Botanicare Nutrient's my regimine advice tips etc all appreciated.
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The clearex is something you use once at the end and do a pre harvest flush, once you settle on a point to start the flush you hit them with the clearex and then from then out only water, or water and sweet or a sugar/carb product.
As far as slowing down or adding more... I dont even know how much you are feeding them, one thing I would not do at this point is feed them veg nutes, the pure blend pro bloom should have more than enough N to carry the plant and they will be fine, your leaves may get a little crinkley or ugly at the end but thats no big deal man, its normal. You cut them off and enjoy the buds underneath where the crusty leaves used to be. As far as hygrozyme, you probably want to stop using that by the end of week 6 in bloom max on an 8-9 week strain so maybe sooner with a 7 week, same goes for any enzymes from any company, your plants will never finish if you dont stop.
You should be worked up to the maximum doses: 25ml pure blend pro bloom, 5ml per gal of hydroplex, these are the ones to be careful with. These will burn your plants silly especially the hydroplex, I havent gone much over the 5ml per gallon with hydro plex, maybe 6ml per gal thats it and as far as the PBP soil I've only went up to 27.5ml per gal, and thats pushing 1800ppm with the rest of my supplements so I dont go much higher with those. You are in the perfect time frame to push your plants, but I suggest doing so with some serious knowing that if you push to hard you'll be very sorry. If you see any kind of burnt tips on the newer growth, thats it your at about the max you want to be, maybe even back off 50-100ppm or a little more.
Good luck and post some pics when you get it worked out.
As far as slowing down or adding more... I dont even know how much you are feeding them, one thing I would not do at this point is feed them veg nutes, the pure blend pro bloom should have more than enough N to carry the plant and they will be fine, your leaves may get a little crinkley or ugly at the end but thats no big deal man, its normal. You cut them off and enjoy the buds underneath where the crusty leaves used to be. As far as hygrozyme, you probably want to stop using that by the end of week 6 in bloom max on an 8-9 week strain so maybe sooner with a 7 week, same goes for any enzymes from any company, your plants will never finish if you dont stop.
You should be worked up to the maximum doses: 25ml pure blend pro bloom, 5ml per gal of hydroplex, these are the ones to be careful with. These will burn your plants silly especially the hydroplex, I havent gone much over the 5ml per gallon with hydro plex, maybe 6ml per gal thats it and as far as the PBP soil I've only went up to 27.5ml per gal, and thats pushing 1800ppm with the rest of my supplements so I dont go much higher with those. You are in the perfect time frame to push your plants, but I suggest doing so with some serious knowing that if you push to hard you'll be very sorry. If you see any kind of burnt tips on the newer growth, thats it your at about the max you want to be, maybe even back off 50-100ppm or a little more.
Good luck and post some pics when you get it worked out.
UVRay
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Hey whitey78, thanks for some good info on Botanicare products. I just got some from a friend who stopped doing his thing and gave me his remaining nutes which was simply Pro Grow and Bloom along with some Technaflora packages which I had been using as well. I only had less than a pint of each but once I tried them along with some cal-mag and thrive alive. I just ordered another quart of Grow and Bloom and Sweet Raw. I don't know if I should have gotten some Sweet Berry instead of Sweet Raw as I've got some nice buds growing that have a nice berry taste already. I think the Sweet arrives tomorrow, I just ran out of Sugar Daddy which is Technaflora's version of Sweet I guess. I was thinking about Bud Candy as well as some other Humboldt products, but hey.. if this Botanicare stuff keeps working and I'm NOT dealing with nine different mixes I'll stay a happy camper. I'm looking forward to getting the Sweet Raw in as my buds are getting on, probably 5 weeks into flowering now running 450w HPS and RDWC using 48 qt. marine coolers for res.
How much can I pump of that Sweet Raw in a RDWC system that's getting on into flowering? I'm thinking I still have 3- closer to 4 weeks of grow time left on these girls. I've tended to run on the light side of my nutes, I'm only around 800 ppm right now. I travel a bit with my day job on short notice sometimes and I can't afford strong and sensitive nutes as it can get ugly fast. So I really want to enhance this already sweet blueberry kush I'm growing now. I've also got a fat Lemon Skunk and Pine Apple Chunk from Barney's Farms vegging now and are growing insanely fast and bushy. Can't wait to get those special ladies feeding on that sweet stuff to enhance the scent and flavor.
How much can I pump of that Sweet Raw in a RDWC system that's getting on into flowering? I'm thinking I still have 3- closer to 4 weeks of grow time left on these girls. I've tended to run on the light side of my nutes, I'm only around 800 ppm right now. I travel a bit with my day job on short notice sometimes and I can't afford strong and sensitive nutes as it can get ugly fast. So I really want to enhance this already sweet blueberry kush I'm growing now. I've also got a fat Lemon Skunk and Pine Apple Chunk from Barney's Farms vegging now and are growing insanely fast and bushy. Can't wait to get those special ladies feeding on that sweet stuff to enhance the scent and flavor.
I'm not sold on the flavored sweet but I did buy some and have been using the citrus on my jilly bean which is an orange/mango tasting strain as it is, but I have no expectations of it other than it being a carb/sugar product, so dont buy into that flavored shit. I imagine it may have some kind of effect but the strain is going to have to have some kind of predisposition towards that flavor anyhow. As far as how much per gal, I've gone up to 20ml or so a gal, I think the highest recommended dose on the botanicare chart is like 15ml per gal, and thats probably about right. Anymore than 15-20ml a gal is not only a waste, it has sulfur and magnesium in it and I would imagine you can overdose your plants on it eventually. I recently switched to the humbolt honey ES but I think it will do a lot better with a 100% organic nute line which I just ordered last night, I was originally going to buy the canna bio but I suckered out at the last second and went with the general organics line.
But you will do fine with just the base products, I would suggest getting the hydroplex and soon if you can seeing how far along in bloom you are, its botanicares bloom maximizer and if you dont get it for this run I'd definitely suggest getting for your next round, it will help in mid-late bloom, basically where you are right now. Its not to bad as far as price and you only need a quart bottle of it as it lasts awhile. Its the only product I havent used more than 1 bottle of, the bottle is about half empty but I'm all done with it for this grow.
You sound like you got everything in order though, just dont over do it with the nutes, which it sounds like you arent. Just watch your plants and see what they need, however I would think the recommended doses should keep the deficiencies in check.
But you will do fine with just the base products, I would suggest getting the hydroplex and soon if you can seeing how far along in bloom you are, its botanicares bloom maximizer and if you dont get it for this run I'd definitely suggest getting for your next round, it will help in mid-late bloom, basically where you are right now. Its not to bad as far as price and you only need a quart bottle of it as it lasts awhile. Its the only product I havent used more than 1 bottle of, the bottle is about half empty but I'm all done with it for this grow.
You sound like you got everything in order though, just dont over do it with the nutes, which it sounds like you arent. Just watch your plants and see what they need, however I would think the recommended doses should keep the deficiencies in check.