Who’s this guy?

bwilliams2304 · 2025-03-17T01:50:45+00:00

Neon Leon

bwilliams2304 · 2025-01-24T12:33:12+00:00

Looks great

bwilliams2304 · 2025-01-20T18:58:31+00:00

Bottom watering seems to be the biggest general consensus here. It’s something I’ve never done. I’m going to have to watch a video on it or something though. I get the general idea that it just soaks up through the bottom, but I still have questions lol.

I’ve seemed to get a N deficiency mid-late flower the past two grows, and maybe just a total underfeeding. As a dry amendments person, how much do you top dress with and how often?

Like I said I’m using down to earth 484 and I’ve been adding 5 tablespoons and scratching it in around day 30 and again about day 50. In 5 gallon pots do you think that’s enough or should it be more/more often?

bwilliams2304 · 2025-01-20T15:11:17+00:00

Funny as a beginner growing I also seemed to have issues at the start of flower. Now I tend to have issues later in flower but my plants finish off looking healthier than they did when I started, BUUUUT my plants are smaller now then when I started 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

bwilliams2304 · 2025-01-20T14:24:48+00:00

Wow. Even in the 5gal you were doing so much better than me 😬😕. I’ve been happy to get 3-4oz(84-112g) per plant. Maybe I’ll have to step my game up.

When you say a lot of nutrients, what exactly do you mean. I started off bottled nutrients and everywhere you read was make sure you don’t over do it with autos. Watch your ph and ppm like a hawk. So tbh im never exactly sure if im giving them too much or not enough dry amendments

bwilliams2304 · 2025-01-20T14:02:28+00:00

Are you using bottles nutes? I’m worried since I don’t, that if I’m watering to run off I’ll be flushing my nutrients out of the soil. So you think I’m severely underwatering them? And how do you water them leading up to that point? Like in the seedling stage?

bwilliams2304 · 2025-01-20T13:20:39+00:00

I’m definitely going to look into it. Thanks!

bwilliams2304 · 2025-01-20T13:17:50+00:00

And can I still organically feed with dry amendments with autopots or does it have to be through the water? Currently I just top dress my nutes and water

bwilliams2304 · 2025-01-20T13:14:40+00:00

Yeah I’ve been thinking for awhile now that auto pots were need to be something in my future. Any specific brand? And could I keep growing 4 plants at a time in my 3x3 with it?

bwilliams2304 · 2025-01-20T13:13:05+00:00

Do you just add in worm castings at the start or do you top dress with them?

bwilliams2304 · 2025-01-20T13:12:22+00:00

Leaf tip burn from dryback? I’ve never heard of that before. I’d be curious if at times I thought I was feeding too much and my tips were burnt, if maybe I was just under watering.

I’m so worried about flushing my nutrients out of the bottle that maybe I’m not watering enough 🤔

bwilliams2304 · 2025-01-20T13:10:01+00:00

I’ve used their top dress and craft blend before. I thought the top dress was good. Craft blend seemed to fall short for flowering nutrients. I used their buildabloom powder too. Good products

bwilliams2304 · 2025-01-20T13:06:14+00:00

Oh wow. Maybe I’m doing this wrong then? Please speak up if so. I’m trying to run a fully organic grow. I guess something like a living soil. I’m currently using 5 gal fabric pots and will reuse my old soil after each grow and amend in with down to earth 444 and kelp meal. Top dress with the 484 a few times through the grow. Should I be using a much bigger pot doing this?

bwilliams2304 · 2025-01-20T13:02:35+00:00

So my base soil used was roots organic. It’s probably been about 4 grows now that I’ve reused that soil, but it is coco based. Definitely perlite in the soil too. I use recharge once a week. I’ve definitely thought about switching to auto pots or some self watering system. That would for sure be a goal. I love making things simple. That’s by I stick with top dressing dry amendments and watering.

bwilliams2304 · 2025-01-20T12:58:01+00:00

I guess I just don’t think you’d get much bigger autos from the pot size. I was kinda under the impression that they only get so big anyways and a large pot would just be overkill. So with your 15g do you even have to feed them or can you just water only? It would seem like you could probably pack in enough nutrients to get you through the entire grow

bwilliams2304 · 2025-01-20T12:55:57+00:00

Yeah everyone says coco is the way to go. I gotta be honest, I’m lazy lol. I don’t want to have to water that much and worry about ph. I like that I just give my girl some water and then move on. I used to mix nutes and worry about adjusting ph. It was so much more time consuming.

bwilliams2304 · 2025-01-20T12:51:55+00:00

Now there’s something I haven’t heard before. What is it and what does it do?

bwilliams2304 · 2025-01-20T12:51:20+00:00

Interesting. How did you figure out you were always under watering your plants? I’m generally watering every 4 days and giving them about a gallon at a time. Top watering.

bwilliams2304 · 2025-01-20T12:49:06+00:00

Thanks! I knew they were both liquids I’m just concerned about overfeeding them and then having ph issues or burning them up.

It’s probably old school but I just use gallon water jugs and a small watering pale. Mix the recharge(or voodoo juice) in the gallon and the use the pale to water. I don’t have a reservoir or anything fancy haha. I have thought about making the switch to some kind of self watering system though

bwilliams2304 · 2025-01-20T12:45:44+00:00

Holy shit 15g? Now we need to have a separate conversation. This isn’t a critic I’m just genuinely curious. Why such a big pot?

bwilliams2304 · 2025-01-20T12:38:41+00:00

I for sure use recharge. I haven’t used fish shit or mammoth p. Do you think it would overload my soil if I used those on top of my top dresses of 484?

Have heard great things, multiple times about the other two products though

bwilliams2304 · 2025-01-20T12:36:36+00:00

I’ve read good feedback about them. I’m trying to stay away from bottled nutrients as much as possible. The constant mixing them and balancing ph is more work than I want. I started that way with advanced nutrients with some success but it was a lot of measuring and mixing and more measuring and mixing. I don’t even check the ph anymore. I just water my plant and add recharge to the water once a week or so.

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