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Botanicare Pure Blend Pro Soil Bloom, need extra micro-nutrients for flower phase?

NV099

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I have been in veg for about 6 weeks and have been using Dyna-Gro Foliage Pro, Advanced Nutrients Sensi Cal Mag, and General Hydroponics Armor SI and hand feed with tap water at approx 5.9-6.3 PH in Fox Farm Happy Frog Soil.

I have a slight nutrient deficiency that I am actively trying to correct. I believe it was from not feeding for a week, but it could be other problems.

I plan to flush in a week and give it the same veg nutrients to hopefully prepare for the transition to the flower phase and trim back the veg nutes during week 1-3 of the flower phase and fully transition to flower nutes.

During the entire flower phase, I am going to use Botanicare Pure Blend Pro Soil Bloom, do I need any other micro nutrients for the flower phase to go along with the Pure Blend Pro Soil Bloom? What should I use with it from my current inventory of nutrients? Do I need to pick anything else up? I don't know much about Pure Blend Pro Soil Bloom, does it have all the macro and micro nutrients to get me to the finish line?



My nutrient inventory:
Dyna-Gro Foliage Pro
Advanced Nutrients Sensi Cal Mag
Fox Farm Big Bloom
General Hydroponics Armor Si
Botanicare Pure Blend Pro Soil Bloom
 
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You can skip the flush. Why flush away the fertilizer you have paid for and added? That certainly won't help a deficiency!

And you've got plenty of fertilizer on your list--more than enough. You don't need to add any more.

The simpler your nutrient regimen, the easier it is to manage knowledgeably.
 
I started using a Blumat system about 2 weeks ago and after the first week the PH in the rez crept up to 8 without me noticing, I'm not sure how long it was watering with that PH. I ran PH water only in the rez for about a week to hopefully try and get the nutes used up in the soil. I started to notice problems this weekend and now I have a deficiency (I think). I'm wondering if there is a salt build up/lockout in my soil since I don't have runoff, that's the only reason why I'm thinking of a flush. I'm about 1 week away from 12/12 flip.

Since this deficiency came up (I think it's a micro nutrient problem), I'm trying to figure out if I need to purchase/supplement with micro nitriuents from either my current nutrients that I have/purchase the missing micro nutrients for the flowering phase when I use the pure blend pro.
 
I can’t speak to your plant deficiencies but the Botanicare Pro Blend Soil line is designed to work as a 2 part system. Grow only for veg and Bloom only for transition and flower. If you haven’t already I would advise downloading their basic feed chart so you can get an idea of a starting point for amounts. Short answer, you should be fine just feeding with the Pro Blend Bloom.
 
Thanks everyone for the opinions on the grow nutrients. I won't buy anymore and just go with Pure Blend Pro Soil Bloom and the Fox Farm Big Bloom for the flower phase.
 
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