My well water is in that 230-270 range. But in my case it causes me more problems when I use it that way. I'm not convinced that the mineral content is in a makeup or a form that the plants can access. and it tends to cause other deficiencies and lock outs easily. I've had way more personal luck by removing what's in it and building up from there.
Thanks for the input,
I don't feed at all germination week (I don't do any of that 'paper towel' stuff, just seed into moist Promix. After that first week, I start with mild feeding and ramp it up.
Thanks man, lot of good information there... I see people using maxibloom with really good results. I wanted to try i out, but I cant find it in here.I don't feed at all germination week (I don't do any of that 'paper towel' stuff, just seed into moist Promix. After that first week, I start with mild feeding and ramp it up.
-For me that's:
Week 1: 1g of GH Maxigro
Week 2: 2g (1g Gro/1g MaxiBloom)
Week 3: 3g (1g Gro/2g Bloom)
Week 4: 4g: (1g Gro/3g Bloom)
Week 5: 5g: (5g Bloom)
Again, I drop in 2.5ml of Ca/Mg per gallon of water & start at 1g of Epsom and ramp that up to 2 or 2.5, depending on what the plant seems to want. If a plant is sensitive and I get tip burn at 5g I pull it back a little bit. Once I hit 5g of Maxi, I don't push higher unless a plant looks hungry...and I stay with all MaxiBloom for the rest of the grow.
Right now in flower I'm also using some GH Liquid KoolBloom @ 2 or 2.5ml per gallon.
I just mixed up some feed for later today, and my EC is 1.85, so on a PPM500 scale it's 930ish PPM, and give or take each feed I'm in that 1.8-1.9EC range.
When I feed, I don't do any pre-treatment on the soil. I go slowly and let the first liter of water soak in before continuing if there's surface tension/resistance to it absorbing in. I really want 20%+ runoff to make sure that I'm pushing any old feed out of the medium. In 5g bags filled to the top, each feed is 3 gallons.
This is what my current plant looks like with that feeding regime:
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(photo from last night)
...Usually I grow out 2 plants in my tent in the fall but you can see the bag tucked on the right side...that was an unfortunate unexpected Blue Dream auto that I harvested last weekend. Must have been a mix-up at the seed supplier.
My readings for nutrients per gram, per gallon of water are:
Hey man, thanks for sharing your readings! Will help a lotMy readings for nutrients per gram, per gallon of water are:
Epsom salts: 70ppm; .14EC
Ca/Mg (GH): 30ppm; .06EC (per ml)
Maxi: 110ppm; .22EC
So you can calculate from there what the readings end up looking like if you want.
Epsom salts are an easy application for magnesium. I use it because without it I start getting magnesium deficiencies, especially starting around 3rd week of flower. I generally go light on it (1g) before then, and ramp up as needed. If you're not finding signs a magnesium deficiency don't use it.
In terms of volume or timing of water/feed...it's going to be dependent on a bunch of other inputs in your grow.
That little auto I harvested was planted at the same time as the photoperiod...it was in the same sized bag (5g), but really got watered half as much in terms of frequency as well as me only giving it 2 gallons of water/feed rather than 3. I knew not to feed as often or much because: 1) the medium didn't dry out nearly as quickly though it was in the same environment as the photoperiod and 2) when I did feed it, I got enough runoff with 2 gallons rather than 3. Schedule, amount and strength are all dependent on what the plants tell you they want or need.
Also, warmer temperatures mean you'll feed/water more because of evaporation. Humidity of your environment also counts. The amount of light you provide for your plants is part of the equation, and of course each strain, pheno and sometimes just individual plants drink different amounts. Though after a bunch of grows with the same gear, timing, etc. I have a reasonable idea of what to expect.
I generally don't do 4 plants at a time, because the tent gets tight as well as I just don't need to maximize quantity. Also it takes more time to feed/water, tend to the plants themselves (train, snip here and there, etc.)...So I only do 2 at a time and I grow them out a bit more before flowering so they fill the tent. But yes, it would mean 12 gallons of feed each time if I had 4 similar plants going. It's not horrible though, because I'm putting the same amounts in across all the gallons then I'm pH testing then adjusting only one of the gallons and once I know how much to pH Up that gallon I just do the same to the others and don't test any of them.
Yo man, sorry busy week for me. Hell yeah, glad to see them looking good. I don’t have a grow diaries account but I’m going to start one
Maybe this has already been mentioned, I didn’t really look through the comments.
