Top Crop Feeding Chart | Usage Guide
- 1. Pre-amended substrates
- 2. Solid fertilizers
- 2. a. Make your own amended substrate
- 3. Fertilizers
- 4. Other top crop products
- 5. Beginners guide for soil
- 5. a. Feeding schedule for soil
- 6. Beginners guide for coco fiber
- 6. a. Feeding schedule for coco
- 7. Feeding schedule for experienced growers
- 8. Top crop feeding schedule for autoflowers
- 9. In conclusion
Top crop is a Spanish fertilizer manufacturer that specializes in products for cannabis seeds growing, with official distributors in South America and Europe, this brand offers a wide range of 100% organic, synthetic or organo-mineral products that suits all types of growers. Their products provide excellent results not only in cannabis cultivation but for those growing fruits and vegetables, so if you’re looking for the best way to use Top Crop products for any kind of plants, including cannabis and even autoflowers, this is just for you!
1. Pre-Amended Substrates
Apart from the fertilizers, Top Crop offers a couple of pre-amended substrates for those who don’t want to deal with pre-amending the substrate.
These substrates come 100% ready to be used out of the bag and are a great choice for those who are looking to have a smoother vegetative cycle, especially with auto flowers.
Complete Mix
The Complete Mix is a high-quality mix of coconut fiber, perlite, and vermicompost that promotes root growth, resulting in a better vegetative phase.
| Micro and Macronutrients | 3g/L |
|---|---|
| Leonardite | 2g/L |
This substrate contains everything your plants need for the first 3 weeks of life, allowing for better aeration and water retention, providing ideal conditions for roots to develop correctly.
Heavy Mix
Heavy Mix is a complete substrate with lots of quality nutrients for the vegetative stage, this mix of coconut fiber, peat moss, and black peat will most likely provide everything your plant needs during the whole vegetative stage, saving you time and effort.
| Micro and Macronutrients | 3g/L | Bat guano | 1.2g/L |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leonardite | 2g/L | Crushed volcanic gravel | 0.6g/L |
This mix has been designed to have the ideal particle size to retain water and thanks to the expanded clay and nutritional amendments, it will avoid compacting and help transfer nutrients from the environment to your plant, making it one of the best and most popular in the market.
Top Coco
Top Coco by Top Crop is a substrate made of 100% coco fiber, which, due to its spongy texture promotes oxygenation of the root zone. Proper oxygenation of the root zone is extremely important for plant growth as the roots need water but also oxygen in order to grow strong, healthy, and vigorous. This pH-neutral substrate also contains Leonardite in addition to a wide range of microorganisms to protect your plant’s roots from harmful fungi and bacteria.
| Macro and Micronutrients | 0.2g/L |
|---|---|
| Organic matter | 81.8% |
2. Solid Fertilizers
If you’re looking to grow 100% organically without much effort, Top Crop offers a complete line of solid fertilizers that can be used to make your own pre-amended or even top-dress your plants throughout your grow cycle.
Micro Vita
Micro Vita is a microbial life enhancer containing different beneficial fungi and bacteria that will protect the roots and allow them to develop to their maximum, with an NPK of 1-3-0. This supplement will aid in nutrient absorption and decomposition of organic matter by helping break it down while also containing the food they need to accelerate reproduction, filling your substrate with beneficial microorganisms almost immediately.
If you’ve ever heard of the term “rhizosphere” when researching cannabis and soil science, you’ll know how important microbes are to this habitat that surrounds plant roots. They work hard to release degrading enzymes that break down large clunky molecules into small segments of nutrients that plant roots can easily uptake. As well as working together with fungi and bacteria, cannabis plant roots also directly prey upon bacterial cells in the rhizosphere. Known as the process of rhizophagy (which literally means root eating), this phenomenon involves plant roots uptaking entire bacteria cells and stripping them of nitrogen, before releasing them back into the soil via their root hairs. So, as you can see, inputs such as Micro Vita are capable of feeding plants both directly and indirectly; they cover all the important bases.
Amino Perlas
Amino Perlas is a product rich in humic acids and amino acids which are released slowly and gradually as you water, thus improving the substrate and facilitating nutrient absorption while also improving soil structure and stimulating growth. Amino acids are absolutely key to all life on Earth—including cannabis plants. You can essentially view them as smaller LEGO blocks that are used to build more complex structures. After they enter the plant cells, they are placed onto an assembly line involving a specialized organelle known as a ribosome. Programmed by mRNA codes, this piece of cellular machinery assembles amino acids into larger proteins that are used to build plant structure and catalyze key chemical reactions.
Nitroguano
Nitroguango is a 100% natural chemical-free bat guano fertilizer that enhances substrates while boosting plant performance, enhancing plant growth, and increasing resistance against plant disease.
| Nitrogen | 3% | Boron | < 2ppm | Manganese | 150 ppm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phosphorus | 1.5% | Copper | 62 ppm | Zinc | 210 ppm |
| Potassium & Magnesium | 0.5% | Iron | 13200 ppm | Humic Extracts | 1.3% |
Guano works in a two-pronged fashion. Of course, it serves as a source of nitrogen for growing plants. As you’re probably aware, plants need nitrogen to fuel leafy growth, and high amounts of this element are especially crucial during the vegetative phase. Remember when we touched upon amino acids a second ago? Well, all of these molecules, despite their other functional differences, require nitrogen within their small molecular structures.
Superguano
Superguano is a product similar to Nitroguano, it’s a 100% natural and chemical-free bat guano that works as a cannabis plant enhancer; This product not only improves yield but also improves the flavor and aroma of the buds while also improving root growth and increasing resistance against plant disease.
| Nitrogen | 1% | Magnesium | 1.5% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phosphorus | 10% | Iron | 14000 ppm |
| Potassium | 0.1% | Manganese | 3000 ppm |
| Calcium |
> 30% | ||
Top Vulcan
Top Vulcan is a 100% ecological volcanic rock powder rich in trace elements that are essential for all plants, including cannabis. This powder helps plants grow better in harsh climates and increases resistance against certain diseases while improving soil structure and providing a better use of macronutrients.
| Calcium | 930 ppm | Magnesium | 1280 ppm |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copper | 51 ppm | Manganese | 540 ppm |
| Iron | 30700 ppm | Zinc | 26 ppm |
Top Tabs
Top Tabs is an organic/mineral product in tablet form which gradually releases nutrients throughout the plant’s growth cycle. Its formula contains optimal NPK levels with a mixture of microelements, combined with seaweed extract and magnesium to provide everything your plants need during the vegetative and flowering stages. This way, you don’t have to worry about mixing nutrients, all you have to do is water with plain water from seed to harvest. This product can be used in both coco fiber and soil, but remember to not use it for 15 days before germination!
How to Use Top Tabs
These slow-release tablets are extremely easy to use. All you have to do is add 1 Top Tabs tablet per 3-4 liters of substrate at around 10-15 cm deep (and as close to the walls of the pot as possible), making sure the tablets are around 10cm from the plant’s stem. Other than that, just water when necessary and the tablets will take care of releasing nutrients as you water, so remember that keeping the substrate moist is vital.
Make Your Own Amended Substrate
If you don’t wanna have to deal with mixing fertilizers when watering, here’s a quick and easy guide on how to make your own pre-amended substrate.
Have in mind that for the pre-amended substrate, you will need the whole line of solid fertilizers.
Step 1 - Mix in amendments
For the first step, you need to mix in all the beneficial microorganisms and basic nutrients that your plant’s need to start developing green matter, so to make sure your plant grows properly, you’ll have to amend your substrate with the following:
- Micro Vita: 0.2-0.5g/L;
- Nitro Guano: 5g/L;
- Amino Perlas: 3g/L;
- Top Vulcan: 1-2g/L.
Step 2 - Re-amend substrate
Once your plant starts flowering, it will need an extra push so you can go ahead and feed the following as a top dress:
- Super Guano: 0.2-0.5g/L (beginning of pre-flower);
- Super Guano: 0.2-0.5g/L (Mid-flowering).
Extra tips
We recommend top dressing the Super Guano around the edge of the pot and gently mix it in with your fingers, also, it’s essential you check your plants every day.
If you feel like your plants are hungry, you should use either Top Veg or Top Bloom (depending on the stage your plants are in) to quickly provide them with the nutrients they are in need of.
3. Fertilizers
Top Crop fertilizers are a complete line of fertilizers designed for cannabis, suited for beginner and more experienced growers who are looking for an easy and effective way to provide what’s best for their cannabis plants.
Top Roots
Top Roots is a rooting supplement designed to allow optimal root development and it’s suitable for mixing in water to prepare nutritive solutions for the soil.
| Total nitrogen | 1% | Phosphorus pentoxide | 5% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ammoniacal nitrogen | 0.8% | Potassium oxide | 1% |
Big One
Big One is a 100% organic flower booster that can increase the density of flowers up to 40% and improve trichome production by more than 30% while also improving the quality of the trichomes.
| Algae extract | 20% | Phosphorus | 0.01% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen | 0.1% | Potassium | 2.2% |
PK 13-14
PK 13-14 is a liquid fertilizer rich in water-soluble phosphorus and potassium which can be directly absorbed by your plants, thus stimulating the development of dense, compact, and big flowers.
| Phosphorus pentoxide | 13.2% |
|---|---|
| Potassium oxide | 14.2% |
Top Candy
Top Candy is a 100% organic product that enhances the weight and density of the buds while also improving the taste and aroma due to being made from natural plant extracts that are rich in sugar and carbohydrates.
| Nitrogen | 1.7% | Total sugars | 42% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phosphorus | < 0.1% | Potassium | 3% |
| Calcium |
1% | ||
Top Bud
Top Bud is a product designed to get better harvests without affecting the final smell and flavor of your flowers, this product allows your flowers to gain more weight and volume by providing ideal amounts of phosphorus and potassium in the last weeks of the flowering stage.
| Total nitrogen | 1.4% | Water-soluble potassium oxide | 18% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water-soluble phosphorus pentoxide | 16.3% | Aminoacids | 2.2% |
4. Other Top Crop Products
Apart from fertilizers and substrates, Top Crop also offers a range of additives and other products designed for plant growing, so let’s learn a bit more about them.
Top Lemon
Top Lemon is a concentrated citric acid solution that works as a pH Down liquid while also helping maintain beneficial microbial activity in the substrate. This product also ensures proper nutrient absorption and helps reduce drip clogging in automatic irrigation systems.
How to Use
- For adjusting pH levels, use 0.2ml/L
- For cleaning clogged lines, use 0.4ml/L
CalMag
CalMag is a concentrated solution designed to provide Nitrogen but also prevent calcium and magnesium plant deficiencies when utilizing reverse osmosis and/or soft water for mixing your nutrient solution.
How to Use
- For RO or soft water, use 0.2 - 1ml/L until the desired EC is reached.
- For deficiency correction, use 0.1 - 1ml/L
5. Beginners Guide For Soil
Top Crop offers a couple of feeding schedules with different ways to use their products that will allow you to better control the amount of specific nutrients your plants get, but if you’re growing in soil and want to keep things simple, this is what you’ll need.
Top Soil A + Top Soil B
Soil A and Soil B should be used in combination, this product offers an efficient mix of nutrients better suited for soil application and provides a balanced amount of the macro and micronutrients your plants need throughout the entire life cycle.
This product contains nitrogen, potassium, magnesium, copper, manganese, and zinc along with everything your plants need for a super healthy vegetative and flowering stage due to the complete blend so make sure you follow the instructions correctly to avoid overfeeding.
Feeding schedule for soil
Remember that the amounts in all tables are in milliliters or grams per liter of water!
6. Beginners Guide For Coco Fiber
Top Crop offers a couple of feeding schedules with different ways to use their products that will allow you to better control the amount of specific nutrients your plants get, but if you’re growing in coco and want to keep things simple, this is what you’ll need.
Top Coco A + Top Coco B
Coco A and Coco B should be used in combination for better results, this product offers an efficient mix of nutrients better suited for organic coconut substrates, providing a balanced amount of the macro and micronutrients your plants need throughout the entire life cycle.
This product contains nitrogen, potassium, magnesium, copper, manganese, and zinc along with everything your plants need for a super healthy vegetative and flowering stage due to the complete blend so make sure you follow the instructions correctly to avoid overfeeding.
Feeding schedule for coco
7. Feeding Schedule For Experienced Growers
If you have grown cannabis before and are looking to have more control over what you feed your plants, you will want to have separate fertilizers for the vegetative stage and the flowering stage, along with a couple more things to provide the best possible food to your plants.
So if that’s the case, this is the most complete Top Crop feeding schedule, which uses all the liquid fertilizers they have to offer.
Top Veg
Top Veg is a liquid fertilizer designed for the vegetative stage, this liquid fertilizer is rich in humic and fulvic acid which increases resistance against bugs and diseases while enhancing the production of green matter and helping your plant recover from stress faster.
Top Bloom
Top Bloom is a fertilizer designed to boost bud growth, ending up with huge buds with lots and lots of resin; This product is rich in phosphorus and potassium which are the macronutrients necessary for your plants to develop the flowers, resulting in much fatter flowers with a lot of trichomes and a much pleasant taste and flavor.
Barrier
Barrier is a defense booster designed to reinforce the cell walls, making your whole crop more resistant to drought, heat or cold, and any kind of stress. This product can also be used to increase the pH in hydroponic nutrient solutions.
| Silicon | 9.2% |
|---|---|
| Potassium | 4.63% |
Green Explosion
Green Explosion is a 100% organic growth enhancer made mostly from algae, thanks to the quality seaweed extract, it’s highly effective and will work really fast. Within 48hs of applying it, you’ll see an increase in the growth of plant matter while also increasing the root system and boosting up chlorophyll.
| Ascophyllum nodosum seaweed extract | 28% | Alginic acid | 4.2% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water-soluble potassium oxide | 3.8% | Mannitol | 0.5% |
Feeding Schedule For Experienced Growers
8. Top Crop Feeding Schedule For Autoflowers
Now, if you're growing autoflowering cannabis and you were looking for that specific feeding schedule, here's what you're looking for. Remember that due to this table being specially designed for autoflowers you don't need to use half the recommended amount, just make sure you start with the lower end (for example, start with 2ml if it indicates 2-4ml) and gradually increase it for the best results.
These are approximate amounts and should be adjusted according to how your plant reacts, also, have in mind that the dosage specified in this table has to be applied once a week.
9. In Conclusion
Now that you've reached the conclusion, you know everything you need to make the best use out of every single product Top Crop has to offer! Make sure you always read the labels before using and follow the instructions closely.
If you have any tips for fellow growers, feel free to share them in the comment section below!
