AN same ratios throughout grow?

I was using Holland Secret nutes which had a schedule that increased bloom and reduced grow as the plants progressed, which made sense to me and worked. Now I have AN micro, grow and bloom and their schedule appears to keep the ratio the same throughout the grow. This doesn’t make sense to me, how does this meet the changing needs of the plant in veg and flower?

I have a chart for the Sensi base from like 2014 and it calls for the same ratio all through. I never ran the line so I can’t really say, but I think @OldMedUser is an experienced AN user, maybe we’ll get an answer there?

My sensi bottle says stop using after 6 weeks

I run Lucas formula with AN Jungle Juice all the way from first feeding to last. 5 ml cal mag per gallon. 8 ml Micros + 16 ml Bloom is Lucas.

Jointario said:

I was using Holland Secret nutes which had a schedule that increased bloom and reduced grow as the plants progressed, which made sense to me and worked. Now I have AN micro, grow and bloom and their schedule appears to keep the ratio the same throughout the grow. This doesn’t make sense to me, how does this meet the changing needs of the plant in veg and flower?

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I like to start off with a 1-1-1 ratio. (G-M-B) then once the plants are a few nodes in and vegging well switch to a 3-2-1 ratio until about a week before flip then feed 1-1-1 again with a half dose of Big Bud to prime an early onset of flowers. Then the other half of BB and some more nutes when I flip. They eat like crazy thru the stretch but if you feed hard for 3 weeks they will have too much when feeding levels drop right after and could easily see burn starting. So heavier feeding just before and for the first week or 2 of 12/12 then begin tapering off unless you start seeing yellowing fan leaves then go up 50% for one feed.

Unlike hotrodharley I'll wait until after the stretch before feeding Lucas style and not according to standard Lucas directions but more a ratio of 0-1-2 at levels that give me the ppm I want. I used to do the feed-water-feed water thing but find the plants like it better if fed everytime at half the dose. I tend to feed light unless the plants ask for more and that's part of practise is listening to your plants and sensing what they need before they really need it. Or feeling they are getting a bit too much and knowing when to back off.

Don't use lots of P after the stretch. Too much of that is what gives pot that 'chem' taste people bitch about. Too much of everything will do that too but pot likes higher K than P after the stretch. Big Bud is good that way as it's higher in K than P so I do like to add a little P/K mix with the flip along with the BB I mentioned.

I'm using more organics with my Promix HP the last year or so and find my plants seem a lot more stable than just feeding the hydro nutes with the soilless HP. Also using a lot less of the bottled stuff too. I never did have luck using real dirt or all organics but 20 years ago I knew a hell of a lot less about the plants or any plants in general.