First Grow: help with nutrients needed

Your ferts for Veg seem pretty good, just only use 1/8-1/4 of what they recommend until your plants can handle a good feeding. When you say foliage spray, do you intend to spray it on your plants? That's a no-no because the water can form droplets on your plants and act as lenses that will burn the shit out of your leaves.

As for your lighting cycle, how did you manage to get 28 hours in one day? (14/14) Stick to 12/12, it's tried, tested, and proven

Also, check out this thread: http://forum.grasscity.com/general-indoor-growing/374679-essential-plant-nutrients.html

 

Mix your moistened potting mix (hopefully organic) with enough perlite so it doesn't clump up into a ball. This gives your plants' roots room to grow.

I grow veg/fruits indoors as well as the obvious. When I considered myself a novice, I used to think N was better when the plants were young and P was better when the plants were mature. That is not the case. Young plants prefer more P than N and K early on. More P early on helps the roots become strong. If you were growing some shit like pine trees or some other fuckin plant that doesn't flower, more N would be needed for the duration of its life cycle.

24 hours/light day does no better than 18 hours/light day. I read tons of books, websites, as well as grown successfully indoors to flowering stages. I consider myself pretty knowledgable about lighting. I use 16 on for veg. and 12 on for flowering. But honestly, 16-18 for veg is optimal. 12 for flowering.

Another tip you don't have to follow, but I suggest getting an organic fertilizer; that is, anything under 15-15-15. Just because the numbers are single digits doesn't mean your plant isn't getting everything it needs. I use 2-4-1, 4-3-3, 4-8-6... just to give you an idea. Anything more is usually wasted unless you're doing a whole fuckin acre of crops.

14 + 14 = 28... more hours than there are in a day. Sorry, but your source is wrong. 12 hours/light day perfectly suits the flowering stages of plants in actual nature. You can still fertilize with a high P nutrient solution during flowering. Anything that you read warning you not to fertilize during the flowering stage is bullshit. Bonemeal is great, but I would supplement it with a good fertilizer. Bonemeal will simply boost your P, which you need at this stage for abundant yields. Be careful not to overdose your plants with nutrients. Every 2 weeks is fine for feeding. Water every couple days. A good tip: the water and nutrient solution should be 68-71 degrees F so it doesn't shock the plants.

This is all for potting mixes by the way; hydroponics is a whole nother story.

 

Sorry for the long wait. I learned what I know from experience with outdoor crops, recent indoor growing experience and from thehelpfulgardener.com forum. Join that site and you'll learn useful tips to grow plants in general, which helps with growing good weed.

You don't need lots of P for veg - like I said, that 2-4-1 neptunes harvest should be good for the first 2 weeks. Feed as directed at a weakened amount each week. Then, add a little amendment like bloodmeal to boost nitrogen. Reason being that the first 2 weeks, your plant is focused on root strength, not leaf production. When your plant is strong enough to handle the weight of new leaves, add some nitrogen. When your plant is mature, about 2 weeks before flowering, back off on the nitrogen and introduce some bone meal or higher phosphorous. Bonemeal can be added more than once. I don't use bloodmeal or bonemeal for my mix since I have a complete fertilizer line that handles everything i need, but this is an idea. Do some research on that forum I recommended in the first paragraph. Knowledge is power and you won't get the knowledge from one person on a weed forum recommending something.