do i mix everything in the same gallon in this video we're going to get into it you're here with
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little quicker so i get this question quite often and obviously if i'm still getting this question
people are still wondering for a lot of you that have been growing for a while you probably know
the majority of this so i still get this question quite often do i put everything in the same gallon
and the simple answer is more often than not you are going to put everything in the same gallon if
you've been on the channel for a while you know that i normally push dry amendments amending your
soil giving good clean water and watching the plants grow through the process of watching the
plants grow and obviously watching this channel where i walk you guys through detail by detail
of plant deficiencies and i have a huge series of videos coming out in the next couple weeks i'll be
releasing them after the recent video i did with chris from mr growit just because from his video
we go on an overview of plant deficiencies although in the videos after the release of
these i go into extreme detail my point to this is that when you actually can identify actual issues
with the plant you're actually able to start to get more specific around the types amendments
you can use when you're going through veg or flowering just like this question right here
from potatofry123 can i use calmag and maxibloom in the same gallon obviously right here he's using
synthetic fertilizer so so in this situation i'm going to recommend him to use both at the same
time as long as he isn't past the fourth or fifth weekend of flowering the reason why is because
like most of us know these plants stop growing roughly around the fifth week into flowering so
calcium is an immobile nutrient so what that means is calcium is going to be used as the plant is
growing right it's meant for cell wall division and growth so when the plant stops growing and
stops producing new leaves when the leaves stop growing from a smaller leaf to a larger leaf in a
sense i don't want to say like what's the point to calcium because the plants still keep using
calcium but they dramatically reduce the need for calcium as it goes into week four and five
and further into flowering i recommend something like lambonite which is magnesium sulfur and
potassium which is in the form a soluble potash because as you get into more of like the law of
tolerance and the law minimum you start to understand that higher amounts of calcium
as you go farther into flowering actually can inhibit and the word inhibit basically just means
it reduces the ability for the plant to take up things like potassium and really when you get
microbiology going the plant controls all these things but my point to this is that when you
amend your soils and you kind of understand the rhythm of the plant me because i push
teas and microbiology when you're making up your microbiology you might be able to start to amend
your microbiology teas with these other amendments that might specifically focus in on more specific
things the plants actually going through making certain minerals more water soluble and easily
available to be taken up by the plant so i don't want to over complicate this let's just go back to
what the majority of people are going to do as you as you start growing yes you're going to
add everything into your the same mix the basic things right you're going to have your basic grow
your basic bloom as you get more into growing you're probably going to get into a little bit
of calcium magnesium i would recommend using that all the way up into the fourth to fifth week into
flowering if all you did were those two basic things and had some microbiology going in the
soil i recommend also a product called drops balance for the trace minerals you're going to
be solid you're going to have a great grow i can almost guarantee you that as you get more into
growing as you start to learn how the plant shows you toxicities and deficiencies in different ways
and you start to re-amend your soil and maybe you start to grow and grow beds and maybe you
have an outdoor garden every year you're gonna have to amend your soil and let's say you're
growing tomatoes for example real tomatoes well calcium is actually going to be eated through the
entire growing season for tomatoes and as long as tomatoes have the right temperature they're going
to keep producing more tomatoes so through growing tomatoes tomatoes are actually going to need more
calcium all the way through the flowering process right but our plants you might not need as much
calcium because the plant stops growing i don't want to say it stops growing but it stops putting
so much energy into growing tall and wide and it doesn't go through as much cell division that's
why i'm always like not recommending to de-fan all the leaves and all this stuff because that kind of
also stimulates more leaf development because the plant needs a certain amount of faux senses to do
its function that's my thought process at least so it's going to then require more calcium when
it when you then start to provide more calcium if the plant needs it or starts to require it
because it wants to put out more leads through the photosynthesis and you start to provide that
because you'll probably start to see some cal deficiencies or something well you add that in
later into firing well it's going to actually hurt your actual flower development because
that higher calcium could be possibly reducing the uptake of other minerals more needed later into
flowering at times though if you do see let's say you're in veg and you do see a specific problem
like you know it's a magnesium issue or you might just grab your calcium magnesium bottle make up a
little bit amount and and actually just hand feed it to that one plant obviously you don't
want to dump on a whole gallon because that's going to kind of throw off your watering for
that one plan if you jack up your humidity that might start to cause bug problems or other issues
so once again kind of getting further outside as you get more technical if you're adding your bloom
and then you throw in some calcium magnesium but that ends up not being enough yes then get
in there add in a little bit more into your water make sure to not throw off your schedule too much
but make sure to provide what that plant needs if it's not going to take you too much time to
do because if it does start to take you too much time to baby one plant you might just want to get
rid of that one plant because that one plant is going to take away from your average yield you
could get in your whole garden because that average yield is always going to yield you
more than the extremes of one or two plants i hope this video was helpful please give me a thumbs up
like share subscribe have a great grow everyone so as you can see right here we have fluorotec
botanica and mbk nutrients one of the things i'm realizing even though i don't support botanicare
some of their nutrient lines they do use some more of a healthier or better chemicals than
the other ones especially the ones that he's using he's using the pureblend pro ingrow