Foxfarm Ocean Forrest

When should I feed if i'm using Foxfarm Ocean Forrest? I'm growing autos.

Nutrients on hand:
-General Hydroponics flora grow, bloom, Micro combo fertilizer
-Cal Mag


Also how often do you water your Foxfarm Ocean Forrest soil? i'm using 3 gallon pots.

Azam114 said:

When should I feed if i'm using Foxfarm Ocean Forrest? I'm growing autos.

Nutrients on hand:
-General Hydroponics flora grow, bloom, Micro combo fertilizer
-Cal Mag


Also how often do you water your Foxfarm Ocean Forrest soil? i'm using 3 gallon pots.

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Don’t feed anything, just water at 6.5-7 ph. Calmag isn’t necessary unless you are using RO or distilled water. Ocean forest is good to go on it’s on.

Will watering 7 ph be different than watering at 6.8 ph? As i'm choosing between to brands of bottled water.

I currently water them with 7 ph water, but a lot of videos are recommending 6.1 so i figured I should go lower a little.

I understand there a huge debate concerning water ph but I just wanted to hear your thoughts.

So are you saying my 150$ hydro flora trio are not necessary with ocean forrest at all stages? Are you 100% positive it wouldn't improve yields or the buds?

Most bottled nutrients give you a ph to water with their products. With soil, I always stick between 6.5-7, Coco between 5.8-6.2 no matter what brand I’m using. The lower your ph the more acidic it is, the higher the ph the more alkaline, neither of the 2 are favorable, which is why you typically want to land between 6-7 which is neutral. 6.8 compared to 7 really isn’t a difference. Most bottled water I’ve used usually hits a little over 7. My tap water is 7.1. The distilled water I use to use was 7.4, so I was forced to ph down, but with distilled water I was forced to use calmag, calmag drops the ph so I didn’t have to make any adjustments to the ph.

Azam114 said:

So are you saying my 150$ hydro flora trio are not necessary with ocean forrest at all stages? Are you 100% positive it wouldn't improve yields or the buds?

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I’m never 100% positive about anything except the fact that I’m 100% sure I’m gonna die one day. You might be able to get away with bottle feeding extremely low in doses during flower, but it’s not going to exponentially increase your yield. If you want to get some use out of your bottles, grow in soil that doesn’t have it’s on nutrients, that way you have more control over what you feed instead of it being released to the plant over time.

FFOF has plenty of nutes at first. I started with it, and have turned it into no-till since. I'm trying to just top dress with dry amendments now, but the first round I used Earth Juice. I pretty much followed this guys final Earth Juice formula.

Those were the tastiest buds I've ever had. I'm thinking it's gotta be the guano in the Earth Juice. I'm starting to experiment with top dressing with guano to see if I can get those crazy flavors again.

Here was the first round with straight FFOF and Earth Juice.

Mind me asking but are suggesting that adding any of the 3 hydro flora through veg or flower will have no benefits what so ever? I understand the concern about burning the plant but what if I start with low doses and work my way up. I'm still in my 2nd week and don't see signs of deficiency.
However, i'm a firm believer of added nuts but since it's my first grow i'm hesitant. Yes FFOF has nuts in it but hydro flora trio is special and heard its unique.

Honestly I have my FFOF inside my pots but my hydro flora trio is sitting on the table and it's killing me.....

Azam114 said:

Mind me asking but are suggesting that adding any of the 3 hydro flora through veg or flower will have no benefits what so ever? I understand the concern about burning the plant but what if I start with low doses and work my way up. I'm still in my 2nd week and don't see signs of deficiency.
However, i'm a firm believer of added nuts but since it's my first grow i'm hesitant. Yes FFOF has nuts in it but hydro flora trio is special and heard its unique.

Honestly I have my FFOF inside my pots but my hydro flora trio is sitting on the table and it's killing me.....

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