Soil watering question
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stopcallingmedude
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i usually feed every other watering. plain water in between.
you need to give the plants time to metabolize the nutrients you are giving them. if you give ferts too often you can nute burn you plants, and then you have to flush and flush to try and get them healthy again. a little less nutes is always better. it's way easier to give more than take away.
you need to give the plants time to metabolize the nutrients you are giving them. if you give ferts too often you can nute burn you plants, and then you have to flush and flush to try and get them healthy again. a little less nutes is always better. it's way easier to give more than take away.
iloveit
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i usually feed every other watering. water with plain water in between.
you need to give the plants time to metabolize the nutrients you are giving them. if you give ferts too often you can nute burn you plants, and then you have to flush and flush to try and get them healthy again. a little less nutes is always better. it's way easier to give more than take away.
Cheers mate got it.
CCKJONEXXX
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Im a big advocate of using organic nutrients and currently have a preference for Earth Juice. I found, overall, lightly feeding about once a week appears to be working well when growing in Fox Farms Ocean Forest. I water two or three times a week depending on need.
It seems that many members of this forum keep requesting a fool-proof and specific schedule of exactly what to feed and when to water their plants. Theyre looking for something similar to charts made by Advanced Nutrients that appears to be an exact guide based on a calendar, with day by day instructions that are advertised as feeding plants exactly what and when they need it.
It would be great to just follow the specific nutrient mixes, quantities and watering amounts to use on a day by day basis, dont we all wish life were so easy. But, there is no easy button for gardeners. The real truth is that its really the plants themselves who decide what specific fertilizer, how much they will end up using and when they need watering. This varies significantly from strain to strain, size, container and even from plant to plant in strains that express multiple phenotypes. Its just not possible to set a schedule on a calendar and ignore the plants themselves.
Other than just fertilizers, there are other variables will that come into play as your plants grow. A variety of different growing medium choices can have their effect; peat is certainly more acidic than Fox Farm growing mediums, which are basically composed of forest litter. Coco-coir has its own advocates and unique qualities and needs. ..
Next to the impact that your choice of planting mediums will have, your source of water will likely have the next most dramatic impact on your grow. If you come from an area where your water source is normally a bit alkaline some organic fertilizers could be a perfect choice, since they are generally acidic. Relative humidity and ambient temperatures will also have a dramatic impact on the growth rate of your plants, and therefore the frequency of watering and feedings they will require.
The very best gardeners eventually become at one with their plants, and those individuals feed their herbal friends according to the plants needs, likely even anticipating their needs. Thats not the kind of relationship that advertising copy on the back of a nutrient container can describe, and its not anything that can be reproduced in a chart on a web page either. Therefore your goal shouldnt to be to just mindlessly follow a chart and/or a calendar but be willing to learn a little botany. Your plants will be better for it.
Additionally, in theory, theres no need to flush organic soil grown herbs before harvest. And, because organic fertilizers are not salt based like chemical fertilizers, traditional techniques for flushing wouldnt carry away nutrient salts in the traditional meaning of the word flush anyway.
That creates a danger with organic fertilizers that doesnt exist with salt based chemical fertilizers. With salt fertilizers over-fertilizing can be pretty severe, but it will show up fairly quickly, and the solution (a good flushing) can be enacted pretty quickly too.
Its harder for a grower to over-fertilize using organic fertilizers, but if they do, theres no quick solution. Organic fertilizers usually cant be flushed away like salt fertilizers can, so if a grower over-fertilizes, they will likely have to live with the consequences for a longer term.
My recommendation is to observe and be flexible. It takes a couple of grows to get comfortable with the routine and youll get more proficient in time.
More information on using organic nutrients, and specifically Earth Juice, can be found at the Cannabis Chronicles http://the3lb.com/2007/08/08/3lb-guide-to-earth-juice where I heavily plagiarize this information from.
Best of luck,
It seems that many members of this forum keep requesting a fool-proof and specific schedule of exactly what to feed and when to water their plants. Theyre looking for something similar to charts made by Advanced Nutrients that appears to be an exact guide based on a calendar, with day by day instructions that are advertised as feeding plants exactly what and when they need it.
It would be great to just follow the specific nutrient mixes, quantities and watering amounts to use on a day by day basis, dont we all wish life were so easy. But, there is no easy button for gardeners. The real truth is that its really the plants themselves who decide what specific fertilizer, how much they will end up using and when they need watering. This varies significantly from strain to strain, size, container and even from plant to plant in strains that express multiple phenotypes. Its just not possible to set a schedule on a calendar and ignore the plants themselves.
Other than just fertilizers, there are other variables will that come into play as your plants grow. A variety of different growing medium choices can have their effect; peat is certainly more acidic than Fox Farm growing mediums, which are basically composed of forest litter. Coco-coir has its own advocates and unique qualities and needs. ..
Next to the impact that your choice of planting mediums will have, your source of water will likely have the next most dramatic impact on your grow. If you come from an area where your water source is normally a bit alkaline some organic fertilizers could be a perfect choice, since they are generally acidic. Relative humidity and ambient temperatures will also have a dramatic impact on the growth rate of your plants, and therefore the frequency of watering and feedings they will require.
The very best gardeners eventually become at one with their plants, and those individuals feed their herbal friends according to the plants needs, likely even anticipating their needs. Thats not the kind of relationship that advertising copy on the back of a nutrient container can describe, and its not anything that can be reproduced in a chart on a web page either. Therefore your goal shouldnt to be to just mindlessly follow a chart and/or a calendar but be willing to learn a little botany. Your plants will be better for it.
Additionally, in theory, theres no need to flush organic soil grown herbs before harvest. And, because organic fertilizers are not salt based like chemical fertilizers, traditional techniques for flushing wouldnt carry away nutrient salts in the traditional meaning of the word flush anyway.
That creates a danger with organic fertilizers that doesnt exist with salt based chemical fertilizers. With salt fertilizers over-fertilizing can be pretty severe, but it will show up fairly quickly, and the solution (a good flushing) can be enacted pretty quickly too.
Its harder for a grower to over-fertilize using organic fertilizers, but if they do, theres no quick solution. Organic fertilizers usually cant be flushed away like salt fertilizers can, so if a grower over-fertilizes, they will likely have to live with the consequences for a longer term.
My recommendation is to observe and be flexible. It takes a couple of grows to get comfortable with the routine and youll get more proficient in time.
More information on using organic nutrients, and specifically Earth Juice, can be found at the Cannabis Chronicles http://the3lb.com/2007/08/08/3lb-guide-to-earth-juice where I heavily plagiarize this information from.
Best of luck,
iloveit
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Thanks dude.