View attachment 536863 View attachment 536863 Hey guys, ok, I'm growing two auto OG Kush from Nirvana Seeds.
First off lemme just give the basics: ALL the variables/factors are EXACTLY the same for these like medium (
FFOF Soil about 50%, mixed with 15% perlite, 25% vermiculite and roughly 10% sphagnum moss for texture/aeration, etc) in, I believe, about 3 gal pots...lighting is 1 250 watt 2700k CFL emitting 15000 lumens that serves the 'main' light for the entire tent (btw is a black, reflective Mylar lined grow tent, measures 25"x25"x48"; I have one 4" fan for intake and a clip on 7" fan inside the tent for circulation as well as a 4" Ventech fan pulling heat/exhaust thru a 4" aluminum/foil 'dryer line exhaust' 450 cfm attached to a carbon scrubber) as well as a light fixture I rigged with TWO 45watt 2700k CFL's AND TWO 23 watt 6500k CFL's that altogether put out somewhere in the 10,000 lumen range. Also I just put 2 more 45 watt 2700k CFL's for back/side lighting)...
Ok, I'm just gonna cut to my question, as quickly as possible but including any essentials y'all should know: ok, as these are autos and are generally light feeders (so I've read) but I DO USE NUTES! and I'm thinking maybe too many, not necessarily too MUCH as I use about 30%-40%, at most, of the amount recommended on the bottles. I use as my BASIC nutrients the
Fox Farm Soil Trio that consists of: Big Bloom, a micro nute, NPK of .01-.3-.7 and includes EWC and bat guano; Grow Big, for veg, NPK of 6-4-4; and Tiger Bloom, for flowering, NPK of 2-8-4. In addition to these I use a bunch of
Advanced Nutrients different products:
Voodoo Juice, Tarantula and Piranha (for roots) and ALL the aforementioned products I use basically throughout the plants life, veg and bloom unless instructed otherwise on the bottle. Also during and towards the end of flowering, again depending on instructions, I use: CarboLoad,
Sensizym,
Big Bud, Nirvana, Overdrive,
Budcandy and, appropriately, Flawless Finish. All that said, I'm still dialing it in and trying to see which nutes are really making the difference for what I spend on them. This is hard because I have a small grow space that's really only big enough to grow 2-3 plants so doing a kind of 'control' experiment to discern the efficacy or lack thereof of using these nutrients.....long story short; Does anyone have experience with any or all of these products and how well they work and/or what I can do without or if any of them maybe counteract the effects of another???
Also, last thing, I promise. If my plants soil is dry and basically, I feel, COULD be watered daily, should I water it daily? ( I know, stupid question) I mean it's a big plant and probly could use the H2O every day, sans the nutes. On the other side of the coin (and tent, lol) I have my other plant which surprisingly is an absolute DWARF (although it's only about a week younger), gets the same nutes, same light schedule (18/6) and even came from the same batch of seeds! I think I may have stunted it by letting the tap root get exposed when it was about a week old which I then immediately put it in its final pot.
Alright, I'm done now. Thanx for bearing with me, if you did, for this whole thing.
I'm releasing this post in paperback in December so be on the lookout, lol!!!! Totally joking. I'm including some photos as visual aids and just to let you guys see how they look and if you notice something I don't. Peace!!!
P.s. Tent temp is 72*-80* with RH of between 36%-42% and the big girl is in week 2 of (pre?)flowering.
