{"id":178,"date":"2023-06-23T21:35:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T02:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timgrows.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2023-06-23T21:35:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T02:35:28","slug":"happy-plants-after-nutrient-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timgrows.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/23\/happy-plants-after-nutrient-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy plants after nutrient switch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I start my plants using a simple dry nutrient mix from General Hydroponics called Maxi-Grow. The mix is high in nitrogen so it really rocks in the growth stage of plants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a few weeks outdoors when the plants are a couple feet tall I switch over to another product from general hydroponics called Maxi-Bloom which is higher in phosphorus which is what the plats want when they are producing fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s as simple as out with the old, in with the new. I’m running a little hotter than 1 tsp per gallon right now and the plants seem very happy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pictures below were taken mid june a few days after the nutrient changeover. There are tons of flowers but almost no fruit just yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Three planters consisting of 2 10 gallon tubs in the center with 2 additional 5 gallon buckets all running off of a single air pump. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A couple of tomato plants in one bucket and a young cuke. This picture shows the challenge of crowding of the airspace above the buckets. I have used the fence to trellis some of the tomatoes to free up space above the bucket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A pepper and tomato plant sharing a 5 gallon bucket. I’ll likely plug the vacant spot with a cucumber plant or something else that grows low and viny<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another group of happy tomato plants sharing a bucket with a couple of small cukes. The lack of grass on the law shows how dry it has been this summer. The dryness is not impacting the hydroponic plants at all. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I start my plants using a simple dry nutrient mix from General Hydroponics called Maxi-Grow. The mix is high in nitrogen so it really rocks in the growth stage of plants. After a few weeks outdoors when the plants are a couple feet tall I switch over to another product from general hydroponics called Maxi-Bloom […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[13,10,7],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timgrows.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timgrows.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timgrows.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timgrows.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timgrows.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timgrows.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/timgrows.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timgrows.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timgrows.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timgrows.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}