The Hot Pepper

Yes and yes. Overlap your side dressings sooner than recommended by instructions.

Awesome. Thanks for the info! Still pretty new to this, so I'm assuming side dressings is follow up doses of ferts after initial application?

Yes,it will say reapply every x months or so(can't remember) but I recomend doing it sooner to give the granuals time to start breaking down. Your plants will stay in stride that way.