Heavy 16 Feeding Schedule

About Heavy 16

Heavy 16 is a two-part base — A and B, in Veg and Bloom — and the whole pitch is that you do not need much else. The formulations already carry the calcium and magnesium most programs sell you separately, so the shelf stays short and the mixing order stays simple.

Where it earns its reputation is consistency. Growers who run it tend to keep running it, because the EC lands where the chart says it will and the plants respond the same way every cycle. The additives — Prime, Fire, Foliar, Roots — are genuinely optional rather than required to make the base work.

The feed chart

Basic Feed & Foliar Recipe

Heavy 16 basic feed and foliar recipe chart

Dosatron Feed

Heavy 16 Dosatron feed chart

Outdoor Feed

Heavy 16 outdoor feed chart

Feed chart tables

Heavy 16 prints its charts as flattened images rather than a text file, so the tables below were transcribed by eye directly off each image at full resolution, product row by product row, then independently re-read a second time before publishing — every row on the two indoor charts was also cross-checked arithmetically against the chart's own printed TOTAL column. Reproduced exactly as Heavy 16 prints them; a dash means that chart lists nothing for that product at that stage.

Basic Feed & Foliar Recipe (table)

Heavy 16 — HEAVY FEED (Basic Feed Recipe) — mL per gallon, recommended for all soil and soilless media
HEAVY 16 PRODUCT Seeds/Cuts VEG BUD FLUSH TOTAL
Week 0 Week 1 Week 2 Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Final Week
ROOTS 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 — 11
PRIME — 1 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 1 — 29
FIRE — 1 1 2.5 2.5 2.5 3 3 3 2 1 — 21.5
FINISH 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 10 20 55
VEG A 4 8 10 — — — — — — — — — 22
VEG B 4 8 10 — — — — — — — — — 22
BUD A — — — 10 10 10 10 10 10 6 4 — 70
BUD B — — — 10 10 10 10 10 10 6 4 — 70
Heavy 16 — HEAVY FOLIAR — mL per quart
Feed Seeds/Cuts Mothers VEG Week 1 VEG Week 2 BUD Week 1-4
FOLIAR 40 40 40 30 30
ROOTS — — — 1 1
FIRE — — — 1 1

HEAVY FEED's Week 8 / Final Week split is easy to misread at a glance because six of the eight product rows hold a flat dose for weeks 1-6 of Bud before changing — FINISH in particular steps up late (2.5 mL through Bud Week 7, then 10 mL at Week 8, then 20 mL for the Final Flush Week), confirmed against its own printed 55 mL total (2.5×10 + 10 + 20 = 55).

Dosatron Feed (table)

Heavy 16 — DOSATRON FEED (in-line doser percentage settings) — doser %, VEG/BUD week-by-week
HEAVY 16 PRODUCT VEG BUD FLUSH
Week 1 Week 2 Week 1 Week 2 FLUSH * Week 3 Week 4 FLUSH * Week 5 Week 6 FLUSH * Week 7 Week 8
ROOTS 0.030% 0.030% 0.030% 0.030% 0.030% 0.030% 0.030% 0.030% 0.030% 0.030% 0.030% 0.030% 0.030% —
FINISH 0.080% 0.080% 0.080% 0.080% 0.080% 0.080% 0.080% 0.080% 0.080% 0.080% 0.080% 0.130% 0.130% 0.130%
VEG A 0.210% 0.210% — — — — — — — — — — — —
VEG B 0.210% 0.210% — — — — — — — — — — — —
BUD A — — 0.210% 0.210% — 0.266% 0.266% — 0.266% 0.266% — 0.210% 0.160% —
BUD B — — 0.210% 0.210% — 0.266% 0.266% — 0.266% 0.266% — 0.210% 0.160% —
FIRE 0.030% 0.050% 0.050% 0.080% — 0.080% 0.100% — 0.100% 0.110% — 0.110% 0.030% —
PRIME 0.030% 0.050% 0.050% 0.080% 0.030% 0.080% 0.100% 0.030% 0.100% 0.110% 0.030% 0.110% 0.030% —

This chart doses by doser percentage, not mL, for use with an in-line Dosatron injector. It marks three in-cycle flush weeks with its own "FLUSH *" column header (Heavy 16's own notes: flush every two weeks in flower, at weeks 2, 4 and 6) plus one more, unstarred "FLUSH" column for the final week — both reproduced exactly as printed. FIRE and PRIME dose identically to each other at every VEG/BUD week, but only PRIME (which the chart says also sets pH) is dosed during the three in-cycle flush weeks; FIRE is not. Per Heavy 16's own numbered notes on this chart: dial down BUD A/BUD B by 1/3 if plants show burn, and audit downline pH/PPM after mixing and periodically on the runoff.

Outdoor Program (table)

Heavy 16 — OUTDOOR PROGRAM: Weekly Irrigation — mL per feeding as printed (chart states no explicit per-gallon/per-plant basis for this table)
Feed 1st Two Weeks of VEG 3rd Week VEG–1st Flower 1st Flower–2wk Before Harvest 2nd Week Before Harvest Week Before Harvest
ROOTS 1 1 1 1 —
PRIME 2 2 4 1 —
FIRE — 1 2.5 1 —
FINISH 2.5 2.5 2.5 5 10
VEG A 4 8 — — —
VEG B 4 8 — — —
BUD A — — 8 4 —
BUD B — — 8 4 —
Heavy 16 — OUTDOOR PROGRAM: Inoculating Flush — per application, run as a drench for 7–10 days in place of a plain-water day
Feed Dose
ROOTS 1
PRIME 1
FINISH 2.5
Heavy 16 — OUTDOOR PROGRAM: Weekly Spray — per spray bottle mix, can be run the entire cycle on moms, cuttings and the whole crop
Feed Dose
FOLIAR 120
FIRE 5
ROOTS 5

The Outdoor Program image gives five lifecycle stages rather than numbered weeks. FIRE has no row at all for the first stage ("1st Two Weeks of Veg") on Heavy 16's own chart — not a blank cell, the row simply is not printed for that stage — shown here as a dash like any other not-used cell. Doses are reproduced exactly as printed; this particular image does not state a per-gallon or per-plant basis the way the indoor charts do. The Inoculating Flush recipe is Heavy 16's own root-drench "tea," run instead of a plain water day for 7-10 days; the Weekly Spray recipe (120 mL Foliar, 5 mL Fire, 5 mL Roots per mix) can be run on moms, cuttings and the whole crop throughout the cycle, misted every 3 days, with no pH adjustment and no held reservoir — mix only what is needed for the day.

Figures as published by Heavy 16 on its Basic Feed & Foliar Recipe chart, Dosatron Feed chart, and Outdoor Program chart (all three images above). Feeding charts are recommendations only. Adjustments may be needed based on environmental conditions, your grow structure, and any additional products you run. Actual results vary.

What we stock

Veg A and B, Bloom A and B, and the Prime, Fire, Foliar and Roots additives, in bottle and jug sizes.