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Should I use fertilizers for an Autoflowering?
Growkongstarted grow question 5 years ago
Would you recommend to use fertilizers, although Royal Queen Seeds write on there website that Royal Gorilla Automatics don't really need those/ only a very few amount? And if so, which one would you recommend, that I would also find in a hardware store?
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Pot_Portraitsanswered grow question 5 years ago
Sure, i'm running 5 of these right now, every auto need fertilizer. One easy to use fertilizer is Bio Bizz, organic product, not to much risk of over feeding.
If you are limited to a hardware store than any basic fertilizer similar to a NPK ratio of 20-10-20 will work.
You can also use soil feeding, for example RQS offers the soil fertilizer that you mix with soil and then use during the whole grow, running one Royal Gorilla with that right now and the plant does great 👌
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