well i recently started feeding my plants FF grow big for the past 2 weeks at 1/4 strength and there doing pretty good i think. but what i didn't realize until a couple days ago i bought the grow big 3-2-6 for hydro and not the the organic for soil will my plants be fine if i continue to use this or should i go buy the organic grow big? and is there any other nutes you guy would recommend there about 5 weeks old and planted in FF ocean forest soil. any help would be appreciated.
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DEXTER MORGAN
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Are you measuring nutrient strength by the directions on the bottle or do you have a seperate chart?And I didnt know Fox Farm had two types of Grow Big Nutrient bottles. (1 for soil and 1 for hydro??)
Does your bottle look like this?
Does your bottle look like this?
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alexdunaba
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I think the soil FF grow big is 6-4-4. I wouldn't use hydro nutes in a soil grow. But hey, that's just me.
smallclosetgrowr
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hydro nutes work perfectly fine in soil grows , hydro tends to have more mls per litre then for soil as soil has nutes in it allready , for example if it says 6-8 mls for hydro go 4-6 for soil depending on how mature your plant is.
no its the grow big it says for hydro i wasn't paying attention when i bought it it is 3-2-6 should i continue to use it?
they seem to be doing fine besides some of the lower leaves are yellowing is that from lack of nitrogen?
and are they wilting from over watering?
ill post some pics in a little and is LST ito complicated for a first time grower?
they seem to be doing fine besides some of the lower leaves are yellowing is that from lack of nitrogen?
and are they wilting from over watering?
ill post some pics in a little and is LST ito complicated for a first time grower?
smallclosetgrowr
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yellow leaves at the bottom can be a number a things from nitro def to not enuff light on them and nute burn, plants will wilter and look sad if u either are water them 2 often or when there bone dry. remember only to feed every 2nd watering.
DEXTER MORGAN
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Do you have a picture? I googled fox farm grow big hydro and the picture was the same as I posted. Also, and this is very important. Are you testing the ph of your nutrient solution? Fox farm grow big will always lower the ph of your water. And at those low ph levels your plants will not be able to absorb any nutrients.
DEXTER MORGAN
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sounds like your ph is good. It could be too much nutrients. I see you are using Fox Farm soil too. Its really good stuff Im surprised your plants arent responding better to it. Id back off the nutrients until they get bigger.. Just plain water for now.
here's some new pics.im about to transplant them to 3 gallon buckets any advice? should i keep using ocean forest or should i mix in some other fox farm soil with it or any other tipds when i put in the new soil. i topped them a couple days ago so the growth stunted for awhile and whats your guys opinion on pruning them? one of the ones i topped now has 4 main stalks all the other ones have to. and would it be a bad ideal to switch to advanced nutes or keep using fox farm? any advice would be greatly appriciated.
i upped the dosage of nutes since last watering and there taking it very well here's some pics from today,and do you guys think the 400w MH is enough light or should i buy some flouros or get and 400w?
any info and tips would be helpful thanks,and they have been in the veg sate for about 5 weeks any other nutes i should start giving them?
any info and tips would be helpful thanks,and they have been in the veg sate for about 5 weeks any other nutes i should start giving them?
pinkjackyle
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go to walmart and get u some em blankets and close off the space around ure plants it will brighten the gro space from the reflection and put a oscillating fan on them 
