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Hey folks!! So I figured I'd start up a post to follow my journey into the Coco world.....
A little background info- I've been growing organic for years, full organic for the last couple now and its always been soil. Haven't experimented much beyond that and have learned A GREAT deal about the plants in the process...
Now I would like a medium that I can
a. Use less of, hence less to waste
b. Recycle after use
c. start playing with hydro/coco nutes
d. yield way more
I will be going into rdwc buckets as well, but this coco is the transition.
So far all soil plants in veg but my moms have been transplanted over to coco (yes after a few transplants of shaking out the soil i decided to swap em all)....the moms are getting cloned and repotted in coco as we speak.
In veg- using Canna A/B + Roots Excel and Calplex.
In flower- using Canna A/B + Roots Excel + Calplex+ Bud Candy + Hammerhead
Current i have a few babies in veg (c99) getting ready to be flipped soon. I also have a few alien kush, chem4xc99, and pure kush getting sexed. Popped a few babies in coco and they are coming along ok...think babies take off a bit better in soil...but i am a newb.
I only have 3 coco ladies in flower- berry white, king d, and sour dawg d. They are all in 3g coco pot in wk2...and those 3g pots are too small. They are drinking it up wayyyyy to fast. Goin to be dropping them in 5g tonite...
Thoughts thus far..... I'm finding the Canna nutes very mild. I use RO so I have yet to determine if I'm just not adding enough each time (7-8ml each of A/B in flower, 4ml A/B in veg) or if they really do plan on folks using tap and pullin out some ish. Though mild, they are still very simple to use. Now that I have start adding some boosters hopefully it will start darkening up the situation....
I also have the AN 3pt that I am considering trying in coco as its what I will be using in my buckets on the same strains. Now how closely regimens will convert over from coco to hydro I don't know, but at least I could theoretically get a good base idea of ppm to start with in the buckets.
I'm using some random coco the hydro store hooked up to try out- Gold Label something... i'll check, but its supposedly the same quality/better than the Atami i was using and rinsed better (cheaper too!)....good stuff so far. I have been cutting the lower 3/4 of the pots with perlite and leaving the top 1/4 straight coco to help retain some moisture.
anyways.... sorry no pics yet. I'll go snag some shortly! Overall I am loving the healthiness of the plants that can only come with not dealing with minor soil issues... loving that..... now if I can just figure out pot size and watering intervals I may be ok.....
A little background info- I've been growing organic for years, full organic for the last couple now and its always been soil. Haven't experimented much beyond that and have learned A GREAT deal about the plants in the process...
Now I would like a medium that I can
a. Use less of, hence less to waste
b. Recycle after use
c. start playing with hydro/coco nutes
d. yield way more
I will be going into rdwc buckets as well, but this coco is the transition.
So far all soil plants in veg but my moms have been transplanted over to coco (yes after a few transplants of shaking out the soil i decided to swap em all)....the moms are getting cloned and repotted in coco as we speak.
In veg- using Canna A/B + Roots Excel and Calplex.
In flower- using Canna A/B + Roots Excel + Calplex+ Bud Candy + Hammerhead
Current i have a few babies in veg (c99) getting ready to be flipped soon. I also have a few alien kush, chem4xc99, and pure kush getting sexed. Popped a few babies in coco and they are coming along ok...think babies take off a bit better in soil...but i am a newb.
I only have 3 coco ladies in flower- berry white, king d, and sour dawg d. They are all in 3g coco pot in wk2...and those 3g pots are too small. They are drinking it up wayyyyy to fast. Goin to be dropping them in 5g tonite...
Thoughts thus far..... I'm finding the Canna nutes very mild. I use RO so I have yet to determine if I'm just not adding enough each time (7-8ml each of A/B in flower, 4ml A/B in veg) or if they really do plan on folks using tap and pullin out some ish. Though mild, they are still very simple to use. Now that I have start adding some boosters hopefully it will start darkening up the situation....
I also have the AN 3pt that I am considering trying in coco as its what I will be using in my buckets on the same strains. Now how closely regimens will convert over from coco to hydro I don't know, but at least I could theoretically get a good base idea of ppm to start with in the buckets.
I'm using some random coco the hydro store hooked up to try out- Gold Label something... i'll check, but its supposedly the same quality/better than the Atami i was using and rinsed better (cheaper too!)....good stuff so far. I have been cutting the lower 3/4 of the pots with perlite and leaving the top 1/4 straight coco to help retain some moisture.
anyways.... sorry no pics yet. I'll go snag some shortly! Overall I am loving the healthiness of the plants that can only come with not dealing with minor soil issues... loving that..... now if I can just figure out pot size and watering intervals I may be ok.....