I usually start out @ 1.0 ec then work up to 1.5 ec in veg and then peak flower I would be running around 1.8ec then taper back down to 1.0 before my 3 day flush before harvest.....just the way I do it.......my water is RO so 0 ppm to start
I have known some people that used tap water and ended with like 3.0 ec and were fine.......
but just a waste of nutes and money
the goal is to run the lighest amount of nutes that will still sustain your plant
also....I believe people make the mistake in coco that you water when the media starts to dry a little......it is not soil!!!!!
water every day...up to 3x a day when larger plants......
what coco does is hold onto nutrients
when you let the media start to dry out....the coco releases the nutes it holds and that causes the media to spike in ppm as well as ph.....then things get super out of whack
the remedy......push the amount of ppm through the media enough to drain 10% runoff at least every day.....
remember....roots need oxygen....but coco is very desceptive in the fact that you may think the coco is saturated and the roots will drown but .....quite the contrary as well...every time you water you add oxygen
and yes this applies to seedlings as well
no differ.....seedlings should be subject to same root enviroment as the more mature plants.....if you are in fabric pots....you will need to water eventually....probably more then 3 times a day.....because of the fact that the fabric allows so much air that the media will dry much quicker as the roots fill the pot
Ok Wisher, I was watering everyday and they seemed slow to respond. Then someone said, hey bro, its pure coco, so treat it like soil and let it dry out. So I did, and they have looked pretty good since then. BUT!!!!!! I have a theory why my plants didn't get tip burn, and it has to do with what you just said. I think that my high ppm dried out in the coco and if I was to water again with same ppm fluid it would double the ppm from what is still suspended in the coco.
I see that my plants look fine right now, but if I continue this way, I will build up salts in the coco and cause nute lockout. So I need to make up 6 gallon of nutes( there is only about 2 gallons of coco in the 3 gallon fabric)and just poor it thru the coco. Damn thats 12 gallons total for both plants. 12 more dollars.
If I make up a gallon of nutes, can i use that over 3 days, or do they have to be used immediately? I am gonna end up buying krogers out of distilled water. I need free water! lol... Will running an air stone thru them for awhile before hand help anything ? And refrigerating the nutes or the water I use to mix the nutes help anything?.
I am gonna follow your advice, you better send me clones if they die!!! LOL.....