I have been trying to look around and find posts on the General Organics nutrient line-up but they are few and far between, and then when I do find some they get off topic real fast. So, I thought I would try to start a new thread but with a little bit different of a subject. I am wondering how everyone that uses these nutrients, uses them. Does everyone follow the Feed Chart provided with them, or does anyone go by PPM instead? I have noticed that if you go by their printed Schedule the nutrients PPM will be pretty low, like below 500ppm almost every time. I have read all over, in many different books and other growers comments, that with much of the grow cycle you will be using over 900 and even 1000pmm, with some people even talking about using 1500ppm or more. So 500ppm with the General Organics line-up seems pretty low, and I have only been using these nutrients for a couple of plants now and I cannot seem to get them dialed in during Flower. It doesn't seem to matter if I under-feed, follow the chart exactly, or over-feed....my plants always seem to go real shitty during flowering with these nutrients and I can't figure out what the F*** is going on. I still have enough nutrients to do like 6 more plants, and I only do 2 at a time in a little tent in my bedroom, so if I can't start to find out why I keep having the exact same problems every time in Flower mode with these nutrients with in my next 3 cycles then I am done with them. Like I said, I have tried quite a few different ways of how much to feed these things but always run into problems in Flower, they look amazing all through out Veg but turn crappy about 2 weeks into Flower and keep going down hill from there.
So, let's get a little Discussion going with all the General Organics users out there. How does everyone use them? What kind of soil or mix do you use? How do you start with them? Do you use half of what the printed schedule says at first and then work up to what it says, or do you work up to the Heavy Feeding amounts Printed on the bottles? Or do you ignore the Schedule and go by the PPM? Do you use them for every watering, or once a week with a non-nutrient watering in between? Or do you do a Feed - Feed - Water Schedule all the way through? Do you use all of the nutrients and additives or just the CaMg, Grow, and Bloom? Do you put CaMg in your non-nutrient waterings if using R/O water? Do you do a flush after the Veg cycle when switching to the Flowering schedule? Do you even need to do a flush at all, either during or at the end, since they are "organics"? *As long as they are not used too excessively I mean* Does anyone Foilar Feed with them, if so, with what and how much of it? Do you pH your solution before using or not? *I know the company says you don't need to, and I haven't since I have been using them, but I keep having problems with them so I am wondering if anyone does do it and if it has hurt or helped their crops* Are there any other products that you like to mix in to your solution outside of the General Organics line-up? I am starting to run dry on things to to ask so if anyone can think of anything they want to add or whatever, go for it. In the meantime, let's see if we can get some posts going, I'm sure I can't be the only person looking for better answers than what have already been posted in other forums and threads.
