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Originally Posted by Kallas  Hey there GREAT thread bout time someone made one on nutrients REP+
Just a quick question.............i have a plant at the moment that is in the first few days of flowering  .......when it was in the VEG stage i was giving it seaweed plant food.
I made sure the stuff was fine before feeding to the plant here on GC altho one person said it wouldnt do much for the plant in the flowering stage?
What do u think heres some info from the back of the bottle any help would be great.
nitrogen 9%
phosphorus 3%
potassium 7%
plus all growth hormones and soil conditioning factors present in seaweed |
Hey thanks dude
I'm glad this is was a good resource for you, thanks for the input.
As far as nutrition is concerned, during the flowering cycle the plant stops producing chlorophyll for vegetative growth (so it stops assimilating nitrogen at such an impressive rate) and it begins to focus on production of the flowers. This is a very complex stage, and is not very well understood by the scientific community, because there is a variety of different proteins and elements that, ultimately, result in a shift from vegetative to flowering. Some plants don't even respond to light/dark cycles to trigger the flowering stage!!
Imagine if MJ was like that.
But luckily it's not, we got lucky with a plant that has been shown to respond favorably to altered light/dark cycles, and for this reason it makes things a lot easier. However, the amount of light they receive is not the only factor. The nutrition they are given is crucial too - remember, this is a different cycle of the plant's life, and it therefore has different metabolic activities.
Phosphorus is to flowering what nitrogen is to vegetative. You want to make sure you change the nutrients because the plant will want to use more phosphorus to produce flowers - not photosynthetic chlorophyll! Take a quick read through the description of Phosphorus in the original post, there's a lot of good info about why you want it
I would definitely switch up the fertilizer a little bit, it looks like there's excessive nitrogen for the amount of phosphorus present. Take a look at some tomato fertilizers that are meant for flowering, and find one that works for you. Each plant is different so I unfortunately cannot attest to any composition ratio or brand name, but with lots of love and care you should find what your plant likes the best.
And, on a side note, you can drop the temperature by a couple of degrees as well. I don't remember the names of the plant hormones off the top of my head, but there are some that are responsible (they are temperature-sensitive!) for a transition into flowering as well. It is much in the same way that
phytochromes are responsible for sensing light (or a lack of) and inducing different proteins to be synthesized as a result.
Hope that helps. Good luck with the flowering!