A lot of people are afraid to feed their plants for some reason. Just know that your plant will produce less by being underfed than by being burned a little. I guess growers became jaded because they follow the feeding instructions on a bottle of nutes and killed the hell out of their plants, but I'm telling you, mary jane is a big fat hungry bitch. Most varieties can take all the nutes you can feed them, without being ridiculous of course.
*Please realize that I am just having a conversation and mean no ill-will with my opinion below. I know we all disagree with each other. This is why The Cage is important, we can show what happens with documented proof. We are all here to learn.
I disagree with just about everything in the quoted statement. Mainly because it is full of assumptions of other growers practices. Mine included.
I personally am not afraid to feed my plants. I push them to the limit and one of the things I am proud of saying is that my girls have taught me when they are hungry and when they are not. One thing they are not, is greedy. They will show you when they are eating too much and it isn't pretty.
The statement, "your plant will produce less by being underfed than by being burned a little" is true in some situations, but in frenchies situation his plant
was burnt by overfeeding and if he continued to feed her, she would have possibly died making this statement false. This is why they call it "nute burn". It looks like a burn. He flushed it and she started to recover. This is an indicator that she was burnt.
OPINION INCOMING: Now it is time for frenchie to feed her starting at 1/3 strenght and moving up to no more than 1/2 strength of the manufacturers recommended dosage.
Also, I do not think there is anyone here that feeds their girls "per instruction" of the manufacturer (besides your rare exceptions to the rule). Everyone on this forum, and I mean everyone, knows to go at most 1/2 strength. It is one of the first things everyone learns. Of course I go way below that for autos. Autos are very sensitive to nutrients in comparison to non-auto strains I have learned (look at my Snowryder grow, ugh...nute problems from the start), but I am preaching to the choir here on that subject.
And lasty, the statement, " Most varieties can take all the nutes you can feed them", I disagree with the most. No, Cannibus cannot take all the nutes you can feed them. I will leave my statement at that.
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i only use tap water. if t is hungry for Mg, what couldi use to feed her?
I always prepare my soil with dolomite lime. 1 dry ounce per gallon.