Newbie here needs advice please

[Bill284]

Apologies i thought I had uploaded both pics but only 1 had loaded I'm not very tech savvy more of a visual learner so all this is very new to me

Don't fret Amigo we all do our best, shite happens
If it's all you can get then it's what we have to use.
I'd give her 3/4 of the recommended dose the first time.
See how she reacts.
If it's positive next time full recommended dose.
It's not perfect but it'll increase the P&K.




Stay safe
Bill284

 

[sammysamsam]

I have the same question as Bill is asking.

It seems that every bottle, bag or box of fertilizer will have the amounts of fertilizer to mix with water, mix with the soil or add on top as a top dressing mentioned somewhere, often on the back. That is the first part of the schedule. The frequency should also be printed somewhere.

Check out the company's website for more details and tips. Sometimes contacting the company can end up with them giving some interesting advice and suggestions on using their product.

Really good advice here cheers! I've been looking at the company's websites now and so much more info! Cheers

 

[sammysamsam]

Don't fret Amigo we all do our best, shite happens
If it's all you can get then it's what we have to use.
I'd give her 3/4 of the recommended dose the first time.
See how she reacts.
If it's positive next time full recommended dose.
It's not perfect but it'll increase the P&K.




Stay safe
Bill284

Haha cheers! Yeah all I can find close to me at the minute, i may have to order online from somewhere for future to get better feed by the looks, happy to take any and all reccomendations. I'll give her a feed in a day or 2 them send some updated photos of her, my northern lights is slightly behind the gorilla glue in flowering but wad presenting similar problems so I may be able to salvage her better, here's hoping anyways

 

[SmokingWings]

Haha cheers! Yeah all I can find close to me at the minute, i may have to order online from somewhere for future to get better feed by the looks, happy to take any and all reccomendations. I'll give her a feed in a day or 2 them send some updated photos of her,....

Use once every two weeks so it might be a good idea to write a note when you give the first dose. It can be pretty easy to loose track of giving a fertilizing when we are looking in on the plants once or twice or more times per day. It all starts to run together.

My experience is that it takes a bit of doing to overdose with with Potassium but it can happen. What makes it tough is that once the plants were overdoses it took about 4 weeks to get them back to normal. With the flowering stage running from 8 to as long as 12 weeks waiting for the plants to recover can be as much as half of the available time.

 

[sammysamsam]

Update on both plants, gave them a feed with a half strength of product above, concerned because my gorilla glue is mostly yellow leaves now but the base of plant leaves are green but don't look super healthy- I'll attach photos

I'll also attach photos of my northern lights- also showing signs of yellowing however not as advanced so maybe I can salvage it more I'm hoping? Have a look y'all and see what you think I should do to proceed thanks in advance!

 

[sammysamsam]

Use once every two weeks so it might be a good idea to write a note when you give the first dose. It can be pretty easy to loose track of giving a fertilizing when we are looking in on the plants once or twice or more times per day. It all starts to run together.

My experience is that it takes a bit of doing to overdose with with Potassium but it can happen. What makes it tough is that once the plants were overdoses it took about 4 weeks to get them back to normal. With the flowering stage running from 8 to as long as 12 weeks waiting for the plants to recover can be as much as half of the available time.

Yes I am finding that I should have wrote more down and kept track, doesn't help when you smoke a bit too haha my memory isn't as strong as it used to be first grow- live and learn and I have learnt so much thanks to all you guys on here taking the time to help me, can't thankyou enough! I'll try and recover this grow as much as I can, take some notes woth the rest of the grow and start strong with my new seedling and document everything in my grow journal (now that I've worked out where to do that haha)

I had no idea I was meant to stop nitrogen feed when flower started so I'm guessing that's the exact start of my problems right there! And it was a high % nitrogen feed at that so big mistake I can avoid in future!!

 

[sammysamsam]

Update on both plants, gave them a feed with a half strength of product above, concerned because my gorilla glue is mostly yellow leaves now but the base of plant leaves are green but don't look super healthy- I'll attach photos

I'll also attach photos of my northern lights- also showing signs of yellowing however not as advanced so maybe I can salvage it more I'm hoping? Have a look y'all and see what you think I should do to proceed thanks in advance!

Also PH is sitting at 7 for both plants, moisture is at dead middle of moist on the meter

 

[SmokingWings]

I had no idea I was meant to stop nitrogen feed when flower started so I'm guessing that's the exact start of my problems right there! And it was a high % nitrogen feed at that so big mistake I can avoid in future!!

The plant needs Nitrogen all the way through. Some say it is OK to reduce the amounts once flowering starts but do not stop all nitrogen.

To me it looks like your plant is stripping the nitrogen and potassium from the older fan leaves and moving those nutrients to the newer growth at the bud sites.

If anything, I maintain the nitrogen amounts even in flowering with good results. I do not loose those larger fan leaves and they stay on the plant to keep the photosynthesis amounts as high as possible.

 

[sammysamsam]

The plant needs Nitrogen all the way through. Some say it is OK to reduce the amounts once flowering starts but do not stop all nitrogen.

To me it looks like your plant is stripping the nitrogen and potassium from the older fan leaves and moving those nutrients to the newer growth at the bud sites.

If anything, I maintain the nitrogen amounts even in flowering with good results. I do not loose those larger fan leaves and they say on the plant to keep the photosynthesis amounts as high as possible.

The plant needs Nitrogen all the way through. Some say it is OK to reduce the amounts once flowering starts but do not stop all nitrogen.

To me it looks like your plant is stripping the nitrogen and potassium from the older fan leaves and moving those nutrients to the newer growth at the bud sites.

If anything, I maintain the nitrogen amounts even in flowering with good results. I do not loose those larger fan leaves and they say on the plant to keep the photosynthesis amounts as high as possible.

Well your plants look amazing so the feed right through must work, thankyou for that info, I had so many people tell me to chop the fan leaves off earlier in the grow so I reluctantly did but in my own learning about plants in general and photosynthesis I didn't think I should and am kicking myself I didn't go with my gut on that one. I stopped doing it after 2 thins on the gorilla glue and haven't really touched the northern lights as you can see from photo so thankyou for clarifying that for me.
I think I need to educate myself better on % of nutrients that are needed at stages of growth by the sounds. I've completely butchered this grow!

 

[SmokingWings]

I think I need to educate myself better on % of nutrients that are needed at stages of growth by the sounds. I've completely butchered this grow!

From the class all those years ago what I remember was having to get an idea of what the macro nutrients were doing and why it was important in overall plant health.

 

[sammysamsam]

From the class all those years ago what I remember was having to get an idea of what the macro nutrients were doing and why it was important in overall plant health.

I've just enrolled in a herbology and basic horticulture course to learn a bit more about the basics, I have a large herb garden as well on the go so all knowledge is useful hey, really greatful to have found 420 aswell knowledge comes from experience and there is an abundance of it here