Does anyone feed with every watering in soil?

roots_indoors

roots_indoors

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My last run, I was a bit hesitant to give a full on feeding in fear of messing something up. And as a result, I think I left a bit on the table at harvest time. That and the leaves faded out a lot quicker than typical. The plants started eating themselves around week 5 of flower.

For my current run on the 4th week of flower, I have been feeding the plants at every watering, which started in week 2 of flower. I am growing in Ocean Forrest, so after transplanting, I rode out the nutrients in the soil until I started seeing signs of deficiencies, which was the end of week 1 flower. Since then, I have fed the plants 3 times, starting at 500ppm and eventually worked up to ~900ppm. My ppm target for the end of flower week 5 is around 1200ppm, but honestly it'll be as high as the plants can take.

The thing here is that I am not seeing any signs of slight nute burn. My idea was to feed them until I start seeing the leaf tips burn a bit. Contrary to what I thought, even after feeding 3 times in a row, the plants still seem a bit hungry.

My plan here is to continue feeding with every watering, and on occasionally just do a plain watering with an increased amount of water to help flush any salt buildup. I know you typically feed with every watering in coco, but for soil, it seems like more than a few people recommend water, feed, water or water, water, feed.

My question being, is there any downside to feeding with every watering, aside from using more nutes? My plants seem to want more, and I haven't seen any nute burn yet.
 
Nizza

Nizza

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roots_indoors said:
My last run, I was a bit hesitant to give a full on feeding in fear of messing something up. And as a result, I think I left a bit on the table at harvest time. That and the leaves faded out a lot quicker than typical. The plants started eating themselves around week 5 of flower.

For my current run on the 4th week of flower, I have been feeding the plants at every watering, which started in week 2 of flower. I am growing in Ocean Forrest, so after transplanting, I rode out the nutrients in the soil until I started seeing signs of deficiencies, which was the end of week 1 flower. Since then, I have fed the plants 3 times, starting at 500ppm and eventually worked up to ~900ppm. My ppm target for the end of flower week 5 is around 1200ppm, but honestly it'll be as high as the plants can take.

The thing here is that I am not seeing any signs of slight nute burn. My idea was to feed them until I start seeing the leaf tips burn a bit. Contrary to what I thought, even after feeding 3 times in a row, the plants still seem a bit hungry.

My plan here is to continue feeding with every watering, and on occasionally just do a plain watering with an increased amount of water to help flush any salt buildup. I know you typically feed with every watering in coco, but for soil, it seems like more than a few people recommend water, feed, water or water, water, feed.

My question being, is there any downside to feeding with every watering, aside from using more nutes? My plants seem to want more, and I haven't seen any nute burn yet.
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As long as you are doing things like you said to prevent salt buildup you should be fine whether it is leeching some water through every so often or having proper runoff every so often.
A good method is full strength, half strength, quarter strength, repeat.
Aim for 20% runoff and up/lower your max dose depending what your plants tell you they want

As long as your paying attention you will be fine and you are doing the right thing to leech the soil every so often
 
roots_indoors

roots_indoors

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Nizza said:
As long as you are doing things like you said to prevent salt buildup you should be fine whether it is leeching some water through every so often or having proper runoff every so often.
A good method is full strength, half strength, quarter strength, repeat.
Aim for 20% runoff and up/lower your max dose depending what your plants tell you they want

As long as your paying attention you will be fine and you are doing the right thing to leech the soil every so often
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Thanks for the reply man. I’m currently watering them to ~15% runoff with feedings just as a precaution in hopes that will wash away some salts. Never heard off that method you mentioned but it seems like it’s a safe bet. Appreciate the info
 
Southside112

Southside112

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I water with nutrients every time after the ffof soil runs out of nutes. The key is to not overdo it. I never water over 900ppm. Ever. Early flower around 600 ppm. Veg if the soil is depleted @ 4-500 ppm. I see guys saying they run 2000ppm etc and I think to myself why?? Lot less worry of "build-up" if the plants eats almost everything you give it. Hope that makes sense. Cheers.
 
GBAUTO

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I normally grow in hydro, but when I've done random closet grows or outdoor summer grows they always get fed at each watering.
I use Jacks 3-2-1 dry nutes and the girls are loving it.
 
Cvntcrusher

Cvntcrusher

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I use big bloom nutes. I use the appropriate nutes with each watering. BUT I only put a little bit in a cup of water.

Then I water my plant with regular water until shes about to start running off. Then i pour my 1 cup of water with the small amount of nutes in to finish the watering.

I was told not to use nutes until your soil is out of them otherwise you'll OD your plant. Lmao that's being extreme but dont give your plant a lot of something it already has.

That's why I just give her a little bit with each watering. I'm just giving her a little extra push
 
roots_indoors

roots_indoors

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Southside112 said:
I water with nutrients every time after the ffof soil runs out of nutes. The key is to not overdo it. I never water over 900ppm. Ever. Early flower around 600 ppm. Veg if the soil is depleted @ 4-500 ppm. I see guys saying they run 2000ppm etc and I think to myself why?? Lot less worry of "build-up" if the plants eats almost everything you give it. Hope that makes sense. Cheersn.
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Dude awesome. I have inadvertently been doing it this way. The only difference is I’ve gotten up to 1000ppm at this point. Think I might stop there. I did do a feeding yesterday, at that ppm and no nute burn yet. But yeah, I’m there with you on that high ppm feed. It seems like it would introduce more problems then anything. But that’s just my inexperienced opinion.

I will say though, after feeding the plant this way, my plants look a lot better this round than they did the last.
 
Southside112

Southside112

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roots_indoors said:
Dude awesome. I have inadvertently been doing it this way. The only difference is I’ve gotten up to 1000ppm at this point. Think I might stop there. I did do a feeding yesterday, at that ppm and no nute burn yet. But yeah, I’m there with you on that high ppm feed. It seems like it would introduce more problems then anything. But that’s just my inexperienced opinion.

I will say though, after feeding the plant this way, my plants look a lot better this round than they did the last.
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Just a note. Even if you don't see nutrient burn dosent mean an excess of salts isn't building up in the soil. I run a 3x3 tent with 600w of high quality led lighting and again have never seen a need for really high ppm. Like you said it only leads to problems. The only time a 1200+ ppm would make sense to me would be in a co2 enriched environment.
 
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