went 2 weeks with no ferts...

[joe fresh]

so i was feeding my plants once per week at about 900 ppm and they looked great...i ran out of ferts and the last feeding was on jan 28...then i bought new ferts and just gave en a dose at 900ppm on the 10th of feb....technically they would have missed one or 2 feedings as i am doing a feed water feed regimen...i did give them a good drench of compost tea(0.4EC) on the 6th of feb while waiting for nutes, then the next watering was nutes on the 10th of feb @ 1.8EC

they have not perked up as much as i would of liked, but are looking better.


i was just wondering how most of you guys would have handled the situation, would you have given a bigger dose? or just continued with the same feeding dose like i did, and wait for them to come back?

 

[joe fresh]

no one? i guess this doesnt happen too often to others, lol

 

[JOE CHRONIC]

so i was feeding my plants once per week at about 900 ppm and they looked great...i ran out of ferts and the last feeding was on jan 28...then i bought new ferts and just gave en a dose at 900ppm on the 10th of feb....technically they would have missed one or 2 feedings as i am doing a feed water feed regimen...i did give them a good drench of compost tea(0.4EC) on the 6th of feb while waiting for nutes, then the next watering was nutes on the 10th of feb @ 1.8EC

they have not perked up as much as i would of liked, but are looking better.


i was just wondering how most of you guys would have handled the situation, would you have given a bigger dose? or just continued with the same feeding dose like i did, and wait for them to come back?

I would say you applied the correct feeding at normal rate as too little is better than too much when it comes to ferts.

Keep us posted Joe...

 

[Homebrewer]

i was just wondering how most of you guys would have handled the situation, would you have given a bigger dose? or just continued with the same feeding dose like i did, and wait for them to come back?

I would have fed at a 'normal dose' when I finally got my hands on some more plant food. A larger dose than I normally feed would burn and if the salts didn't get taken up by the plant immediately, those excessive salts would have just built up in the soil and caused issues later. You did the right thing, IMO.