MetalHead75
Well-Known Member
I've been growing for myself for almost a year now and have expanded my operation outdoors into a greenhouse that I built out of an old portable carport. Through some research and trial and error I've been able to do pretty well with my Pineapple Express harvests indoors, and now am tackling some other strains. Currently I have the Pineapple Express, Madness, Connie Chung, and Sensei Star going, and am wondering if there's anything I could do with nutes to be more efficient with my harvests. Aside from the first couple failed experiments I ended up with when I first got going I have no complaints with my harvest quality or amount, just curious what I can do to improve if at all. I don't know a whole lot about nutes for marijuana aside from paying attention to the basic vegging and flowering nutes like nitrogen and phosphorous, but a fellow grower gave me a soil mix recipe to use and told me that using his recipe I wouldn't need to fertilize much at all aside from some bi-weekly bat guano and molasses towards the end of flowering. Using this mix I was getting about 3oz per 3 gallon/3 foot plant when flowering 4 plants at a time indoors under a 600 watt HPS, not sure if that's a decent amount for that size plant/amount of light or not. Now I have most of my plants in five gallon buckets in my greenhouse, with two of them in the ground (the two larger ones in the back right corner). I was bringing them into my darkened garage 4 at a time for a few hours before nightime to induce flowering, but that crap got old real fast so I ended up building a curtain lol. Anyway, here's some pics and my list of nutes and soil recipe that I've been using.
Soil Recipe
2 c. Blood Meal
2 c. Bone Meal
2 c. Kelp Meal
2-4 c. Worm Castings
3-5 c. Dolomite Lime
2 c. Dry Manure (I use rabbit poop)
5 Gallons Perlite/Vermiculite Mix
I mix this with 1 bag of Ultimate Potting Mix (3 Cubic Feet) and then use the resulting mix as a soil amendment for potting new plants after cloning. I use about 1 part of this mix to every two parts of regular potting mix.
Nutes
Fish Emulsion: 5-1-1
Mexican Bat Guano: 10-1-1
Jamaican Bat Guano: 1-10-1
Shultz General Purpose: 20-20-20
Shultz Bloom Plus: 10-54-10
Miracle Grow All Purpose: 24-8-16 (don't use but have on hand)
Vegging: Shultz General Purpose 1/2 strength every other watering, fish emulsion once during the middle of vegging cycle, then after 30-40 days induce flowering
Flowering: Two weeks into flowering I stop the Shultz General purpose and switch to Jamaican bat guano every two weeks. Two times during flowering I will substitute the Jamacian bat guano for the Shultz Bloom Plus at 1/2 strength, once about two weeks into flowering and once more about a month later. Last month of flowering I add I tablespoon of molasses per gallon of water once a week, then do a ten day flush at the end.
Like I said, so far so good with my results but as a fairly new grower who knows little about using nutes properly I still have much to learn, especially about budding. I'm really gunshy about fertilizing during budding. I've started on a couple of books but in the meantime I welcome any input from a veteran. Books I'm currently reading: Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible by Jorge Cervantes & The Marijuana Grower's Guide by Mel Frank and Ed Rosenthal.
Madness Flowering - 1 Month
Soil Recipe
2 c. Blood Meal
2 c. Bone Meal
2 c. Kelp Meal
2-4 c. Worm Castings
3-5 c. Dolomite Lime
2 c. Dry Manure (I use rabbit poop)
5 Gallons Perlite/Vermiculite Mix
I mix this with 1 bag of Ultimate Potting Mix (3 Cubic Feet) and then use the resulting mix as a soil amendment for potting new plants after cloning. I use about 1 part of this mix to every two parts of regular potting mix.
Nutes
Fish Emulsion: 5-1-1
Mexican Bat Guano: 10-1-1
Jamaican Bat Guano: 1-10-1
Shultz General Purpose: 20-20-20
Shultz Bloom Plus: 10-54-10
Miracle Grow All Purpose: 24-8-16 (don't use but have on hand)
Vegging: Shultz General Purpose 1/2 strength every other watering, fish emulsion once during the middle of vegging cycle, then after 30-40 days induce flowering
Flowering: Two weeks into flowering I stop the Shultz General purpose and switch to Jamaican bat guano every two weeks. Two times during flowering I will substitute the Jamacian bat guano for the Shultz Bloom Plus at 1/2 strength, once about two weeks into flowering and once more about a month later. Last month of flowering I add I tablespoon of molasses per gallon of water once a week, then do a ten day flush at the end.
Like I said, so far so good with my results but as a fairly new grower who knows little about using nutes properly I still have much to learn, especially about budding. I'm really gunshy about fertilizing during budding. I've started on a couple of books but in the meantime I welcome any input from a veteran. Books I'm currently reading: Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible by Jorge Cervantes & The Marijuana Grower's Guide by Mel Frank and Ed Rosenthal.
Madness Flowering - 1 Month
