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I said nothing. This was a mistake..... Below is the real question.
How do you increase these beyond the nutrients normal feeding schedule?Nitrogen and especially the Potassium are so necessary even in flowering that
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I said nothing. This was a mistake..... Below is the real question.
How do you increase these beyond the nutrients normal feeding schedule?Nitrogen and especially the Potassium are so necessary even in flowering that
Part of the answer is that many of us are making suggestions based on what we understand about the individual nutrient and its effect on the plant. If it was my plant then yes I would be adding a dose of mild source of Nitrogen and a dose of a mild source of Potassium but that started long ago. I have also started adding the flowering fertilizers about 2 weeks before I put the plants into flowering. So far I have been able to keep them the same shade of healthy green up to approx 6 weeks after the stigma/pistils start showing.So is it important to up those without the rest of the nutrients? Fert?
Part of the answer is that many of us are making suggestions based on what we understand about the individual nutrient and its effect on the plant. If it was my plant then yes I would be adding a dose of mild source of Nitrogen and a dose of a mild source of Potassium but that started long ago. I have also started adding the flowering fertilizers about 2 weeks before I put the plants into flowering. So far I have been able to keep them the same shade of healthy green up to approx 6 weeks after the stigma/pistils start showing.
Keep in mind that once it starts it is hard to stop a plant from taking the nutrients it needs from existing leaves. Often at best trying to reverse this will not stop it. The best to hope for is to slow the process down.
As @bluter and several others have mentioned it is better to finish out this grow on the schedule you have been using. This will give an idea of how the plant grows and what signals it gives that everything is going great or that something is off.
There are man-made sources and natural or organic sources of either of them. The thing is that unless you understand what each does for the plant are you are just taking stabs in the dark.Nitrogen and especially the Potassium are so necessary even in flowering that
How do you increase these beyond the nutrients normal feeding schedule?
And that is accomplishing very little. If anything it is contributing to what you are seeing. Basically, the plant is taking what it needs from the largest source which are the largest leaves. Then when it has pulled everything it can from a leaf it goes to the next largest leaf and starts doing the same thing.Its just happening really fast. Like daily leaves go straight to yellow. If I pull the yellows the next day there are more yellows.
Keep in mind that if you keep throwing fertilizers at what appears to be a common problem you risk what some call a lockout. That is when too much of one nutrient reduces the plants ability to absorb one or more of the other nutrients it needs. Too much Nitrogen can reduce the plants ability to take in Potassium. And, too much Potassium can cause the plant to have problems taking in Nitrogen.So what ive noticed is the VEG Dr Earth has 4% Nitrogen in it. The Bloom Booster has 3%.
So I considered just giving it one tablespoon of the veg and 4 of the Bloom Booster at next feeding. Which is only two days away I believe.
Only thing ive done is flushed it once and fertilized it on schedule except the time in veg when it was missed for two weeks. That is the only thing I have done. But I dont know what the hell someone else did.Already, over the past week or so, you have tried several things and if one of them was to work it will not be easy to figure out which one it was.
Yeah but the frustrating thing is what it could have been. Kills meBased on what I can see you will get a decent harvest as it is.
Don't waste your time worrying about what might have been, put it down to experience and deal with what you haveYeah but the frustrating thing is what it could have been. Kills me
Exactly right. Whatever this plant yields will give you a target to try to better next round. You'll probably never have a perfect grow. Just keep on learning and getting better but most importantly enjoy the journey.Don't waste your time worrying about what might have been, put it down to experience and deal with what you have
Wanted to show you guys a few photos of the plants in the basement.might have been a pain but you learned piles, and your next grow will be even better when you use the full nute schedule.
edit : i wouldn't fret. i know loads of guys who got blanked their first time out.
The trichomes start off clear and then turn cloudy about the time they stop producing THC then over the next several weeks a percentage of them will turn amber as they degrade. Some like the effect/high when the trichomes are as close to 100% cloudy and some like to wait another 2 or more weeks till they see 10 to 20% amber.A few questions...
I see people saying that its when the trichomes turn back into the plant and when they are cloudy. Then I hear others saying its the Calyxs turn back toward the plant and turn from white to brown or red or other than white.
So its got me confused. Which is it?
With practice and after several grows the gardener starts to see patterns. As the end is approaching the leaves can change appearance and color. The rate of growth of the buds changes. Fewer and fewer new stigma/pistils are growing and eventually next to no new ones. There are more things happening.The other question is... How do you know when you are a week or two from harvest...
Figuring out when the week or two from harvest is going to be is part of the watching for patterns. But, what is the point of stopping the plants being able to take in nutrients? Makes no sense to start to kill the plant since the last two weeks are just as important as any other two weeks in the flowering stage.when you are a week or two from harvest potentially to stop feeding them for long enough to get nutrients out of the plant?
Thanks. I figured. I'm just paranoid. All this time and to mess it up at the end would be frustrating.lotsa white and new pistils. it's got a few wks to go.
So I should feed it the 1-1-1 liquid gold when called for even though I've never given it to them.