Maat Aatack
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Just wondering when the flowering cycle officially begins and the transition phase is over?
When to switch nute program?
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RockinDaGanja
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Are you indoors or outdoors?
If your indoors your flowering phase begins when you change your light cycle from 18/6 to 12/12.
Are you growing regular seeds or autos?
If your indoors your flowering phase begins when you change your light cycle from 18/6 to 12/12.
Are you growing regular seeds or autos?
Maat Aatack
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Hey thanks for the reply... I'm indoors, soil, and growing feminized seed. I spotted first flowers about 4-5 days ago roughly a couple of weeks since I switched light to 12. I've been feeding the "transition to bloom" schedule and just want to know when I should start pushing the bloom nutes.
RockinDaGanja
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I wouldnt push anything if there just starting to show signs of flowering just stick to your feeding schedule watch your plants and see how much there feeding. What kind of nutes are you using in your soil? What kind of soil?
Maat Aatack
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I use the GH trio, along with humic acid and a bit of super thrive in Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil. I keep pretty close tabs on them. But I didn't want to take anything away or add anything that they might need or not need.
RockinDaGanja
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I used to use the same method as far as synthetic nutrients in my soil. Now after a bunch of grows some bad some really good ive learned that if your going to grow in soil. It is better to build a soil with everything the plant needs in it (subcools supersoil is a good place to start). All i use for nutes now is compost teas. The idea is to feed the soil not the plant if that makes sense. You want to build a healthy soil food web with all the beneficial microbes already in the soil so it's like a buffet for your plants.
Maat Aatack
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Yes. That sounds pretty complex. I'm sure after I get a few of these grows under my belt, I will be looking to advance my technique. I would be interested in any references you could link regarding the soil building as you say.
707humboldt
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I feed 1 transition feed the week I flip to flower (50/50 veg & flower food) then I use straight flower food after that
RockinDaGanja
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Check out build a soil.com or like i mentioned before subcools super soil recipe. Its actually a lot easier then bottle feeding your plants and the end product is better in my opinion. Also very hard for diseases, lockout and PH problems to occur.
Maat Aatack
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Ya? Thanks! What's your rate and schedule if you don't mind me asking?
707humboldt
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I use botanicare, I can still give you a ballpark of my feeding schedule if you want though.
Maat Aatack
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ya hit me I'm familiar with the product lines of botanicare.
707humboldt
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I start off at 600ppm after week 3 in ocean forest and work up to 1500-1900ppm depending on strain and how they are taking it. I use pretty much the whole pure blend line. If I'm in coco I start at 300 from the start.
I use in veg....
Pure blend pro grow
Liquid karma
Cal-mag & Silica blast (I rotate them every other week)
Vitamino (every other week)
Orca (not by botanicare but love this stuff)
Flower....
Pure blend pro bloom
Liquid karma
Cal-mag & silica blast (I rotate them every other week)
Vitamino (every other week)
Hydroplex (low does week 1 then start week 3-4)
Earth juice hybrix molasses (I like it better than botanicare sweet)
I use in veg....
Pure blend pro grow
Liquid karma
Cal-mag & Silica blast (I rotate them every other week)
Vitamino (every other week)
Orca (not by botanicare but love this stuff)
Flower....
Pure blend pro bloom
Liquid karma
Cal-mag & silica blast (I rotate them every other week)
Vitamino (every other week)
Hydroplex (low does week 1 then start week 3-4)
Earth juice hybrix molasses (I like it better than botanicare sweet)