How do you guys know when to use the ripening PK big boost?

[wallywonks]

I got 4 strains rolling starting week 9 of flower. Each one is maturing on different timetables. 2 indica dominants and 2 Sativa dominants.

Blue Dream aka Blueberry Haze



Blueberry Cheese



Aurora Indica



Granddaddy Purple X DoSiDos

 

[FirstCavApache64]

If you're talk about the bloom boosters with the crazy high P and K values and zero N, I don't ever use them. There's no need to give the plant a huge dose of PK in bloom if you are feeding an adequate level of a decent bloom feed in my opinion. I've tried them when I was using salt nutes and at anything close to the recommended strength they caused really bad tip burn and stressed the plant. I think just trying to keep it healthy and using a balanced bloom fert is way better for it overall.
Now....where did those Blue Dream seeds come from? I'm really liking the way that plant looks and I love Blue Dream for daytime use. Thanks

 

[plantinggreen]

There's a plant that is short or maybe slow growing with pink pistils early in the season somewhat large calyxs like sunflower heads drooping or golf club shape that your first pictures remind me of. They could be related, I do not have the name of the plant I remember from years ago.

 

[wallywonks]

If you're talk about the bloom boosters with the crazy high P and K values and zero N, I don't ever use them. There's no need to give the plant a huge dose of PK in bloom if you are feeding an adequate level of a decent bloom feed in my opinion. I've tried them when I was using salt nutes and at anything close to the recommended strength they caused really bad tip burn and stressed the plant. I think just trying to keep it healthy and using a balanced bloom fert is way better for it overall.
Now....where did those Blue Dream seeds come from? I'm really liking the way that plant looks and I love Blue Dream for daytime use. Thanks

Thanks for the info. Yeah I have Flower Fuel from Element Nutriens and Dry Koolbloom from GH. I havent tried either yet in late flower. I have just been giving mine 5ml Fish Emulsion and 15ml of the 0-10-10 Alaskan Fish Morbloom every watering from week 3 flower on. I did give them Blackstrap molasses and water 2 times in between but I have been juicing them up on the 0-10-10 and they seem to love the hell of it.

The Blue Dream seeds came from a relatively new seed bank Expert Seeds. They were running ads on Growdiaries. Weird thing is the ones I bought are not listed on Expert Seeds website but they also run the Garden of Green seed bank too. The Blue Dream I bought on Expert Seeds seed bank site is from Garden of Green seed bank.

 

[FirstCavApache64]

Thanks, I've never heard of them but the plant structure looks really nice and the buds look really good. I'll have to check them out. I really want to get a good clone of it but trying to find the legit cut at a decent price has been hard.

 

[wallywonks]

Thanks, I've never heard of them but the plant structure looks really nice and the buds look really good. I'll have to check them out. I really want to get a good clone of it but trying to find the legit cut at a decent price has been hard.

Couple more pics of her.
I took them right after watering earlier today. Thats why they droopy. Took 6 days this time for them to droop. So shes not drinking as much water now.

 

[Richard Drysift]

That’s easy…NEVER! I would just water them as normal and harvest when ready. My exp with high value PK bloom boosters and the like is that they can easily piss off the fungi: if your soil is basically a hydro medium bereft of fungal and microbial activity then a bloom booster may in fact be what they need. These look fairly healthy to me so they probably don’t need much else other than time to ripen. If you are using organic soil then I suggest to do nothing but water them. I assume from your use of fish emulsion that this is what’s in your containers.
I once spent way too much on a bottle of bloom booster…something insane like 10-20-30…only because it was strongly suggested by the idiot grow shop bro who told me it was the “dopest” nutrient I could have. My plants shriveled up and locked out of nutes soon after the first dose. I never went back to that shop cuz fuck those assholes for selling me shit I didn’t need. Now I just put everything needed in the soil before bloom phase and then let it ride. Water only w/occasional aact is how I roll these daze

 

[PopAndSonGrows]

The GH dry koolbloom specifically, is used only the very last week before you chop and used just before final flush, if you do that.