Essential Plant Nutrients

[hibred]

SUPER informative, I was wondering about this YESTERDAY, and badda boom here it is! Thanks for the info +rep

[DaaamnSmokey]

very informative, thanks. but I think you left a couple out... hold on and let me re-go over it.

[McBLUNT]

damn good job man +rep for sure. you really know what youre talking about man or are extremely good at bullshitting. ha but i will definitely be bookmarking this for my first grow this summer.just what i was looking for. sticky

[crazy polark]

Could you tell me where to get a good bloom fertilizer.And what type for lowryder2.

[Vitamin 420]

Originally Posted by crazy polark

Could you tell me where to get a good bloom fertilizer.And what type for lowryder2.

Try a seaweed extract or fish emulsion, I just did a quick search on google and that seems to work for some people.

The possibilities are limitless; the key things you want to focus on are not what brand/what type; rather, you want to focus on the composition of the nutrients.

Originally Posted by Vitamin 420

During flowering, an increase of phosphorus, once again, will ensure good genetic transcription and maximized production of flowers.

So look for more P, with less N

[crazy polark]

Thank you.You have bee very helpful,

[bud-smok-er]

lmao, i new all this and didnt realize i could apply it 2 my digimon, thx dude

[johanna]

thanks for the info!

[crazy polark]

You have been a huge help.

[ganjahero007]

i just joined grass city and this is my first post i have read, great info man keep it up

[static cheese]

good write up on the plant nutrients

i have a question, my plants have a nitrogen deficiency right now, they are pretty small (about 3-4 inches) but are bushy bc i have cfls lie right on them.

can i use bloom booster fert 15-30-15 on my plants for the nitrogen it has? or will the high levels of phos fuck my plants up. i cant find my 20-20-20 all purpose fert or i would use that.

Thanks

[Vitamin 420]

Originally Posted by static cheese

good write up on the plant nutrients

i have a question, my plants have a nitrogen deficiency right now, they are pretty small (about 3-4 inches) but are bushy bc i have cfls lie right on them.

can i use bloom booster fert 15-30-15 on my plants for the nitrogen it has? or will the high levels of phos fuck my plants up. i cant find my 20-20-20 all purpose fert or i would use that.

Thanks

Can you take a couple of pics of the deficiency? I think it'd help me better gauge what your needs are. And, as far as balancing the nitrogen levels are concerned, I would advise that you do so gradually - adjust the food to contain slightly higher levels of nitrogen over the course of 3-4 feedings, and make sure your pH is balanced!!!

Go ahead and give your plants some of your own urine. 1 part urine for 10 parts water, and that should be diluted enough - but once again, you want to make sure the pH is balanced before you feed them

[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

[Vitamin 420]

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!

[Kallas]

i wish i had waited till someone responded before i gave it the seafood nutes this morning.

will it still be ok? it has only JUST started flowering today would be the second should i flush it out maybe?

thanks for the help..... i love GC and all its info