Flowering Foods with Higher Nitrogen content?

**mj320002** · 07-27-2010, 10:47 PM

Yeah that would be DynaGro it's cheap and complete. Since you're using RO water you might want to still add some cal/mag which they also sell. The only other thing they have is some silica additive but I never used it and everything was good.

**max316420** · 07-27-2010, 10:50 PM

Originally Posted by mj320002

Yeah that would be DynaGro it's cheap and complete. Since you're using RO water you might want to still add some cal/mag which they also sell. The only other thing they have is some silica additive but I never used it and everything was good.

How long after you switched to 12/12 did you start using your bloomer? Did you use veg food in early stages of bloom?

**mj320002** · 07-27-2010, 10:53 PM

I start using it in the third week. Right around when the stretch is ending and the fist buds are starting to appear.

**max316420** · 07-27-2010, 10:59 PM

see now I'm thinkin I do have a nitrogen def because I started using AN bloom a and b first watering after lights changed. Also the recommended feeding for Fox Farm grow big is 2 teaspoons per gallon every OTHER watering and I was doing 1 teaspoon every watering but I was having a humidity problem and my pots were staying wet for a week at a time so I don't think i really beefed them up on nitrogen before inducing flowering and then going straight to a bloomer. Hopefully that was my fuck up, shoulda used veg food first couple of weeks into flower, but if you listen to AN they tell you to use right away..... My cuttings only veg'd for about 2 weeks after being rooted so I prolly got 2-3 waterings in with half strength each watering. I took a year off from gardening cause i had a close call. I must have smoked myself stupid lol

**mj320002** · 07-27-2010, 11:05 PM

Yeah nutes like that are a pain. When I first started I got turned onto house and garden nutes by my hydro shop. They had a base nute along with 6 other additives I had to buy. After reading up and looking at what was in the bottles I realized it was a bunch of hype and made to be confusing and seem incredibly complex. If you had all the additives that AN probably recommends for the start of flowering you would probably be ok but you'd save yourself some money by just getting another brand.

**max316420** · 07-27-2010, 11:13 PM

tru dat, hopefully my hydro shop carries that. There used to be a gardening genus that worked there but i guess his health went south and had to retire, he taught me alot of stuff. You wanna know the most fucked up thing about this situation is that I have been growing almost full time for the last 8 years, never had a problem like this, had a close call and got PARANOID so decided to take a break, took about a year off came back and its like I've never grown before. I have about 6000 watts worth of lights and at this point im using 1400 watts because i keep killing plants ( flowering plants, not 1 problem with my moms or clones) only when hitting flowering cycle. I was even using same AN line with GREAT success before my vacation. thats the fucked up thing about all this lol

**Evlaar** · 07-27-2010, 11:42 PM

if youre not trying to stay organic, i had great results using the general hydroponics lineup. i prefer organic now, as i stated earlier, an aact of earth worm castings, bat/seabird guanos, humic acid, compost, molasses, and some various other experimental additives... youll have great success. its just easier to use the chemical nutrients its a bit more straightforward imo. damn i just smoked a fat bowl of hogs breath and cant keep my thoughts straight haha

a lot of people get really good resluts from AN though, so its weird that its not working out for you

**mj320002** · 07-28-2010, 12:00 AM

Yeah I'm kind of going through the same thing. I took a break for a while and now I can't seem to get a plant started. They germ fine then get up out of the RW cubes but most don;t pop the shell off and the ones that do are messed up and don't last long then I pull them up to see a short brown withered taproot. I think my problem has been h202 though. I never used to use it but wanted to due to algae and mold that would sometimes grow on the RW. This latest batch I'm going without again though so hopefully they make it into veg. I know if I can just get them going I can do some work. It's been frustrating though blowing money on seeds to just watch them die.