Question for a 1st time all organic grow

deep green is usually goes hand in hand with Nitrogen...pick up a good Nitrogen product (assuming you are in veg) I reccommend Grower's secret Green Up it has sea kelp and nitrogen which should help plus its fully organic

used coffee grounds are a great sourse of nitrogen. from what I hear the plants love it.

Originally Posted by smokekeeper

used coffee grounds are a great sourse of nitrogen. from what I hear the plants love it.

They do, as it breaks down. Top dressing with it is bad. Lol. There are much better ways to get the nitrogen than coffee though. Such as the kelp.

Put the coffee grounds in your compost... not on your plants. If you are going to add it and turn it into your soil at the end of the growing season (outdoors). That is fine. But do not add it to soil you are growing in. Decomposition requires nitrogen. If you add organic material that needs to break down to soil with plants growing the decomp process will actually out compete your growing plants and starve them of nitrogen. Also, don't buy into the old wives tail that coffee grounds are acidic. They aren't!! They are pH neutral. The acid component in coffee is highly water soluble and is leached into the coffee you drink during the brewing process.

Thanks for the replies.

Yes, i am in veg state. I do understand that nitrogen is the greening agent for plants and I have also fed them with Nitrex (organicare/botanicare). Maybe I am not feeding frequently enough and they need more. I will look into the Grower's Secret Green-up since you are saying it is organic.

I was just thinking that maybe I am used to leaves being too green (if there is such a thing) because last year I was hitting them pretty hard and frequent with the synthetic feedings. This year I am trying to feed the soil instead of the plant, as they say. The growth has been great thus far, but I am wanting to make sure everything is in line before we hit flowering.

You are right, N def is more common when growing organically. I use a liquid N product called Nature's Nectar Nitrogen. It's cheap, no animal ingredients, and it's immediately available to the plant, so you'll see results right away.