I wanted to talk about my feeding schedules and the Fox Farm line that I'm using currently.
I've been using the
trio for both my soil and hydro grows with the exception of using two different
Grow Big. One
Grow Big is for Hydro and one is for soil.
Here is my nute list for soil
CaMg, Molasses,
GB (soil),
BB, and
TB. As well as
Open Sesame, Beastie Bloomz, and Cha Ching.
I've been using the
feeding chart "loosely" as a general guide line for my plants. I had a few lags in growth early due to inexperience but once I got on track after a few feedings it was easy to tell just by looking at the plants what stage they were in and where they needed to be on the feeding chart. For example, early on I had some major deficiency problems which in my opinion held the plants in a "suspended state" for a couple of weeks. So once the plants got back on track even though they were four weeks old I treated them like they were on week two as far as the chart goes. This shows in my 3 gallon DP BB who looks like she will go to almost 13-14 weeks which IMO is longer then usual.
Hydro nutes-
Silica, CaMg,
GB (hydro),
BB, and
TB. As well as
Open Sesame, Beastie Bloomz, and Cha Ching.
I also used the
hydro feeding chart on the hydro girls as well.
I was told that when growing hydro you should hit them with the nutes hard and fast and that's what I did. I stayed within the parameters of the feeding chart but I did hit them hard with nutes and they loved it.
When I started my grows I thought I knew enough from all of my research to grow healthy plants. Ha!!! Not so fast!! You will learn ten times more once you actually start growing. Yes you might loose a few plants in the process as I did but you will learn a whole hell of a lot. My advice to new growers is to pick a line of nutes that is simple to use and easy to find info as far as other growers using it. Like Fox Farms Trio.... And then start growing, you'll never know until you get into it and get your hands dirty. Another bit of advice is, don't cut corners. It will cost you more $$ and time in the long run. I understand that money doesn't grow on trees (ha ha) and growing is damn expensive which brings me to the point I'm trying to make... I was going to build a box and rig it up to grow with lights and other goods I could find at home depot. Not that there is anything wrong with that because I have seen tons of grows in homemade boxes that are very successful. But for me I chose to hold out and spend a little extra money on some true gear. I feel like I saved money in the long run because eventually I think most growers will grow out of their homemade setups.
That's it for now, I have more to rant about but I have to go to work so to be continued...
AFN
Forgot to mention I chopped the main cola last night (thats when I realized the problem). This pic was taken today with no main cola, you can see where I cut shim.
