CantBe2High
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I am on my second grow, in soil (hardware store no name organics soil+perlite+vermiculite). Vegging, I used Alaska fish fertilizer about every other watering. Once I switched to 12/12 1 of 3 girls flowered right away, and the other 2 flowered right after their first dose of Fox Farm Big Bloom+Tiger Bloom, mixed to instructions (2tsp per Gal).
The plants are doing wonderful under 400 watts hps and 200 watts vertical T5s (in a negative pressure 4x5 cab venting to a carbon scrubber of course). Much better than my first grow I think mostly due to cooler winter temps. Its about 3 weeks into flower, and I have pretty much used the Big Bloom+Tiger Bloom with every watering so far.
The instructions with the Fox Farm, and general belief on the forum says to only use ferts every other watering. Why? Are there any studies behind this? I don't have the time and room to do my own scientific study.
I found it interesting the Fox Farm recommended schedule suggested a couple weeks of adding a nitrogen heavy fert (Grow Big+Big Bloom+Tiger Bloom) for 2 weeks mid flowering. I know the plants start stealing nitrogen from leaves, and it makes sense to me to give it one last nitrogen kick, but once again, how necessary is this?
I am a scientist at heart and by trade, and I would gladly do my controlled studies with clones. I maybe will next grow, just wondering what people have experienced in their own grows and the logic (or pseudo logic) behind only fertilizing every other time.
For now, I am just fertilizing exactly what the bottle says, I know many people kick it up gradually, which is fine, but why kick it up, and then water with straight water??
I have 1 White Label Doublegum, 1 peakseedsbc Northernberry, and 1 peakseedsbc Skunkberry. The Northernberry is definitely the heartiest, bushiest, easiest to clone of the lot, but the doublegum is more sativa oriented and looks really good. The Skunkberry has been the weakest, hardest to clone, but just could have been the phenom (also it got a little later start so had a bit less veg time but the mum looks way better than its clone). I have clones of all 3 and plan to at least keep the doublegum and northernberry around as banzai mums -- assuming they smoke as good as the look! I got lucky, got two sprouts of each type, and each type got me one male and one female.
As you can tell, this is my fruity/berry grow! I am practicing my cloning as well, and so far, just shoving the cuttings into hormones then perlite and keeping it wet for a week under a humidity dome, then putting in soil has worked better than my newly purchased daisy cloner. But I just learned from other postings I may have been giving the cuttings too much light second time around. Still experimenting on my cloning techniques, but at least have healthy clones of the 2 best mums.
Oh, and due to my size constraints as soon as I was sure which ones were girls I carefully transplanted into big Rubbermaid style tubs to fill up my cab. No ill effects whatsover of transplanting early into flowering. When its done, I will see how much the roots expanded during flowering. No idea if transplanting helped (the original containers were just a gallon), but it did not hurt.
The plants are doing wonderful under 400 watts hps and 200 watts vertical T5s (in a negative pressure 4x5 cab venting to a carbon scrubber of course). Much better than my first grow I think mostly due to cooler winter temps. Its about 3 weeks into flower, and I have pretty much used the Big Bloom+Tiger Bloom with every watering so far.
The instructions with the Fox Farm, and general belief on the forum says to only use ferts every other watering. Why? Are there any studies behind this? I don't have the time and room to do my own scientific study.
I found it interesting the Fox Farm recommended schedule suggested a couple weeks of adding a nitrogen heavy fert (Grow Big+Big Bloom+Tiger Bloom) for 2 weeks mid flowering. I know the plants start stealing nitrogen from leaves, and it makes sense to me to give it one last nitrogen kick, but once again, how necessary is this?
I am a scientist at heart and by trade, and I would gladly do my controlled studies with clones. I maybe will next grow, just wondering what people have experienced in their own grows and the logic (or pseudo logic) behind only fertilizing every other time.
For now, I am just fertilizing exactly what the bottle says, I know many people kick it up gradually, which is fine, but why kick it up, and then water with straight water??
I have 1 White Label Doublegum, 1 peakseedsbc Northernberry, and 1 peakseedsbc Skunkberry. The Northernberry is definitely the heartiest, bushiest, easiest to clone of the lot, but the doublegum is more sativa oriented and looks really good. The Skunkberry has been the weakest, hardest to clone, but just could have been the phenom (also it got a little later start so had a bit less veg time but the mum looks way better than its clone). I have clones of all 3 and plan to at least keep the doublegum and northernberry around as banzai mums -- assuming they smoke as good as the look! I got lucky, got two sprouts of each type, and each type got me one male and one female.
As you can tell, this is my fruity/berry grow! I am practicing my cloning as well, and so far, just shoving the cuttings into hormones then perlite and keeping it wet for a week under a humidity dome, then putting in soil has worked better than my newly purchased daisy cloner. But I just learned from other postings I may have been giving the cuttings too much light second time around. Still experimenting on my cloning techniques, but at least have healthy clones of the 2 best mums.
Oh, and due to my size constraints as soon as I was sure which ones were girls I carefully transplanted into big Rubbermaid style tubs to fill up my cab. No ill effects whatsover of transplanting early into flowering. When its done, I will see how much the roots expanded during flowering. No idea if transplanting helped (the original containers were just a gallon), but it did not hurt.
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