Quick questions about flowering in Sub's super soil

daesonn

Active Member
Hey guys,

I'm a first time grower with a couple of healthy ladies going on 2 months in veg. I have read a lot that during flowering Phosphorous should be added and Nitrogen reduced. How could this / does this get accomplished in sub's super soil or do you just leave it be? Makes me curious about the flushing as well? How can you flush a plant when you've only been giving it water in the first place?
 
With super soil, your ladies will use what they need when they need. If you have done a good job on your soil, you should see nitrogen drop off in week 5 with te leaves starting to fade.
 

whitey78

Well-Known Member
There's no flushing in organics if your doing it right... You can kill off the soul with chlorinated water or water with h2o2 in it... But none of this is necessary... Just keep doing what you are doing by watering only...

If they start fading by week 5-6 your in the ball park with your supersoil amounts, if they're still green your a little heavy and should cut back the % of SS in the pot......

If you see yellowing/fading by week 4 or earlier you should top dress with supersoil, And add more SS in the next run of that strain...
 

Tranquileyes

Well-Known Member
In my experience, this is also dependant on pot size, and if your girls have been vegged in the pot they're going to finish up in.

Using my current run as an example, my girls were vegged out in 2 gal pots with roots and the bottom 1/3rd super soil, my thought this may acclimate them to the ss when it came time to transplant. This had no ill effects on them in regard to leaf burn, or the mixture being too hot in any way. They were transplanted into 10gal pots before switching to flower, using more ss than roots, but still using that roots "buffer" between the two. As an experiment, i transplanted 2 girls into 5 gal pots of pure super soil, again zero ill effects. I'm not recommending that, just sharing the results of my experimentation.

Moving on, heres the info that may benefit you... 6 weeks in my girls in 10 gal pots are just starting to fade to a nice shade of purple. The 5gal girls were switched to flower a week later, but are on the same track as the 10's. Zero deficiency noted thus far, and ive only given them 2 bat guano/ss teas during flower, and some foliar feed of epsom salts here and there as a precaution. Basically ive done nothing special, and am more than satisfied with the results. In my opinion this is intended to be a no stress method of growing, and my advice is to let it be just that. If your soil is well prepared, you shouldnt run into deficiency, and if by chance you do, it shouldnt be anything a simple top dress of super soil or an epsom salt foliar spray cant resolve.

Hope this is helpful, Good Luck!
 
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