Feeding in the rain.

Fed my girls last Saturday, been a lot of rain since & everything is saturated.
Rained yesterday and again this morning.
Tomorrow is supposed to be cloudy with sunny breaks(30% POP), then rain again for days.

As of now the girls look fine, but I have no idea what's going to happen if they don't get food for a week or more.

Any experience/suggestions?
First auto grow btw.

Last year I lost 8 plants that were in bags from the rain. There was a lot of it for a couple of weeks. I couldn't keep enough nutes in the soil. A couple just went down, some went hermi, the others just crapped out. I don't put plants in pots any more. It just seems like extra work.

Your plants look so good. I've only raised one auto. It didn't look anything like yours. If you can keep the rain out of the tubs with plastic sheets maybe the nutes will stay in. What did my plants under was just letting the soil get flushed out.

Dat's tuff. How about top dressing something dry?

Considering your plants are already blooming, I'd suggest MaxiBloom and tap/well water ("Lucas Formula"). Mix to 1.6 EC ~6.0 pH and water. If your trying to stay organic look into Medi-One but know it requires a lot per/gallon so you will need a big jug for outdoors. These are very plant-available formulations meaning they don't need to breakdown in the ground before its usable by the plant.

If you want a good pH reference using the General Hydroponics drops it would be a very light yellow color for 6.0 pH. You may need to use pH up or pH down to adjust accordingly.

Those only have a couple months left or so, adding dry amendments on the top isn't going to do much for them unfortunately. That is something you amend the ground with prior to starting plants.

Hugo Phurst said:

Fed my girls last Saturday, been a lot of rain since & everything is saturated.
Rained yesterday and again this morning.
Tomorrow is supposed to be cloudy with sunny breaks(30% POP), then rain again for days.

As of now the girls look fine, but I have no idea what's going to happen if they don't get food for a week or more.

Any experience/suggestions?
First auto grow btw.

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Looks like potting mix to me. No worries on the free flushing of your over inputs. Allow to get light to the lift and carry on.

Not sure when Hobbs went outdoors. But still posting ads. LOL.

You are fine.

I'm in 15 gallons of soilless mix outdoors and usually water about 5 gallons at 1.2EC per plant.
We have had the same type of rainy weather here in New England.
After 5 days of rain I mixed up nutes at 3EC and watered each plant with about a gallon.
I figured that would combine with the rain soaked media and give them a normal feed.

Other than the growth being slowed somewhat, the plants are fine.
I'm about to head out with my AM coffee and give them their first normal feed in the last 10 days.

7CardBud said:

I'm in 15 gallons of soilless mix outdoors and usually water about 5 gallons at 1.2EC per plant.
We have had the same type of rainy weather here in New England.
After 5 days of rain I mixed up nutes at 3EC and watered each plant with about a gallon.
I figured that would combine with the rain soaked media and give them a normal feed.

Other than the growth being slowed somewhat and the plants are fine.
I'm about to head out with my AM coffee and give them their first normal feed in the last 10 days.

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And your plants got the same flushing as O.P.. It is actually a good thing if only a few days. As most tend to push salt, "feed", inputs. Enjoy the minutes off. LOL.

Good growing to you.

Hugo Phurst said:

Fed my girls last Saturday, been a lot of rain since & everything is saturated.
Rained yesterday and again this morning.
Tomorrow is supposed to be cloudy with sunny breaks(30% POP), then rain again for days.

As of now the girls look fine, but I have no idea what's going to happen if they don't get food for a week or more.

Any experience/suggestions?
First auto grow btw.

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Look into Epsoma products 100% organic I like the tomato tone just scratch it into the soil an let the rain do the work.

thumper60 said:

Look into Epsoma products 100% organic I like the tomato tone just scratch it into the soil an let the rain do the work.

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That's exactly what I use along with a taste of fish emulsion here and there. Good stuff and cheap. It's surprising the people still struggle with feeding the soil.

How are the girls looking today? They look really good on Friday. Hope you get some sunshine soon.

smoke and coke said:

How are the girls looking today? They look really good on Friday. Hope you get some sunshine soon.

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Still no sun. Girls are looking a bit hungry.





The stuff mentioned above is too expensive for my budget, so I got some shaker food
This seems like an OK list of ingredients, has kelp, worm poop & bone meal too, so I gave the girls a light sprinkle.

In an earlier post I mentioned loosing 8 bagged plants because the rain. Well, this year I planted one of my plants right in the middle of the area where the bags were last year. It's getting all nutes that leaked in to ground last year. It's looking good.

Still looking happy though. Says to reapply every 3 months so it sounds like it’s slow release so it will feed when watered. A small sprinkle might be a good start and see how they do. Should be good for outdoors for sure.