Should i re-amend my soil?

FRICKITYFRICKTYFRESH

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Hello, I'm almost week 5 into flower of my 9lb hammers. I didn't use any nutes during veg besides some omri listed calmag in a mix of happy frog and ocean forest. I switched to earth dust dry amendments soon after flower and amended my topsoil about two weeks into flower. I know in the directions it says to amend with bloom 2 weeks before flower, but shipping was backed up and i didn't' get my earth dust order until my plants were two weeks into flower. This Saturday will make 5 weeks into flower. My girls are looking super sexy and starting to frost up nicely. Pinched one of the lower nugs and it absolutely reeks of blueberry jam. According to the directions, it says to top dress around week 4-5 of flower to get the plants through the cycle. My concern is since i didn't amend my soil with the dry amendments until week two of flower, that would actually put me at week 7-8 of the cycle. I'm worried if I top dress again that my plants are going to have too much nutrient left over in their systems at the time of harvest. I'm also concerned that if I don't add anymore amendments my girls could have some major deficiencies in the next few weeks. i know that dry amendments take longer to break down into the soil to become available to the plants so i'm really scared whatever i do is going to mess my babies up. This is my first time using dry amendments and I will honestly say I'm blown away with the results. I'm not a large scale grower and mostly just growing for personal use, but these plants are blowing everything else ive ever grown outta the water and i dont want to mess them up this close to the end.
 

Richard Drysift

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No such thing as having too much nutrients left over in your mix because naturally feeding plants will only absorb what they need. Your mix will always have nutrients left over; that’s why recycling works so well. You can go ahead and top dress as needed with dry amendments and compost. Water as normal. It will take weeks for whatever you add to decompose and be released for absorbtion.
I think it is better to put everything in the mix before there are plants so then you just water them. Nutrient companies always seem to tell you to put in more than is actually needed. Less is almost always more. If you feel the plants will make it without much more just let it ride. Even plants that are yellowing off hard by week 8 will still produce big fat dank buds. You just want them to stay healthy until harvest once flowers are developed. You’ll notice that once the bud is ripening they pretty much stop feeding altogether.
 

FRICKITYFRICKTYFRESH

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No such thing as having too much nutrients left over in your mix because naturally feeding plants will only absorb what they need. Your mix will always have nutrients left over; that’s why recycling works so well. You can go ahead and top dress as needed with dry amendments and compost. Water as normal. It will take weeks for whatever you add to decompose and be released for absorbtion.
I think it is better to put everything in the mix before there are plants so then you just water them. Nutrient companies always seem to tell you to put in more than is actually needed. Less is almost always more. If you feel the plants will make it without much more just let it ride. Even plants that are yellowing off hard by week 8 will still produce big fat dank buds. You just want them to stay healthy until harvest once flowers are developed. You’ll notice that once the bud is ripening they pretty much stop feeding altogether.
Thanks for that, that helps take away some of my anxiety. I just went ahead and amended 2 tbsp per 5 gallon of soil. I did notice some very slight yellowing so figured it wouldn't hurt.
 
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