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should i add bio pk? “week 2” of flower (Bio tabs grow)

Diips
Diipsstarted grow question a day ago
Should i consider adding bio pk? currently in week 2 of flower, running bio tabs starter pack.. on the bottle of bio pk, it says to add in week 1, 4 and 6. should i wait till week 4 or am i still in time for adding it to my plants?
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00110001001001111Oanswered grow question a day ago
Depends completely on how much P/K you already add. It's not foie gras. You can't force feed it. It's not about more, it is about the right amount. This varies for all sorts of reasons from your environment, to the ratio of concentrations of your nutrients provided. If you add more and get symptoms, don't be afraid to dial back. It may even take weeks to present itself. Keep track of how you feed over time and it can help grealty when making adjustments to your process the next cycle. It's only difficult if you work top-down (inductive reasoning). You focus on some bro science like "use pk booster" even though it's more complicated than that, those growers rarely can admit that it's wrong even if the canopy is burnt to shit, lol. so, Learn the symptoms for p and k toxicities. (leaf symptom charts aplenty). Learn what they potentially lock out (mulder's chart) and then also those symptoms. this stuff really is monkey-see, monkey-do level of difficulty. Then you are prepared to make adjustments based on evidence... more is not always better. rate of use vs rate of provision. If you find an upper limit, back off and that reduced level probably work well next time too. I feed same levels of P/K the entire grow and still do fine relative to ambient co2 ceiling on yield. the plant relies on getting something like 60% of p and k from 'active transport' vs simply diffusing into roots. So, the plant sends out carrier molecules to grab it on demand - must have some sort of feedback system at play. So, adding "more than what is useful" just means it's either building up or draining out with runoff and wasting money.
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question a day ago
I would be waiting until there are actual small budlets/flowers starting to form and count that as week 1 of flowering. As of now, your plant is undergoing hormonal changes since you went to 12/12, but as yet, she is not actually flowering, just still in the "getting ready to flower" stage. It won't make any real difference if you start a few day earlier or later than what your calendar says.
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m0use
m0useanswered grow question a day ago
IMO I don't think PK boosters are need if the feed if it's well rounded in the first place. But if you have the product then try it and see what happens. I would follow the directions and give it a weeks 1-4-6 like it says. If you skipped the first week just give it weeks 4 and 6 and maybe 8 if you feel like it. or alter it a bit. so week 2-5-7 keeping the time between doses the same around 2 weeks. If its an amendments mix it into the top later and water in so the microboes can break it down, if its a disolvable power confirm the EC is not to high before giving it.
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