what are nutrients and what needs to be done involving them on a grow

Discussion in 'First Time Marijuana Growers' started by potential84, Apr 29, 2011.

  1. what are nutrients and what needs to be done involving them on a grow




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  2. 8. Nutrients/Supplements: Again this will have to do with your budget & access to these items. If your using 1 of the above mentioned soils you shouldn’t need any fertilizers till week 3-4 of grow. For the vegetation cycle you want a Vegetation/all purpose fert with a N-P-K like 20-20-20 or 6-2-4. You want the NPK values to be equal or close to equal, & in vegetation you want the N & K levels higher or equal to P. In the flowering cycle you want a Bloom/Flowering fert with a N-P-K value like 15-30-15, or 5-15-10, where the N values is always lower than P &K, & you want your P values the highest or equal to K. Some good recommended Nutrient Companies: Advanced Nutrients, Fox Farm, General Hydroponics, to name a few. Some lesser quality but more available Fertilizers are: Miracle Gro All Purpose & Peters All Purpose (both come in bloom versions too), but you’ll need to supplement Epsom salt (1tsp per gal) with those to ferts because they lack the micro nute Mg or Magnesium. A really cheap, easy, & good quality Nutrient program is the “Lucas Formula” (google it). Start your ferts out at a low dose of ¼ strength & work up slowly feeding every other watering. A recommended supplement to use is “Superthrive”, I would also recommend some kind of rooting stimulant & growth stimulant.

    Taken from the sticky up top. Read up on it, its a little complex.
     
  3. so its just fertilizer? how often do you put fertilizer on it and how much.


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  4. Technically, nutrients are chemicals that plants need to live. Just like live we need food to live, soil needs these certain chemicals to supply the plant with food. The main nutrients are Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium. Good potting should should contain enough nutrients to supply your plant for the first few weeks. Once you begin to fertilize during the vegetative state, the bottle of fertilizer should say how much to add to your water.
     

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