What’s everyone’s feeding schedule? Help!

Merkn4aSquirtn

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So my NL auto popped its head yesterday and is looking really good so far.(first breeder seed used). I’m not giving it any nutes for at least another week and a half..
Does anyone else use a gallon jug for watering? Any other way to make it easier? Going to be using the general hydroponic 3 part in coco coir.
Questions are do you nute them each water or skip a dose and just plain water them?
 

spek9

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I don't grow in coco so I can't answer about every water feeding, but I can explain what I do for storage and delivery. I just switched from GH Flora so I'll use that as an example (I mix and store the new nutrients slightly differently).

I mix up a 15 gallon stock tank (drum) with 2/3 recommended dose for veg, and the same in another tank for flower. I then use one gallon jugs (distilled water or very well cleaned milk jugs) to transport the feed to the grow rooms in the basement. All of the jugs are labelled so there aren't any screw ups if I decide to get high before watering. I have a spigot with a short hose at the bottom of each drum, so it's trivial to turn the tap on to fill the transport containers.

If I notice a plant showing signs of deficiency, I mix up a tiny batch of the bottle that contains the specific nutrient that's deficient, and give that to the specific plant(s) about an hour after the normal feed.

I use a spare bathroom (my home office bathroom) for the tanks and all supplies. To fill the tanks, I use a 650gph pond pump to get the water from my soaker tub into the tanks. Because this bathroom is used primarily by myself, I don't have to go putting everything away when I'm done. I just leave the pump on the side of the tub when I'm done, give the tub a good washing and rinse, and I'm ready for next mix.

It takes me about 10 minutes to mix and fill both tanks. (About twice as long now that I use water soluble powdered nutrients).

It's a significant time saver over mixing every feed day by hand. It's far more consistent as well measuring partial cups into several gallons as opposed to a few mL per Litre. After the tanks are mixed, they are stable at a pH of 5.9, which is pretty well dead-on for my medium (Sunshine #4 peat).

I feed nutrients at every watering. I attempted not long ago to do just water every few feeds (because I was running out of GH before my new nutrients arrived), and that had near disastrous consequences. Younger flowering plants had an N deficiency fit, while my later flowering plants started going P def purple.
 
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