Sativa, grow to bloom question

Im a newbie to the forum please excuse my lack of etiquette.

I have two plants growing in my back yard (medical/legal) one indica dominant strain, and one sativa dominante (white Bhutanese, Mandala seeds). My latitude and temps/humidity are fine for sativa, northern hemisphere. 7 gallon smart pots.

2nd grow for me, 1st with a sativa.

My question refers to the white Bhutanese and possibly sativas in general.

The strain guide implies that nutes should be given throughout the lifecycle of the plant. At what point should i switch from Grow to Bloom nutes? Or do i need a combination of both?

Obviously my indica has started heavy flowering and i have given bloom +moderate nitro for 2weeks and will go straight to bloom in 1-2 weeks with a projected 2 week flush once im atleast 50% amber.

This is also my plan on the sativa but modified for the longer harvest time (aprox late oct early nov). When/should i switch nutes?

I would switch to bloom food once your plant starts to bloom. You can start giving your sativa dom plant a taste of bloom food along with grow. Make sure that the plant receives some nitrogen during the first couple weeks of flower. Good luck.

Gotcha TY mopar, so my sativa started showing light flowering a week ago (8/10/16) low amounts of white hairs ect.

Does this sound corrects that i should switch to bloom with estimated 3 months of flowering left to go? The strain genetics are 80/20 sativa.

Sorry if this is obvious most things i see online are tailored towards indicas, and indoors.

Gap1080 said:

Sorry if this is obvious most things i see online are tailored towards indicas, and indoors.

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No need to apologize, I mainly use this account to help people out. I would switch to bloom food at first signs of flowering. Stacking nodes with short internode length signal flowering as well as seeing sex. A plant may show its sex as a sign of maturity and may not actually begin to flower just yet.

Like mentioned above don't deprive your plant of N to early because otherwise it will fade to rapidly once it gets into full fledge flower I like to wait to go to just blooming nutes when my buds are just starting to stack .....but i use calmag and my bloom nutes do have some N in them also .....and I personally don't stop giving bloom nutes until I'm like two weeks or so from chopping ......good luck

Thank you guys, so the length of flowering for Sat's doesnt really change the general idea behind the nutes given. Just that you have to give bloom longer due to the longer harvest maturity timing.

I normally over lap grow and bloom nutes

like add half strength bloom to the mix or add a little veg nutes to the bloom

normally after the plant shows sex but sometimes bloom nutes can help force flowering

Depends on the plant

most I find like around 700 to 1200 ppm by the start of flowering but some people will say that`s too much, peak I find most strains can take upto 2000ppm some can go to 3000ppm

I always try and give over 1000ppm once buds are some what developed as I find I get more taste and bigger harder buds

But I use hydro/coco most of the time so unlike a soil grower I have no nutes in my rootzone naturally