Ohsogreen
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.cool how many days a week should i give it nutes, every day, or every other wwatering
MwdTx..... You have two choices - feed weekly like on the chart I posted on the previous page or every two weeks. If you feed weekly, feed every 5 to 7 days. Water as necessary. With the SPT, you can use it with your nutes or with the plain water. Just apply the SPT as per the label, once a week just like the nutes, in this case.
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Now, I grow in soil, outdoors for the most part. Soil is a great buffer, so I double the strength of nutes and only feed every two weeks (one application). Then on the week in between, I use water / spt for my plants. My outdoor patches are near water and watering is not much of an issue for me. Most of the time, I have to water very little.
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If you are growing in pots - the size of the pot makes all the difference. Smaller pots, have a smaller volume of soil and dry out quicker. Nutes also get used up quicker in small pots.
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A one gallon pot, may require daily watering, pots around 2 gallons - every other day. This is one case, where size works to your advantage - after the plants are more than two weeks old. Start in small pots (to avoid overwatering in the begining - when plants require a lot less water), then repot to bigger pots - which give roots more room to expand - plus more medium acts like a buffer for nutes, pH and water.
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I hope this is not confusing - but pot size, strain & climate - dictate watering & feeding. Just know this - it's better to underfeed, than overfeed. One is easy to correct, the other is not. Some strains can suck up everything you throw at them, others nute burn very easy.
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Just start low, bump up feeding slowly & you will be better off. I just did that one run, with weekly feeding to make the chart for other growers. Since, most prefer to feed weely here on RIU, I thought it might be helpful.
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Either way works - it's just a personal choice. If using a semi-soil mix with lots of coco or spaghum peat moss - weekly feeding is best. If growing in ground or in large pots (5 gallons or more) byweekly feeding is better....
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Hope this helps....
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