yep, my soil plants are not on double but my dwc is,
im growing the same strains ive grown before, but as i was always told autos need the most light i grew all my plants under 20-4 or 24-0 in veg, all my autos did poor and i was about to swap my dual spec hps for a mh for veg and normal hps for flower, but i switched my lights to 17-7 for this grow, now these plants ive grown before are doing so much better, growth is twice as much, ive never seen this strain with leaves this big in my other grows, nothing has changed apart from the plants getting less light,
for instance my autos was grown under 20-4 i was getting around 1/4oz per plant, then i grew them under 12-12 and got 3ft palnts with 2oz yield, so clearly autos flower due to light hours and not days, so giving an auto 20-4 means their maturing to early and starting to flower around week 2, under 12-12 they started flowering around week 4 and took 4 weeks longer to finish, usually my autos would harvest at 1ft, under 12-12 they reached 3ft with 1ft buds, my last auto under 12-12 had 4 1ft buds the pics are in my journal,
so now im growing the same autos under 17-7 with my regular plants and ill grow some more under 12-12 just to make sure its working how i think it works,
i think an auto works on light hours, for example 240 hours of light till harvest
under 24-0 thats 10 days, its just an example but easier to explain this way,
under 12-12 it takes twice as long
we know plants grow roots in the dark, more roots means the plant takes more nutrients and more water, this comes into the dwc post below, plus it repairs damage done in day light hours and the plant also stretches to find the light, this is why when we flip regular plants 12-12 they stretch for the first few weeks, their trying to get back to the light, just the same as a plant in the shade or to far from light it just makes them stretch,
so autos under 12-12 are stretching in the dark which means more nodes and longer branches, this means more buds, so at the minute it looks like giving autos 20-4 or 24-0 is the wrong idea and just makes them mature to early and gives poor yields, giving them a longer night period makes them grow bigger but they take slightly longer to grow, so ill try and find the sweet spot their under 17-7 now then ill try 16-8 and see which method works best for autos,
now we get onto the double dose bpn,
my dwc that im growing now is a strain ive grown before, ive got one in soil and one in dwc again this time, now under 20-4 the roots didnt get to the bottom of the res until nearly before i flipped 12-12, under 17-7 my dwc is about 7 inches high but the roots are nearly 3ft long, so clearly the extra dark period is growing the roots, the leaves are huge as well, twice the size compared with under 20-4, then i noticed it was looking a little pale so i upped the bpn dose, it went back a nice green colour for a couple of days then went light again, it seemed as if the more the roots grew the more the plant grew and the more nutrients and water it could take in,
so i kept upping the dose and im about at double dose now on the veg2 schedule, im using 3parts plus bloom booster so its just getting the grow/micro and bloom at the moment, no bloom booster,
the plant is now a nice shade of green, the leaves feel much better than any of the spoil plants or any of the other dwc in the past, im pretty sure 17-7 is whats giving the plants the boost their getting, ive never been able to up the dose this much before with any of my plants, now my soil plants are not on double dose, they cant take it, i have only just upped to the next schedule from veg 1 to veg 2 with the soil plants as they showed signs of stress when i upped the dose to early so backed off again, so its the dwc thats taking the double dose of bpn, i wouldnt get trying it without gradually upping the dose over a week or more,
but yes my dwc is now taking double dose of bpn 3 part, grow,micro and bloom, im amazed with the results this time round, all my plants are growing like crazy, their growing much faster now compared with 20-4, nothing at all has changed apart from the light schedule, so these plants will grow under 24-0 and 20-4 we all know this, but clearly giving them more dark allows more root growth and more stretch during dark period, my plants still have very close node spacing, so not stretching in a bad way, but both the stem and branches are growing quick,
so from now on ill be using 18-6 and below for all future grows, when im not growing autos ill use glr as that done well in the past but cant use it with autos,
when i spoke with corey last i asked about upping the dose, he said it is ok to up the dose as long as its gradual, he said the feeding guide on his site is set up for all types of grows and different soils, so he said some soils might want a higher dose so it can be adjusted to suit the plants and environment, he said the guide he put up is just a guide and one that works with both hydro and soil grows so their is room to adjust and up the dose as needed, in the past ive tried upping the dose but ive never been able to up it this much,
but this dwc just seems to keep on wanting more, the roots have not got longer in the last couple of days but they pretty much filled the res now, so when i get up tomorrow im going to have to find a bigger res,
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