These look ok?

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They popped their heads up on the 13th, didn't feed them for a bit but the first sets of leaves started really drying out and twisting and the edges started getting s bit crispy (i do have really low RH). So started feeding half strength what the canna grow guide says as I am using canna nutes. They were much paler than they are right now and the newer growth seems to be coming through a nice dark green. What you think?

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They are in Ecothrive charge coco which I now believe runs really hot, after checking the runoff it was nearly 1.7EC so I flushed it with a lower strength feed until it was sitting at 1.2-1.3. I've been following the canna grow guide and been going off the light feeding schedule which states with all the other additives to be giving them an ec of 1.3 but I am only using A+B so feed goes in at 1.1EC currently.
 
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Rurumo said:
It's always good to flush out your coco with your preferred EC to start, but your plants look fine, no harm done. You should do well with the way you are doing things. Good luck!
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Thank you. Lesson learnt for my next run haha, should I do the same when I transfer them from the cups to their final pots? Flush the coco with whatever EC feed they are getting before transplanting?
 
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Runoff EC is not a good way to measure your nutrient strength. They look great. Keep doing what you're doing. Don't over think it.
 
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Milky Weed said:
I’ve used run off EC to measure if I was causing a lockout by not getting enough runoff, but that’s about it. I know ph is much more useless to pursue in the runoff.
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Yep, I usually use it here and there to see if there's a massive imbalance between what's goin in and out if I have issues becoming visable. Apart from that I just measure what's going in and make sure there's adequate runoff.
 
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VincenzioVonHook said:
For sure...I did that once with "buffered, double washed hydroponic grade coir" from pinegro.

Put 500ppm through, and ended up with close to 7000 coming out. Scared the shit out of me.
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yeah lol I've tested runoff on fresh Mother Earth 70/30 Coco and it was 1.6 EC in a slurry test but the runoff was like 2.6 EC just adding pure RO when I was calibrating my BlueLab Pulse meter.

I can't think of a good analogy my coffee hasn't kicked in but runoff EC and runoff PH is not super good to rely on.
 
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StickyOnes said:
These are in coco dude. They look much better now
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They look beautiful. Coco is the best medium you can grow in, in my personal opinion.

Fox Farms isn't designed for growing cannabis. That is why I say I don't recommend it. If someone has had experience with it already good for them keep growin in it. Personally Coco is just way cleaner, less infested with bugs, less stinky and drains and drinks better. Plants just thrive in it. All the major coco brands right now are going to be pretty on par with another too as far as quality goes.. I stay true to Mother Earth Coco/Perlite blend.

Also, coco is completely renewable unlike dirt, rockwool etc..
 
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calvin.m16 said:
They look beautiful. Coco is the best medium you can grow in, in my personal opinion.

Fox Farms isn't designed for growing cannabis. That is why I say I don't recommend it. If someone has had experience with it already good for them keep growin in it. Personally Coco is just way cleaner, less infested with bugs, less stinky and drains and drinks better. Plants just thrive in it. All the major coco brands right now are going to be pretty on par with another too as far as quality goes.. I stay true to Mother Earth Coco/Perlite blend.

Also, coco is completely renewable unlike dirt, rockwool etc..
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I prefer coco myself, only got two runs completed in it and the last one of them was over 6 years a go, I feel like a noob again haha.

Left plant is spumoni by the plug seedbank and one on the right is peach tree incase anyone was wondering
 
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Can anyone give me any advice on transplanting these from the cups in to 5 gallon fabric pots? Should i water the coco first and then transplant to the fabric pots? What about run off if so? Is it too soon for a 5 gallon pot? Roots are bursting out the bottom of the cups.
 
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StickyOnes said:
Can anyone give me any advice on transplanting these from the cups in to 5 gallon fabric pots? Should i water the coco first and then transplant to the fabric pots? What about run off if so? Is it too soon for a 5 gallon pot? Roots are bursting out the bottom of the cups.
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I take a similar sized pot/cup whatever, fill coco to desired height in pot with cup sitting on it. Place plant into pot, fill the rest of the way just to the top of the soil from the transplant all around the plant, water in with your favorite nutrients and keep it rolling.

If you water the coco before you transplant you're gunna have a bad day.
 
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Goodshit97 said:
So i cant resuse soil? Shit. I guess ive been fucking up for a while now...
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I mean renewable in the sense they don't gotta mine it or scrape up land that isn't going to be replaced for centuries. If you re-use your growing medium that's great I personally use mine to extend my vegie garden outside. You can see the perlite from outer space. Before you ask, yes I've been to outer space, I'm also an astronaut.
 
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calvin.m16 said:
I mean renewable in the sense they don't gotta mine it or scrape up land that isn't going to be replaced for centuries. If you re-use your growing medium that's great I personally use mine to extend my vegie garden outside.
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yeah, they're just trying to ban it because of "animal rights"
 
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