Multi-Strain 1st Grow!

@downunderdank, excellent! :D let me know how it goes

@Jwjoh, thanks so much for the detailed reply. I have some maxibloom enroute :)

@downunderdank, look into MaxiBloom. It says for hydro but I've used it in soil too and it's fantastic. You can do an entire grow from start to finish with nothing but MaxiBloom. A $30 2.2kg bag of it should grow you at least a dozen plants, probably two or three times that much in soil since you're likely only watering a few times a week. Spend another $30 to get a bottle of CaliMagic (and use 1/4 the recommended dose every feeding) for peace of mind that your plants get enough Calcium and Magnesium -- even though MaxiBloom has a bunch in it already, it's extremely difficult to overdose plants on Calcium or Magnesium, so no harm in adding some more and not having to adjust to deficiency later on if it would occur. NOTE: The one "crappy" thing about MaxiBloom is it clumps up if you just dump the measured amount into water, and the clumps won't break apart even with vigorous shaking. You gotta take a few seconds to gently shake it out of the spoon. Also consider looking into LST (low stress training). I'm a huge fan of this and use it on every grow to some degree. Every time you tie down a branch, all the lower nodes on it grow vertically into their own branches with their own nodes :O Google some of the skeletal structures left behind after LST, some people make their plants spiral up like a staircase and all kinds of crazy bonzai-like shit that also serves a purpose. You can use all kinds of different materials for the tie-down, whatever you find is easiest/best to work with, I've developed my own method of carefully tying branches down to holes that I've drilled in the top of my buckets in a way where they will stretch and release the knots as the stems grow thicker. It's a little bit of extra work but I find it extremely relaxing, like making art that also gets you waaaay more buds! A lot of people use LST as a secondary method to assist with some larger purpose like ScrOG so many of the references on the internet will be a side-piece in a larger article about some other method, but just applying LST by itself will exponentially increase your yield without harming or stunting your plant growth if you do it carefully!