homebrewer
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The only 'issue' with using FP in a coco and perlite blend is that in terms of watering frequency you're getting close to hydro and higher doses of N than needed tend to grow leafier, branchier plants. IMO, that's what we're seeing here with mega crop. If you know what you're doing you can prune the sh*t out of your plants to avoid the leafy, airy flowers that will inevitably be produced but if you don't do that well then yields can suffer. In this case with mega crop and in your situation where bloom might be added to foliage pro, a higher dose of P and K could knock back the N content to a more reasonable level and improve yields by focusing production on fewer, higher quality flowering sites.In your experience, are there any shortcomings to a FP only grow in coco that incorporating bloom into might address? I think I even seen a video where the owner of DG said that for cannabis he recommends FP and Protekt from seed to harvest. I might have to try both with the same pheno side by side, as I know people personally who use bloom and have amazing flower but I also have seen like ten years of posts from you using DG, nobody else I know has been using it that long.
Bloom and foliage pro can be mixed together in their concentrated form. I actually have an 80/20 bloom/FP mix sitting around in a 4 ounce bottle for when I top off my reservoirs and add back some food.I‘m growing on a fairly small scale, so I don’t mind having the extra work that comes with mixing FP and Bloom, getting the best end product in terms of quality is my main priority, yield matters but is hardly something I am worried about.
I agree with @Wastei. Plants grown in coco need food from the get-go. In your case with DG's foliage pro, literally 1ml/gal is plenty.Also, I am a newcomer to coco, I have typically fed water only for the first two weeks before adding any nutes, in a coco grow, how long,if at all, should I wait before I start feeding FP and do I need to be feeding anything in the meantime other than water?
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