hey everyone you're here with mark boutwell at perfectgardens.com
have you ever wondered when your plans start flowering out in the state of
washington or if you need to use all the products
in the fox forn line well in this video we're going to get
into it please make sure to like share and subscribe okay so we got
a couple great questions from a l m he ended up
watching fox farm from newbies ended up liking
the video very informative i appreciate that
and he shared something that i thought was really interesting
he lives in western washington state and he told me that
his plants actually start flowering in august 15th and about two weeks later
they start to show the pre-flowering process i thought that was really
interesting and i came over here to my sunrise sunset time calendar and if
you haven't checked out my videos talking about
the importance of civil twilight and that your plants actually start
flowering out when they start to receive less than 15 and a half hours of light
please check out that video because this is really what you want to be going by
the civil twilight not the astronomical twilight
or nautical or the daylight so you want to be going by sweat civil so as you
come down over here and you come down to on the 15th i was
just wanted to double check and i was wondering and after you do the math he
was absolutely correct that right here on august 15th is when
they begin to get less than 15 and a half hours of
daylight so i thought that was really interesting
obviously when you come up here on the states as you can see you're in
california and i reference in california and in
colorado right here how similar they are basically on the
longitude latitude they're about the same although as you
can see up here in washington they start flowering august 15th while
down here we start actually flowering around the
third week of july so july 21st to july 23rd
so once again if you haven't checked out my video about civil twilights and how
to figure out your own time zone and when
they start to flower please do so in that video i'll make
sure to include a link in this video so let's go ahead and get
back over to his other questions number one is it imperative to use the
additional additives for example i'm going to use micro brew
do i have to use the other ones holy mackerel flower kiss and so on
okay so let's go ahead and go over to the feeding chart and go over these
products so this is the base nutrients right here and if
you're using the phosphor line most important nutrients to use all you
had was the money to purchase these three products it would get you through
your entire grow the next three most important products
are the open sesame beastie blooms and challenging
by using these six products properly you will be getting a decent yield and a
decent quality so let's go ahead and go into the bush
doctor line first off let's just be really clear
the the bim ring the kangaroo roots the micro brew are all the same product
i think these three is just a sham personally and i wish they would just
combine all of these three products into one product
the flour kiss is a yucca extract so if you're using it as a foliar spray
or you're using it as a root wrench it
basically helps so your salts don't combine
and it helps with surface tension so it basically breaks the surface
tension so the water absorbs quicker in the soil
which a lot of times when you have excess salts or just
you don't basically put hay over your soil surface and you don't keep the
surface of your soil moist and it begins to dry back basically you
create a surface tension and if you can imagine
let's say you're drinking some water and you spill a little bit on your shirt
and the first little bit of water just rolls right off right
well that's surface tension but then you spill a little more and it doesn't roll
off it absorbs into your shirt well it broke
the surface tension that's what flower kisses and again you
have to make that decision if it's right for you
are you dealing with soil that dries back quickly do you have you
incorporated a foil your spray program into
your plants or are you growing in a relatively dry climate environment
which you might want to use a yucca extract that is all your
psychological thought process around the strategic planning on growing
your plants based upon the environment you're growing them in
like i said the boomerang the kangaroo roots and the microbial i'm not
saying that they're bad products i'm just saying that i think that the same
product and i think it's a sham and i think they
should combine these products into one product the holy
mackerel and the kelp me cup you i think once
again this is a sham as well i think they are
pretty much the same product you might have
different numbers on the bottom or whatever
but one is a kelp extract and holy mackerel
is a liquid fish fertilizer so kelp and liquid fish fertilize they're basically
the same thing and so that's why again i'd probably go with the kelp meek help
you over the holy mackerel personally because i think you'll get
the same type of nutrient feeding and you'll get the
benefits of your kelp which help with
microbiology at this point though if you're using the
whole nutrient line you've shut down your microbiology
which again is very interesting too after about 900 parts per million or a
high phosphorus environment it shuts down your microbiology so
using these products makes these three products
inert so it's like if you use these you're just throwing your money away
with these and the same thing here with the kelp it's still going to help you
again the kelp really helps with the beneficial bacterias in the
mineral uptake so it's still going to help i would still recommend using this
product with these two and then the benbi
is a sugar additive so out all of these if i was going to use any one of these
products and get rid of some and you want to use
all the additives i'd go with these i would probably use a flower kiss
especially if you're going to use these products
just because of the excess salt build up if you
wanted to you could probably use one of these it's not going to hurt anything
and i'm not saying it's not going to help anything but it
it's not going to hurt anything and then i wouldn't use the macro because you're
using a lot of fertilizer already you just don't need excess fish
fertilizer i definitely use the kelp because the kelp is going to also
be similar to the flower kiss actually so i would probably pick one or the
other between the flower kiss and the kelp i
probably would go with the kelp over the flower kiss because it
relatively does the same thing this helps breaking up the surface tension
and like i said you have to make the decision if in your area the soil dries
back quickly and when your watering is not
penetrating the soil you might want to use this
but when you're using kelp for most situations
it's going to do some very similar things as the flower kiss
so once again one of these isn't going to hurt
and i'm not saying it's not going to help i probably wouldn't use this one
and you could probably get away with using the kelp me kelp uh you versus the
fire kiss so go with that and the bambi i definitely have saved
use that at the end of your growing just to increase flavor and taste
i think it's always made sense adding in a few more sugars
so let's go see go back to the questions all right i think we answered that
pretty well number two if i'm using tap water and
it's very consistent is it reasonable to assume that i could
just add yes 100 that's exactly what you want to
do when you are adding them though you have to
realize that your new parchment milling is 614.
so you're going to have to reduce the fertilizer using probably after it
starts to get up to the higher numbers and so if it's getting past like 13 to
15 or 1700 54 isn't a big deal i'm just saying if
you did have higher parts per million anyone out there you're gonna need to
reduce your fertilizer because you're compensating for that
excess parts per million that's already in your water
and then this will this affect your ph you know water does not read the
textbooks okay and these are chemical fertilizers
so there are hydrogens being released and taken up so could it affect
your ph yes it can and i think it's always smart when using
synthetic fertilizers to do your due diligence and check the
ph of your water before and after you add your nutrients before
giving them to your plants because remember it's a lot
easier to dilute it now before you give it to your plants
than it is after giving it to your plants once you give it to your plants
at that point if it was a good decision or a bad decision
you'll know within a few hours or even at times it within a few minutes
okay i hope this video was helpful have a great grow
a lm and please give me feedback around this thank you so much