Fox farm soil/nute question
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bearthesmoker
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you're going to start flowering in 30 days? your plants will have eaten up most of the nitrogen in the soil by then. If you only have big bloom/tiger bloom you're going to be nitrogen deficient early in flowering during the stretch.
TheRuiner
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I'm using OF from FF as well and I transplanted into it just as I started flowering (from some happy frog/oceans forest mix), and the first thing I did was give them a 600ppm drink of Tiger and Big Bloom. Now I'm going to follow the every other watering feeding schedule they have. I'm going to ramp up the next feeding to at least 800-850ppm because I think they're going to eat it right up the way there growing. After that it will be 1000ppm and on with no looking back until the time to flush comes along.
What I'm getting at is that the ready to feed for 3 months thing is helpful, but not everything your plants could be using right now. I'd stick with feeding them the amount they like at every other watering like you were doing...
What I'm getting at is that the ready to feed for 3 months thing is helpful, but not everything your plants could be using right now. I'd stick with feeding them the amount they like at every other watering like you were doing...
TheRuiner
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http://foxfarmfertilizer.com/soilfeed.pdfhttp://foxfarmfertilizer.com/soilfeed.pdf
Here's what to follow, use these nutes at a diluted strength and ramp up to what the particular strain likes.
Here's what to follow, use these nutes at a diluted strength and ramp up to what the particular strain likes.
Jamaican Mon'
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I also use the trio, and if you dont give it Big grow or some form of nitro. base fert. then you will back on here just like everyone else saying, " why are my leaves dieing, please help!" The plant goes through a strech period where the branches if you will, start developing other nodes for big buds, and as we know vegging requires nitro. So if you dont, not only are you going to have small, weak, loose buds but your leaves are going to supply all the nutrients and the end result die.
merkstillgrows
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so what your saying you still gotta give it the grow big nute during flowering
bearthesmoker
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During the first 2 weeks of flowering they need it yes.
Jamaican Mon'
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after the first couple weeks slowly wean it off and slowly increase the tiger bloom, as the plant doesnt use much P during the early stages but will damand it during heavy bud growth. You got it nothing to it....
Good luck
Good luck
Total Head
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bingo. i have always relied on the fact that ocean forest is hot, which it is, and didn't bother using the grow big for a 30 day veg. but i have found yellowing much too early in flower if i don't give a shot of grow big around week 3 or so. indica varieties can blow right thru the stuff and they love it. sativas not so much. remember that the ff trio is designed with the assumption that you are using all 3. even though tiger bloom is fairly generous with the N it's not quite enough to keep the leaves in good shape if they were already starting to get deficient before you flipped the switch. i think a lot of people get caught up in the whole "flower is about making buds not leaves" deal. fact is if your leaves yellow and die off in week 5 of flower you are going to have a much shittier harvest than you had hoped.