It says it’s made for cannabis, but how do you figure out how much to give? I don’t think I’ve used any fertilizer with that high of a percentage for phosphorus. I’ve only used Dr. Earth products all these years.
First tent is a strain from “Brothers Grimm Seeds, HEADBAND 99 (Headband x Cinderella 99”. Second tent is a strain from "James Loud Genetics, TAYLOR SPLIFFT (Star Killer x Double Lemon Cherry).
Dr. Earth “Home Grown” 4-6-3
Dr. Earth “Flower Girl” 3-9-4
Worm Castings, from my worm farm… I also use this to make tea.
CalMag
ElementNutrients MYCO+
FLOWER FUEL Bloom Booster
For a long time I used Happy Frog 4-4-4, Jobes plant spikes and Foxfarm Big Bloom. I can’t remember the ratios and I lost the book but it was all in the True Living Organics - TLO. I think those can all be found at big box places.
It’s best used the week before transition and the first 2/3 weeks of the entire flowering cycle.
Transition
Early Flowering/Bud Development ( by the end of this stage the N has to be lower)
Fruiting
Budswell
Late Bloom
Fade
Harvest
Right before transition stage, you will see the female parts of the plant expand and more growth between the nodes. That would be the time to start the product. As to the amount …I don’t know.
However, I can make an educated guess. Langbeinite is 0-0-22 and it is measured in the tsp per gallon. 2-17-0 is bone meal and measured on the tsp per gallon. That product is 5-20-5, so I can safely assume 1 tsp per gallon of soil. However I would use 1/2 the recommended dosage. You can always add more if needed by making a tea with it for quick uptake just in case.
So, from what I was told, brand name doesn’t “really” matter as long as the percentages of NPK are what you need ? How real is this statement? I was always too scared to venture out and try other means of nutrients just because when I started growing I didn’t start with much money, so I went with what I’ve seen people use and I can see the outcome at the end. It was I guess what you call, a for sure thing, and I’ve stuck with the same nutrients since day one, other than adding a few boosters here and there.
I finally broke that cycle and seen this one brand that caught my eye, not because of price this time, but because of it being “all natural fertilizer”. It’s called, Down To Earth All Natural Fertilizers. Has anyone tried this yet? How was the final result if you have used this before? I ordered these so far, I think I covered everything…
I’ve used that same 4-4-4 reamending between grows. Works fine. Espomas stuff is pretty good too. I use the tomato tone full cycle if I remember to buy it
That’s the SDS sheet. Basically, it’s gonna spike a ton of chloride into your soil and make it fairly imbalanced in no time. It would be fine if in a soilless medium- you could regularly flush out the medium and remove salt buildup but in organics you don’t flush like that. If you start with balanced soil, that has a fairly high exchange capacity, you don’t need to feed a ton. It’s more about continually stimulating the soil life with doses of nutrition over time. The down to earth amendments are great for that. You can source stuff that has the same “derived from” names as on their products if you can’t find their stuff locally and be mostly fine. some brands may be more particular about quality, and you have to be careful about things being labeled “organic” as they often come from non-organic operations. It just depends how much of a stickler you want to be about your grow (for instance: organic straw is often from fields that have been sprayed with herbicide.)
I make my own soil, starting with something that’s similar to “Mel’s mix” and then add a bunch of amendments to that. I recycle my soil, add my dry leaf scraps, and re-amend it. It’s like my broke-man’s version of build-a-soil.
A lot of the stuff can be bought for cheap at places like feed stores (kelp, alfalfa, azomite) and if I can’t find it locally, I buy it online in bulk. Some places offer free shipping if you spend $100+ and I’ve definitely ordered 100 pounds of amendments at a time to get it :-).
