Looking at fox farms nute schedule, a little confued. using their ocean and light warrior soils. I thought and have read no nutes needed for first 4 weeks or so,but yet the schedule shows using big bloom right at the start with seedlind or clones, 6 teaspoons per gallon, If so I do understand to cut the 6 in half, if used. Do you's use this schedule as written? My soil is 50/50 with perlite added. Do you use big bloom right at the start? Or wait for 3-5 weeks?
Fox Farm Nutes at the beginning? seedling stage.
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WhiteRooster
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What I did when I used Ocean Forest was for the first two weeks I would use a few drops per gallon of Grow Big to get my pH down from 8.2 to 6.5
drolove
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the feeding schedule is just a base schedule to work off of. everyone needs to tweak it a little to fit their needs. idk about light warrior but ocean forest has enough nutes in it for the first month of growth. if your plants arent turning real light green or yellow dont feed them. fox farms nutes are pretty tame though so if you did feed a little bit it probably wouldnt hurt them. still would suggest not feeding until they show they need it.
hugetom80s
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The common misunderstanding with these charts is to think that the first week on the chart is the first week of growing. It's the first week of feeding. The company assumes the plants have reached a certain level of maturity before you've started giving them nutrients. I see the same mistake a lot with hydroponic nutes. Advanced Nutrients has seedling/clone and small plant feeding rates on their charts, but of course it's easy to miss that part and focus just on the grid of the chart.
So when you're talking about seedlings or clones, that stage is before the feeding chart Fox Farms has. The nutes in the soil should be plenty to get them started, and once they start to get big enough to not be babies, then you'll start the feeding chart.
Make sense?
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