More nutrient help

cindywhite

cindywhite

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I don't know why this is just coming to me me but I have been using botanicare cns17 vegetative. That has an NPK of 3-1-2. That seems no where near recommended levels. Is it because I'm feeding the plant every watering that it's maintaining well? Should I be feeding my plant cal-mag, molasses, or something else completely. I am about to enter flowering and I have nutrients from botanicare that are also no where near the "required" NPK for weed. It does call to be fed every feeding though.
 
rkymtnman

rkymtnman

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where are you getting your info for NPK?

3-1-2 is perfect for veg

i use 1-1-2 for bloom
cal/mg if needed.
 
cindywhite

cindywhite

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rkymtnman said:
where are you getting your info for NPK?

3-1-2 is perfect for veg

i use 1-1-2 for bloom
cal/mg if needed.
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I'm getting the info from the thread on this site called "The Best NPK"
Some say 10-5-5 for veg
Some say 15-8-9 or 20-20-20 for veg
For flowering some are saying
3-13-13
20-50-30

They are all over the place but they are all pretty damn high. I'm so confused.
 
cindywhite

cindywhite

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rkymtnman said:
what are you doing? soil, hydro? etc. more info is needed for sure.

i'm a general hydro fan. flora duo is what i'm using now for hydro. floranova veg and bloom are good 1 part nutes
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I am using soil (FFOF), and I'm growing outdoors. I'll look into those. Honestly, the only reason I got the botanicare is because it was $8 a quart. Nutes I've used in the past were considerably more than that. I was wanting to see the the difference and I've been very happy with the botanicare. I was just making sure that I wasn't depriving my plants of anything. I'll look into the floranova as I've heard many good things about them as well
 
rkymtnman

rkymtnman

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i don't spend much on nutes. A and B, cal/mg, silica. that's it.

you'll like the floranova bloom for soil. it's kinda too thick for hydro in my opinion but it should kill it in dirt.
 
cindywhite

cindywhite

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rkymtnman said:
i don't spend much on nutes. A and B, cal/mg, silica. that's it.

you'll like the floranova bloom for soil. it's kinda too thick for hydro in my opinion but it should kill it in dirt.
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The NPK on the floranova I just looked at is 4-8-7. That's more nitrogen than in currently using in veg. Isn't the nitrogen supposed to be lower in flowering? Or is okay because I'm not using it every feeding?
 
rkymtnman

rkymtnman

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cocojo3

cocojo3

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3-1-2 for veg
1-3-2 or 1-2-2 for bloom
Supplement calmag with RO water or when growing in coco coir.

This is only a general guidelines but what's important is you need a lot of N in veg and very little N in bloom (less the further into bloom).
Ive changed P and K around a lot and haven'tseen any difference unless there's a deficiency.
 
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