Yeah I grow outdoors. I had two indoors this season that I was very excited about and they fell to spider mites. I tried to fight it for 2 months before I gave up and just put them outside and neglected them. Now the spider mites are dead and they are super healthy and blooming, but with tiny little buds. And at this point in the game... Such wasted potential.
The dry kool bloom is pretty cheap and goes very far. Apparently it is less extreme than the liquid, I got it because it was so hot this year my buds have been rather undeveloped. I love alfalfa meal, and went ham on making a alfalfa meal and molasses tea and fed it to the girls extensively this whole season. I guess I got a little too excited and it was too much nitrogen, they grew extremely tall but their yields are not as bountiful as you'd think theyd be. Lesson learned, ease up on the alfalfa next season.
It sounds like you're using raw nutrients rather than a mix from a company? If that makes sense. I've only been using stuff from Down to Earth, guano and blood meal and bio-thrive. A few months before planting (once the ground thawed) I dug a 3'x3' trench and loaded it with a few bags of Michigan MAde Mix (the white bag of biosolids. Black gold!) and a few bags of
happy frog potting soil, a few pounds of guano and blood meal and azomite and alfalfa meal and buried it all. Then I've been using Neptunes Harvest fish and kelp every few weeks, used some
fish Sh!t a couple of times, pleanty of alfalfa meal, and once flowering started I hit them every few week with Mikrobes and started on
GEneral Organics Biothrive Bloom. I did much better with nutes this year but really need to get on a better schedule for next year.
I salted my plants a few years ago because I burned the hell out of them with
Fox Farm liquid nutes and got yelled at so much for it that I've been very scared of using any other types of salts since. I think it helped a little, the burn lessened up. I got some real bro-science going on, I'd do well to dial it in a little better.