KushyMcKush
Well-Known Member
So Im a little confused as to exactly how I should be feeding and how much. Im using Dyna-Gro Foliage Pro and Protekt. I bought their Bloom, but will most likely continue FP throughout flowering with maybe one mixed dose of Bloom/FP for a P boost if needed. I have only been doing small feedings throughout the grow based on various peoples posts and their own feeding guide using between 3-4ml FP and 4-5ml Protekt per feeding on a feed>water>water>feed schedule. I flipped to 12/12 yesterday and transplanted them all into their final 5 gallon smart pots about 5 days ago amd all are looking beautiful.
Now that Im going into flower, I just want to make sure Im doing this right. I recently purchased a TDS meter to measure my feeding ppm's and noticed that its quite a bit lower than most recommend. I alternate between tap/RO water. Our RO tank is lretty small, so trying to water 8 plants in 5 gallon pots from a 2 gallon RO tank wouldnpotentially take hours.
The tap comes out @ between 95-110ppm (well water). The RO comes out at 5ppm. Now, with my feeding today of 4ml Foliage Pro, and 3/4 tsp. (~4ml?) of ProTekt per gallon, my final ppm was 350ppm using RO. I only fed one plant that is looking particularly hungry (both of my 2 White Widows are showin some yellowing on their 2 lowest leaves). This would mean with my tap water my feeding ppm at this dose would be around 450ppm. I always adjust ph to between 6.5-6.6.
Im growing in FFOF mixed w/ ~20-30% pearlite. From what Ive been reading, and by Dyna-Gro's own feeding chart (I tend to research other peoples feeding schedules and kind of find the most consistant info and use that), most whonare using soil with Dyna-Gro are feeding between 600-800ppm. Granted, some of them add other nutrients as well, but this just seems drastically low, right?
In order to reach those kinds of ppm's I would need to double the recommended dosage or more and that just seems like a terrible idea and a good way to burn them.
My question is: should I be going by the measurements and stick to what Im doing, or add more to raise ppm's to recommended levels?
Heres a pocture of the 2 plants that are yellowing on their lower leaves. Nothing major, but thought Id try a feeding on only these two to see if that would correct it.
The White Widow with the yellowing (are widows known to be N hungry?):
Heres the rest of my room, all others look just perfect:

Now that Im going into flower, I just want to make sure Im doing this right. I recently purchased a TDS meter to measure my feeding ppm's and noticed that its quite a bit lower than most recommend. I alternate between tap/RO water. Our RO tank is lretty small, so trying to water 8 plants in 5 gallon pots from a 2 gallon RO tank wouldnpotentially take hours.
The tap comes out @ between 95-110ppm (well water). The RO comes out at 5ppm. Now, with my feeding today of 4ml Foliage Pro, and 3/4 tsp. (~4ml?) of ProTekt per gallon, my final ppm was 350ppm using RO. I only fed one plant that is looking particularly hungry (both of my 2 White Widows are showin some yellowing on their 2 lowest leaves). This would mean with my tap water my feeding ppm at this dose would be around 450ppm. I always adjust ph to between 6.5-6.6.
Im growing in FFOF mixed w/ ~20-30% pearlite. From what Ive been reading, and by Dyna-Gro's own feeding chart (I tend to research other peoples feeding schedules and kind of find the most consistant info and use that), most whonare using soil with Dyna-Gro are feeding between 600-800ppm. Granted, some of them add other nutrients as well, but this just seems drastically low, right?
In order to reach those kinds of ppm's I would need to double the recommended dosage or more and that just seems like a terrible idea and a good way to burn them.
My question is: should I be going by the measurements and stick to what Im doing, or add more to raise ppm's to recommended levels?
Heres a pocture of the 2 plants that are yellowing on their lower leaves. Nothing major, but thought Id try a feeding on only these two to see if that would correct it.
The White Widow with the yellowing (are widows known to be N hungry?):



Heres the rest of my room, all others look just perfect:

