Bubblejoe
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First grow in coco. Want to use GO Box nutes I already have on hand. Does anyone have advise on how to use them and problems I may need to avoid.
First rule of successful growing: don't try to forge your own path, "because this is what I have", until you know what you're doing. Coco requires a complete fertilizer profile, the same as hydroponics, as coco provides nothing except substrate to hold the roots. The General Hydroponics trio mentioned above is a good line to try, as would be other well known lines of hydroponic nutes. You could compare what you have to those, look at the makeup, to assess whether what you have is useful. Mixing and matching nutes is how "Why is my plant dying?" posts happen.First grow in coco. Want to use GO Box nutes I already have on hand. Does anyone have advise on how to use them and problems I may need to avoid.
Yep. Specifically, each fertilizer vendor has choices about what to get, say nitrogen from, and potassium from. Some of the choices will react with each other, creating insoluble results, making the nitrogen and potassium unavailable to the plant. The vendors have someone with background in chemistry making those choices. Mixing and matching across vendors throws that knowledge away.Very true. We have to remember we are basically working with chemicals, some things dont mix or need to be mixed a special way. Also some of these chemicals get old and lose their composition. I hada friend who couldn't figure out what his problem was, turns out he was using like 5 year old nutes lol.
If you've used nutrients before, you already know what you need to know. But coco requires different watering methods and a touch of calmag. It's not like dirt. It's more like gravel.
I didn't know that Promix had a Coco version, but they have a lot of newer products out since I started using them in the 70s. I water daily if needed, usually about 1-1.5 gallons/day. I don't fertilize more than about once every 10-15 days, but add about 20% compost/manure to the Promix BX (non coco version) ad some wod ashes to add micro and macro nutrients. I use a lot less fertilizer than most, but everyone has their own method. I don't really use any meters (I have them, but don't have a need for them as I don't seem to have any over/under feedings and my local water is great for the extra minerals, even though there is plenty of calcium and stuff in the wood ashes and compost/manure). Ive grown for many years and never really had a need for a lot of the stuff that everyone pours on their plants. CalMag is great if you need it but people often seem to use distilled or reverse osmosis water just so they can justify using Cal-Mag. I learned long ago that less is often better unless you really have a handle or experience with higher doses of nutrients. The buds being produced nowadays are nice, pretty, and are pretty decent, but the older strains are quickly being replaced by countless hybrids and autos. It's getting hard to find actual landrace strains, and when you do, they are usually hybrids themselves despite the claims to be originals... even the seeds nowadays are tiny and mass produced instead of the fat, tiger striped seeds of days of old.That's what I'm using now too. Promix hp coco with mycrorysa. I also water daily with about %20 run through. So I pretty much go full nutrients every watering.
I used gh cause its easy lol. I would like to try a more organic rout someday but not this time around.
Everyone loves calmag, many of them don't need it lol. Here in Vancouver our ppm out of the tap is 12. So I do need to use it at the end of veg and throug flower. But I use very little. Like 1/4 recommended.