Ive posted this same thread here every year since OG closed. I dont think anyone ever follows it but i keep posting. Maybe somebody will gain advantage from it.
While your outdoor grow may last 5 months or more, 50-60% of total growth occurs in just 30-45 days. That growth occurs beginning 1 week after 14.3-14.25 hrs of daylength are reached at your lattitude, and lasting for about 5 weeks afterwards. At my lattitude, thats the 3rd week of July until the first week of Sept. Indoors, this would be known as "stretch".
Becasue of the size of the plants and because growth is so rapid during that 6 week period, cannabis plants need a much greater supply of nutrients and moisture than any normal feeding plan would dictate. To optimize that growth, you have to fertilize big time. Understand that a 6' plant thats growing several inches per day needs far more nutrients than a younger, smaller plant.
You also have to use a water soluble, fast acting, short acting fertilizer. Water solubles become avalable to the plant within 4 hrs of being poured on, but only last in the soil for a couple of weeks at best.
I will start blasting my plants in the 3rd week of july and continue until the end of august. I will use 2X the dosage suggestion and apply it 2x the recommended time. I use Miracle Grow because it fits the bill perfectly. I use 2 tablespoons per gallon per week. I dont mind a little burn on the leave - pour it on and then pour some more on. A 6' plant can handle some ferts where a 3' plant might not.
If you have 2 plants standing side by side of the same strain and are the same size, if you nurture and feed one heavily through the rapid growth stage, it will be 30% larger with 30% more yield than the plant left alone. EVERYTIME.
If you dont capitalize on this grwoth spurt, your wasting 1/3 of your potential yield. Feed them hard and theyll get fat.
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While your outdoor grow may last 5 months or more, 50-60% of total growth occurs in just 30-45 days. That growth occurs beginning 1 week after 14.3-14.25 hrs of daylength are reached at your lattitude, and lasting for about 5 weeks afterwards. At my lattitude, thats the 3rd week of July until the first week of Sept. Indoors, this would be known as "stretch".
Becasue of the size of the plants and because growth is so rapid during that 6 week period, cannabis plants need a much greater supply of nutrients and moisture than any normal feeding plan would dictate. To optimize that growth, you have to fertilize big time. Understand that a 6' plant thats growing several inches per day needs far more nutrients than a younger, smaller plant.
You also have to use a water soluble, fast acting, short acting fertilizer. Water solubles become avalable to the plant within 4 hrs of being poured on, but only last in the soil for a couple of weeks at best.
I will start blasting my plants in the 3rd week of july and continue until the end of august. I will use 2X the dosage suggestion and apply it 2x the recommended time. I use Miracle Grow because it fits the bill perfectly. I use 2 tablespoons per gallon per week. I dont mind a little burn on the leave - pour it on and then pour some more on. A 6' plant can handle some ferts where a 3' plant might not.
If you have 2 plants standing side by side of the same strain and are the same size, if you nurture and feed one heavily through the rapid growth stage, it will be 30% larger with 30% more yield than the plant left alone. EVERYTIME.
If you dont capitalize on this grwoth spurt, your wasting 1/3 of your potential yield. Feed them hard and theyll get fat.
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