FEEDING QUESTION (sorry)

tlsdrm73

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ok so ive read hundreds and hundreds of threads of people asking the question

"how/when do i feed my plants??"

so that being said, i'm SO SORRY FOR ASKING THIS QUESTION. i feel like i've done a pretty damn good job of bringing up my plants, being that its the first time in soil, converting from 2 years of Hydro experience.
after reading said threads on feeding, i had yet to have a clear answer to what i need to know. i couldn't find a thread with the information that matched up with mine (ie what nutes i'm using, light, medium, strains and what not) now i know there is nobody out there that has the EXACT same set up as i do, but there has to be somebody that can give me the best info i can NOT get anywhere else. (trust me i tried)

i'm using...
FFOF soil with 1/4 of perlite (Been in this soil for 19 days now)
5 gal buckets
1000w HPS with cool air blowing through it
9 plants...
Bubblegum
Grapefruit
Trainwreck
Widow Haze
Day 1 of flower (4 weeks veg/3 week clone)
13" tall
NUTES
PBpro Grow
PBpro Bloom
Liquid Karma
Cal/Mag +
Grandma's Natural Molasses (just got it at the store...i think its organic)
My water goes through an impurity filter and is also equiped with air stone and pumps

I'm kinda freking out cuz i realized on day one of flower that i am NOT understanding how i feed them now that the nutes in the soil are starting to run out. I've got the best nutes i can get in my area and i don't know how to use them in soil. do i give it to em every watering? every other watering? what should my ppm? when i test the run off do i pour it all in a bucket and check it? when am i supposed to give em the molasses? when do i stop with the karma?

i already fed em a 1/5 solution 2 days ago...i think they are doin ok? i don't have a pic of it yet but i will later...PLEASE REPLY!!

thanks for the help in advance!!
 

disposition84

Well-Known Member
This probably isn't what you're looking for, but just try feeling it out. I have only run a few
soil plants, but if you look at the plants and feel the soil you can kinda get a vibe if they're
thirsty. But you have to take into account they're going to drink more later on, so the days
are not consistent. It's really just kind of a touch and go thing.
 

Deerhunter617

Well-Known Member
Hey bro my feeding schedule is I feed then the next two times I water I just use nothing but water you can keep up how often you need to feed them by the ppm of the runoff of your water vegging my water with nutes is 4-600 ppm and about the same in the runoff I start out at about 200 but over the weeks make my way to about 4-600 when I get ready to flower I water 3 times skipping the one with the nutes to flush out my dirt and get most of the nitrogen in it I transplant into 5 gallon buckets halfway into veg so I can start flushing the fertz my soil has in them out so when I turn to 12/12 I'm on a fresh slate flowering I usually don't feed with nutes over 800 ppm then when I prepare to harvest I water with just water the last week to flush the plant mAkes the smoke taste and smoke better
 

tlsdrm73

Active Member
ive just read so many fuckin things about when to feed em what nutes that it has become overwhelming....like should i feed molasses every watering? should i use liquid karma every other FEEDING? ya kno? maybe i'm just over reading :(
 

CrazyBudz

Active Member
your deffinetly over analizing things bro...

this is how i figured my own feed schedule, but i grow outdoors so you cant really follow my schedule but at least you will get an idea of my thought process...first i asked myself a few questions..!

how much water does each plant need per day? My answer...1-2 gallons

if i feed nutes everyday how much nutes will i need throught my whole grow?? 13 plants x 2 gal=26 gal per day, if i nute feed everyday ill go through GALLONS of shit.! so i found a happy medium im happy with..i nute feed every other day or every 3 days, but still give water on the non nute days..

I use Botanicare Liquid Karma, Pro Blend soil grow for veg, bloom for flower on every nute feeding..durring veg i used superthrive everyother feed and roots excel every other feed...Now im flowering so I cut the pro blend in half cut the karma almost in half and use bloombastic too...

does that make sence lol????
 

CrazyBudz

Active Member
Go to the website of all the nute companys you are using and look at their feed schedule see how much ML per GAL they recomend using...
figure out how many gallons of water you think each plant should get per day and mix accordingly then nute feed every 3-4 days, you can do it more often if you want but the $$ adds up fast using soil as you dont recycle the feed water for a week like hydro does.
hope that helped..its hard to put my thoughts into words sometimes.!
 

tlsdrm73

Active Member
ok so here is what i'm going to feed today....
i fed them 4 days ago and they didn't need another watering until today...and because i'm still transitioning...i'm going to give them a boost of some flower nutes.

THIS IS ALL ML PER GALLON IN A 5 GAL RES.
10ml Purblend Pro Soil
5ml Cal/Mag Plus
3ml Liquid karma
1 tbs/5gal of Grandma's Molasses

lemme know what you think!!!!
 
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