Top feed super soil?

anyone do this? I don't wanna give the plant too much?

what would be a good top feed for my 7 gallon pots. after the stretch there was a lot of space from soil to the cotelydons.
I wanna fill the pots up now that they're past the stretch.

TIA

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bankcee said:

anyone do this? I don't wanna give the plant too much?

what would be a good top feed for my 7 gallon pots. after the stretch there was a lot of space from soil to the cotelydons.
I wanna fill the pots up now that they're past the stretch.

TIA

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Top dressing is common practice. But usually with dry amendments. Ewc. In conjunction with some sort of mulch. I wouldn't bury your plants to much with super soil. But that's just me. Kinda pointless. Stick with kelp, alfalfa, guanos crab mean ec ec. My top 2 inches of flowering pots are 1 inch Ewc. With dry amendments as needed. 1 inch mulch. I use equal parts perlite coir and compost. With diatomaceous earth. Crab meal. Neam meal. About 2tbsp / gallon of coir,perlite,compost. This controls bugs, keeps soil from drying out and top feeds a bit all at once.

you say flowering.. should I wait til I flower to top feed? or can I do it in the veg stage as well as later in the flowering?

green_machine_two9er said:

Top dressing is common practice. But usually with dry amendments. Ewc. In conjunction with some sort of mulch. I wouldn't bury your plants to much with super soil. But that's just me. Kinda pointless. Stick with kelp, alfalfa, guanos crab mean ec ec. My top 2 inches of flowering pots are 1 inch Ewc. With dry amendments as needed. 1 inch mulch. I use equal parts perlite coir and compost. With diatomaceous earth. Crab meal. Neam meal. About 2tbsp / gallon of coir,perlite,compost. This controls bugs, keeps soil from drying out and top feeds a bit all at once.

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bankcee said:

you say flowering.. should I wait til I flower to top feed? or can I do it in the veg stage as well as later in the flowering?

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The way i do it is very simple. 3 transplants before it even hits super super. From cloning plugs >2 cup pots(soil=1 part each, coir,perlite, organic bagged soil). >1/2gallom pots(soil=roots). >final flowering pots 3-7 gallon pot size depends on veg time. (Soil=highly amended"super soil". With top dressing applied at transplant.). Before each transplant use a "dummy" pot to be used as a placeholder for incoming rootball. I like to do this up to a month ahead of time! Give the soil extra aact and establish the soil food web long before plant reaches it. Sorry been drinking coffee with iso hash all morning and my responses might seem confusing.

So a plant in 3 gallon final pot may only veg 1 extra week after transplanting into super soil. Or 7 gallons could veg another 2 months. I don't like saying veg soil. Or flowering soil. Cause they work for both in organics. I say. Clone soil. Teenage soil. Sexually mature soil. And always planning ahead to get into mature (super soil) with little to no stress.

I think I get it lol I think. but that many transplants doesn't cause to much stress?

bankcee said:

I think I get it lol I think. but that many transplants doesn't cause to much stress?

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Not with the dummy pot method. Zero stress. Pull out your dummy pot which is same size as the one your transplanting into. They pull out your full rootball annoy fits right in like a puzzle piece perfect. O and I should add this is when I apply mycos. Directly to rootball and sprinkled into transplant hole.

You can top dress a plant with supersoil, its actually encouraged IF.....A. the plant needs it.. Are you seeing any deficiencies in the leaves at all? If not then theres no reason to give the plant more food unless you anticipate the plant needing it.... . And B. where is the plant in its flowering cycle, I would NOT top dress a plant after 4 weeks running a 8-9 week strain.... The nutrition will come through too late and your plants will take forever to finish and they'll finish green green most likely...

Supersoil is highly amended soil, so theres nothing wrong with using it as a top dress... Or you can top dress as the above posters mentioned... its all about what your plant needs and where in the flowering cycle your plant is #1, and #2 what you have on hand... If your pushing into week 5-6 and you start noticing deficiencies... you can use a tea or hit them with some molasses and try to limp through like that... But after the 2/3 to 3/4 point of flowering in organic soil/water only growing, you let it ride... Deficiencies are normal at that point on and are a good thing for the most part... It means your close to getting it right... Getting an 8 week strain to start fading (showing deficiencies) at week 6 is nailing it pretty much...

But to your main question, does your plant need a top dressing? Is there anything in the leaves that would make you think it needs more food? If yes and your pre-week 4... Go for it... But I would no fill it... maybe 1 to 2 inches of SS on top thats about the most I would put and see how they finish... If you see they finish perfect... next time add that extra inch to the pot pre-flowering them...