Feeding my WW extra food!

guyson

guyson

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So for the past week or so i decided to start feeding my white widow some extra bio bloom and topmax. The normal rate is about two caps of each for 3L, so i decided to start feeding a cap extra of each and seems to be taking well to it - i hear that white widow love the extra bit of food too!

So my question is, is should i try and increase the feed slightly more to see how she takes to it? As i've already said, apparently white widow love the extra bit of food. I'm not too sure on this but someone might be able to tell me some more on this.

Also, during the last week of feeding before flushing, could i strengthen the topmax and biobizz or maybe just the topmax a lot more to give it that little extra boost IF i flush properly?
 
Mother's Finest

Mother's Finest

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If you plan to grow this strain again, by all means find out how much fertilizer it can handle at a given size and write it down. Just watch the lowest and oldest leaves like the pod leaves and the first single-bladed leaves for signs of burning. Imo every flowering plant should have those leaves burnt to a crisp by the time it's done. If those leaves don't see nutrient burn by the end of flowering, you could have added more fertilizer. You'll probably want to alternate with plain water first, or else you won't get a good idea how much the plants can handle in one feeding because the substrate is still soaked with the previous feeding.

You probably don't want to feed extra at the last feeding. When plants go through a growth spurt at the end of flowering, new flowers form that won't have time to mature, yielding a speedier & unripe high. That's one of the reasons for flushing at the end- washing away nutrients to minimize new growth and focus on ripening the existing buds. Another reason not to feed extra at the end of flowering is that you're going to be washing most of the ferts away during the flush anyway and the more that are there, the more money that gets thrown away.
 
guyson

guyson

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Mother's Finest said:
If you plan to grow this strain again, by all means find out how much fertilizer it can handle at a given size and write it down. Just watch the lowest and oldest leaves like the pod leaves and the first single-bladed leaves for signs of burning. Imo every flowering plant should have those leaves burnt to a crisp by the time it's done. If those leaves don't see nutrient burn by the end of flowering, you could have added more fertilizer. You'll probably want to alternate with plain water first, or else you won't get a good idea how much the plants can handle in one feeding because the substrate is still soaked with the previous feeding.

You probably don't want to feed extra at the last feeding. When plants go through a growth spurt at the end of flowering, new flowers form that won't have time to mature, yielding a speedier & unripe high. That's one of the reasons for flushing at the end- washing away nutrients to minimize new growth and focus on ripening the existing buds. Another reason not to feed extra at the end of flowering is that you're going to be washing most of the ferts away during the flush anyway and the more that are there, the more money that gets thrown away.
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i'm in the 5th week flowering now.. do you think it's a good idea to continue slowly adding more - week by week (say a cap a week or 1/4 a cap extra each time) until about the 7th week (10weeks flowering total) and keep the amount of nutes the same until flush, and then obviously flush that shit out!

my strain is a 10 week flower phase i think too!
 
guyson

guyson

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for example, would i keep increasing up until say week 7 and keep the nute strength the same til harvest... OR would i keep increasing up to week 7 and start reducing the feed ready for flush?

Week 7 was just an example but i think that's about right!
 
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