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You can stack cubes on top of coco pots. Size of your pot all depends on veg time. 15 gals is way overkill unless you are vegging for 3-4 months plus. They do just fine. Did a lot of 4in to 3 and 5 gal coco pots at the commercial spot. Just have to be strait on your watering for the first 2 weeks while the roots go from the cube to the coco pot. Just like fresh transplants in 6 or 8 in cubes. Pots will be heavy but dry around the root zone. Prob water twice in the first 10-15 days after the transplant.
If you want to ditch coco just ditch it. I run 6in hugos from clone transplant to the end of flower. 1 cube. Veg for about 4-7 weeks or so from rooted clone. I have no problems what so ever. I will never switch off wool now that Im on it. Was a coco grower for years. Fuck washing pots.
Thanks C, I'm guessing Ill try the cube solo eventually once I get going...
But to get started, can you enlighten this cube novice with quick answers to these?'s?
1.How often will I water/feed a rooted clone in a 4x4 block 1-8 weeks in veg not on coco yet? (I plan on running this veg DTW with floaflex caps.) I never want to maintain a recirc rez again.
2.I'm thinking I should top feed all through flower too? even if I do go coco pot route? You mentioned the 4x4 cube would dry out first, would the coco base provide enough hydration for the cube?
growers say this method delivers all the vegging benefits that cubes can provide with the stability of coco. Would you agree with this? Thanks so much for your insight.
Usually with cubes you wont water after transplant for 4-7 days. From there its another 4 days or so. Not really till about 4 weeks in plus will they get to the point where you need to hit them once a day or more. Now granted this is from me hand watering veg so if going drip with 15-25 sec feeds not 100% sure on the timings but pretty easy to dial in. This is also dependent on the room temps/humd/ and lights they are under.
Yeah after about the first 2 weeks of watering the cube and right around where you transplant you will just be watering the coco and not even worrying about the cube. All the roots will shoot down into the pot and be a basic coco plant like you are used to. just that first 2 weeks you have to kind of get it dialed in on watering and to not over water so the roots don't get lazy and try to stay in the cube. More on the dry side. By the time you are in flower just dripper strait into the coco and you are good. Same for strait cubes. EZ and simple.
Yeah I could agree with this but from my experience I dont really like 4in cubes unless you plan to stack them on coco pots, slabs, or other cubes unless you plan to veg for like 3-4 weeks tops. They just start getting too big for the cube to support (fall over) and want to go more vertical on you instead of bushing out compared to 6in cubes. I will say yeah it works fine but I ditched the coco for just strait 6in's start to finish. Better yields, easier cleanup, less problems. This is IMO of course. Rockwool slays it compared to coco. After you veg for a while in them you will see the light lol. What you are planning will work just fine and you shouldn't have any worries. Just get the first 2 week transplant from cube to pot down and you are golden. What makes this work so well is you are pretty much feeding the same ph for coco and wool so the transition is strait up with no funky stuff on feeds.
Hey C, about to get started on the cubes.... Do you use cube caps? I've been looking at the FloraFlex setup and like the caps and drip clips. Is a cube pot necessary (like the PotPro?) And if you do use a pot, do you strip the plastic wrapping?How many cubes per light do you run? Just wondering how you run start to finish with your 6x6's? Thanks again
I want to bump this....
I'm venturing into cubes for a more commercial approach with regards to cleaning, labor, and ease. However, after researching more, it looks like I'm going to become a slave to watching the "dry-back" of the cubes. Once in flower, will I be constantly changing/tweaking the drip feedings on the auto-timer at a weekly frequency? Does anyone just have a set frequency (times per day and time/amount of drip) they adhere to from lights out to harvest? Or are my dreams of taking a 2 week vacation bunk? Thanks
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