question for House and Garden users

[Gregster]

I am using house and gardens again in coco.I follow the feed schedule starting at 6 ml per gal in week 1 flower up to 14-15ml per gal at week 5-6 I don't have a truncheon at the moment for financial reasons, my question is to achieve an E.C of 1.2 should the ml's per gallon be lowered or stay the same for the last 3 weeks while using the shooting powder.

 

[Crooked8]

Lower it. Plants have stored nutrients. If your leaves are all green then it can take 2-3+weeks just to flush them out. Each week from 6-7 on usuallynuntil the last week you reduce the nutes then flush with clean phd water for the last week or two.

 

[otis33]

My truncheon reads 1.4-1.6 before additives. I do add 4-5 ml of protekt before I add anything else.after additives I maxx out at around 2, when I first bought my truncheon my res measured off the meter; waaaaay over 3ec. And I wasn't even at the highest dose on the humbolt feed chart yet.I have5 big sour d bushes that get feed @1.3 several X's a day, and are thriving. I would do 5ml in veg and 7 in flower, 8 if they look like they need it. 7ml+sp and I had no burnt tips, I now useMOAB, but it increased the ec about the same. Fed charts are usually double what is necessary. Keep that in mind. Also my water out of the tap measures on the lowest light on the truncheon. (less than 100ppms). Hope this hellos

 

[otis33]

I meant to begin that post staying that I feed at 6or 7 ml/gal in flower

 

[Crooked8]

Feed charts are double? That seems crazy! Ive run standard and aggresive regimens and had zero burning. Wouldnt that mean the plant is being fed at optimal levels?

 

[otis33]

I never had burning or lock outs, a little claw with another companies.nutes feeding at 3 ec of a bit higher, but I was advised to try feeding at a much lower ec and I did, my plants weren't suffering before, but they are doing a good, and better in some cases better, also when I flushed my coco after I got the claw, the ec of the run off was off the charts, which in my humble opinion leads me to believe that ALOT of the mineral salts were going unused, and building up in the medium. This would have eventually resulted in a lockout. Now, feeding at lower doses, my runoff doesn't test nearly as high. Also nutrient companies make their money selling nutes, so they want you to use as much as possible. You can stuff your face with 10 bacon cheese burgers daily, but that doesn't mean its good for you

 

[otis33]

By no means am I anything more than a novice, I just want to relate my personal experience and compare it with others. I hope I didn't come off like a jerk, that want my intention, and if it seemed that way, I apologize.

 

[Crooked8]

No not at all you came off seeming educated and experienced. I realized a long time ago that the companies who sell nutes want to sell tons. Ive backed off on the feeding chart a bit since i started. However, at the suggested normal strength its proven not to be enough with certain strains. Deep sleep from progressive options wants tons of food. Way more than the suggested "normal" feeding schedule. The aggressive schedule did better but the plants were still hungry! With any purple, cheese, haze or og id say never run it higher than the normal suggestion but that deep sleep (shitty yield anyway) could eat more than anything ive ever seen. Ive run many many strains in my life and that one was just rediculous. Deep sleep = pre 98 bubba x larry og. Great smell and taste, for shit yield and costs more to feed. Basically, chopping the mom was my pleasure ha.

 

[NiceH&G]

Hey guys the feed charts say these are suggested guidelines not absolute regimens. Every variety is different and needs to be fed accordingly.