Major PITA's HB maintenance schedule and measurements spreadsheet

Major PITA;2500033 said:

Somehow I missed the post in your previous thread. Doh!

I caught up on this journal this morning. Several pages back Sue asked about my feeding schedule. I hesitate to offer my methods in case it creates confusion rather than helping. However, I must say, after a few weeks of using "The Kit", the results I am seeing are absolutley amazing. And using the kit has become like second nature. Doc helped a great deal with his explaination of how to portion the drenches for anything less than a 6 plant x 7 gal. growing situation. This is my method (I find it very simple to follow).

Brix and De-Stress foliars: Alternate one each of these two foliars each week on different days. I spread them out, using Wednesday (De-Stress) and Sunday (Brix). Either one is mixed at 1ml. per 1 oz. (or 30 ml.) of water (I don't need or want a quart at a time ... yet).

I use the spreadsheet below to calculate the measurements of the Drenches. Since I started with a single plant in 1 gal. of kit soil, but will end up with 2 plants in 25 gal. pots, it has served me well to ballpark the amounts needed for each feeding. Even if you grow 6 plants in 7 gal. pots, I don't know how often you'd mix up a full kit's-worth of drench. In my limited experience, different plants need water/feeding on different days - not all at once. Ignore the decimal points and round up or down to an easily measurable amount.

This is my drench "rotation" in veg:
1) Full Strength Transplant + Tea
2) Water + 1/4 strength Transplant
3) Growth Energy + 1/4 strength Transplant + Tea
4) Water + 1/4 strength Transplant
REPEAT

This is what I use to calculate how much I need.

For example, I now have 2 plants in 7 gal. pots. (14 gallons of soil in use).
Tea calculates to 0.7 ml. I use 1 ml.
Transplant calculates to 8.3 ml. I use 8 ml. (this is for a 1 oz. per full kit concentration)
1/4 strength Transplant is 2 ml.
GE calculates to a little over 4 ml. I use 4 ml.
Cat Drench will be the same as GE at 4 ml. once I get to using it in bloom.
*** None of this is critical. The 4 ml. I use could just as easily be 1 teaspoon, etc.

I'll be updating my journal tomorrow. The difference in the plants each week is ... astounding (to me). This even after a couple of mis-steps on my part (pots too hot in the sun burning the roots, accidental topping when trying to SC). I hope this helps and doesn't rekindle any potential fire. Cheers to all!

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