wow that looks amazing..
what signs should I look for if I give too much 30-10-10? For now I'm going to stick with 1/4 tsp each water..
thanks again UB!
"Our" plan worked, I wouldn't change a thing. Amount and frequency of food application all depends on alot of factors - light, temps, water, vigor, etc. but you can go up to 1 tsp/gallon with good results unless your soil is loaded with some slow release plant foods like the meals. If you want to fertilize with each watering, I'd use AT LEAST 1/2 tsp./gallon. You're not gonna get alot out of 1/4 tsp/gallon, it's your anxiety and nerves talkin' here, not necessarily a sound practice.
Continue with the 30-10-10 or a 20-20-20 until flowering, then a few weeks into the stretch, start backing off the N a bit. Just read the plant's color and growth habit/vigor, my advice is not written in stone, it's still your call. Too much N
relative to other factors like light received and the leaves will become a dark green, which really is pushing the N a bit. Well, maybe, maybe not.
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Go back to the photo I just posted. Notice how dark green those leaves are? I used a bit too much blood meal (N) when I put my potting mix together,
BUT, it had no adverse affect, as you can see, it's flowering like a mofo. The finished colas were quite large and dense as a rock. There was enough blood meal in my mix to where I could faintly smell ammonia coming off the pot, meaning the microbes were fast changing the meal into ammonical N (which was gassing off) and then into nitrate N. But when you get the smell of ammonia, it's really too much.
You kick up that foliage a notch, and you're gonna reap some nice bud. It's just basic botany, nothing difficult, all very simply done.
Good luck,
UB