MY nutrients, outcome predictions??

DaLeftHandMan

Active Member
Well this is my first time actually growing with intent to finish, and im taking a very minimalistic approach to it..so all i am using is:

~simple tomato potting soil/compost mix..i folded in blood meal as well.

~3-2-1 thru the veg cycle

~molasses thru the flowering cycle.

what do you think ill get?
 

Mother's Finest

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I think you'll get some Potassium for flowering. K is the #1 flowering nutrient and it doesn't look like you have enough. Kelp and seaweed fertilizers have a little Potassium in them. Certain ashes like Palm Bunch Ash (0-0-30) are very high in K.
 

DaLeftHandMan

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not enough K? oK! ^_^ thanks! im a newb so i need any advice i can get. those things sound pretty exotic....can i find them in un-specialized stores or not-online..??

my buddy didnt use much more then i did(just manure), and we just harvested his Northern Lights, it was rediculously flame...his trainwreck, even more flamey looking...few days away from harvest on that..so..i have faith that less will still give me more.
 

homebrewer

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Skip the molasses and use some balanced plant food from your garden center. Peters makes some good ones or check out subcools soil. Mix the soil up and just add water.
 

Mother's Finest

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Kelp Meal is commonly available at the average garden store. Maxicrop (1-0-4) seaweed fertilizer is a great light fertilizer for everything from starting seeds to foliar feeding. If you can't find the 1-0-4 version in your area, it comes as a soluble powder that keeps practically forever and is lightweight to ship. The 10.7oz can last through many small grows and the 27oz can last for years. This here can supply all the Potassium any plants need and is the only strong source of organic K I've found: http://www.planetnatural.com/site/organic-potash.html It's cheap too.

While K for flowering seems to be your biggest fertilizer concern, I'd reccomend getting a little high-Phosphorus fertilizer as well. Once you have good separate sources of N, P and K, you can adjust the NPK ratios to pretty much whatever your plants want. Bone Meal is cheap and has alot of P & Ca. Guanos are more expensive but contain P and almost every micronutrient the plants need.
 

DaLeftHandMan

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THANK YOU. very concise and absorbable information! i will def head to the local garden store for some K and P suppliments!

would i need to reapply my blood meal? its been 2 months since its first application.
 

Mother's Finest

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It depends how you're growing. Outdoor, indoor, flowering, vegging, etc. For indoor, two months of regular watering would use up most of the nutrients. Outdoor would depend on things like how much you used, rainfall and other factors.
 

DaLeftHandMan

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right...no im growing indoors, in soil..the entirety of my procedures and nutrients used is as stated above..pretty low-brow im sure to yours, but im a new grower ofcourse. its definately been 2 months (started these at the end of august), but is it wise to add more blood meal during this flowering period? i know some say the wrong nutrients at the wrong times can just be...all wrong..lol would i just add it to the topsoil then?
 

Mother's Finest

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Sorry, I must have missed where you said you were in flowering earlier. Two months is definately time to replenish nutrients. In 5gal buckets, we'll start weak ferts at about 6 weeks. That's usually when the nutrients in the soil begin to run out and extra ferts start to make a difference.

Blood meal has alot of N, Iron and some Calcium but it doesn't have P and K. When you fertilize or add more to the soil, try to use something else, or at least a mixture of the BM and other stuff. You'll need more K as suggested and a little more P probably wouldn't hurt either.
 
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