Hello,
I have some questions on general feeding if no one minds.
I've been growing my own for about 8 years now and I'm running into issues with what I think are PH problems (too low), and possibly issues with my fertilizers in general.
The food I use consists of the following:
I grow in soil - Pro-mix cut with perlite (about a 2/3 to 1/3 ratio)
My water is from a well and is about 7.5 from the tap
Veg (mothers) - I use fish crap that is 5-0-0 at approx 1/2 tsp/gallon maybe 2X a month. I also use BC Seaweed at 1/2 tsp/gallon. recently I added Cal-Mag+ at 1tsp/gallon. I usually use all three of these at the same feeding.
For the other weeks I use mainly just water - sometimes I might add a 1/2 tsp of the seaweed. Once a month (or every 4-5 weeks) I flush the mothers with 1 gallon of water mixed with 1 1/2 tsp of flora kleen and then flush at least 2 more gallons through them.
For Veg clones I don't feed until they are hardened off (I use an airoponic bubbler setup (DIY), then once rooted (2 weeks or less) I put into little 8oz cups until they harden off, then off to 1QT containers until they are about 8-10" tall, then off to flower). at transplant time I put in one Plant Success tablet. Once they get to the 1QT containers I use about the same feeding as the mothers. The exception is I feed every other week.
Flowering:
2 gallon grow bags, same soil mix as above. When transplanted to 2 gallon from 1QT containers I put in one Plant Success tablet (I used to use three).
I use cal-mag+ at 1 tsp/gallon+1tsp of age old bloom (5-10-5), and some stufff called meta-k). I feed this mixture every week for 6 weeks, then only h2o the last 2 weeks. I don't have an easy way to really flush the flowering plants other than this. In the final two weeks I mix in 1 tsp of flora-kleen also.
My clones are just looking like crap the past two years, they don't have any vigor, leaves are small, they just don't look healthy. I've been lucky and have been able to manage to grow enough for my own supply but the last few cycles the clones and even the mothers seem to have even less vigor.
I'm thinking I need to drop my current fertilizer to something they can take up easier perhaps?
As far as bigger space or bigger containers, I just don't have the space to do that. I am limited in where I can do my thing and both have a height restriction of about 3 feet. It sux but I'm doing OK with it.
Thanks for your time.
she(doubleP)
I have some questions on general feeding if no one minds.
I've been growing my own for about 8 years now and I'm running into issues with what I think are PH problems (too low), and possibly issues with my fertilizers in general.
The food I use consists of the following:
I grow in soil - Pro-mix cut with perlite (about a 2/3 to 1/3 ratio)
My water is from a well and is about 7.5 from the tap
Veg (mothers) - I use fish crap that is 5-0-0 at approx 1/2 tsp/gallon maybe 2X a month. I also use BC Seaweed at 1/2 tsp/gallon. recently I added Cal-Mag+ at 1tsp/gallon. I usually use all three of these at the same feeding.
For the other weeks I use mainly just water - sometimes I might add a 1/2 tsp of the seaweed. Once a month (or every 4-5 weeks) I flush the mothers with 1 gallon of water mixed with 1 1/2 tsp of flora kleen and then flush at least 2 more gallons through them.
For Veg clones I don't feed until they are hardened off (I use an airoponic bubbler setup (DIY), then once rooted (2 weeks or less) I put into little 8oz cups until they harden off, then off to 1QT containers until they are about 8-10" tall, then off to flower). at transplant time I put in one Plant Success tablet. Once they get to the 1QT containers I use about the same feeding as the mothers. The exception is I feed every other week.
Flowering:
2 gallon grow bags, same soil mix as above. When transplanted to 2 gallon from 1QT containers I put in one Plant Success tablet (I used to use three).
I use cal-mag+ at 1 tsp/gallon+1tsp of age old bloom (5-10-5), and some stufff called meta-k). I feed this mixture every week for 6 weeks, then only h2o the last 2 weeks. I don't have an easy way to really flush the flowering plants other than this. In the final two weeks I mix in 1 tsp of flora-kleen also.
My clones are just looking like crap the past two years, they don't have any vigor, leaves are small, they just don't look healthy. I've been lucky and have been able to manage to grow enough for my own supply but the last few cycles the clones and even the mothers seem to have even less vigor.
I'm thinking I need to drop my current fertilizer to something they can take up easier perhaps?
As far as bigger space or bigger containers, I just don't have the space to do that. I am limited in where I can do my thing and both have a height restriction of about 3 feet. It sux but I'm doing OK with it.
Thanks for your time.
she(doubleP)
