How to Replenish Dry Nutes?

[panopticist]

This is my first time using dry fertilizers, and I have a quick question...

How do you replenish your nutrients after they have ran out?

Here's what's going on:
I'm halfway through flowering two Snow Whites, and I'm starting to notice deficiencies. They've been in 2 gallon pots with a mixture of blood meal, bone meal, and dolomite lime for over a month. I've been watering them with plain water and everything has been going great until now.

I've come to the conclusion that my plant has exhausted all of the available nutrients in the soil, and was wondering if I should top dress or re-pot?

I don't really think repotting into new soil is a good idea, but I've done some reading and found that phosphorus doesn't travel well through the soil, which is basically what a top dress does. So I'm at a loss for ideas...

I used the GH FloraNova series for my previous grow, so I applied a dose of the Bloom formula to hold them over until I can find a better solution. I like my dry nutes better and would prefer to continue using them, rather than revert to the FloraNova again...

Any thoughts?

 

[NamelessCitizen]

I would double-pot. Cut the bottom off the pot the plant is in and set it on top of another pot with fresh mix that includes your flowering nutes.

 

[JackTheGrower]

A compost tea with liquid kelp would help.

Sea bird or bat guano can help as well.

Also as NamelessCitizen suggests more room is always good!

 

[LavenderCowboy]

With the "longterm" ferts you have in the mix, you should always keep some good water soluble ferts around for emergencies....You didn't say how much of the blood/bonemeal you put in, but where is the K for the mix?????I would keep using the bloom ferts till the end and work out a solution before next crop.....Topdressing bonemeal is a no-no...Like you said, it's a slow mover though the soil.....LC

 

[cway]

Tea from high phospshosurs bat guanos.

 

[FRANKENBLUNT420]

A compost tea with liquid kelp would help.

Sea bird or bat guano can help as well.

Also as NamelessCitizen suggests more room is always good!

i agree, if you know for sure you soil has run out. FOR ME i dont even bother going by the "calculated requirements" for adding nutes to soil anyway. i just eyeball it and dump in what i think the soil is going to need to sustain a plant, so needless to say i always have a lil more than the average in my soil, and it does give me the option to reuse. far as i can tell, the lime will keep things in order anyway. works for me and these SSH are takin their sweet time to finish. its been almost three months, theyre no where near done, and i am still getting slight nute burn, and no signs of deficiencies.

 

[panopticist]

With the "longterm" ferts you have in the mix, you should always keep some good water soluble ferts around for emergencies....You didn't say how much of the blood/bonemeal you put in, but where is the K for the mix?????

I originally went with dry nutes this time because I always burnt the tips of my leaves when using the FloraNova series. Not to mention, I was under the assumption that dry ferts lasted long enough to prevent having to administer nutes with the waterings.

I borrowed the soil mixture from Red_Greenery:

2 parts Promix
1.5 part Perlite
2 tbsp per gallon - Bone Meal
1 tbsp per gallon - Blood Meal
1 tbsp per gallon - Dolimite Lime

I'm new to mixing soil, so I looked for a simple recipe. I didn't even pay attention the the fact that there was no K in the mix.

Bad me.

I will continue with the FloraNova bloom 'till the end of this flowering period, but I want to continue using dry nutes. What would be a simple, yet effective mixture to feed a plant for a good two months?

By the way, here is what my setup looks like as of last week...