mixing fertizers

[gothash]

I was just wondering i have 2 types of fertilizers, Searlers Flourish and Manutec Boom Bloom Booster

 

Searles Flourish NPK: 16 - 4 - 25

Boom Booster: 6- 14- 16

 

They are both water soluble fertilizers, can i mix these 2 together and follow directions as normal to bring the NPK ratios up...or is this an unwise thing to, or should i just alternate the use of these 2 products....

[Frazz]

what is most important when making up nutrients is the final EC or PPM of the solution so as to insure you are not over fertilizing plants and 'burning' them

 

what does the plant want? ..

in growth cycle plant wants high Nitrogen to stimulate rapid growth and structure, lesser amounts of Potasium and Phospherous

 

in flower cycle plant wants less Nitrogen, but higher Phospherous and Potassium to build big flower clusters

 

in your case i would not mix the two together unless you are able to accurately read the PPM / Ec levels, even then i would probably only do it on one plant just to see any difference and compare

the plant will draw up what nutrients it needs, the plant knows better than us, so as long as you have good amounts of all nutes available (700-1000PPM) and a PH of about 5.8-6.2 its gunna be ok

 

Searles and Manutec both know alot more than us as to what best formulas suit most plants so i would just use their products seperately, alternately and not mixed ... but that s just me

 

[mull-ray]

I wouldn't do it myself. There may be conflicts between the base elements used in production and besides this there's a lot more involved in nutrients then NPK levels. You have a range of micro and macro elements in a nutrient - too much or too little of one can cause problems.