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Welcome!
No need for any nutrients at all while in seedling stage unless you are growing in coir which I think you indicated potting soil.
Fox Farms Ocean Forest is a common choice of potting soil.
Good luck!
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Plenty of goodies in the soil. Use that stuff now on them lit’lin’s and there’s a good chance you won’t be put’in anything in buckets.
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Fox Farm is what I used as well! Mine is growing better than I expected! In some concentrated California super soil u can start from seed to harvest in the concentrated super soil without adding nutrients
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looks good wish I could grow mine outside and save the expense of electric bill
Looks like they weren’t hardened off and the sun bleached them….
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Why do you think my leaves are turning yellow. Is because im not watering them enough. How much water should i give them a day. Its hot and humid here.
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Sorry your thread got highjacked so bad. Also sorry I didn’t see it sooner. Sometimes I just get busy super busy.
If you are still curious yes that is good for veg but should be use with the fox farm trio. Grow big big bloom and tiger bloom. Hope this answers your question. Again sorry for the highjackings.
As far as the plants yellowing not sure. You should fill out a support ticket.
@dbrn32 could you maybe help out here or tag in some good growmies to help.
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Thanks for pointing this out, I cleaned it up.
@Oldheadnewmove, when pots are dry give them a good soaking in the morning. Then allow to dry out again before watering again. If you have large healthy plants in small to medium plants they could need watered every morning. But it’s best to check them and make sure the pots habe dried out some so the roots can get some oxygen. If you see issues like this with good watering habits it will typically be from ph or nutrient concentration issue. You need tools to check and set these or you can thumb eyeball other methods.
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Ive started fox farm grow big nutrients. I also used the ocean forest putting soil. My soil ph is a 7.
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How are you testing ph? Do you know concentration of your feedings, runoff, and how frequently are you feeding?
Testing the soil with a ph probe. Im useing 3 tps of the fox farm grow big to a gallon of distilled water that i split between 3 plants every other day.
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The only experience I have with these hasn’t been good. Maybe you have a different model or something but the one I had always seemed to read about the same and wasn’t accurate to other references.
The grow big alone won’t support all the elements your plants need. This is meant to be used as a 3 part fertilizer system with the big bloom and tiger bloom. Even with those there may be some additional supplements recommended as well. I’m not very well versed in this line but I know there are others around that could help more.
The mixing directions are per gallon, but this is assuming it’s every gallon you’re giving on feed days. Your pots appear to be maybe 5 gallon fabric? If you’re waiting until pots are somewhat dry to feed (you should be) i would expect it to take 1-2 gallons per pot to get a decent soak. You could potentially get away with feeding a lower concentration and increasing the frequency of feedings but this is an advanced method and most wouldn’t recommend until you have a pretty good handle on fertilizers and applying to plants.
If possible, here’s what I would do. Get yourself a complete base nutrient package. You could buy remaining bottles of fox farms stuff or start over with whichever you want. I would also get yourself digital ph and ec/tds tester and potentially ph adjuster if needed. Then download the feed chart and instructions for whatever you have. Use the manufacturer info to mix up a full batch of nutrient solution and set the ph to 6.5. Then record the concentration of your solution, apply enough to each plant to collect some runoff and test the runoff ph and ec/tds. Then compare the runoff numbers to what you put in. This will show you how your soil is trending and allow you to adjust as needed. If you’re not able to do all that, you at least want to get the full nutrient system and mix according to chart for stage of growth you’re in and apply enough nutrient solution to soak pots on feeding days, then hope for the best.
Where did you get the blue bottle? All of mine have been green.
I know completely unrelated just curious.
Fox farm ocean forest is a little on the hot side for soil and should not need any nutes for up to 6 weeks. I used it once indoors with Fox farms trio nutes and it was a challenging grow.
FF happy frog soil is better in my opinion.
Here is my recommendation and plan to use these in my upcoming grow. Be sure to only use half the recommended amounts of FF trio nutes.
I couldn’t get the Amazon link to work so it’s a picture
Some im new to growing with nutrients, ive always just planted and watered for the most part, my question is are there any household things i can use for phosphorus and potassium, im poor and cant afford to buy the high end products
Hope no one is laughing at me , i just want the best possible outcome with the resources i have available
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