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:cry:I'm almost sure that you could have root bound issues. If you are growing in 2 gallon pots. When growing photo period plants you want atleast a 5gal pot and with autos 3 gallon pots. I grow in coco Loco and I let my medium dry and feed every 3 days. I have no problems like this!
I'm almost sure that you could have root bound issues. If you are growing in 2 gallon pots. When growing photo period plants you want atleast a 5gal pot and with autos 3 gallon pots. I grow in coco Loco and I let my medium dry and feed every 3 days. I have no problems like this!
And a timer. Very nice plants man!pond pump
1/2" pvc and fittings
1/8" lines
are the bare essentials to automate.
How is root bound a good thing? Thought the purpose of using bigger pots was to let the root ball get bigger?In raw coco with frequent feedings, root bound is a good thing. CocoLoco (as I’m sure you know) is NOT raw coco. That stuff is heavily amended and must be treated like soil. Watered every few days and allowed to dry out a bit. I have used CocoLoco before, not the same animal.
However, your advice is absolutely sound if he was growing in CocoLoco.
In soil that is correct. Coco growing requires a different set of skills to achieve the best results. Coco is hydroponic growing.How is root bound a good thing? Thought the purpose of using bigger pots was to let the root ball get bigger?
How is root bound a good thing? Thought the purpose of using bigger pots was to let the root ball get bigger?
But this is where I trip out.
Water everyday, but they are wet and heavy from yesterday still. This is where I would normally wait...
I pulled 4 of the worst and their was like 2inches of dead roots. The rest of the pot was just wet.
I can see how high ppm in the 2 gallon would keep the roots from growing. It killed all the roots from the transplant. But the wet.. it seems like it's stopping it too. Or the top layer of Coco is drying out bf the roots establish themselves.
Also, check out the picture that @stemznseedz posted in post #19 of this thread. He is well into flower, with huge colas and it looks like he has them in 1gal square pots.
thats what im trying to do. I want multiple feedings per day!good advice enforcer.
if you think its wet enough feed it any way... if you think its too wet ...feed it.... if u think its dry..... u fkd up.
in flower ur 2gal will need more than 1 feed/day!
my veg is flood... 3/day. my flower dtw 7/day.... im using smaller pots tho.
good luck man stick at it! you will love it once u get going
First off thanks everyone for posting for help. i really want to get this. I spent the morning cleaning and thinking alot about this.I'm almost sure that you could have root bound issues. If you are growing in 2 gallon pots. When growing photo period plants you want atleast a 5gal pot and with autos 3 gallon pots. I grow in coco Loco and I let my medium dry and feed every 3 days. I have no problems like this!
i would have been so happy if this was true. i didnt have any roots! they died when i transplanted them from the salt build up.I'm almost sure that you could have root bound issues. If you are growing in 2 gallon pots. When growing photo period plants you want atleast a 5gal pot and with autos 3 gallon pots. I grow in coco Loco and I let my medium dry and feed every 3 days. I have no problems like this!
Some wonderful reply's on coco here.
I try to stress that it's not a matter of "over watering" coco. It's a matter of depriving oxygen to the roots. The longer you wait to feed the more oxygen is depleted in the root zone. If you wait long enough(2 or more days on average) you do get more oxygen via drying however that's when one invites EC spikes and pH swings. Dry coco is like chaos. It's unpredictable in every way and causes a myriad of phantoms to show up. Feeding daily pretty much clears any problems one can run into with coco aside from overfeeding.
If roots could get too wet then DWC would never work nor would these Coco Hempy's I just ran work either.
That bottom layer of perlite acted as passive 2" reservoir of nutrient solution that the roots sat in for veg and flower. Normally you would think they would go stagnant and rot but because I fed daily oxygen levels were kept up and the roots never suffocated.
Here you can see the roots had no problem living in the passive reservoir of perlite.
I have a small coco root health tutorial link for you posted below. I hope that it helps brings some understanding on how coco functions.
COCO ROOT HEALTH
this i believe as well.root bound is a good thing!In raw coco with frequent feedings, root bound is a good thing. CocoLoco (as I’m sure you know) is NOT raw coco. That stuff is heavily amended and must be treated like soil. Watered every few days and allowed to dry out a bit. I have used CocoLoco before, not the same animal.
However, your advice is absolutely sound if he was growing in CocoLoco.
dude your table is sick... well done9" hyrofarm 2 gal containers and the plants currently are around 5'. I got 2.5' plants in 4" sq containers on a ebb and flow table with no issues as well.
But justiceman. what how was your 6/9 schedule? always feeding? how did you control the ec rise?Some wonderful reply's on coco here.
I try to stress that it's not a matter of "over watering" coco. It's a matter of depriving oxygen to the roots. The longer you wait to feed the more oxygen is depleted in the root zone. If you wait long enough(2 or more days on average) you do get more oxygen via drying however that's when one invites EC spikes and pH swings. Dry coco is like chaos. It's unpredictable in every way and causes a myriad of phantoms to show up. Feeding daily pretty much clears any problems one can run into with coco aside from overfeeding.
If roots could get too wet then DWC would never work nor would these Coco Hempy's I just ran work either.
That bottom layer of perlite acted as passive 2" reservoir of nutrient solution that the roots sat in for veg and flower. Normally you would think they would go stagnant and rot but because I fed daily oxygen levels were kept up and the roots never suffocated.
Here you can see the roots had no problem living in the passive reservoir of perlite.
I have a small coco root health tutorial link for you posted below. I hope that it helps brings some understanding on how coco functions.
COCO ROOT HEALTH
micro adjusting in coco is deadly. by the time u see a problem its already happened.But justiceman. what how was your 6/9 schedule? always feeding? how did you control the ec rise?
and what did you do for the low ph? 5.4 is my ph with 6/9
i dont see why..... heres what i do.....right or wrong:Di would have been so happy if this was true. i didnt have any roots! they died when i transplanted them from the salt build up.
and this is my trouble time. transplant time. I have a habit of killing the root ball from high ec and dry
cheers bicky studsalso....ro water starts at different ph levels depending on the tap u put through....
so u cant expect exactly the same ph mixing the same amounts....imo
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