need help picking flowering nutes

ltz40055

ltz40055

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Well here i go, its that time again for flowering. I need some input on some nutes for flowering. I have been using in the past cheap nutes from wal-mart such as pro gardener bloom burst (can't find anymore) along with big bud powder from advanced nutrients.
I have going at this moment blue mystic, afghan mafias and some unknown bag seeds. My room is 4x8 8ft tall with 2 400w HPS from HTG. I grow in soil.
Any knowledgeable information on nutes would be greatly appreciated. I would like something fairly simple to use, but that is known to and has been proven to work great. I was thinking about Sensi bloom a+b along with big bud from advanced nutrients. Would this be any good to use?
or would i need something else along with it? ppp
 
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bigwheel

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Well kindly keep us posted on the results. I have started to buy that stuff several times for an HB setup but seems a bit pricey. As a result all I have ever used is Botanicare in its various incarnations. Now I skipped the flushing step on some of their synthetic blend and now all my bud smells like cat piss. It the ammonia from the N portion. I aint gonna be dumb enough to do that again. Anyway Botanicare Organic stuff is hard to beat for all stages but gets expensive to do a full grow on it. I use the organic for vegging and switch over to the chemical blend for blooming. I even got some for finishing. I forget what they call it right now but its only 1% on the N which I think is good but by the time a person get around to using it might as well skip it and start flushing. :shock:

ltz40055 said:
Never mind, i went with fox farm liquid soil formula and cha ching fert. thanks anyway.
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curioushiker

curioushiker

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Please keep us updated on the progress. I am going to buy the full line of Foxfarm and use their feeding schedule.
Im subscribed...Thanks.
 
ltz40055

ltz40055

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i will keep everyone up to date on how well this stuff works.
at the moment all that they have had is alaskan fish emulsion for veg and spring water from majors.
they are just over a month old. started to show preflowers so the lights were switched to 12/12 on the 25th of last month . i have 2 400w lights one is hps and the other is mh. i have had them under both lights since i planted them as seeds .
but for veg i had both 400w mhs going and no hps.
the final count is 16 females out of 25 seeds planted
so that makes 5 blue mystics 4 afghan mafias and 7 unknown bag seed plants.
far more then i wanted to grow at once but got tired uf planting seeds and ending up with a bunch of males . so i guess i could say i came across some fairly good seeds .
 
curioushiker

curioushiker

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Is this the first time that you will be running the MH/HPS at the same time? I have read a bit about using One of each and also the dual arc bulbs.
I am really wondering if there is an increase in Trichs with Two spectrums.
Thanks.
 
ltz40055

ltz40055

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yes this will be the first time i have ran both bulbs at the same time. I have heard the same as you and thought i would give it a try. i will keep everyone updated and will post picks later. the pics i post first will be without the new nutes and i will follow up with new ones to show the difference in growth with the new nutes and the 2 bulbs.
 
ltz40055

ltz40055

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here are some pics from start to now. once i get the new ferts and start giving them to my girls, i will add more up to date pics. first pic was taken on 11/09/09 and the last was taken today. each pic is @ 2-3 days apart.

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curioushiker

curioushiker

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nice...I am in the process of vegging a few clones to grow up some mothers for clones. I have been keeping them in the outdoors so they started to flower. They are now starting to go back to veg so I will pick the best for clones and go from there.
I cant wait to see what you yeild from these cuties.
 
ltz40055

ltz40055

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here are some better pics. for now all you can really see is the pre-flowers. look how big the leaves are getting . i might have some space problems latter on in the grow .


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ltz40055

ltz40055

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well the ferts finally came in the mail after they were delivered next door and i had the wife go get them from the neighbors garage . thankfully it was not opened nor did they know they got it . how did i know it was there you ask ? well it was on the truck all day yesterday "out for delivery" so ups said. well it never came and was left on the truck over night . this morning i got up and waited for the ups truck .he finally pulled up at 11:58am walked next door and dropped of a package got in the truck and left .
well i got kinda P Oed and had my wife check the status of my package all to find out that it was suppost to be delivered to "my house" placed in "my garage" at 12:00pm
well i walk out in the garage to find nothing.. i come back in and tell my wife to call ups and find out where my package is she calls and they say the same as the computer did ..
well i dont have my package and they say i do and i start to think that i had just watched them deliver it to the wrong house so i sent my wife next door to find out if they had received something for us and when she walked up to the side door there it sat and my wife being the honest person she is rang the door bell and ask for it .
come it find out they did not even know they had received a package so she grabbed it and came home .... long story short, ups sucks!!!!!!!!

well on with what we are here for i gave them there first dose of the fox farm big bloom and tigger bloom today now all i can do is set back and see how things go .
 
curioushiker

curioushiker

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plants look good. Are you following the Foxfarms feeding schedule or are you using more or less than what they recommend?
 
curioushiker

curioushiker

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Looking good. All these pictures got me chompin at the bit. I cant wait to get my meds growin.
Keep up the great work and keep the pictures comin'
 
ltz40055

ltz40055

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well im going to keep doing what im doing because its working
dont really know what your wanting me to read on page 2 but ... ok
 
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