I was going back through some of the earliest journals I subbed back in 2017 and found this:
"I do have a new feed formula for bloom that I'd like to try out, so we'll see how long before curiosity gets the best of me."
Did you ever get to that?
Had to recreate the wheel a little and scour the memory banks. History goes something like this:
1st grow 9/2015. Used Dyna Gro Foliage Pro and Pro Tekt. Under lit and under fed. Shit results.
2nd grow 12/2015. More lights, same nutes still not feeding enough. Getting better but still not much to write home about.
3rd grow 3/16. Starting to figure shit out. Getting closer on this feed thing.
4th grow 5/2016. Getting a good handle on the Foliage Pro and Pro Tekt feed regiment. Best crop to date.
5th grow 8/2016 Comparison grow of Foliage Pro only vs using Bloom Nutes. There wasn't a difference in the outcome but I favored using the Bloom Nutes for one reason...At the time I thought I needed to pH my nutrient solution before adding it to my soil-less mix. The Bloom formula came out at the right range without having to adjust with pH down. Now that I know that I dont have to pH my nutes for soil-less, why fuss with extra products when bloom nutes DID NOT produce a superior plant.
6th grow (
the one @InTheShed quoted) 4/2017. Using the full Dyna Gro product line (like I did in grow 5 above) to feed plants.
7th grow 12/2017. Turned the tent over to the son and modified the feed.
Instead of using Foliage Pro, Bloom, Pro Tekt and Mag Pro, we dropped out the Bloom component. It probably would have been the best crop to date but a cold winter and no supplemental heat in the grow space hurt yield in the end.
8th grow 3/2018. 1st attempt at a real low P grow using Orchidgain orchid food (a close copy of MSU fertilizer. Worked ok. Poor genetic autos and lighting were limiting factors.
9th grow 6/2018. A return to my roots with Foliage Pro and Pro Tekt. New light was a game changer. Great grow.
10th grow 10/2018. Tried coco. You can keep that s##t! Frequent waterings and having to adjust pH isn't for me. I did manage a POTM for the Purple Kush though.
The remaining grows are all in this journal. This journal has had: a switch to Mega Crop for several grows (earning POTM #2), moth balling my pH pen, adding a second tent, a grow with Jack's 15-5-20 for more Ammoniacal Nitrogen to try to stabilize the pH of my soil-less mixes when using higher alkalinity tap water, a second attempt at real low P via MSU fertilizer, and the development of FN Nutes®.
That veg tent is wall to wall!
