Mixing organic and chemical nutes(Humboldt Roots and Dyna-gro)

powerslide

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I am running COCO 12-12 FS. I think my seedlings are lagging behind based on a few grow journals. i have been using dyna gro, dyna protect and humboldt roots. Think i started feeding too late and too little. Been slowly working my way up but w/ no veg time i feel like everytime i make a wrong move i really hurt myself and final yield is going to suffer. I havent used the Roots and the Dyna products in the same watering if i do should i PH my water prior to adding in the Roots? Reading the back of the bottles Roots and protect have some similar make ups so maybe i dont even need to worry about the roots and just up the grow? They dont look like they are hurting but just not growing very fast majority are green i would say 4of20 are a lighter green. Just tonight i fed 1/2tsp grow and 1/4tsp protect to a gallon. They each got about 100ml in solo cups. Mixture came out to about 170ppm. They are 20 days old.
 

doogleef

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Grow - 7-9-5 General Purpose Formula or Foliage-Pro 9-3-6 Tropical Foliage Formula if you can find it. Both are great
Bloom 3-12-6 Blooming Formula
 

powerslide

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On seedlings that young? Basic grow nutrients are all a seedling needs. In a good grow medium with good seed?
I think most suggest Gro and protekt. This is my first run in coco so i cant say for sure wether botanicare is a good coco or not. I opened my bag of roots organic coco last night and it looks alot better. It is what i am going to transplant to once they start to show sex.

I am on day 25 from seed. I finally got tired of them being yellow so i hit them w/ 400ppm 1tsp of the grow formula on the 22nd day and it didnt burn them(even had one seed that took a week or more longer to crack and didnt even burn it). Some are STILL yellow i will chalk that up to probably being the males in the group. Last night Day 24 I hit them w/ 400ppm grow along w/ 100ppm of moon dust. It has alot more N in it. Its what i ran twice in my aero system. Will see how they look in next couple days.
 

doogleef

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At day 25 in a soilless mix you can start to bump up the feed as long as you are running under HID lighting. I used protekt and did not see a benefit so it got dropped.

I run in organic soil these days but if I was running any bottle nutes, it would be dyna-gro. As I recall, I ran it at about 1000 ppm in tables and buckets. If they are still yellow, feed em more.

Sadly, males can be the most vigorous in the garden.
 

powerslide

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Yeah this is my first 12/12 seed grow moved them under my 400 at like day 7 and i think i could of hit them w/ 400ppm about a week maybe two weeks earlier. Like i said i had a seed lag behind about a week or week and a half on popping and its been getting the same nutes and is doing fine. Appreciate you talking it out with me. I know next time to get them some nutes a little earlier. I was trying to concentrate on the root structure w/ the Humboldt roots and neglected them above the surface.
 
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