just started to flower these biguns

Well I grew the 2 big ones from seed since about april 25th and I finally started flowering them 2 days ago after about 36 hours of darkness. I have a 600w digital hps bulb hanging vertically in a cool tube and then i switched my t5 bulbs over to 3000k bulbs and then everything into the timer set for 12 - 12. The one in the middle I purchased from a dispensary, it looks a little bare because a lot of the leaves were messed up and dead looking.

I was at the grow shop and the owner recommended I use FloraNova Bloom for my soil grow and to use 6ml per gallon (1 and 1/4 tsp?), is this correct and do I feed this every watering or every other watering or just once or twice weekly or?? Also, do I need to add anything else (im just using tap water)?

Thanks in advance for any help.

The nute bottle:


Here are photos of them:

Nice dude, i would feed every other watering. What strain are you growing?

I can't find the bag the seeds came in anywhere it's driving me crazy, so I can't say what they are

so has anyone used floranova bloom in soil??

Heres an update after 1 month, been using the floranova bloom at 1.5 tsp/gal and just started adding liquid koolbloom a few weeks ago at .5 tsp/gal but just stepped it up to 1 tsp/gal. I was adding foxfarm grow big the first weeks but not anymore.
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Looking good man

Hey Mercury what is the reason for 36 hr darkness before flowering, and when you do this do you still water them

jhnfrmrby420: I was told and I thought I read, that 36-48 hours of darkness helps with inducing flowering and possibly cutting a little bit of the flowering time down. I watered the hell out of them right before light out was scheduled and did not water until light darkness was finished, their big pots and in veg they could hold water for maybe 4 days (in peak budding, maybe a day lol)..

Heres some updated photos that I just took:

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looking good