What Happens If You Don't Fertilize Early? With Pictures... From Seed

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Planted in seed starter soil with no nutrients. First sprouts seen in 5 days, last sprouts at 10 days.
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After 30 days they got 1 week worth of treatment of mild schultz every other day. Only 3 times did they get the Schultz. Then back to plain water.
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Then about 15 days later they got to move under the 400 watt HPS light and into a true grow tent.
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As you can see in this picture they were showing signs of needing nutrients, but since I was going to transplant them into nutrient rich soil, I did not fertilize.
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You can see they are looking yellow and sad, but as they got transplanted into soil and watered over the next couple days, they got happy and growing again.
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Still just watering in the new soil.
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Still just water.
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Now is when I decided they needed to have fertilizer. 30 days after being transplanted into the FFOF and other soils. I'm sure you can pump them full of fertilizers earlier and get awesome results, but you don't have to, to get great plants growing happily.
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Big beautiful hairy ladies with only 1 week treatment of schultz while I was earning money to buy soil and pots.

dont really like Schultz or mg , if money is tight alaska fish emulsion at depot or lowes is a far better alternative . some people cant stand the smell they wood probably faint at the sight of an earthworm , but ull love the taste of ure budz .

you shouldnt feed the plants for at least 2 weeks if your using fox farm ocean forest or you will burn your plants. nothing will happen if you dont give them nutes after a month just they wont grow as fast and vigorous

I decided to create this post after reading about someone who was flushing and treating with lemon juice and trying to get ph up then down then up then down. I thought maybe some straight honesty can help some people get through their first grows.

You don't have to fertilize to make it decent. I have done a grow without fertlizing because I planted it in soil and just added additional soil to the top of the pot after the watering had settled the soil.

This plant was grown with CFLs and no fertilizer other than what was provided in the soil it was in.

beautiful plant man that looks like about an ounce am i wrong??? what soil did you use

Good guess, yeah it was about an ounce.
I just used the cheap soil from the local grocery store...

Impressive buds there. Sure hope my 1st grow turns out like that.

i had an outdoor ak 47 that i didnt use any nutes on
i dont remember exact yield but she produced alot
this was about 3 weeks before harvest if i remember correctly wonderful smoke too

i got some pure power plants that were dead sick and nursed them back to health re potting etc and minor nutes there as of today 4 feet tall an still in veg )