Minimize 12/12 stretch?
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crazy-mental
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keep the plant nearer the lites if you can, i use a fan blowing out inbetween the lites and top of the plants, when it gets too hot,.
kindprincess
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mh for the first two weeks, also veg nutes for the first two weeks. what most people don't realize is that p will encourage stretching. flower ferts are p based....
tahoe58
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interesting detail...thanks...and very good to know. 
tahoe58
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so Chiceh - when you say that ur then using plain water in between? and nut water every two weeks? sorry, if I'm confused? 
Keep the light as close as you can, and yes more nitrogen for vegging. But go 1/4 strength giving nutes every 2 weeks.
kindprincess
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this is about stretching in flower, not in vegKeep the light as close as you can, and yes more nitrogen for vegging. But go 1/4 strength giving nutes every 2 weeks.
crazy-mental
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thats what i do. i always start when vegging at 1/4 str. and and a 1/4 more every week, till i get to the recommended amout, it states on the bottle, every other water. then i switch my food from vegg food, to flower, after about i week into flowering. and stiil i water and next food and water and so on.
Chiceh
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Well to be exact at what i do is this:
I fill up a 20 litre pail with water, add the nutes based on that amount of water, ph it down usually and use that water to water with, i just dunk a smaller jug in there to water with. So no, no plain water between i guess. But i don't start with the nutes for a few weeks, let them get established first. Hope that helped (i am stoned, lol). Only water when needed (everyother week), you can tell by looking t the soil and leaves of the plant.
I fill up a 20 litre pail with water, add the nutes based on that amount of water, ph it down usually and use that water to water with, i just dunk a smaller jug in there to water with. So no, no plain water between i guess. But i don't start with the nutes for a few weeks, let them get established first. Hope that helped (i am stoned, lol
). Only water when needed (everyother week), you can tell by looking t the soil and leaves of the plant.
crazy-mental
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i try to wait till three weeks, when im vegging longer.
crazy-mental
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its quite close, closer than the summer, because its so cold. i dont even need a fan,but still use one, for plant str. temps 60-70deg with lites on all the time there on.. is that too cold?.
tahoe58
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well....I need to come clean....I put them under the lights like right away as sprouts....then I started feeding them right away too.....I test the moisture...and I am watering every 2-3 day.....but from the bottom up....the soil wicks the water up from the trays below the pots. I expect that I have got things a little mixed up here....on the otherhand...the plants seem to be doing very well? the plants are 7 days old today, are barely 2" tall and working on their third node...virtually no space between them?
Awesome, thanks for hijacking my thread fellas!
KP, thanks for the advice, that was the kind of information I was looking for. So basically just hold off on the bloom juice until week 3 of 12/12? Or do you think I should maybe do something like a 2:1 veg/bloom food mix in order to supplement the N for the first 2 weeks of 12/12? Like, do the girls just need more N than what normal bloom feed provides, or is it an N to P ratio we're trying to achieve?
KP, thanks for the advice, that was the kind of information I was looking for. So basically just hold off on the bloom juice until week 3 of 12/12? Or do you think I should maybe do something like a 2:1 veg/bloom food mix in order to supplement the N for the first 2 weeks of 12/12? Like, do the girls just need more N than what normal bloom feed provides, or is it an N to P ratio we're trying to achieve?
crazy-mental
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dont worry everyone does that,when they start.try not to feed for a week or so. theres food in the soil, to last, the plant 3 weeks or so. dont try to hard,and let the plant do its stuff.
No sweat dude.sorry man....caught red handed....my sincere apologies.