Start a debate..When to PK???

[hazydaze]

Hello fellow chongers!! Now then, I have been growing my own for a while now but one thing that is still quite unclear is when do I PK exactly. I have a book which says to start PK-ing, you should do it a week before the end of flowering, a friend says it's two weeks from the end and the actual bottle of PK say's to start as soon as you start flowering. Does anybody actually know when to start????

 

[MrFista]

rofl! I debate everything you said! Bwa haha!

PK'ing? lol!

Start of flower is the best answer you have. None at end of flower.

 

[hazydaze]

hey mrfista!!! not doing it in hydro, doing it in coco. Would you mind sharing what is so funny or have you just smoked 2 much. Am not a complete novice av been growing for a couple of years. Just manicured a nice blockhead, nice smoke, good yeild and great to clone. PK'd that 3 weeks before the end, it's hard to say what difference it made coz "BLOCKHEAD" is exactly what it sez on the packet!!!!!

 

[trichosaurus]

Bottle of PK? Are you talking about pk 13/14 or just flowering nutes?
P=phosphorous K=potassium. These are both essential building blocks of a plant especially in the flowering stage. Thus P and K should both be used at a greater ratio than N in flower. When I was growing in coco, I used PK13/14 from weeks 3 through about 3 weeks til harvest.
You may get some better answers in the Coco forum. :wink:

 

[zoolander]

I run coco and use to add pk13/14 at week five and six and British Bulldog said try smaller dose from the start of flower until flush and I like his way more , Not that that helps ya but its a start

 

[sophisto]

back in the hydro days I remember the PK 13/14 from Canna was mislabeled like crazy...the bottle itself said 5 weeks in, the feeding chart said after small fruit appears, and their website was saying something like 2 weeks before harvest.....

Organics is much simpler. The way I implement it is I give the soil what it needs and the plant will get what it needs when it needs it.

 

[zoolander]

Sophisto , I've grown both ways and Canna is simple to use as is your way of organics , I think both have strong points but I think organics taste better but I love the growth rate in coco

 

[MrFista]

Yeah sorry mate too ripped. PK is a chewing gum here for freshening breath....

 

[quadracer]

Potassium is valuable all throughout the plants life, not just in flower. Phosphorous gets thrown in my teas as soon as it switches over, then the nitrogen is cut a week into flower, and P levels are increased.

I would never use Advanced Nutrients or anything other product that is made in China. There are a lot of good organic companies that are based way closer to home.

Organic coco (with some compost) rocks my world. Big fat plants that yield high quality nugs... nothing better!

 

[Suby]

PKing is for hydro, in organics you make a solid source of P and K present in your soil mix, I usually hit them with high P guano mid flowering and kelp is fed often in my teas, I switch to plain water 3 weeks from chop date.

Fista must have been giggling at you quote on the addition of "pk" 3 weeks from end of flowering, it gave me a laugh myself.

 

[hazydaze]

well thanks for your replies, didn't realise PK was also a chewing gum. At least it gave you a laugh MrFista!!! Will now start adding my PK 13/14 at the start of flowering