GrowinDad
Well-Known Member
UPfront, please don't read as newb freaking out. Just curious what others think.
I am on my first LED grow and as it goes on, little adjustments to my old CFL regiment have been made. The one am struggling with most is water/feed cycle.
With my CFLs, it was every third day religiously. Nutes in every other feeding so about once a week. With my LED (SGS160), no heat so the plants are drinking less. I am watering once every 5-7 days as needed. I have been trying to follow the same method of using nutes every other watering.
Yesterday was a water-only feed. Today I am seeing some slight discoloration which says to me I should have given nutes.
So my questions:
1.) how do/would you handle? Would you nute once a week, thus every watering? (I use Dyna Gro) Or would you go every other thus only nutes about every other week and just deal with minor deficiency? Or up the nute level when I do? (scares me though I am slightly below the rec dose at this point)
2.) Would you wait a day or two more and feed with nutes even though they aren't dry this once? I am not too concerned about the roots drowning. I have good drainage in my soil. Or would you wait another 6 days or so to feed?
I am looking vegging for one more week and then flipping. This is three plants that I have been training for about 2-3 weeks. Looks like a SOG kind of
I am on my first LED grow and as it goes on, little adjustments to my old CFL regiment have been made. The one am struggling with most is water/feed cycle.
With my CFLs, it was every third day religiously. Nutes in every other feeding so about once a week. With my LED (SGS160), no heat so the plants are drinking less. I am watering once every 5-7 days as needed. I have been trying to follow the same method of using nutes every other watering.
Yesterday was a water-only feed. Today I am seeing some slight discoloration which says to me I should have given nutes.
So my questions:
1.) how do/would you handle? Would you nute once a week, thus every watering? (I use Dyna Gro) Or would you go every other thus only nutes about every other week and just deal with minor deficiency? Or up the nute level when I do? (scares me though I am slightly below the rec dose at this point)
2.) Would you wait a day or two more and feed with nutes even though they aren't dry this once? I am not too concerned about the roots drowning. I have good drainage in my soil. Or would you wait another 6 days or so to feed?
I am looking vegging for one more week and then flipping. This is three plants that I have been training for about 2-3 weeks. Looks like a SOG kind of
