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Week by week water/nutrient ideas?

FilthyMcFly82
FilthyMcFly82started grow question 2 years ago
Anyone have an organic grow week by week water+nutrient schedule they wouldn't mind sharing. Past 3 grows I only used molasses and fish sh!t everytime I water. I feel I've been too hands off and relying on super soil to much.
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FilthyMcFly82
FilthyMcFly82answered grow question 2 years ago
Awesome! I definitely see a lot of good feedback. Appreciate the info.
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Jack_Sparrow
Jack_Sparrowanswered grow question 2 years ago
Supersoil works for first 3-4 weeks. After, you have to use fertilizer. Molasses and fish it's just additives.
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TheFattyMcCoy
TheFattyMcCoyanswered grow question 2 years ago
Check my grow, details details details
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 2 years ago
Forget the molasses, it does basically nothing and is an urban myth.........add mycorrhizae to your plants roots and get actual REAL benefits. Otherwise, half to three quarters strength organic fertilizers every 10 days or so should do the trick! Water deeply to runoff then wait until the top inch and a half is dry again before watering deeply to runoff again, is all that is basically required. I use a schedule of plain water/plain water/feed/plain water/plain water/feed and it has worked very well for me for over the last (roughly) 35 years.
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Sciolistic_Steve
Sciolistic_Steveanswered grow question 2 years ago
just wanted to add -- it's not foie gras... force feeding gluttony won't make it better. if you don't see deficiencies, you are probably meeting daily use of the plant relative to your environmental variables (which includes light provided) rates of use vs rate of intake... think of the leaves as a "buffer" like for streaming videos on internet... it smooths out minor issues over time. if you want to find out upper boundary, increase concentration of your super soil a bit more... slowly. and see results... see toxicity? reduce next time... might take several tweaks to know you are relatively near max feed rate.... changes to your environment shifts that goal line.
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Sciolistic_Steve
Sciolistic_Steveanswered grow question 2 years ago
That's the whole point of supersoil.. minimal input beyond what it provides.. if you want to be more precise or play mad scientist with the formula for different stages and whatnot, do soilless/hydro. What did you notice the past 3 grows that seem lacking? any symptoms? or, maybe just want to try pushing boundaries? add a little more to the soil next time or buy somethign you can top-dess or slow release type stuff... You could buy products like triple superphosphate (0-45-0 - also 17% of mass Ca) if you want to boost 1 of NPK etc. not sure if that falls under the marketing term, "organic." THat term as used for horticulural products has no place in science. it is not a science term as used by marketing/advertising of these products, and the science term is not very relevant to anything that goes on with caring for plants. The distinction in and of itself causes nothing. E.G. CO2 is inorganic.. there's no such thing as an organic garden.. all the carbon comes from an inorganic source no matter what you do. The back bone of near every single molecule of the plant is from an inorganic... most of it's mass not counting water-weight, i bet. Anyway, i wouldn't fear mixing non-organic products in as it makes no real difference. And, if you have healthy plants from seed to harvest, i wouldn't make and drastic changes... slow and steady wins the race at that point... test a boundary, and dial back if you have to or leave it and move on to next boundary to test.. somem of this stuff is relative to each other, too... try to limit what you change each grow moving forward to 1 thing at a time so you know its impact for best results.. don't thro a wrench into something that works well ;)
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