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Yeah ots likely a few days at first. If you give 250ml and you get 25 ml coming out after watering your good. That's likely once every couple days and even then at the beginning you can let em dry back a bit more if you like.Hello,I have just put the seedings in a 1-gallon container.Do I need to feed them every day?I found that the weight of each pot has not been reduced,and the leaves are curled.could it be because the coco is always in a saturated state?not enough oxygen in the roots.
Good stuff brother... when ya find what works for ya stick with it.Just started my 4th coco grow. I transplanted from Jiffy pucks to clear solo cups. Watered every 3 days for 12 days. By the end the root system was filling the cup. I'm doing the same now in the final 2 gal pots for 2 weeks. Letting the coco dry some (never completely or even close to completely) and keeping the environment hot and humid encourages root growth. After the 2 weeks are up and I've got a nice root system, I'll start my auto watering system and blast the roots multiple times a day (3x to start working my way up to 6x once flower starts)
So far it's the healthiest start to a grow I've had, plants look great
So DONT let it get dry at all? treat it like hydro and keep the roots wet?I would have to disagree a wet dry cycle is for soil... the reason being soil cannot stay saturated and provide adequate o2. Soil is a balancing act of water nutrients and o2... inorder to achieve that we need a wet dry cycle or they don't get all of those
If you treat coco like soil it will grow but you also get soil like results.
In pure hydro which is much faster than soil the roots are completely submerged.
I have not seen or read any evidence (excluding bro science) that says coco needs a wet dry cycle. Soil yes for the reason I explained... bit this is not soil.
If it works for ya that's great. Maybe one day you will give high fertigation coco a try and compare.
Yep.. That said, get your roots established first.So DONT let it get dry at all? treat it like hydro and keep the roots wet?
thankyou.
gotcha, makes sense, wanted to let my clones dry out some and make the roots aim up when i start spraying the top layer? and instead of shooting straight to the bottom for water? idea being so itll take over the whole solo cup, or will it anways, my seed did, but my clone is little further in. idkYep.. That said, get your roots established first.
on bout day 3 of being able to see the roots, and they are growing so fast, probably getting a tent soon and properly setup a somewhat decent grow space, and ill be looking into automation, really appreciate you, might have to start feeding in a few daysRoots are gonna do their thing as long as you water properly. Watering in a nicely rooted clone into whatever size container you use will only take a few days. Then you can aim on keeping the coco wet. Once you get to feeding multiple times a day, forget hand watering. I recommend automating a pump.
i have not heard of the unislab before @Dirtbag (shows my vast years of growing experience, haha) i might try those next.Honestly, I dont know what took me so long to try DTW. After my bag of coco is done, I'm going to try unislabs ala Dirtbag and see which i like better, same concept. That said, I dont have a huge flowering space and the unislabs might be a little bigger than what i need. 1 Gallon pots of coco works great, just need to fertigate frequently.
exactly what im doing right now in my closet, keeping 2 mothers in 5gal ocean forest.With the exception of keeping mothers in soil in the past, I tried 'no till' living soil once and failed miserably. Sounded great in concept but trying to execute it indoors was more trouble than it was worth. I'm sure it;s a great way to grow, it just didn't suit my growing style whatsoever.
The whole making the soil, dirt all over the place, teas, worm shit, microherd, blah blah.. Aint for me. lolexactly what im doing right now in my closet, keeping 2 mothers in 5gal ocean forest.
my first out door grow was basically that it went great till i got fucked by PM
fuck all of that, thats exactly what i was doing i liked it at first but for indoor growing naw.The whole making the soil, dirt all over the place, teas, worm shit, microherd, blah blah.. Aint for me. lol
yea it seemed like a pain reading some threads here (DWC) but its not too far from aeroponics but will be challenging at first,Try it all and see what you like. I've tried a bunch over the years and I think DTW is probably where i'll stay. DWC is great but is kinda fussy and the air pumps are far to noisy for me. I never tried aeroponics and never really had an urge to try.
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