Hey everyone you're here with Mark Boutwell. Grow Coach here at perfectgardens.com
our mission every day is to help you grow while making decisions in line
with our values hey everyone got another great question talking
about the Fox farm line. lets scroll down says I love the video but we went through it
a little too quickly he's brand new to the product line he burned his seedlings
and he was just asking for a little more guidance not a problem man
we've all burned the seeds using the Fox farm line it is what it is the Fox farm
you know they give you a little little insight into this industry been part of
it for a long time Fox fire max you just recently changed their fertilizer that
you were using a dry fertilizer and mix it in with the soil and then now they
are putting on the spray on fertilizer and it it's a very quick release versus
a slow release for the Fox from line so over the so right here they're going to
recommend to put your seedlings and transplanting directly into ocean forest
and you know and I am and then there's a few other little insights that they that
they don't kind of really tell people is that when they're watering their plants
with their soil they actually give ro water. They start with RO
water and then they add their fertilizer and really controlling every aspect 90%
of the growers out there do not do that stuff you know so this whole this whole
fertilizer feed schedule is really meant for someone that has an RO system that
and if you've never seen an RO system let's go ahead and just pull one up real
quick and as you can see even the smallest reverse osmosis systems are
you're going to run about $200 you know which has in the day in growing and for
a lot of growing situations RO systems are absolutely essential there's other
products that that deal with water problems for example real quick
is drops of balance which is actually a brand new product that hit the market at
about a year ago I which actually the way they clean water is they add sulfate
of minerals and those sulfate of minerals rip apart the
man-made chemicals and real and turning back into sulfate minerals again very
interesting product anyways let's go ahead and get back over to Fox farm
so all these all these things that they're recommending is on the basis
that you're using an RO system most of you are using tap water or well water
and they're starting parts-per-million nowadays because of major water problems
and droughts and just a whole issue and they're dealing with in the United
States really all over the world we're dealing with starting pressure per
million that could be 500 600 parts per million on average so really you're
already at the starting basis by the time they started so when you add in the
the recommended fertilizer at that just at the big bloom level it increases your
fertilizer pause possibly all the way up to seven or eight hundred and so what I
actually recommend people to do when is to not just not transplant directly in
the ocean forest but actually grab one bag of happy frog one grab of one bag of
ocean force if they don't have happy frog then should get a filler
not not like a like not in the soil that's woody but something that's just
it's a soil it's a plain soil my have little bone meal or something it's just
it doesn't have a fertilizer in it and you dilute and just cut this for a cut
the ocean for us and then a second I would recommend when you are feeding
your water feeding your plants in the beginning
definitely pH or water definitely want to pH or water and just just water your
plants with that that controlled pH water for a day or two and a lot of
those root systems to start to get used to the environment that it's that it's
currently in the then and if you do that with your seedlings and if you do that
with your transplants you're probably going to have a lot more success and
then after the first few days after transplanting then
go ahead and start giving your first nutrients yet the big grad the big row
is biologically alive the rest of the the majority of the a lot of the big row
of the tiger bloom and then all the open Sesame's those are all those are all
synthetic synthetic fertilizers you have your kelp your kelp extract yeah and I'm
going to be really quick on what these are generally generally are okay and
then you can kind of decide what which ones are you they used for there is a
couple nutrients is I haven't haven't seen yet so if I don't haven't seen them
I'm not going to talk about them they just add them recently to the fertilizer
lines but anyways the the grow big is just a basic buy it was one of the basic
biological fertilizers that they saw that they started with it's back 100 and
it has some enzymes and it's a living fertilizer so I had the grow big and the
tiger Bloom grow big is used as a transition so it's a little bit more I
it's a little bit more nitrogen so it's going to put a nitrogen produces green
Leafs and stems the tiger bloom is meant more for the flowerings
for flower development over the years they'll also develop their open
sesame Beastie bloomz - cha-ching open sesame is going to initiate the
flowers beastie bloomz is going to help bring on that yield and
transition them to a full flowering state and the cha-ching is going to
bring out the aroma and the flavoring all these because you're starting with
tap water most likely or well watering you're most likely not starting with RO
water and if you are starting with RO water then disregard some of this stuff
and also besides just pH you also probably want
to invest into a total dissolved solids meter or an EC meter or PPM parts for a
millimeter these meters read the parts per million and give you the range of
what they're recommending and allow you to control your settings a little better
or you environment of the water anyways if you
are starting with tap water you're going to want to probably cut all these in
half immediately so first you water with tap water out or you water
with pH water, after you pH your water and give a
couple feedings over a week of just water pH water then you again you still
keep pH in your water and if you're using tap or well water probably going
to want to cut all this in half and then give your I give the fertilizer
remember less is more in this situation and you don't
want to dump more fertilizer in there and just lock up everything meaning that
the fertilizers will actually combine together or they'll be in the wrong pH
range and they won't become available to the plant so they're just going to sit
there then one day you'll the plants are going to get who knows maybe one day the
you give a really good watering maybe the pH of the water changed and made all
that assault that's locked up in the soil instantly available or a lot of
available and then the plants begin to I get burned because of
all that nutrients that was locked up in the soil and then now it just became
available so if using tap water again start with half the dosages and go from
there and the the kangaroots and the
microbrew pretty much if you turn them a Trinity high turn them in the back and
look at the balls they're pretty identical you know so you're just going
to want to get one or the other they're both microbiology the the kelp extract
is helps increase the communication between the microbial life and the and
and the communication between the plants and the
plants in the microbial life in your soil so basically
the plants will send off signals to go retrieve the specific minerals and those
minerals are within the fertilizers right here and the kelp extract helps
that communication so those hormones talking to the microbial life that's in
these products that are responsible for responsible for going going and
retrieving the minerals in these bottles right here that this product will
increase the communication so the hormones at the plant to release the
help the kelp extract is going to make them talk faster between the microbial
life and the hormone so they're gonna they're going to be like oh oh yeah I
need that oh yeah I ran out there and quickly grabbed it versus kind of being
oh you need that yeah well you know it's it's kind of three o'clock it's almost
at the end of the day let me get it for you tomorrow that's that's kind of how
it is when you're not using a cup extract but when you are using a cup of
extract oh it's five o'clock you know what not a problem I'm actually going to
work late for you today and I'm not going to charge them and that's how its
kind of speeds up everything it gives a great customer service anyways I hope
this and and you just kind of go through the schedule and it is that easy
and you feed feed once a week less is more look for the look for the tip burns
at the end of the leaves if the leaves are crackling or if the leaves are have
dry if the leaves are dried out put your hands on the plants and they don't they
don't feel comfortable if they don't if they don't feel like that you're they're
flexible or leather they're like a they're like a leathery type filling and
they kind of have some some pooled to them they kind of stretch it a little
bit or it or if they break you know just get that general feel that what apply
regular plant feels like as you go through this process and you're going to
begin to and and listen to your intuition you know when you put your
hands on the plant you know the point you're going to know that really
shouldn't probably be like that and then pull something out here on one of these
YouTube videos and then I will respond to it with another video or something
like that and and hopefully we can keep progressing
and keep learning together hopefully this was helpful hopefully I answered
your question thank you so much and have have a great grow