so what nutes would be good to use during veg? ive got a few that are about 10 days old. I shouldnt use nutes till they're about 3 weeks old also right?
Hi All.
No m8, dont make up nute solutions in advance, (not more than a few days really), make em up the same day.
Tap water should be left for a day or two, to let the chlorine outgas from the water.
A airstone in the tub/bucket will help it to outgas, and will keep it nice and fresh.
BTW, if youve a lot of solution made up, from 3 weeks ago, you could bung one in for a few days to help re fresh it, it may have gone a bit stagnant after 3 weeks. I'd skim it on my garden or lawn myself though!!
Any Veg nutes will do really, or any decent soluble ferts higher in Nitrogen, IE NPK 8,4,5. for veg, 4,7,8 for flowering, (make sure they have all the needed micro nutes in em, especially magnesium at a decent required level, and with a slight P,K boost halfway through flowering.
Do some homework, go find out what ratios the big suppliers reckon to be best, (they are all similar, but slightly different).
If you feel confident enough, you can get much cheaper soluble nutes, and mix em up into very similar NPK ratios, that they use, you can even tailor them to the plants needs better than just using a veg nute, and flowering nute, because obviously a plants needs are gonna change slowly, as the plant goes through the different stages, and not jump, from needing say 8,4,5, for vegging, then two weeks after 12/12 to 4,7,8 for flowering.
As long as the micro's are there in roughly the right proportions, you've only 3 fuckin ratios to work out.
And the plants will tell you when they need something, as long as you don't overfeed though, and use common sense you shouldn't have too many probs, and you'll be learning all the time too.
Just go have a look around, folk still have probs using supposedly expertly made nutes, that SHOULD have everything there in the OPTIMUM ratios.
How the fuck can they be????????????????????????
The plants needs are constantly changing, and in my mind, two fuckin blends int enough.
PS just be carefull, not all elements are the same, different kinds of nitrogen behave differently, some arn't accesible to the plant untill unlocked by microbes, others if too concentrated react together and precipitate out of solution, and become un usable.
But really I believe that theres a few folk out there making serious rent out of poeple growing weed, by selling so called dope nutes.
Just my thoughts.
Toodle Pip.