Do you really feed seedlings at week 1

VACAVILLE,CA.GROWER

VACAVILLE,CA.GROWER

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Hello everyone. I have 2 seedlings going in soil. They are both 1 week old today. I seen feeding charts all of them show feeding nutes at week 1. Isnt that way to early to be feeding a seedling nutes? Let me know if its correct and you should start feeding at week 1.
 
How many sets of leaves does your seedling have? I usually start feeding on the second set of five finger leaves. Even though I only use like 25% strength (say, if the bottle said add 2 teaspoons for light feeding I add half a teaspoon) then after that I feed clean water, then feed again, then clean water...when the plant gets a bit bigger or it looks hungry I start giving it 50% strength, then just work my way up from there as the plant gets bigger.
 
bbyb420 said:
How many sets of leaves does your seedling have? I usually start feeding on the second set of five finger leaves. Even though I only use like 25% strength (say, if the bottle said add 2 teaspoons for light feeding I add half a teaspoon) then after that I feed clean water, then feed again, then clean water...when the plant gets a bit bigger or it looks hungry I start giving it 50% strength, then just work my way up from there as the plant gets bigger.
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Hello they both are just starting the 3rd set of true leaves.
 
I just seen on almost every feeding schedule, show a week 1 feeding. I always thought feeding in week 1 is not a good thing. I thought most week 1 feeding from a nute chart would burn the plant up.
 
Hiya VCG, I only give mine Water for the first week to 10 Days..then start with Nutes at lower than stated dose.. But that's only if using a recycled or seedling compost, a lot of composts feed for between 3-4 weeks so apart from a bit of Mag/Cal and Silicone I don't really feed em till week 3-4, but everybody's Setup is different..

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VACAVILLE said:
I just seen on almost every feeding schedule, show a week 1 feeding. I always thought feeding in week 1 is not a good thing. I thought most week 1 feeding from a nute chart would burn the plant up.
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yup the feedings charts are more of a guide line for the amounts you should feed and when. I don't follow them myself but sometimes i'll look at one for reference..

also what soil are you using? if you have good soil you may not have to feed for a while.
 
bbyb420 said:
yup the feedings charts are more of a guide line for the amounts you should feed and when. I don't follow them myself but sometimes i'll look at one for reference..

also what soil are you using? if you have good soil you may not have to feed for a while.
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I am using just kelloggs organic plus soil. I have used it before and had some good results. Plus its about $6.00 a bag.
 
The charts your referring to are telling to use certain percentages based on when u start using them not by how old your plant is.
No one should use nutes on a seedling 7 days old.
 
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