Ayokiwi717
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How they look
Almost 7 week autos
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Frank Warthog
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Shouldn't be that colour at week 7.
Ayokiwi717
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I just boosted her nutes to 1/2 dose instead of a quarter. Got ppm to 500 some. They were low 300. Ya I think they were hungry. They are autos
Ayokiwi717
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Last time I had nute lockout most likely by not watering until runoff, and now this time im starving them . I just cant win. Hopefully this bump in nutes is just what they needed.
Wizzlebiz
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Eventually you will get it.
Just keep on pluggin along. You should start at 25% and slowly increase as you feed. You just never made the increases.
Frank Warthog
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100% this. Good luck.
Ayokiwi717
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See i start them in fox farm. So no need to mutes until week 3-4. I usually wait until week 4, but never did a tds test because I didn't have one at the time. I flushed during week 5 which probably didn't help, which I now see why. I did because of lockout issues last time, but that was because I wasn't watering until runoff. I made changes that ended up being some mistakes to say the least . At first I though it was because I gave cal mag during every watering. Only 3ml in a gallon after 2 weeks of life. Idk if that was the issue though, it may have been a lack of food now. Defeciencies started showing during week 5. Next time im not going to give calmag each watering, that could have played a role, but not a 100% sure. I know the ppm were reading low though when I got my meter which would make sense since I was watering until runoff, and didn't get to feed to many times, plus only used a quarter nutes to be on safe side.
Ayokiwi717
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I dont think going to 100% is good. These are autos, they don't like 100% nutes right? I think you want your ppm to be around 600 for autoflowers in flower if im correct.
twentyeight.threefive
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Each plant is different. No idea where you heard they don't like 100% nutes. You should start low and increase feed slowly until they show burn. Then you can back off the EC a little and they should be happy.
Wizzlebiz
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Totally dependent on the plant. This past summer one of my plants couldn't get above 50% the other 2 made it too 100% fox farms actually.
But don't go from 25% to 100%. Slowly increase.
Absolutely plant dependent.
Ayokiwi717
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What do you aim your ppm to be
Wizzlebiz
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I dont. Simply tbsps per gallon. Has always been easy and mindless.
The plants show plenty of signs of needs. I adjust for those needs. Ppm, tbsps per gallon, and ec are just measurements to guage off of. But the plant needs don't care what you target, they care about what they need.
Ayokiwi717
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Ya I fucked up. I can tell by my last grow I fucked up. Only learn from this. Im just confused now. I guess I can start at half dose nutes at 4 weeks. Im going to check around 3-3.5 weeks to see if ppm's are low enough to add a quarter nutes. Mabe see if I can boost it to a full. Im using fox farm trio and happy frog if that helps. What would be a good feeding schedule.
Wizzlebiz
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Follow the schedule as they suggest and I would suggest going to 35%, then 50%, and then guage it from there.
Once I got over 50% my increases are by 10%. Don't want to over do it.
To much of an increase at once can cause issues. Hence why I keep saying slowly increase.