New Grower Teach me how to feed nutes

[crimpz]

Whats up people,

Currently I have 3 autoflowers growing outdoors in pots (3 gal) with ffof as the medium. Plants are a month old today, still very small for their age. Done some reading and apparently added nutrients are absolutley necessary for plants as deficiencies are common. Today I purchased Grow Big (3-2-6 not 6-4-4) and I have been trying to find a "How to feed your plants for dummies" guide but I can't find any.

How do I feed?
Do I use a full gallon of water + appropriate dose of grow big to water the plants with?
What would the appropriate dose be in mL?
How often would I feed?
How often would I flush?
I know I need to start with 1/4 strength of recommended dose, what would 1/4 be? -_- I sense this is a stupid question but please help anyways lol
It's been raining alot here, too damn much if you ask me... just rained yesterday and my soil is still kind of wet so I assume that feeding today is dead. Tomorrow it's supposed to rain again, so I assume feeding tomorrow is dead too. Would I have to wait until my soil is completely dried out before I'm able to feed?
I'm trying to get atleast one feed in before my plants start flowering (I assume this is any day now)
This is my 3rd attempt at growing, I could never reach a harvest. Virginia climate.

Thanks in advance, I know these questions are stupid as hell but understand that I never could understand feeding nutes.

 

[Dark Matter]

So if it says on the bottle 4ml/litre... you star of at 1ml/litre.. easy as that

See how she does for a few weeks the up it bit by bit. Its easy to rush into it and up it every week...then next thing you know you have burnt the crap out ta your lady. Little is more when your talking nutes to start with

 

[az2000]

just rained yesterday and my soil is still kind of wet so I assume that feeding today is dead. Tomorrow it's supposed to rain again, so I assume feeding tomorrow is dead too. Would I have to wait until my soil is completely dried out before I'm able to feed?

Could you pull your containers under a covered shelter? When growing indoors you wait until the soil is fairly dry. Common advice is to pick up your container and get used to how it feels when dry and wet.

If you can't control the rain, I think you should go ahead and feed. Seems like that would be a better tradeoff that treating it like an indoor grow, waiting for the container to dry out. Put Saran wrap around the top of the container to try and shed the rain away from the potting soil? Cut the bottoms off your containers and put them in holes in the ground so the roots can follow the washed-away nutrients? Use slower-acting nutrients like organics?

I think the problem you face is that autos are on timer. You don't have the luxury of waiting for optimal conditions when the plant is placed in random outdoor conditions. You have to optimize the conditions somehow.

 

[crimpz]

Yes, I'm able to shelter them from rain. When I feed (for example, 1 tsp/gallon), do I use the whole gallon? or do I use only a 1/4 or 1/2 of the gallon and space rest out? Thanks for the fast replies btw really helpful.

 

[Dark Matter]

Put half a gallon in and see how long it takes for the run off to come out... if it doesn't keep giving her it to it starts to run... slowly does it. Remember less is more to you know what your doing with nutes etc. Wish you luck

 

[crimpz]

Put half a gallon in and see how long it takes for the run off to come out... if it doesn't keep giving her it to it starts to run... slowly does it. Remember less is more to you know what your doing with nutes etc. Wish you luck

but ultimately i use the whole gallon though right?

 

[Dark Matter]

If they are a month or so old then yes. But bit by bit.. not all at once... feed... wait for run off..when it slows down then put in the rest... but its very hard to judge over watering or under watering as the plant will give you the same symptoms

 

[crimpz]

If they are a month or so old then yes. But bit by bit.. not all at once... feed... wait for run off..when it slows down then put in the rest... but its very hard to judge over watering or under watering as the plant will give you the same symptoms

ahh i see, thank you very much sir.

 

[Sauce]

Rule of thumb is to water 30% of the pot. Meaning a 3 gallon pot is about 3 liters. Give it 1 liter first let it soak in. Check for run off, think you want about a 10% return on run off give or take. Let the soil soak all that water, you are trying to get all the soil wet in the pot, not just the top part. Then give it the next, check for run off. If it's not coming out a lot, add in the third.

As for nutes, if you are using , I would of just bought the tri pack, you will need all of them. for different stages in their cycle.

You don't want your soil to be 100% dried out thats not a good thing. Picking the pot up and feeling its light is a good idea. Also check the soil an inch or two check if its wet. Soemthing like that, I would thinkg every 3-4 days (no rain of course) needs a watering.


Flushing theres really two kinds that I seen so far. Thats the omg, I messed u flush, where you added say too many nutes and need to flush the soil to get it out. And theres the flushing before trim. That people just use pure water (and water normally) with out giving it any nutes. This will allow the toxins to be removed from the soil and make the plant use what it has stored up. Thus giving a better tasting smoke as well.

 

[crimpz]

So say I add half a tsp of Grow Big to a gallon of water. Would I use that entire gallon on one plant? In essence would that mean I must water with atleast a gallon each time?. Also, what if I'm using 2 different nutes (tiger bloom + Grow Big)? Would I add both nutrient doses to one gallon of water and use the entire gallon on one plant? or would I use 2 separate gallons for each nutrient and water with 2 gallons on each plant? I know this might be easier than I'm making it out to be but damn... this is really confusing for me at the moment