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Been growing in ProMix since I started growing again years back. @Aqua Man's coco thread got me interested in coco, so here we are. Thanks to @Dirtbag for some good advice on getting my plumbing squared away.
These are some GG4 beans i got from @Frankster, not sure of their linage. Perhaps Frank knows a bit more and can fill me in? Ha. I cloned the most vigorous plant and decided to run with it. I know GG4 is typically a clone only strain.
My switch to coco was not without some difficulties. I followed what most folks advise running my EC around the 1.5 mark. In mid veg my plants looked a bit meh and I thought i was doing something wrong. I noticed what looked like multiple deficiencies and the obvious solution was that i was underfeeding @ 1.5. How can this be? Everyone says you need to feed lighter in coco. Anyway, I slowly bumped my EC up to 2.0 and things started looking lush and healthy again. So for anyone reading.. Everyone's grow and setup is going to be a bit unique, don't worry about going off script.
My watering schedule is automated and at this point i'm fertigating about 4 times a day. I also do a weekly fulvic drench.
I also used my trusty old 600w HPS for the first half of veg and switched it out for my trusty COB LED setup. I found i was having a hard time controlling the temps in my tent and really missed being able to spot deficiencies under LEDs. I also found it was easier much to control my environment with the heat (or lack thereof) from the LEDs.
My screen isn't filled because intially I was trying to optimize the footprint for my 600w HPS. I could have veg'd more but I was getting impatient. Big yields aren't important to me either.
Here's some pics. Sorry that some of them look a little 'painterly', I forgot to turn the HDR mode off my phone.
Clones from the last week of dec:
A few days after New Years in the tent:
Houston, we have a problem! Things are looking pretty shitty but we'll figure it out...
Got everything under control. Things were rediculously bushy before I gave them a nice haircut right before switching to 12/12. Here's the haircut:
..and here we are, 2 days later (after the haircut) and 2 days into 12/12
To be continued....
These are some GG4 beans i got from @Frankster, not sure of their linage. Perhaps Frank knows a bit more and can fill me in? Ha. I cloned the most vigorous plant and decided to run with it. I know GG4 is typically a clone only strain.
My switch to coco was not without some difficulties. I followed what most folks advise running my EC around the 1.5 mark. In mid veg my plants looked a bit meh and I thought i was doing something wrong. I noticed what looked like multiple deficiencies and the obvious solution was that i was underfeeding @ 1.5. How can this be? Everyone says you need to feed lighter in coco. Anyway, I slowly bumped my EC up to 2.0 and things started looking lush and healthy again. So for anyone reading.. Everyone's grow and setup is going to be a bit unique, don't worry about going off script.
My watering schedule is automated and at this point i'm fertigating about 4 times a day. I also do a weekly fulvic drench.
I also used my trusty old 600w HPS for the first half of veg and switched it out for my trusty COB LED setup. I found i was having a hard time controlling the temps in my tent and really missed being able to spot deficiencies under LEDs. I also found it was easier much to control my environment with the heat (or lack thereof) from the LEDs.
My screen isn't filled because intially I was trying to optimize the footprint for my 600w HPS. I could have veg'd more but I was getting impatient. Big yields aren't important to me either.
Here's some pics. Sorry that some of them look a little 'painterly', I forgot to turn the HDR mode off my phone.
Clones from the last week of dec:
A few days after New Years in the tent:
Houston, we have a problem! Things are looking pretty shitty but we'll figure it out...
Got everything under control. Things were rediculously bushy before I gave them a nice haircut right before switching to 12/12. Here's the haircut:
..and here we are, 2 days later (after the haircut) and 2 days into 12/12
To be continued....