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zaQ
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Noods, you are looking like a pro already! Im some days behind you but from looking at your pics i think im weeks behind hehe.
Happy new year!
Happy new year!
Lighting 2nd Grow: Rapid Afghan and Easy Ryder, Airpots, CFL
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Fellow Hobby Gardeners,
Here's how I've been feeding my girls. Please advise or criticize as necessary!
The following is pretty much exactly what I've done and is working a charm, but I'd love to do better, so do tell me if I'm F*in up somewhere.
Up till the last feeding, yesterday, it was always distilled water. Yesterday I started using tap. My last bottle of Distilled was pH 7.8 and my tap is 7.6, so now I'm just going to save the money.
All of my teas are aerated with a small pump and an air stone. I add all the ingredients into the toe's of some panty-hose, drop it in the water and hang it off so the air stone will fit right under the sack, but not touching it. I brew them inside the cab at the level of the pots, raised off the floor, so the tea will have about the same temp as the roots. If the tea is too cold, the roots will close up like the pores on your skin under a cold shower. Warm it up to their comfy zone and they'll suck it all up then and there.
I use lemon juice to lower Ph. The Tea last night was 1.5 Ltr @ 7.4 pH. 25 drops of lemon juice brought it down to 6.6 pH. Once I lowered it too much and didn't want to brew a new one because the ladies were thirsty so I brought it back up with baking soda. Girls liked it anyway.
During the first and second weeks I brewed light teas with Molasses, Kelp or Alfalfa, and Earthworm Castings.
Towards the end of the second week I added Chicken Guano.
During this time I was spraying them often with water to keep up humidity.
At the end of the second week they got a Freeze/Thaw Kelp Extract Foliar.
That's some real good stuff. If you do like I do and use powdered seaweed, try this method. It's simple and clean and leaves no kelp residue on the leaves. Check out Trifids thread for How-To's. (It's also mentioned somewhere here in this thread.)
During the third week I added Seabird Guano to the mix.
This is what they got at the middle of week three:
1,75 ltr
2 tblsp EWC
2 tsp Alfalfa
1 tsp Chicken
1 tsp ground Egg Shells
0,5 tsp Seabird
1,5 ml Molasses
Between feedings I'm alternating between Kelp extract Foliars and Fish Mix Foliars. Watch it- that Fish Mix stinks very VERY bad. DO NOT get it on your skin or clothes. My room stinks bad for about an hour or two after a fishy foliar, but then it's good. Then it smells like skunk again.
At the end of week three they got an EWC/Epsom Salt Foliar.
The last feeding of week 3 also had Kelp, 0,5 tsp Epsom Salt, and I upped the Seabird to the same amount as the Chicken.
Week four see's continued foliars and the introduction of half strength Fish mix at feeding time. That was the first of week 4, then the last feeding was this:
1,5 ltr tap water
3 tbsp EWC
2 tsp Seabird
2 tsp Chicken
1 tsp Kelp
1 tsp Alfalfa
1 tsp Egg Shells
1 tsp Horn-, Bone-, and Blood Meal
1,5 ml Molasses
That was yesterday and today they got a Fish Mix Foliar @ 1ml / 1 ltr. I won't go that strong with the fish anymore- it left a coating on the leaves that I had to wash off with spray 7 hrs later. At quarter strength there's no (visible) fishy coating on the leaves and I don't have to shower them afterwards.
So the next feeding will be a Bio Bizz meal. Bio Bloom for the Rapid Afghan since she's really starting to flower nicely. Another Fish Mix for the Easy Ryder.
Then back to my Tea, then Bio Bizz, then Tea... and so on, alternating like that with every feeding, about every three days.
I'll be backing off on the foliars now with the RA since she's getting Bud Happy. Moulds and mildews and fungi and things scare me.
Happy Growing!:smoke:
Almost forgot: Thanks zaQ! Look at you calling me a pro, and you're pushing around a wheelbarrow full of buds!
Here's how I've been feeding my girls. Please advise or criticize as necessary!
The following is pretty much exactly what I've done and is working a charm, but I'd love to do better, so do tell me if I'm F*in up somewhere.
Up till the last feeding, yesterday, it was always distilled water. Yesterday I started using tap. My last bottle of Distilled was pH 7.8 and my tap is 7.6, so now I'm just going to save the money.
All of my teas are aerated with a small pump and an air stone. I add all the ingredients into the toe's of some panty-hose, drop it in the water and hang it off so the air stone will fit right under the sack, but not touching it. I brew them inside the cab at the level of the pots, raised off the floor, so the tea will have about the same temp as the roots. If the tea is too cold, the roots will close up like the pores on your skin under a cold shower. Warm it up to their comfy zone and they'll suck it all up then and there.
I use lemon juice to lower Ph. The Tea last night was 1.5 Ltr @ 7.4 pH. 25 drops of lemon juice brought it down to 6.6 pH. Once I lowered it too much and didn't want to brew a new one because the ladies were thirsty so I brought it back up with baking soda. Girls liked it anyway.
During the first and second weeks I brewed light teas with Molasses, Kelp or Alfalfa, and Earthworm Castings.
Towards the end of the second week I added Chicken Guano.
During this time I was spraying them often with water to keep up humidity.
At the end of the second week they got a Freeze/Thaw Kelp Extract Foliar.
That's some real good stuff. If you do like I do and use powdered seaweed, try this method. It's simple and clean and leaves no kelp residue on the leaves. Check out Trifids thread for How-To's. (It's also mentioned somewhere here in this thread.)
During the third week I added Seabird Guano to the mix.
This is what they got at the middle of week three:
1,75 ltr
2 tblsp EWC
2 tsp Alfalfa
1 tsp Chicken
1 tsp ground Egg Shells
0,5 tsp Seabird
1,5 ml Molasses
Between feedings I'm alternating between Kelp extract Foliars and Fish Mix Foliars. Watch it- that Fish Mix stinks very VERY bad. DO NOT get it on your skin or clothes. My room stinks bad for about an hour or two after a fishy foliar, but then it's good. Then it smells like skunk again.
At the end of week three they got an EWC/Epsom Salt Foliar.
The last feeding of week 3 also had Kelp, 0,5 tsp Epsom Salt, and I upped the Seabird to the same amount as the Chicken.
Week four see's continued foliars and the introduction of half strength Fish mix at feeding time. That was the first of week 4, then the last feeding was this:
1,5 ltr tap water
3 tbsp EWC
2 tsp Seabird
2 tsp Chicken
1 tsp Kelp
1 tsp Alfalfa
1 tsp Egg Shells
1 tsp Horn-, Bone-, and Blood Meal
1,5 ml Molasses
That was yesterday and today they got a Fish Mix Foliar @ 1ml / 1 ltr. I won't go that strong with the fish anymore- it left a coating on the leaves that I had to wash off with spray 7 hrs later. At quarter strength there's no (visible) fishy coating on the leaves and I don't have to shower them afterwards.
So the next feeding will be a Bio Bizz meal. Bio Bloom for the Rapid Afghan since she's really starting to flower nicely. Another Fish Mix for the Easy Ryder.
Then back to my Tea, then Bio Bizz, then Tea... and so on, alternating like that with every feeding, about every three days.
I'll be backing off on the foliars now with the RA since she's getting Bud Happy. Moulds and mildews and fungi and things scare me.
Happy Growing!:smoke:
Almost forgot: Thanks zaQ! Look at you calling me a pro, and you're pushing around a wheelbarrow full of buds!
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boomer petway
Guest
plants are lookin great noods:thumbs:. afraid i cant comment on the feeding , way too complicated and detailed for a beginner like myself. zaq's right tho, lookin like a real pro. happy new year bro:smokebuds:
Thanks Boomer! Have a safe and Happy Holiday my friend! :smokebuds:
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coszumel
Guest
Noods is a pro. He's just being modest. (c:
Cosz
Cosz
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flwr
Guest
They look really good. Satisfying isn't it? My plants would love to be fed and pampered like yours 
That's a real sweet compliment Cosz! Thank you very much. I'll try to live up to it!
They look really good. Satisfying isn't it? My plants would love to be fed and pampered like yours
Oh yes it is satisfying flwr! I'm sure your plants a loving you too. They sure looked like it on your last picture update!
:smokebuds:
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AndyBotwin
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Great writeup on your feeding routine, Noods! :smoke:
astronomy420a
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watching and learning bro, sweet work! happy new year!
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