Using Organic Fertilizer with Synthetic.

Jacks classics are considered quality fertilizers. You won't find much better for less than 10 bucks.

So would using jack's with the fish blend do any harm or is it ok to use both in my watering. Not in the same container, just in the same watering cycle. I usually go Jack's>plain water>fish blend>repeat

In my view it certainly defeats the purpose to use an organic living soil and nutrients along with high NPK synthetics. Anything 20-20-20 will fry the micro-organisms like salt on a snail. You can still use the fish fertilizer and the plant will be able to absorb whatever soluble\available nutrients are in it, but you simply wont get the full potential of it as you would had you never poured synthetic salts onto the soil.

Ocean Forest is a good quality living soil, but the second you pour a synthetic salt based fertilizer like a 20-20-20 on it you seriously compromise the micro-herd. After repeated applications and the salt build up that comes along with it, I don't know what it would take to restore it to its previous living condition. Otherwise a fish fert would stimulate the microbial activity in the soil and the nutrient cycling and added benefits that go along with said microbial activity.

You should be able to find dry organic Espoma -Tone plant foods at virtually any hardware store(for under $10). Flower-Tone would be a good one to use for bloom, try it next time.

Well I only used the 20-20-20 once, and it was at 1/4 strength. I assume 1-3-2 is just as bad? I've been using that at 1/2 strength and have only applied it twice.

There are plenty of bacterium/microorganisms that are known to not only survive but also to solubilize synthetic nutrients for plant production.

The Jacks you are using should cover your nutrition mostly.. it is meant to be a complete fertilizer. I find it hard to believe you'd be having Nitrogen issues with Jacks AND FfOF. If you want the best possible interactions you will want to make sure and get a good proper inoculation on the rootzone whether it is synth or organic. This will let you maximize the feedings of your plants, and even use less P based ferts when you get it correct.

On a side note, it's when you add the salts / chloramine to underdeveloped soil life, that you will kill off the microherd that exists. Never add biologicals to chlorinated water or water that contains synthetic compounds in it. It's best to wait at least a week after inoculating your soil to use any sort of synthetic fert to allow the herd to establish properly.

Actually the next few days after I used the 20-20-20 I started having a slew of problems and that's actually when the N def showed up for the first time. I got rid of it for about 3-4 weeks by adding more N and just noticed it again today. If you check out the last update on my grow hacker what would you suppose is causing it? I have red stems throughout the plant and yellowing. Red stems are not particular to either of the strains or their parents.

As far as my feeding schedule goes how would you amend that?

My guess is a p.h problem, ffof has ph issues, jack's lowers the p.h of the water, Your soil is probably very acidic. also jack's is low in cal/mag although I doubt that is the issue yet.

Well the local stores in my area(wal-mart, home depot, lowes) carry 1-2 ph meters, but they all have terrible reviews. Is there a non-expensive ph meter that you would recommend? Quick searching gave me this, http://www.amazon.com/Neewer-Digital...words=ph+meter, while kinda cheap will arrive in 2 days and out of the small amount of reviews it has, has only 1 negative.