Dontjudgeme
Well-Known Member
I understand where you are coming from. All jokes aside, cause I read through 4 pages and figured I seen and laughed enough. I don’t exactly understand the feed water water schedule myself. When I used chem nutrients, I always fed, water fed, etc to the end. Plants never seemed to mind, so why fix it if it isn’t broken. Now that I primarily use dry amendments, it says to use a certain amount of tsp per gal of medium that typically last 3-4 weeks. So to your point, why give all the teaspoons at once to last a month if I can do it once a week and ensure the plant doesn’t experience that gap between the next top dress. Still equates to the same feeding right, just done in a different way. Just like lowering the PPMs so you can feed every watering vs that weird feeding schedule that I honestly never heard of until you mentioned it.It seems to be generally accepted that plants being fed in soil should follow a schedule similar to this. Water with nutrients, then just water a couple times. We dont do this in coco or hydro, rather we give a steady consistent amount of nutrients that the plant is happy at. So why in soil? Would the plant not be just as happy or happier if given a steady feed every watering at lower amount? lets say normally you give 900ppm, then just straight water twice. Why not split it evenly into 300ppm every watering and be feeding them exactly the same amount? Those numbers are just an example, important part is just feeding at 1/3 strength every watering rather than feed, water, water. Is there an actual reason why they prefer a varying concentration? I dont see why hydro should be any different.
There must be something to their brand that requires feeding that way, I don’t know. All in all, everyone has made some really good points, maybe a little sarcastic along the way, but still good valid points. Try the bottles method and see if you can make any sense of it, then try it your way and see which one works better. What works best for you is what counts, not what the bottle tells us we should do. Thanks for sharing.