Chilidude said:
I am not talking about any soil stuff, using a fertilizer that have equal N/K works fine, but if the K portion is a little bit more than the N portion seems to be helpful for the pod production.
Define "seems to be helpful"...
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By my evidence, when N is reduced during fruit/flower, there also seems to be a corresponding reduction in output continuity, or a "cycle". Whereas continuous N, by the same evidence, results in a continuous output, plus vegetative growth and sustainment. Also, as I posted in another thread, even a non-ideal formula can produce spectacular results. I did not use bloom booster here. I used a combination of fish fertilizer (5-1-1) for the first 3 months of the grow, and CNS17 (3-1-2) for the remainder. This was an OUTSIDE grow, and look at what I got:
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What's the point of that, you might ask? Well, not all of my plants perform that well, even though it's the same media, same conditions, same basic food. My point is, how well do you define "seems to be helpful"? I've spent a lot of time doing comparative testing of different nutrients and strategies. In none of my testing did higher P or K than N, produce anything that did better, in the long run. But by the same token... One must be studious with this subject. Because I concluded that this plant was just a freak. I've not seen pod production like that before, or since. And nothing in my garden has every outproduced either my Fish fert or CNS17 grows.
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Balanced nutrients in hydroponics would lead to higher overall TDS. Not what you want. But in soil, or Drain to Waste applications, not so much of a problem. Not ideal, either, but you can't win them all. I'd take a 4-4-4 balanced fertilizer for the life of the plant, over multi-part snake oil formulations, any day.
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Yes, it's a true statement that a balanced fertilizer would work fine. Where I have a problem, is when companies intentionally mislead people into buying multi-part products for a grow, when in fact, they know very well what the actual science behind the plant is. People are making ridiculous money off this, and in the end, we don't need it to be good growers. We don't need to keep passing on junk science. Growing should be fun and easy.