Afghi420
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Ok, i am doing my first real organic outdoor grow this summer with some Iranian Auto's from Greenthumb.. Anyways, i am probably 2-3 weeks away from harvest and i've got some questions.. A few of my plants are really lacking in yield, now i understand with organic growing if you aren't giving tea's regularly or have a strong soil base then you will have lowered yields for sure.. A coupole of my plants have fairly decent sized buds and they still have a couple weeks left so im not too worried about them, but some of the plants have such small buds they wont even amount to anything at all once dried.. I have resisted the urge so far to add or do anything that would mess with my microlife.. As far as feeding is concerned though i have only been giving Organicare Pure dry nutes for fertilizer... Besides that i have just relied on whats in my soil.. My soil consists of some pro mix for texture, then i used lots of fresh bagged compost, earth worm castings, sheep shit some organic topsoil and lots of perlite. I noticed on one of my plants the lower leaves were all starting to fade quite a bit, but it seemed a little to early to be doing this.. I had a friend make me up a tea the other day for the first time and gave them that.. I had him make it so it was a little light on nitrogen, i wanted to kind of slow them down from robbing the plants of nitrogen, but i didn't want to give them so much that they start wanting to produce leaf.. Another thing i noticed on a few plants is there is barely any crystal at all, so for those plants i have been getting the urge to switch back to bottle feeding to try and pack on a little bit of size and some crystal for the final couple or 3 weeks... Now if i switch from organics to bottle feedin g with earth juice, which should start screwing with my microlife from the heavy chelating acids in the EJ, will this do to much damage to my plants or is the switch from organic growing to bottle feeding a smooth transistion?? Or should i just resist the urge to bottle feed and keep them organic? The thing is i know my yields are going to be next to nothing on some plants. Should i maybe just give them a couple more strong tea's with more P to get some crystal production going? Atleast a couple opf my plants are fine, decent sized buds and lots of crystal, so i should atleast get to experience some real organic bud here soon.. JJust wondering what i can do to save my plants that have really tiny buds and barely any crystal production...