Fertilizer Time Release

rastabama

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I have a few questions, Ive been getting hazy and contradictory info.

1. How soon after watering with a chemical fertilizer such as Tiger Bloom will the nutrients be active in soil/ available to the plant?

2. How long will a chemical fertilizer like Tiger Bloom release nutrients into the soil after it is delivered?

3. How soon after feeding with an indonesian bat guano tea brewed for at least 24 hrs. will nutrients be active in the soil/ available to the plants?

4. How long will a guano tea release nutrients into the soil?

5. Should the nutrient concentration curve remain smooth plateauing at 3 wks and tapering off after the sixth week or should it plauteau at 3 wks then spike at 5 1/2 wks followed by a tapering off?

If you're oldschool or into chemistry let me know what you think. Thaks guys.
 
Tiger bloom is 80% organic so its not giong to be quite as available as a pure chemical nute. Chem nutes should be instantly available where as your organic nutes will need to be broken down by the microbes and whatnot in the soil.

The nutes are not being "released" into the soil, they are applied and stored in the soil so when the plants need them they will be there. Chem nutes will sit in your soil forever and that is why you need to leach your soil or at least get a decent amount of runoff. That salt ring around the top of your pot is nutrients that are still available to the plant.

As far as the concentration curve goes, most nute schedules have the PPM a bit lower in the beginning, then in the middle of flower when the plant is putting on weight the concentration is higher, and then they start to lower it again around like week 5. I tend to start out with a lower dose then work my way up to my highest PPM at about week 4. At this point I keep my PPM around the same for next 3 weeks until flushing.

I am not super familiar with organics, so I am not going to go into those questions.

Hope this helps a bit
Bob
 
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