Remember its not a dick measuring contest.
Your the closet grower looking for advice in something you know nothing about. And you will continue to look for help you don’t want. Have fun with your 3 ounces
Ok you win. I could make up some numbers too but what’s the point. The OP has seen your plants and mine. He can decide what he wants to do. Why are you selling this so hard?Genesee county compassion club (G3C)
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Where were you? Hiding until about 2016 like everyone else. And if you get 20lbs on 9 lights your a badass like me but I doubt it.
They are dark green af way over nuted possibly from let it dry out to much as the solution becomes more concentrated in media. They are crispy af as seen by the brittle curled edges. Cooked... how else would you describe it?I’m out of here for better conversation. Cooked
ya...imagine if i had to hand water all 700 plants by hand...i would shoot myself...lolThat all holds true for the style of growing you are doing in big pots. If I only feed my plants 1 or 2 times a day in flower or when they got dry, they would be dead in 24 hrs.
You might want to check calling it the lazy aspect of auto watering it tho. Labor and plant count is a thing. Also tuning your grows is a thing. A lot harder to do when not automated. You also get to a point where watering takes up all your time where you could be taking care of plants. Maybe your plants are off site somewhere. Maybe you work 60 hrs a week and don't do this full time. Maybe you aren't or can't be there when the lights first come on. Every situation is different. Under 100 plants sure. 600 plus plants......you're a sadist if you hand water. Period. :D
Remember its not a dick measuring contest. There is 3 plant LED grows in 10 gal pots up to 100 light grows with 1000's of plants in 1 gals all going on in the same discussions. Not everything holds true for specific applications.
Good plan. This is probably the most informative site on coco you (well i) have found.Thanks for all of the tips people! I’m just about wrapped up on this run but I’m going to go substantially lower on the EC for the next run and see where things go.
I’m growing the same way. I think your EC is a little high. I would recommend bringing it down to 1.0. I think 4x a day is fine. I’ve done up to 6x a day in 3gal fabric pots. Yucca is great as a surfactant. It’s just a pain to mix in powder form. I mix the powder into a small amount of warm water to dissolve the powder, then add to the res.
For salt buildup, which I feel does happen to some degree no matter how many times you fertigate. I use Recharge once a week by hand. Just RO water, about 150ppm of calmag, and the microbes. Flush all the pots well and then I resume normal auto feeding. This once a week treat does two things for me. Keeps the EC of the coco low, and introduces beneficial microbes to the root zone. The plants love it.
Agree with everything here 100% except they only feed with lights on in the terms we think ofEC in, Flow rate/volume gives EC out , if the flow is not enough the EC out will rise, if irrigations are not frequent enough it will also rise.
Ive gone from Coco to RDWC and the first thing I learned is how they dont need high EC Im down to 350ppm mid flower and they happy over 400 they burn, had a crop finish at 5wks because the EC was 600 which browned the pistils off and stalled growth, the other thing Im seeing is they feed continually 24/7 , there is a sweet spot where the plants are in balance and your readings are very stable and this has to be dialed in for strain and environment, what numbers work for one guy can wreck another guys crop so be careful with what goes in the tank.
With Coco I ran 600 to 800 ppm and ran the flow rate to where the out equaled the in, and if it went up added more irrigation cycles, if it went down could lower the number of cycles or raise the EC a little.
Here is a great article with a lot of information on management of the nutrient system and how the plant uses it.
Agree with everything here 100% except they only feed with lights on in the terms we think of
you have a pic of your setup?Thanks for all of the tips people! I’m just about wrapped up on this run but I’m going to go substantially lower on the EC for the next run and see where things go.
you have a pic of your setup?
i originally though maybe it might be the container sitting in the run off causing the salt buildup, but i guess that's not the issue...how long does it take you to do one feeding?Here you go!
- 4 site setup
- Floraflex matrix drippers
- 25 gallon res
- Auto-pumping drain system with waste bucket
More pics on my Instagram if you are interested: @growlo_b
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