tommkills
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Hi, first time grower and I thought I'd try growing in coco after reading how pest resistant it was. I was eager and bought stuff as quick as a could and now i'm paying the price. Firstly my set-up;
-Gorilla Grow Lite 4x4x6'7 Tent
-King LED 1200W
-MotherEarth's Prepackaged 70/30 Coco Perlite (this shit is terrible, returning the rest of the bag and ordering Canna Coco)
-Avanced Nutrients Sensi Coco Grow/Bloom (i should have just stuck with the simple a b and canna coco but i learned something)
-Aptus Plant Tech Nutrients
Vivosun 4" exhaust
Two fans
cheap thermostat
I germinated 4 seeds lat night [5/7]. I placed them in a cup of R/O water and placed them in my closet. (later moved to my bathroom with the heater on to keep them warm)
I checked on them 10 hours later checking for any tap root exposure and one was already cracking. (forgot i was suppose to check if they would sink and then use the paper towel method).
I let them soak for another 5-6 hours before i checked to see if they would sink. I then used the paper towel method and placed them back under my sink cupboard.
I let them germinate for a full 24 hours and they all were opening and showing some type of tap root.
I let them get a little bigger than this before I rushed to plant them becuase i was eager and dumb, didn't realized they could go a lot longer before being planted. (I DIDNT PLANT deep enough, i was scared of planting too deep and the mixutre is concetrated with perlite i planted the seeds about as deep as my pinky nail) (a little later i strained out some pure coco pete from the bag and washed ita then gently top fed each plant so they'd be a little deeper)
I washed the coco out with water until it was under 30ppm before i planted them (didn't have a calmag nutrient at the time)
but i did start feeding them a nutrient mix of Sensi Grow A/B And Fasilator (boron) at strength of about 190ppm. My problem is I don't know if i'm drowning them or not as i've never watered plants in soil or coco. I wasn't watering on a specific schedule and I would just feed them a little bit of that nutrient mixture throughout the day until i'd get a little run off.
I watered them the saturday morning [5/9] and went on a walk and when i returned one of the seeds was peaking from the coco.
(sorry for bad pictures, didn't document anything this first time as i was just eager to began)
It looked to like the seed pushed itself up through the coco and the root was exposed, so I tried to gently burry him. (knocked off his seed.....)
I'm in the midwest and i was struggling to incread the rH of the tent (i'm an idiot and didn't realize i could just spray water all over the tent and turn the exhaust off) so the seedlings sat in 39-45% humdity over the weekend until i brought them up to about 72 rH and 75F.
and the other two have no signs of life yet.....
I don't know if I should give up on these guys yet or not.
I was going to just scrap them and start fresh in pure Canna Coco and use just their A+B nutrient along with Calmag+.
and also swap to
-Cloudline T4 Exhaust
-HLG 100 V2 4000K LED
Any advice would be appreciated.
-Gorilla Grow Lite 4x4x6'7 Tent
-King LED 1200W
-MotherEarth's Prepackaged 70/30 Coco Perlite (this shit is terrible, returning the rest of the bag and ordering Canna Coco)
-Avanced Nutrients Sensi Coco Grow/Bloom (i should have just stuck with the simple a b and canna coco but i learned something)
-Aptus Plant Tech Nutrients
Vivosun 4" exhaust
Two fans
cheap thermostat
I germinated 4 seeds lat night [5/7]. I placed them in a cup of R/O water and placed them in my closet. (later moved to my bathroom with the heater on to keep them warm)
I checked on them 10 hours later checking for any tap root exposure and one was already cracking. (forgot i was suppose to check if they would sink and then use the paper towel method).
I let them soak for another 5-6 hours before i checked to see if they would sink. I then used the paper towel method and placed them back under my sink cupboard.
I let them germinate for a full 24 hours and they all were opening and showing some type of tap root.
I let them get a little bigger than this before I rushed to plant them becuase i was eager and dumb, didn't realized they could go a lot longer before being planted. (I DIDNT PLANT deep enough, i was scared of planting too deep and the mixutre is concetrated with perlite i planted the seeds about as deep as my pinky nail) (a little later i strained out some pure coco pete from the bag and washed ita then gently top fed each plant so they'd be a little deeper)
I washed the coco out with water until it was under 30ppm before i planted them (didn't have a calmag nutrient at the time)
but i did start feeding them a nutrient mix of Sensi Grow A/B And Fasilator (boron) at strength of about 190ppm. My problem is I don't know if i'm drowning them or not as i've never watered plants in soil or coco. I wasn't watering on a specific schedule and I would just feed them a little bit of that nutrient mixture throughout the day until i'd get a little run off.
I watered them the saturday morning [5/9] and went on a walk and when i returned one of the seeds was peaking from the coco.
It looked to like the seed pushed itself up through the coco and the root was exposed, so I tried to gently burry him. (knocked off his seed.....)
I'm in the midwest and i was struggling to incread the rH of the tent (i'm an idiot and didn't realize i could just spray water all over the tent and turn the exhaust off) so the seedlings sat in 39-45% humdity over the weekend until i brought them up to about 72 rH and 75F.
and the other two have no signs of life yet.....
I don't know if I should give up on these guys yet or not.
I was going to just scrap them and start fresh in pure Canna Coco and use just their A+B nutrient along with Calmag+.
and also swap to
-Cloudline T4 Exhaust
-HLG 100 V2 4000K LED
Any advice would be appreciated.
