nineandfive wrote:What kinda feed chart or system are you using with the fox farm stuff.. i am curious. i have all the fox farm nutes myself
I consult the feed chart but I take no solace in it. It's based on a 12 week grow and my plant is allegedly a 9 week grow, yet to be determined. So how do we amend it to 9 weeks? Plus it's not geared to autos which require less food. Plus again, since we grow in FFOF we don't have to add any more food for a few weeks. In retrospect I think you can start adding Big Bloom pretty early on. It's relatively gentle, organic and may be beneficial. Then I subscribed to this philosophy:
Weeks 4 - 6. The plants are now entering a pre flowering stage. During this time the plants should exhibit explosive growth, often as much as a new set of nodes and 1" vertical growth a day. This is the time when they will gain most of their vertical height. Many people make the mistake of switching from vegetative to flowering nutrients at this point, assuming that since they see flowers it must be the proper time. This is incorrect. If the switch to flowering nutes is made at this time the vertical growth will stop and the plant will put it's energy into producing buds. If you need to keep your plants small, or want them to finish earlier, they by all means switch nutes at this point. But if you want to get the most out of your plants continue feeding vegetative nutes until you see the vertical growth slow and stop. Depending on the strain that will usually be sometime during week 5 or 6.
So I give Grow Big and Big Bloom eventually including Tiger Bloom. Then Grow Big and Tiger Bloom equal parts so you're giving the 3 main nutrients in almost equal parts. I think the main thing is to make all nutrients available. The plant will take what it needs. Just make them present. (This was told to me by a person at Cornell Cooperative).And not too heavy. Then flushing shd be unnecessary (I now know).
That's pretty much it. Oh, and a teaspoon of calmag each feeding..........