Question on watering and feeding

AquaTerra

AquaTerra

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Personally since you already bought it you might as well use it up. Two part formulas are always 50-50 mix of A and B. If you're worried follow the bottle directions for the specific week but cut ti down 25% and just make sure you set your PH properly. Then just look at what the plants are doing. You should also invest in a PPM or EC meter, for PH you can get away with ph paper or ph drops.

I prefer not to promote GH anymore but Maxi Grow and Bloom do work good. If you need MC base food let me know I got lots of it https://www.nuteshop.com/product/nutrients/mega-crop-nutrients/mega-crop-9-6-17/

Also other powder options

5-50-17 first week
20-20-20 for veg
10-30-20 for flower
5-15-17 last couple of weeks.
 
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GreenHighlander

GreenHighlander

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odam2k said:
I've always been the "weed is a weed" type, basically letting it do it's own thing, not particularly concerning myself with details, such as feeding schedules etc. When it wilted, I watered it...

Last year I started trying to automate everything, and I've got the watering down pat. I need some more pumps and stuff to complete the automatic watering, but it works,, I've used it on a test plant. Right now, it just notifies me that a plant needs to be watered.

So my question for y'all, what about feeding?

Background: I am veg'ing under a 400W MH dimmed to 250W out in the open in a bedroom, and flowering in a 4x4 tent with a 600W HPS. Temps are usually around 80F and humidity about 45% right now...

I've attached a picture at the bottom of the stuff I'm using, I just picked it off the shelf at the local grow shop, again, not paying attention to details... it costs $50 for all 4 bottles...

The directions say 2ml of A and 2ml of B per liter of water, but I've read many times online to use half strength. I use a syringe to measure out 2ml of each for 2L of water. I use the fert every time I water, which is always when the soil has dried out , just before they would start to wilt... Can't really specify a time, since they need water more often as they grow and go into flower...

So my questions are:

Is this stuff any good?

What do you recommend (links if possible) and price...

Do you use supplements?

Should I use more/less of this?

Should I feed every time I water?


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Answers to your questions:

Its probably about as good as any bottled nutes.

I recommend premixing your soil with Gaia Green products. Its better and much cheaper then any bottled. https://www.gaiagreen.com/

Other then what I mix in the soil I only use blackstrap molasses .

Not sure

No. Unless you are in coco do not feed everytime. I would recommend a feed, water , feed , water, type schedule.

Cheers :)
 
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ThailandBound

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At 63, this is my first time growing and now it is time to ask my newbie questions after reading through the posts. I did buy a bag of MC, primarily because I was overwhelmed with choices at the local grow shop. I stumbled across MC while looking at Jack's, and liked the idea of a universal feed to use throughout the grow. I have always been told by my neighbor who has been growing weed in Hawaii for well over 40 years that once they begin to flower, I need to cut back on the nitrogen. It seems like that is fairly often the advice given on the internet as well. So with MC, if you follow their feeding directions, you really ramp up concentration towards the last month of flower. Will the increased nitrogen at this stage cause issues of some sort? I've seen plenty of grows with MC various postings through Greenleaf, and all of the plants do look great. I was also unsure about when to fertilize with this stuff, and up to now (first week of flower), I'm starting to question this... thinking maybe feeding once a week might be better. But the fact of the matter is, I really don't know. As a non-smoker, I don't know if fertilizing with every watering will affect the taste, and I sure don't want to ruin a few months of growing by producing something that tastes bad. I'm also getting some salts along the leaf margins of some, but not all plants. The growing is taking place in an open ended greenhouse, 30 plants in 25 gl bags filled with ProMix, planted clones and vegged one month then turned off the night lights to induce flowering. I'm not growing for personal consumption (other than to make a little tincture for myself since I can't smoke due to health reasons), so it is important for me to produce a good product for the three medical patients I am growing for. No idea what I'll do with the excess, but it sure is fun growing...
 
ruxing

ruxing

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ThailandBound said:
At 63, this is my first time growing and now it is time to ask my newbie questions after reading through the posts. I did buy a bag of MC, primarily because I was overwhelmed with choices at the local grow shop. I stumbled across MC while looking at Jack's, and liked the idea of a universal feed to use throughout the grow. I have always been told by my neighbor who has been growing weed in Hawaii for well over 40 years that once they begin to flower, I need to cut back on the nitrogen. It seems like that is fairly often the advice given on the internet as well. So with MC, if you follow their feeding directions, you really ramp up concentration towards the last month of flower. Will the increased nitrogen at this stage cause issues of some sort? I've seen plenty of grows with MC various postings through Greenleaf, and all of the plants do look great. I was also unsure about when to fertilize with this stuff, and up to now (first week of flower), I'm starting to question this... thinking maybe feeding once a week might be better. But the fact of the matter is, I really don't know. As a non-smoker, I don't know if fertilizing with every watering will affect the taste, and I sure don't want to ruin a few months of growing by producing something that tastes bad. I'm also getting some salts along the leaf margins of some, but not all plants. The growing is taking place in an open ended greenhouse, 30 plants in 25 gl bags filled with ProMix, planted clones and vegged one month then turned off the night lights to induce flowering. I'm not growing for personal consumption (other than to make a little tincture for myself since I can't smoke due to health reasons), so it is important for me to produce a good product for the three medical patients I am growing for. No idea what I'll do with the excess, but it sure is fun growing...
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Sorry no one has replied to your post! I would recommend that you just use your promix and research how to make tea. You could supplement with nutes once a month with a half of recommended solution of MC.

The best advise you can get will be coming from your plants! Listen to them and they will guide you!:peace::weed:
 
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gb123

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Id stay away from pro mix altogether but to each their own.
Promix is different every time you buy it and its PH will fuck up fast.
Granulated rock wool is king but every one stopped using it way back when because cubes came about...:roll: PURE CRAP!!!
Granulated Rockwool is WHITE and it was BUSTY to throw out or get rid of...
..... but its LEGAL now so throwing it out is no big deal lol
 
ruxing

ruxing

Active Member
gb123 said:
Id stay away from pro mix altogether but to each their own.
Promix is different every time you buy it and its PH will fuck up fast.
Granulated rock wool is king but every one stopped using it way back when because cubes came about...:roll: PURE CRAP!!!
Granulated Rockwool is WHITE and it was BUSTY to throw out or get rid of...
..... but its LEGAL now so throwing it out is no big deal lol
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I've never tried it personally I was just referring in general to the "pre-mixed" soils but good to know! Have you tried Chip Bakers mix at Cultivate? He's got a store in my state but he was sold out when I went to get some!
 
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