High Nute from seed Vs Adding Nutes Later (theory)

RyanTheRhino

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REMBER IT IS JUST A THEROY I HAVE YET TO TEST

Ok well first off if someone already knows this answer please let me know so I am not wasting my time


So ill start now, from what I have noticed in my garden (tomatoes, watermelons, ect…) is that when I start a seed off in a small nursery pot (the dirt I use has almost no fertilizer because seedlings have stored nutrients in their first set of leafs) it grow into a fine young seedling. My garden is very potent with fertilizers and all my plants love it. When I transplant the seedling into my garden within 2-3 day most of the seedlings from the nursery pots have a bad case fertilizer burn. Now, I know you are all thinking well of course that’s going to happen. Now sometimes I just plant seeds right into my, some would say over fertilized garden and, the seedlings sprout and grow very fast with no signs of fertilizer burn. I got down to thinking that this happens because when the seeds first crack open and the baby root comes out it just adapts to the high levels of fertilizer. For all the seed knows that is what the worlds dirt is made of so, it just gets use to it. Now I am not saying you could plant a seed directly into a pot of fertilizer but, that if you plant a seed into already highly fertilized soil that the plant will become more efficient and, be able to use more of that expensive fertilizer (like tiger bloom ect). This could possibly make giving a double dose of fertilizer per (feed) watering promising.

I hope to actually test this and keep a log; I will be using the botanist favorite choice the pea plant (fast growing and, show a lot of change when the variables change)
 

RyanTheRhino

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Ok so I went out and bought some peas, 6 pots and some soil. I have 3 different variables (A: which has no fertilizer, B: which has 1 dose of fertilizer and C which has 2 doses of fertilizer.) I have 2 test subjects for every variable labeled in the pictures. What I did today was, mix up some peat moss, mg organic and, perlite. For (A) I watered the pots with 1/2 a gallon of fresh water, for (B) I water the pots with 1/2 gallon of regular dose fertilizer, For (C) I watered the pots with 1/2 gallon of double dose fertilizer. I did this to load the soil with fertilizer. I will let the soil dry out an then I will plant the seeds.



The pictures

#1 The Soil
#2 The Soil Mix
#3 The Pots
#4 The Pots Side View
#5 The Pots Filled With Soil Mix
#6 The Fert & gallon Container
#7 The Pots in order
#8 Water For Plants A
#9 1 tbs of Ferts
#10 The Ferts
#11 Water For Plants B
#12 Water For Plants C
 

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bloatedcraig

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Good luck man, finger crossed. I have read berore that some poeple put half strength nutes with a bit of SUPERTHRIVE on paper towel when trying to germinate the seeds.
 

RyanTheRhino

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All 6 plants have sprouted all ina bout the same time now lets see which group grows the best

oh and i watered each plant with 500 ml or pure water
 
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