GH 3 part feeding schedule for drain to waste

What's up RIU? I'm curious about the suggested feeding schedule found on GH's website. They recommend 1-4-6 during weeks 5-6 and that sounds weak to me. I have been running that and am in the 5th week but I feel I need to bump it up to at least 4-8 micro to bloom. I am running diamond nectar, fl+, rock resinator, sweet berry and calimagic and my ppm is right around 1200. Still I am worried that the low doses of base nutrients will hurt yeild and quality. Can anyone give insight into what he best course of action would be. I'm going to be giving a 15min flush today once the lights cut on, then filling a new res with 0ml grow, 4ml micro, 8ml bloom, 2ml diamond nectar, 3ml rock resinator, 2ml kkool bloom liquid(reintroducing kb liquid and dropping the strength of both Kb and rock to 50%, was running rock at 4ml which is half of what most people suggest) 1ml fl+, 20ml sweet, 5ml calimagic( everything in ml/gallon). I'm running Rockwool top drip drain to waste with 3k hps and co2 @1500. I'm also dropping co2 to around 1000-1100 based on some info I read about >1200 being unhelpful.

so far I have no nute burn and solid growth and trichome development but the buds haven't really swolled up yet. Again I am in the middle/end of week 5 on blue dream so I don't know if its because of the low levels of micro/bloom or if it just isn't time yet for the swell to be noticeable but any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks bros.

im attaching ssome pics taken afew days ago(week 5). These are outlying buds not in the center of the canopy because its to dense to get in for a good shot.

Not sure what GH you're using, if flora series that's what I use, ( grow, micro, bloom ) for 4 gal I mix, for veg, 60ml grow, 40 ml micro, 20 ml bloom, for flowering I mix 20 grow, 40 micro, 60 bloom, then I adjust ppm's according to plant age, as for those extra additives you are using I personally find them useless and cause more problems than anything, mj is a weed, all it needs is food to grow, that's for hydro of course I'm not a soil man, I grow in 6 inch pots filled with rockwool grow cubes and feed twice a day, here's a pic of one of four seeds that sprouted, I believe it's an afgan kush, 10 weeks bloom.

I am growing with the flora series as well and i recently found the feeding schedule for drain to waste also and i was dumb founded at the numbers they were suggesting just as it seems you are, ive been going by the bottle and had no problems so far, i am at my highest feeding regamine for bloom and will be maintaining it until harvest, right now im at 1g/2m/3b tsp per gal, i dont know shit about using addatives but ive had no problems so far...

Ok thanks for the input. I'm going to go ahead and up the bloom to 8ml then at the start of week 6 bring it to 5micro-10bloom as Long as there is no burning. I am using the 3 part flora series. I'm also going to reintroduce koolbloom at half of the recommended dose on the bottle. So I will be using 2.5ml/gallon of kool bloom and 3ml/g of rock resinator. I will even go a step further and use them at 75% of recommended dose, I'm going to treat my res as if its 25% less water in it for the bloom boosters but keep the base at the higher level. Hope that makes sense. Any suggestions or advice from people who have used flora series or rock resinator would be much appreciated.

Pics are from today. 2days away from 6wks

Also the yellowing leaves are from the light being too close.

Are you sure about that man? If you have been going by that drain to waste chart i wouldn't be so sure, because the nitrogen dosages they suggest are ridiculously low...

To my understanding you can run flora 3 part without the grow. I want to avoid nitrogen at the stage I'm in. Everyone I have talked to suggests to cut off the nitrogen a week or 2 into bloom.

Maybe Im misundertaing you psilo, If you are asking about the yellowing leaves yes I'm pretty certain they are from the position of the lights as it is only evident on certain plants in specific places. Clarify what you were saying for me bro.

Lol sorry man i've been drinking for quite a while, and to answer your question i was talking about the minimal level of nitrogen that the drain to waste chart says to give them and i was talking about the yellowing leaves, the chart i have suggest giving something like 5ml per gal of grow per gallon at maximum during veg, and while i was following the veg formula on my bottles i got up to about 15ml per gallon of grow per gallon during the peak of my vegetative stage, i also managed to get my air cooled 400 watt hps to around 2 inches above my plants and had no discoloration what so ever...

The "grow" bottle isn't mainly for N, it's for K. Look at the NPK on it. It's the micro bottle that has the higher N value. I'd quit using the bloom boosters. The "bloom" bottle provides plenty of P with the amount you're using already. I suspect you're using too much P which is causing all sorts of other issues.

Gandel said:

To my understanding you can run flora 3 part without the grow. I want to avoid nitrogen at the stage I'm in. Everyone I have talked to suggests to cut off the nitrogen a week or 2 into bloom.

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Psilo: I hear you. I vegged for 2-3 weeks and growth was outstanding in veg. No issues with that. Also I am using 1000 watts not 400. From my experience with them I could get close with 400 too but 1000 is a whole different intensity. The yellowing is 100% due to the light. It is not tip burn yellow, it is bleaching. I'm certain of this.

Church:when you say "all sorts of other issues" I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying that based on the pictures you see some kind of issue? That sounds a little bit cryptic, maybe elaborate on that.

Go to google and type in "useless formula" check it out man. Works bad ass! Dude knows his shit! Hope that will help. Good luck

this is good info..

I mean its pretty much the same recipe for all dro in veg.

3:2:1 for veg
1:2:3 for flower

Very productive formula. Have seen lots of growers use this formula with outstanding results! You can use it for soil and hempy too. Dudes like a pot professor lol. Peace