet . My ppm is around 415, and my ph is between 6.-6.5. The ppm were us to 580 and now its down again. Should I feed them? I was giving them wayyyy to little, and now I just want to make sure I don't give them to much. Im growing in soil and they are 52 days old
 

bernie344

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So I have autoflowers, and they are recovering from a starvation diet . My ppm is around 415, and my ph is between 6.-6.5. The ppm were us to 580 and now its down again. Should I feed them? I was giving them wayyyy to little, and now I just want to make sure I don't give them to much. Im growing in soil and they are 52 days old
The ppm were us to 580 and now its down again....what do you mean?
 

Ayokiwi717

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The ppm were us to 580 and now its down again....what do you mean?
They eat to say the least, sorry. The ppm was 580, but now when I checked it went down to 415. Just gave them half a dose of fox farm trio. I brought ppm back to the 500's. How comes ppm read lower when they come out of plant as well. Nute water was 800 some ppm, but when I rat it through the plant she was reading like 515?
 

curious2garden

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They eat to say the least, sorry. The ppm was 580, but now when I checked it went down to 415. Just gave them half a dose of fox farm trio. I brought ppm back to the 500's. How comes ppm read lower when they come out of plant as well. Nute water was 800 some ppm, but when I rat it through the plant she was reading like 515?
A picture and more information would help.
 

Ayokiwi717

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Because the plant is consuming more nutes than water, its good.
If you wanna up the ppm to 800 you can.
Ok, so your saying to bump it, ok. I just don't want to over do it, after I under did it . When do you know when to just give them plain water
 

curious2garden

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Thats one pic of one of them. What else info do you need
Usually lights etc.... but yeah she looks hungry as does your GG#4. I really wouldn't feed much heavier than 800 but that's me who runs Hydro. I'm sure an actual soil grower will come along soon. Also in soil I wouldn't bother testing run off PPM. I don't even test run off PPM in hydro LOL.

@rkymtnman @Budzbuddha these guys are some of the real experts here. I'm sure they can offer you more soil specifics.

Hang in there and good luck, you're getting close to the finish line.
 

Ayokiwi717

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Usually lights etc.... but yeah she looks hungry as does your GG#4. I really wouldn't feed much heavier than 800 but that's me who runs Hydro. I'm sure an actual soil grower will come along soon. Also in soil I wouldn't bother testing run off PPM. I don't even test run off PPM in hydro LOL.

@rkymtnman @Budzbuddha these guys are some of the real experts here. I'm sure they can offer you more soil specifics.

Hang in there and good luck, you're getting close to the finish line.
I actually like using the ppm for now. It shows me what going on. Before hand I just thought I was locking them out all the time, now I wander if it was the opposite. The gg4 is definitely hungry. She went from around 500+ ppm down to 380ppm!!! No wander why I had issues with her last grow. I was only feeding quarter nutes
 

rkymtnman

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Usually lights etc.... but yeah she looks hungry as does your GG#4. I really wouldn't feed much heavier than 800 but that's me who runs Hydro. I'm sure an actual soil grower will come along soon. Also in soil I wouldn't bother testing run off PPM. I don't even test run off PPM in hydro LOL.

@rkymtnman @Budzbuddha these guys are some of the real experts here. I'm sure they can offer you more soil specifics.

Hang in there and good luck, you're getting close to the finish line.
no dirt for me but thanks for the shout out! how u doin???
 

Ayokiwi717

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day 1 plain water, d2 nothing, d3 feed, d4 nothing , d5 plain water, d6 nothing, d7 feed.
How does that sound?
Idk how it sounds because my girls are starving. I have fed them three times in a row so far. The first a quarter nutes, the second half nutes, and this time three quarter nutes. I didn't feed them much from week 4-5, plus I flushed the plants like an idiot during week 5 thinking that will solve my issue . They became highly sickly. They actually look better now.
 

curious2garden

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no dirt for me but thanks for the shout out! how u doin???
Now I know I've read you giving good advice to the dirt folks LOL. I'm good, thank you for asking. I'm currently smoking my last table Wedding Cake and it's obviously very nice :eyesmoke: what have you been up to?
 

curious2garden

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Idk how it sounds because my girls are starving. I have fed them three times in a row so far. The first a quarter nutes, the second half nutes, and this time three quarter nutes. I didn't feed them much from week 4-5, plus I flushed the plants like an idiot during week 5 thinking that will solve my issue . They became highly sickly. They actually look better now.
Remember there's a lag when you feed them. That's why I like hydro the lag is less and I'm impatient. So don't take them the other way. Slow and consistent is usually better than large swings.
 

bernie344

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Idk how it sounds because my girls are starving. I have fed them three times in a row so far. The first a quarter nutes, the second half nutes, and this time three quarter nutes. I didn't feed them much from week 4-5, plus I flushed the plants like an idiot during week 5 thinking that will solve my issue . They became highly sickly. They actually look better now.
Your giving out info in dribs and drabs witch makes it hard to understand.
Goodluck with it, I think you will work it out.
 

rkymtnman

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Now I know I've read you giving good advice to the dirt folks LOL. I'm good, thank you for asking. I'm currently smoking my last table Wedding Cake and it's obviously very nice :eyesmoke: what have you been up to?
just homeschooling the kid. trying not to strangle her!!! lol. and getting ready for the arctic blast this weekend. gonna be a tit nipply around these parts.
 

Ayokiwi717

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Remember there's a lag when you feed them. That's why I like hydro the lag is less and I'm impatient. So don't take them the other way. Slow and consistent is usually better than large swings.
So are you saying next feed give them plain water, kind of confused. I know not to make large jumps, hence why I'm going up by quarters. These are autos if I didn't say it before.
 
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