How do you feed your girls?

[supafly]

This is going to sound like a dumb ass question, oh well

When feeding you girls do you feed them only water with ferts in it or do you mix in a few glasses of pure water as well.

This is my way of doing things.

Ill water first with one 14oz cup of Ph adjusted disstilled water.
Then one 14oz cup of ferts (Tiger bloom, one teaspoon per gallon, also one teaspoon of sweet, then ph adjusted)
Then one and one half cups of Ph adjusted disstilled water.

Reason i ask is because i have had some over fert issues with my plants and i don't feel like this should be. I don't feed but maybe every third watering and it seems minute amount of ferts to me.

What do you guys think?

 

[JJScorpio]

First of all, TB is to be mixed at 1 tsp per gallon. Why burn the plants by giving 1 tsp per 14 ounces? Thats the equivalent of 9 tsp per gallon. You can put everything into 1 gallon of water and then you wont be burning the roots.

 

[Guest]

and why not just ph it all in the end, so theres not so much phosphoric acid

 

[supafly]

I think you guys missed what i was trying to say. I do mix up one gallon of water with a teaspoon of TB. (One teaspoon per gallon) And i do adjust the PH of the gallons of water last to make sure that they are all the same regardless what they have in them.

What im asking is just how much enriched water do you give your ladies per feeding.

Sorry if i confused anyone.

 

[Guest]

The gallon of water with tiger bloom is enriched water,I hope you take/adjust nutrient PH after adding tiger bloom and all additives.

 

[Guest]

I'm a Noob, but I think most people just do a single ph and nute adjusted feeding.

If you're mixing your nutes correctly in your "nute" feeding, then aren't you just diluting them with the before and after distilled water?

 

[Guest]

This is too confusing for something so simple,take a gallon of dechlorinated water,add nutes and additives,take ph reading,adjust if necessry,feed your girls.There is no a little of this a little of that,each plants medium should be throughly saturated every time you water,then let to go dry before watering/feeding again.Learn the saturated and dry weights of all containers used,runoff doesnt guarantee saturation.

 

[supafly]

Okay guys, let me try this again. The only thing that I am wondering is how many cups of the fertilized water should I be adding to the plants? You need about 3-4 cups of water (either fertilized or not) in order to saturate the plant. Should I, a) be using 3 or 4 cups of fertilized water to saturate the plant? Or, b) be using a cup of distilled water, then a cup of fertilized water, then another cup of distilled water to saturate the plant.

I'm sorry for the confusion. My pH levels and my additives are correct (1 tsp per gallon, not cup, of water).

This is how I am currently (and correctly) adjusting my water: * One tsp of tiger bloom per gallon, then pH adjust the gallon of water. All distilled water is pH adjusted by the gallon (not the cup). *

 

[Hotgurl]

If the soil is bone dry, some growers water first with plain water. Then water with fertilizer water till alot of runoff occurs. This prevents burn. Otherwise, just use fertilizer water till runoff occurs with no plain water first or a follow up with plain water after ferting.

On a side note, be careful adding sweet with only magnesium. If your going to add magnesium to the tiger bloom you might should add calcium also to keep a balance.


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[MTF-Sandman]

lol...just water them with the mix until you get runoff and wait until they are mostly dry before doing it again. This really isn't that complicated

BTW, fuck all that water/nute/water stuff...just mix it up and feed them.

 

[wantaknow]

i grow in a soil mix about 3 gal of soil per plant ,all i use in hornbys big bud powder ,i mix 1/8 cup of powderto 5 gallonsof water,let stand min of one day ,then i feeda single32 ozcup of mixed nutriant solution every day from stat of bloom to finished

 

[Hotgurl]

lol...just water them with the mix until you get runoff and wait until they are mostly dry before doing it again. This really isn't that complicated

BTW, fuck all that water/nute/water stuff...just mix it up and feed them.

Greenhouse growers often lightly water with plain water after ferting so the top inch of the pot is weaker than the rest with ferts. This may prevent burn when the pots are drying out. Lmao. No really they do.

Thanks for helping everyone mtf sandman. Your a real asset to icmag.

 

[SiR-GrOwS-aLoT]

what ur basically dong is over diluting your nutes... if your adding a cup of properly mixed nutes and an equal cup of plain water ur diluting your nutes to half strength in the pot

 

[supafly]

I understand that by adding water on top im diluting the mix. With this I have still suffered some nute burning. And it's sucks ass to feel like your diluting your ferts and still burning plants, somthings wrong there.

Thanks guys i got the info that i needed.

 

[Guest]

Hey Supafly,

Didn't seem (to me at least) that anyone really hit on what you were asking. The fact that you had burn 'issues' in the past means that something you did before torched her. Be it adding too much nutes, too many feedings, not enough flushing..and so on.

Now it sounds like you are diluting your nutes, mixing them up properly and yet are starting to see signs of your plant burning.

If I may be so bold - what signs are you seeing? Not to question your knowledge, more to make sure it is indeed burning and not nute lockout (which would then cause focus on how you're mixing up your soil).

Personally - here's what I would do....probably due to coming from a hydro background.

Get some distilled water and an EC meter... water her till ya get some decent runoff and test it. Also test the nute mix you have..

Bottom line these girls are easy and flow with nature. If ya see burning then it's the normal checklist to run down - it WILL be one of those causing the issue, we just sometimes refuse to believe it.

 

[fatboyOGOF]

howdy.

that's an odd way to water bro but whatever works for you.
if you burn em, just cut back on the ferts and figure out the right mix.

when they are fully into flower i usually water 2 times with full nutes then a good flooding with tap water. if i notice any burn (very rarely) i just cut back on nutes for the next watering or flush, whichever seems appropriate. i typically just follow the instructions on the bottle of whatever ferts i'm using. currently botanicare's line and a few other additives.

when i grew my first crop, i used bottled water. i treated them like delicate flowers. it's umpteen crops later and now they are lucky if i water them at all. i'm so used to seeing pot growing, i sometimes forget they need watering. lol