Best way to fertilize?

[ICantBelieveItsNotBud]

Hi, this is my first grow this year and i am unsure how i should fertilize them. I have 4 plants in 5gallon buckets and they do not look the best, but are not dying. 2 of my plants are 4.5feet tall and kind of lanky. The other 2 are about 2feet tall, but fairly bushy. My soil is a mix of cow manure, peat moss, and perlite that i mixed myself. I have not been using any veg nutes i probablly should of but oh well. Since 2 of my plants will atleast end up being female, or i hope, i am planning on moving the females to larger 10 or 15 gallon totes right after they show sex. But i only visit my plants once a week to keep from looking suspicious, and i dont haul water for the same reason. They are growing in a swamp like area and they remain moist most of the time so i have never had to water them yet. So since i dont haul water or anything would it work if i just brought some bone meal and sprinkled like 1/4 a cup ontop of the soil every month till harvest so when it rains the bone meal will leach into the soil? I would also like to pour a little bit of molases on top of the soil so i can maximize buds and fertlize once a week with that?

Can anyone tell me if this will all work or if you have any other ideas of fertlizing on a 1 week schedule? -Thanks

 

[veggiegardener]

If the plants are in pots and absorbing water from below, you'll need to use liquid nutes.

Get some Miracle grow tomato food for veg and the rose blend for flowering.

Not the best for cannabis, but adequate, and easily available, most places.

 

[ICantBelieveItsNotBud]

The ground is fairly moist and i drilled holes in the bottom so they are wicking up some water. For the MG liquid nutes would i just pour like a tablespoon of it in my soil every week or how would i apply it.

 

[odbsmydog]

I would get some fish emulsion and mix it with mollasses and kelp if you can afford it and your plants should green right up and get bushy, and it doesn't cost much.

 

[CrazyBudz]

what he said ^^
if nothin elce mollases is cheap and better than nothin..
id buy a small bottle of some kinda base veg nute if they aint flowering yet.

 

[ICantBelieveItsNotBud]

Well they are not flowering yet but should in the next week or two. Can i get fish emulsion at a local homedepot or store like that? But also if i get fish emulsion and molases i am unsure how to apply it with my situation. I only visit them once a week so could i just pour the emulsion and molases ontop of the soil once a week or would i have to mix it? Thats why i was thinking bone meal because i can get that and just dump a scoop ontop of the soil.

 

[canadianidiot]

Mix it up before you go to your site and only water them with it when the dirt has dried out, if its still wet soil then your not effectivly feeding them. After the feeding strictly water them with regular water for 3 or 4 days and then hit them again if you feel the need to, otherwise continue out the straight watering for the rest of the week and start another feeding the following week!

 

[sappytreetree]

Was it fresh or age cow poop what was your ratio on peat perlight cow poop

 

[veggiegardener]

Use the dry soluble MG nutes. A tablespoon per gallon of water.

Nutrients should NEVER be fed to a thirsty plant.

Water and then feed.

This slows absorption and minimizes the chance of a thirsty plant gulping too large a dose of nutrients.

Apply the solution to the soil surface in the pots.

 

[sappytreetree]

the best secret to ongainc gardening is earth worms -espicaley the the night crawler id you can throw some night crawler in your pots And keep them alive your plant well stay alive as long as your worms are heatly your plants will be the worms also make P,K more avaible to your plants and there bacteria that live in the worm casting and the slime that coat there holes are all really good for plants ....

 

[ICantBelieveItsNotBud]

Was it fresh or age cow poop what was your ratio on peat perlight cow poop

It was composted manure, i don't fully remember the ratio but i believe it was 5parts peat moss, 3parts cow compost, and 3parts perlite. The mix seems pretty good, i was confident in it and there is no nute burn.

Then my plan will probablly be to get some MG nutes for flowering and molases to mix together in water each week. For flowering what do i want the NPK count to be at in the fertilizer i buy?

 

[veggiegardener]

Low Nitrogen, Higher Phosphorous and Pottasium. I shoot for a ratio of 1-4-3.

I've seen some bad results from overdoing the addition of carbs to the nutrient mix. Go easy or skip the molasses.

I tried using Sucanat when the carbs fad started, some years ago. Several friends tried other off the grocery shelf molasses type things as well.

None of us had positive results, and stopped adding them. Just my personal experience.