What’s up Dude,Scotty,Guru and the DGC? I am running the full line of Nectar For The Gods in 3 gallon Smart Pots in soil,under a SK400 in a 4×4.Scott from Nectar suggests using his product in a feed schedule of feed, feed, tea, feed, feed, flush. I am using Recharge on the tea day’s. Iknow it’s recommended to use Recharge every 7-10 day’s.In 3 gallon pots,my plant’s usually require food/water every 3 day’s.So if I use Scott’s recommended schedule,my Recharge day’s will be farther apart than every 7-10 day’s.I am looking for some advise on how I should tweak the feeding schedule to work best with Recharge.I alway’s appreciate the solid advise I get from the DGC!
Recharge with Nectar For The Gods question.
by Skunk Smell | Jul 1, 2018 | Grower Questions | 7 comments
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What up Skunk, I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Pepe Le Pew
Feed Feed Tea Feed Feed Flush is most useful for people who are watering every single day or close to it, as well as people who value prevention over performance. Which is fine, bear with me.
The flush is a flush, but the tea is also a flush. Every time you do a tea it’s like dredging your pot for hidden nutrients once the microcritters get in there and liberate it. They eat the minerals, stuff eats them and poops them out, the plant then eats their digested corpses, it’s all Game of Thronesy down there. I have mixed feelings on what a blue eyed Lactobacillus could do for me though.
Also, if you run Nectar with the right pH and have a well inoculated root zone (thanks to Recharge natch) then the only reason you have to flush is because you wanna. Nectar is mild as fuck.
However, Nectar is very specific. It’s basically ground up animal and plant carbon and bone. If you don’t have healthy plants, a thriving root zone, good air exchange and proper humidity, you have rich microbe soup that can get gross, stinky, and built up something fierce and then if you don’t flush you’re fucked. Feed Feed Tea Feed Feed Flush is a preventative schedule that keeps so so grows moving along. IF the plants are super duper healthy, you wouldn’t have to flush at all. I don’t do a Herc flush until late ripening, why would I when my plants don’t need it.
You could easily and safely use Recharge every single tea day. It’s filled with microbes that liberate nutes, it’s got humics and fulvics that will hook onto minerals and both become plant available as well as feed the soil, on and on.
You can also easily and safely use both Recharge and Herculean Harvest on tea days and just call them the same thing. Add Herc first, PH with Olympus Up and then add your Recharge, bubble for min 15 minutes then water in. This is a good way to load up your soil with calcium so you can really use that Bloom Khaos too.
Reduce your use of Zeus Juice, Poseidonzyme, things like that due to the humics, fulvics and kelp in the Recharge. If you wish to save money, the amino acids in the Recharge can lower your Athena’s Aminas usage but Aminos make plants grow so I never cut them except in late ripening.
Oops I don’t know how to edit comments here.
I actually forgot a pretty important thing. You can make sure you are successful with Nectar bottles by using enzymes. With the way the system works, you straight up need to use enzymes.
My go to bottled enzyme is SLF-100. It’s from Oregon, the guy is legit, and they don’t kill off the microbes before bottling the enzymes, making it a much more effective product. This is the only enzyme I will buy, everything else I have tried is not as effective.
You can also make enzyme teas simply by making seed sprout teas. You can also top dress ground malted barley. Anyway, that’s a whole thing….
Cheers dude
Thanks for the advise Fumidor!
My current grow I pushed them too hard,now I am dealing from deficiencies from lockout.I was giving them the full line at full strength from early on,it was more than they could take in,I’m guessing.I flushed them with PH’d Herculean Harvest to try and correct it.Next grow,I am going to be a lot more conservative,I plan on feeding them 1/2 strength all through veg,,then start in on full strength early flower.I will take your advise and cut back on the Zeus Juice and Poseidonzyme since I use Recharge.How much should I cut back,just use those 2 once a week?
Also,any more tips on using the Nectar line would be very appreciated!
Great advice ! I’m getting my grower recharge to try with nectar , he used mister beans green trees before .
Thanks for this post, I am running the same regimen as you. I was also wondering if the spike in PH from the recharge was in any way a negative when running the Nectar line as they emphasize getting your PH just right.
Hey again @Skunk Smell I don’t know if the system will tag you.
Anyway, experimentation is your only real guide in how much to cut back. It will depend on how often you’re feeding, how much you’re feeding each time you feed, etc.
Only you can decide if your goals are cost savings, yield, flavor, bag appeal, you name it. Then for each different goal there’s something you can tweak here and there through experimentation over time.
You shouldn’t be using more than 5ml/gallon of Zeus anyway otherwise you’re just wasting money. So if you would normally add 25ml of Zeus the next feeding after Recharge, try half that and see if the results are the same.
Or don’t cut back anything and see if your plants grow more aggressively.
But if you’re trying to save cash, Recharge has most of the Kelp, Humic Acid, aminos, etc. that most people buy in expensive colorful bottles, Likewise if you only give Poseidonzyme as a drench once a week, stop because the kelp is already in the Recharge.
Make little changes, take notes and pay attention. The rest is patience lol.
@Quentin Terpentino the spike in PH is largely the microbes waking up and doing their enzymatic daily routine but I think also some of the acidic stuff solubolizing, I’ve never had a problem with it.
Make sure to add the bottles roughly in order on the feed schedule, then PH before adding any microbes. Personally I add all my NPK before PH, and then while my microbes are waking up for their 15-30 mins I add the coconut water and yucca and that kind of stuff that doesn’t swing the PH much if at all. And if you’re using soluble mycorrhizae only add them right before watering otherwise you’ll smother them.
Thanks @Fumidor! I appreciate it greatly.