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Hi all. I recently made a very simple, short guide on how to dial in MEGA CROP to get the best possible results. This applies to autoflowers and photosensitive crops equally. Maybe some of you already know this, but I just wanted to make it a bit more clear.
This should answer some common questions about how to use MC with Autoflowers, since the normal veg/bloom feeding chart doesn't apply exactly. The feeding chart is just meant as a starting point, and good growers will dial in their grows depending on the feedback from the plant. There are so many factors to consider a simple feeding chart cannot give an exact calculator for everyone, so dialing in is key for optimal harvest.
The small guide is below the feeding calculator on the website.
https://greenleafnutrients.com/feeding-calculator/#!/dial-in
Here is a copy/paste!
How to Dial In Feeding For Optimal Results
The Feeding Calculator is used as a general starting point for finding the right amount of nutrients to use. Depending on your setup, you may benefit from using more, or less than the suggestion. After running MEGA CROP for a few weeks you can begin to “dial-in” your feeding program, ie: modify it to achieve maximum harvest/results and have the healthiest plants!
Step 1 – Dialing In Nitrogen levels through MEGA CROP dosage by monitor your plants coloring:
This should answer some common questions about how to use MC with Autoflowers, since the normal veg/bloom feeding chart doesn't apply exactly. The feeding chart is just meant as a starting point, and good growers will dial in their grows depending on the feedback from the plant. There are so many factors to consider a simple feeding chart cannot give an exact calculator for everyone, so dialing in is key for optimal harvest.
The small guide is below the feeding calculator on the website.
https://greenleafnutrients.com/feeding-calculator/#!/dial-in
Here is a copy/paste!
How to Dial In Feeding For Optimal Results
The Feeding Calculator is used as a general starting point for finding the right amount of nutrients to use. Depending on your setup, you may benefit from using more, or less than the suggestion. After running MEGA CROP for a few weeks you can begin to “dial-in” your feeding program, ie: modify it to achieve maximum harvest/results and have the healthiest plants!
Step 1 – Dialing In Nitrogen levels through MEGA CROP dosage by monitor your plants coloring:
- Pay close attention to the green coloring of your plants leaves. Nitrogen levels in MEGA CROP are strongly related to how green your plants leaves will appear
- If your plant leaves arelight greenoryellow, then increase your dosage of MEGA CROP to boost Nitrogen levels and increase green color
- If your plant leaves are toodark greenand/or have burned tips, then scale back your MEGA CROP dosage to reduce the nitrogen.
- Your goal is to have the plants coloring to be astrong healthy green without burning, and you control this by increasing or decreasing the MEGA CROP dosage. If you are a new grower and not sure what color your plants should be at, browse the internet for pictures of healthy plants of your same type. You should make dosage changes for the first time in small amounts, for example changes of 10-20% increase or decrease only, and then waiting 2-3 weeks to monitor plant response after each change. Since the plant has to take time to uptake nutrients and process them, it may take 2-3 weeks to notice the results of the changes you made.
- Once your have achieved proper base nutrient dosage through regulating Nitrogen, then during flowering/blooming phase you can optionally add in PK booster to increase harvest.
- PK Boosters likeBud Explosionhave high amounts of P and K, and 0 (N)itrogen, so you can add them in during flowering without risking changing your plants Nitrogen levels
- This may take some time, but you can continually increase PK boosters over several harvests to monitor for increase weight and quality. As long as you do not notice plant damage from increasing the dosage, you can experiment by increasing the dosage, and monitoring the final end results/yields.
- Careful! At a certain point, adding more PK booster will not give you better yields/quality, and excess may cause damage!