I'm using CRF nutes, so I just water with, ummmmmmmmm, water
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and cal/mag
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I'm using CRF nutes, so I just water with, ummmmmmmmm, water.
and cal/mag
whats to control?must be hard to control whats going on with that stuff.What i meant was once ec levels are up then can you alternate feed once a week like soil and water in between or feed everytime ?
No, it's a great question, and I had the same one about CRF nutes.
These fertilizers are designed to be applied once at the beginning of a grow, and that's it.
You mix them into the medium, and they keep the EC levels correct automatically through osmosis.
They give your plants only what they need so there is no risk of burning.
You can use water only, or you can alternate water with a liquid fertilizer, but the CRF's seem to work quite well all by themselves.
Some other guy.... said:Here's my current coco mix recipe: (2 gal formula):
6 qt - coco
2 qt - perlite
1.5 oz - blood meal
1.5 oz - bone meal
1.5 oz - kelp meal
1.5 oz - green sand
1 oz - epsom salt
2 oz - dolomite
1 oz - cottonseed meal (NPK slow release)
1 oz - dry molasses (bacteria food)
2 oz - mycorrhizae fungi
* all of these amendments have micro nutrient
When I flip tp 12/12, I transplant from 1 gal to 5 gal using the same mix except no blood meal. This will provide another 3-4 weeks of food.
This mix BY FAR is the best I have tried, I've been tweaking this one for months. Kelp meal was the only hard item to find.
Let this mix 'cook' for a few weeks if you can by letting it sit around after it's mixed, but it's not necessary really. At least I have no issues using it right away.
Good luck man, let me know how this works out!
Random Heads Gardening in other Beds said:"Consider Coco as needing to be 'led' along with the plants. Once the medium establishes a buffer, which it will do based on the nutrients it sees right or wrong; the grower can wipe this out by applying plain water to the medium. The medium hangs on to nothing and will readily flush away its nutrients; then the plant will suffer until the buffer is restored. Always use fertilizer when you water coco that a plant is actively growing in, at least at about EC=0.6 mS/cm3. This will hold the balance or ratio of the nutrients to each other and insure that the plant gets exactly what it needs."
"I have an EC meter, but use the ppm (not sure on the conversion - .5?, it's a Hanna though). Normally I don't go over 800-900ppm tops, if they are hungrier than that I feed more frequently. Only if that doesn't work is when I hit 'em harder than that."
"I've tried a few different nutes for blooming including Fox Farms Tiger Bloom (with Big Bloom) and the Botanicare's CNS17 for coco series (Bloom, Ripe, CalMag, Sweet, etc.).
They all work well though both needed calcium supplementing beyond the CalMag in my case. Each plant can have it's own feed schedule. I had a Cali Hash that would devour anything I threw at her, she required nutes every watering at about 900ppm.
My LSD on the otherhand would tox up at 600ppm if I feed her every watering, so she was alternating between waterings. She was fed a little heavy going into flower and I gave her straight water for 2 weeks before she was ready to feed again for example. I chose that over flushing just to see how much nutes coco could store. With a light feeder it's quite a bit.
Lately I've been using organics. My mix requires nothing more than water until mid flowering, at which point I add a top dressing of some bone meal, bat guano, lime, greensand, and kelp meal. This provides a major blast of phosphorous, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron and micro nutrients. So far I have one plant about to harvest with this feed (Super Lemon Haze - buds are really fat and triched out), and I have 4 other plants that are 5-10 weeks into flower using this. So far they all LOVE it (prettiest plants yet) except one very stubborn sativa."
I'm using CRF nutes, so I just water with, ummmmmmmmm, water.
and cal/mag
I hope this helps more than confuses....
Cheers for the info Setting Sun, they sound like good low maintenance method, but personally I do like hand feeding, mixing up nutes, taking measurements....all part of the fun of growing for me. But when I want an easier life, this looks like the way!![]()
well, as it turns out, since I'm unable to use my tap water and have to add cal-mag to either RO or rainwater, my "just add water" way of growing didn't pan out.
If I have to add *anything*, it's not much more work to add other things to my water also.
The nutes I've been using recently with great success are GH's Maxigro and Maxibloom, which are dry powdered nutes, PH buffered, and way cheaper than even CRF's.
PH'ing my solution is the biggest hassle, and the maxi nutes do a great job of buffering, plants are happy, I'm happy![]()
I'm new to growing and am just wondering if any one could recommend some liquid ferts that are good for hand watering in coco. Any information will be greatly appreciated as I am a complete noob thanks in advance.