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Completed my first grow recently after having been converted to coco coir. I ran two plants in straight coco. I know for sure that I had poor drainage, as the space between waterings was massive at times during flowering, like 5-6 days massive. Roots looked ok when I checked them out after the chop. Now I was watering til 20% run-off and blaa blaa, but seemed to be taking a long time for the water to go through. I will be mixing my coco with perlite next run, but wondered if anyone has any input as to how long it should take from watering to see runoff. Growing in 11 litre pots (sorry don't know gallons). Any help very much appreciated
Dan
do u rake the medium before watering if not water can just kind of pool on top and soak in over time
Try volcanic pummis stone or just plain road base gravel it's a easy imput to get rid of in your system it's hard to get rid of perlite I think it's a slap in the earths face if you just dump it .No I put a layer of perlite Tind, that stops that from happening as the coco doesn't dry out on top. I'm thinking back and when I filled the pots I was compacting down the coco, zero perlite except for on top. They were taking forever to drink whatever I gave them which makes me think underdeveloped roots but...meh what does this amateur know, that's why I joined the site :)
if you water daily and keep the coco moist(which it should be) it should pretty much run right through it in a few seconds. but if you packed the hell out of them at transplant i could see it taking some time to get to the bottom.i ran coco in 3,5 and 7 gal pots and liked the 5 gal best(about 20liters actual coco) i watered daily about a gallon of nutes would give me maybe 10% runoff.
you dont want it to dry out or you will start having lockout problems or salt build ups.dasily watering even when its already wet keeps things balanced ec and ph wise and helps move oxygen through the rootzone.there are some that will water it multiple times per day like rockwoolIt confuses the hell out of me, watering schedules for coco. If I were to water daily, what amount of nutes should I be using. I was watering every 3-4 days, never seemed to dry out...
you dont want it to dry out or you will start having lockout problems or salt build ups.dasily watering even when its already wet keeps things balanced ec and ph wise and helps move oxygen through the rootzone.there are some that will water it multiple times per day like rockwool
i fed around 500ppm or 1 ec in veg and 750ppm in bloom no problems.getting some runoff and keeping them wet will deal with not over feeding.if you use 700ppm every day and use enough to get 20% runoff it will remain 700ppm in the coco unless your plants are super fast eaters.checking runoff alot you can dial up or down based on whats happening with runoff.so if your fedding 700 and your runoff says 450- 500 every day you need to bump up a lil bit.if you pour in 700 and the runoff is coming out 800 to 900 you need to drop down to 400 to 500 for a few days and keep checking shit.but there were times when i wouldnt check shit for a week and take a look and be like wtf,i got 2500ppm runoff but my plants look fine lol.as long as they dont dry out it works in a pretty wide range of feeds.its not nearly as forgiving if you let the coco dry out alot.Ok got it about not letting it dry out, but how about nutrient amounts? If we are watering every day, won't the plants overdose? I was told you need to feed with EVERY watering in coco. You'll have to excuse the stupid questions but I'm a coco noob, only used once...
I recently let two of mine in coco dry out too much because I wasnt used to watering gallons per day for huge trees in 7gal pots. Both of the ones that dried out are now showing Ca deficiency. I was baffled as to why these two plants were showing a deficiency and not the other one, but now I remember lifting the pot and it being super light and the leaves drooping at least once...i fed around 500ppm or 1 ec in veg and 750ppm in bloom no problems.getting some runoff and keeping them wet will deal with not over feeding.if you use 700ppm every day and use enough to get 20% runoff it will remain 700ppm in the coco unless your plants are super fast eaters.checking runoff alot you can dial up or down based on whats happening with runoff.so if your fedding 700 and your runoff says 450- 500 every day you need to bump up a lil bit.if you pour in 700 and the runoff is coming out 800 to 900 you need to drop down to 400 to 500 for a few days and keep checking shit.but there were times when i wouldnt check shit for a week and take a look and be like wtf,i got 2500ppm runoff but my plants look fine lol.as long as they dont dry out it works in a pretty wide range of feeds.its not nearly as forgiving if you let the coco dry out alot.
It confuses the hell out of me, watering schedules for coco. If I were to water daily, what amount of nutes should I be using. I was watering every 3-4 days, never seemed to dry out...
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