feeding rate
See you mentioned your pot size.
What type of medium are you using? Soil coco?
fox farm,
happy frog, roots?
Here is an example feeding scenario. Gotta vary it for your medium and strains.
If using a soil with nutes (like
fox farm ocean forest) I would start feeding after 4-6 weeks.
Monday = Water with ph'd water (use
calmg if using r/o water)
Tueday = (optional: foliar feeding if before week 3 of flower)
Wednesday - Lift pot. Is it light? or soil still damp? if light feed.
Thursday = nothing. pot is still wet damp
Friday = Lift pot. Is it light? or soil still damp? if light water like you did on monday
Saturday = nothing. pot is still wet damp
Sunday = Lift pot. Is it light? or soil still damp? if so feed
Then just keep repeating. Get the picture?
That is feeding about 2x a week 600-800ppm each time. (12-1600 ppm in a week) Some strains can take more some can take less. ALso depends on the size of the plant. (lots of factors)
I also build up with levels of food. Week 3-4 and you want to make them buds grow and start pumping the nutes
Week 1 800ppm
Week 2 900ppm
Week 3 1000ppm
week 4 1000ppm
Week 5 1000ppm
Week 6 1000ppm
Week 7 1000ppm
Week 8 500ppm
Week 9 water only 7-10 days then harvest
Another person I know just feed 1200 1x a week then water the rest of the week.
I look at it like this. Lets say your hungry and you eat a huge meal. The food isnt going to digest as well and your going to feel bloated, :)
so instead it is better to eat several small meal throughout the day. your never get hungry and your body digest the food well. Kinda same with cars too much gas and it get flooded, the right amount and your golden.
Plants work the same way. feed em too much and they burn just the right amount and they do well.
I used flora nova with
floralicious, koolbloom (liquid and powder)and
hygrozyme for my first grow.
First time I feed, I burned the leaves by using the dosage on the bottle. Once I got a ppm meter It helped out alot.
I also grew plant in
fox farm ocean forest and never gave it any food. Turned out it had really good taste but did not yield as well as the ones I fed.
long post, but hope that info make sense. And also helps you to help determine what works best for your scenario.