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Forage

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I finally overcame my overfeeding issues. I used to have the worst looking fan leaves. The tops were purple and the bottoms looked like overripe banananas, all the tips were burnt, just a mess. But I did get some decent sized buds. Really nice looking if you trimmed off all the ugly burned tips.

I got a truncheon and started measuring my runoff. It was around 3.2 EC or greater. So on the next run I started giving weaker nutrient to my plants. Now I'm watering somewhere around 1.1EC with runoff around 1.6EC. The plants are big, bushy, and healthy. There's a few issues, two are a little dark, one's a little blue, and they all have minor tip burn that coincided with a runoff spike to 2.8EC that I flushed out. But bud development seems to be way behind where it normally is.

For the first few weeks of flowering I was running a 3-1-2 ratio, but when the plants got too dark I went a bit closer to 1-1-2. Oh, and I just came off the end of week 6, I was adding 1g/liter of PK13/14 via the canna feeding schedule.

I'm growing in coco using a mix of mostly bottle nutes, but a decent portion of my potassium is coming from seaweed extract. I intent to replace the seaweed extract with more bottle nutes next time I go out of town. (HOG Micro, Dynagro Bloom, Calimagic, Epsom, Potassium silicate, West Coast Seaweed Extract).
 

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Forage said:
I finally overcame my overfeeding issues. I used to have the worst looking fan leaves. The tops were purple and the bottoms looked like overripe banananas, all the tips were burnt, just a mess. But I did get some decent sized buds. Really nice looking if you trimmed off all the ugly burned tips.

I got a truncheon and started measuring my runoff. It was around 3.2 EC or greater. So on the next run I started giving weaker nutrient to my plants. Now I'm watering somewhere around 1.1EC with runoff around 1.6EC. The plants are big, bushy, and healthy. There's a few issues, two are a little dark, one's a little blue, and they all have minor tip burn that coincided with a runoff spike to 2.8EC that I flushed out. But bud development seems to be way behind where it normally is.

For the first few weeks of flowering I was running a 3-1-2 ratio, but when the plants got too dark I went a bit closer to 1-1-2. Oh, and I just came off the end of week 6, I was adding 1g/liter of PK13/14 via the canna feeding schedule.

I'm growing in coco using a mix of mostly bottle nutes, but a decent portion of my potassium is coming from seaweed extract. I intent to replace the seaweed extract with more bottle nutes next time I go out of town. (HOG Micro, Dynagro Bloom, Calimagic, Epsom, Potassium silicate, West Coast Seaweed Extract).
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Skip those 7 different products and try just using MaxiBloom on your next run from start to finish.

You can thank me now or after you have your best grow ever. :bigjoint:
 
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Forage

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xtsho said:
Skip those 7 different products and try just using MaxiBloom on your next run from start to finish.

You can thank me now or after you have your best grow ever. :bigjoint:
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I'm fine to dump most of them, I was gifted a bunch of random bottles from a guy who stopped growing so I've been mixing them with GH Micro to use them up, and having decent results so far aside from the overfeed. But I'm sticking with the potassium silicate through the first couple weeks of flower. Without that I had to use tomato cages to keep my plants from laying against the wall.
 
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I would avoid the products containing natural PGRs like Kelp and Seaweed until you know what the base nutrition does first.

When you start growing you don't want to use everything even though it's tempting. Why did you cut out Potassium Silicate in flower??
 
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Forage

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calvin.m16 said:
I would avoid the products containing natural PGRs like Kelp and Seaweed until you know what the base nutrition does first.

When you start growing you don't want to use everything even though it's tempting. Why did you cut out Potassium Silicate in flower??
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It only looks like I don't know what I'm doing because in reality, I don't know what I'm doing. The additives all had a purpose, which was just to achieve a certain ratio of N-P-K-Ca-Mg and hopefully enough micros to keep the plant healthy. I'm not saying that I'm doing this correctly, but it's slightly more planned than willy-nilly.

I use potassium silicate because I'm too lazy to stake up my own plants (and after my girlfriend was lording her thick stemmed outdoor organic plants over me, saying that my indoor plants were like a "Pug or boston terrier. Sickly, dying, and barely able to stand under their own weight."). After a few weeks into flower, the trunks are hard enough to keep the buds from laying against the walls so I discontinue. Is there a benefit to running to finish?
 
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