I am finding that many people tweak the lucas formula during veg for the reason alot are saying it isnt the best because of the npk ratio not having enough nitrogen and too much phosphorus (again, this is only regarding vegetative stage).

A popular method is the latewood formula witch is equal amounts of grow, micro, bloom.

another one I heard from is using 0-grow 2-micro 1-bloom( witch came from swerve at thcfarmer.com who owns cali connection seeds witch has best og kush strains known to man and he is the official king of growing og kush)

I was thinking of trying 0-grow 1-micro 1-bloom this is my theory;


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latewood ratio; 1-1-1 (equal parts) NPK= 7-6-11(NPK ratio is roughly 1-1-2 ish)

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lucas ratio; 0-1-2 NPK= 5-10-9 (NPK ratio is roughly 1-2-2 ish)

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swerve ratio; 0-2-1 (like lucas but the ratios of micro and bloom are switched)
NPK= 10-5-6 (NPK ratio is roughly 2-1-1 ish)


MY IDEA ratio; 0-1-1 (It's meeting halfway between swerves 0-2-1 and lucas' 0-1-2) and the npk= 5-5-5(perfectly equal amount of NPK)

this 1-1-1 NPK equal ratio meets latewoods 1-1-2 and swerves 2-1-1

this Idea seems to meet these theory's halfway. Im sure ill get alot of people saying "try all of them and see whats best" but I try to see it as im not reinventing the wheel, others may have tried this and could let me know how it works or tell me if its worth trying because maybe my theory is off.

or maybe you guys could tell me im overthinking things too much and this isnt rocket science

any help or suggestions with this idea would be 700% appreciated! thanks guys!

lucas automotive additive? dude, thats tranny fluid. don't put that on your plants.

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Outdoor harvest '08

I see no reason to use the Lucas formula during vegetative. I usually go with 1-2-.5. I use the .5 phosphorus because I don't want a huge root mass til I start budding. Once I start budding, I do the 1-2-3 formula for about a week or ten days then go into the lucas formula at 1300 ppm for the rest of the flowering stage.

note to self; do not put transmission fluid in plant food, got it