Coco problems, need help asap!!

kingzt

Well-Known Member
Hey everyone I need some help with a problem that occurred. I am growing in Gold Tupur and coco based medium, and I am starting to notice these brown spots on some strains. My base nutrients are house and garden coco nutrients and I am also using cal mag plus. My first reaction was a cal mag deficiency but these spot seem a little different. Also these plants are almost two weeks into flowering and in veg I never ran into a problem. My ppms are around 1000 and ph is always around 5.7- 5.9. I am getting concerned because I have noticed this issue on only two strains both different but starting to see changes in the others. Please any help will be greatly appreciated.
 

Attachments

  • image1-1.JPG
    image1-1.JPG
    905.9 KB · Views: 88
  • image2.JPG
    image2.JPG
    858.6 KB · Views: 86
I am using the H&G base only but someone told me you get amazing result if you use their whole line up like multi zen. Flower stage nuts>> Budxl, shooting powder
 
Well here's an update. The plants look amazing but these strange spots. So the way I water might be causing the issue. I hand water every other day about 2 gallons each. The plants are in 7 gallon smart pots with a large coaster underneath them. So when I water the run off goes into the coaster and I just leave it there so the pot can wick up the run off. So there might lie the issue. I the checked the ph of the run off and it was at 7. Maybe when I allow the plants to wick up the run off it's causing a ph drift in the medium when i should really just drain to waste. Anybody with some tips or can tell me I'm heading in the right directions will be appreciated, thanks.
 
Well here's an update. The plants look amazing but these strange spots. So the way I water might be causing the issue. I hand water every other day about 2 gallons each. The plants are in 7 gallon smart pots with a large coaster underneath them. So when I water the run off goes into the coaster and I just leave it there so the pot can wick up the run off. So there might lie the issue. I the checked the ph of the run off and it was at 7. Maybe when I allow the plants to wick up the run off it's causing a ph drift in the medium when i should really just drain to waste. Anybody with some tips or can tell me I'm heading in the right directions will be appreciated, thanks.
Pics ?
 
Yep im growing in coco i might try full hydro next run with there aqua nutes
Pictures are in first post. I ran aqua flakes for a long time in sunshine mix and had great results then I wanted to try coco. I have noticed significant growths compared to all my other grows. Only problem I ran into with coco so far is this current one.
 
Pictures are in first post. I ran aqua flakes for a long time in sunshine mix and had great results then I wanted to try coco. I have noticed significant growths compared to all my other grows. Only problem I ran into with coco so far is this current one.
Here are mine clone
 
@Stonironi So I measured the ppms of my runoff and they were extremely high, so I now know what my problem was. I was just letting the salts build up by watering every other day and letting wick back up in the pot. I am actually surprised that they look as good as they do from basking in that high of nute solution. So I guess I have to work a little more at it. I am not looking forward to water 2 gallons every day and I bought a shop vac to suck up the run off
 
@kingtz, appears you have it sorted. I was thinking you are good with the two gals, but being that you are in 7 gal pots, it probably a good idea to not let them sit in runoff. Also I don't check my coco runoff,it can be very misleading. I feed with <750 1.4-1.5 ec all the wasy thru veg&flower. Checked the runoff once and the ppms were well over 1400!!! The girls didn't notice nor did they skip a beat.
 
@Stonironi So I measured the ppms of my runoff and they were extremely high, so I now know what my problem was. I was just letting the salts build up by watering every other day and letting wick back up in the pot. I am actually surprised that they look as good as they do from basking in that high of nute solution. So I guess I have to work a little more at it. I am not looking forward to water 2 gallons every day and I bought a shop vac to suck up the run off
I throw towels down and it soaks up, remove them 30mins later and throw them in the laundry. I have a lot of towels!
 
lol corey, the wife will not allow nutrient,compost tea etc... towels into her washer nor dryer! shop vac it is!!!!
Get a pump from harbour freight . It sits outside of the room and you can hook a hose to it and suck the water right out of the saucers into a garbage can or whatever . I went directly into my garage drain but it makes it easy and the pump is like 30 bucks no towels no mess . You don't need to feed at 1.7 that will always cause build up . 8 mls per gallon works all the way through . Maybe a little less on babies. It is like .9 ec before the additives. But the additives don't raise it much at all anyways.
 
@Stonironi So I measured the ppms of my runoff and they were extremely high, so I now know what my problem was. I was just letting the salts build up by watering every other day and letting wick back up in the pot. I am actually surprised that they look as good as they do from basking in that high of nute solution. So I guess I have to work a little more at it. I am not looking forward to water 2 gallons every day and I bought a shop vac to suck up the run off
Lol I told you sir :) if you need anymore help with the coco and house and garden I will try to help . It's the end product that matters
 
Back
Top