Looking great brother... was wondering what your watering schedule and feeding schedule is like with coco?
Really great grow brother!
That's a great question G-Al, with a complicated answer that may not be very helpful. I have been avoiding posting my feeding and watering schedule on these first few grows from seeds because the plants are variable with different phenotypes and sometimes receive individualized waterings or feedings based on what I am seeing them do. For this reason I don't really advise anyone trying to copy my feeding plan too closely because I have not proven it's success through an entire grow yet.
So far the White Urkle have been drinking a lot more than the WiFi ever did. The WiFi would be content with water/fert. every 5-6 days when it first went into flower, up until around week 5 when it started drinking enough to be watered every 4 days on average. Then by the end I was feeding every 3 days just to keep thing moving through the media and because that was the time I had to deal with watering.
The White Urkle like I said has been drinking considerably more than that. I have to water every other day, the same amount I was watering every 5 days for the WiFi. I think part the of the problem with the WiFi was the cold temps early on, so every other day might become my normal routine. I water until I get 15% runoff, which is usually around 12-14 gallons total for the 4x 7gal Root pots.
I feed almost every watering, but I usually feed 50% every other time. This is because after filling my 20 gal res with nutrient solution, I water 12-14 gallons and then have 6-8 gallons left in the res. 2 days later I fill the res back up with RO to around 15-16 gallons and then re-adjust pH and water with 50% strength of what I did on the previous watering. Usually I have 2-3 gallons left in the bottom of the res that I dump after this second watering. Then I repeat the process again 2 days later starting with an empty clean res.
Now the part that you won't really be able to copy, and will have to figure out yourself: What is a good ppm to start with for the first more concentrated watering? I have found that House & Garden is absolutely crazy with their instructions for fertilizers! I am now down to using their base at 50% recommended strength for my more concentrated watering! I also took their Roots excel down to 50% along with
Bud XL down to 50%. All these products have a ton of nitrogen in them and my leaves were clearly over dosing on the N. I am experiencing a slight Fe deficiency now in just one of my plants, but all the rest are a very lush (almost too lush) green and they are receiving 50% what H&G recommends and then 25% 2 days later, then back up to 50%. . . and seem to be more than happy!
Anyways, that was a long answer, to a short but very good question. I hope you can get what you need from all that I just typed, and if not, please let me know what specifically I can help you with. Thanks for checking out the log!
-Meeks:animbong:
