Thanks for the previous replies guys... Trays are 36" water heater pans from zoro tools.
I am not having much luck with the DTW coco stuff. I dont know what the hell I'm doing. Over watering under watering too much light I cant seem to get anything right.
I had some clones doing good in small 24 oz pots, I put them into some larger containers and things went down hill from there, as they did the last time. I guess I have just been overwatering them the whole time not sure. Top of the medium would get dry but at the bottom it would still be very wet.
Of course my first try at it, I did great so I switched up all my rooms to coco. Now I am about to take a hammer to all my shit and give up growing all together. lol
I read all these threads people watering coco 5 times a day, bags of coco say its almost impossible to over water... I see pics of peoples root zones with brilliant white circling roots before transplants. I cant come even close to that.
I just dug the plants out of the plastic containers and put them into 5 gallon
smart pots filled about 1/2 way. Im thinking the plastic containers weren't letting the medium dry out fast enough. If you see in the pics 2 weeks after potting up, there was no significant new root growth, plants kinda stalled.
In the worst room stems are turning really purple and woody, as they did last time.
IS this a sign of over watering????
I am using the Growstones GS-3 coco growstone mix. The coco is fine ground like coffee. I think its holding to much water in the plastic containers. So I switched to the
smart pots. Thinking it will dry out faster so I can water more..
So when I see people like
@JACKMAYOFFER running large coco beds with small plants, How does the whole bed dry out before next feeding. I dont think it does I think it just gets fed new water every other day or so and the plants take off.
See other out door growers go from a 5 gallon home depot bucket into 300 gallon
smart pots and crush it.
@Capulator or
@Jalisco Kid or anyone could give me some advise on what to do to save this grow.
What I did today is repot them into smaller smartpots and dimmed the lights to see if they bounce back. I brewed some tea to give them but I dont think I should pour anything wet on them before I see some improvements or they dry out some more.
Or get some good advise from someone who knows what I am doing wrong.
Seems no mater what I try to do I can only muster 1 good grow then 2 shitty ones.
I have some backup plants in my veg room to go with if these dont work out, But I don't want to give up yet.
started clones in 2 inch rockwool cubes, got them rooted good. Transplanted to 8 oz coco pots then to 24 oz coco pots got them about 18" or so then put them on about 4 gallons of coco mix and drenched with water. Then went down hill.
Using aquaflakes AB, little
calmg, ph around 5.8 never above 600 ppms.
I am about to bust out some lavarock and soaker hose and kick it old school.. At this point I dont know wtf to do..
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