Boone77
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Nooby here,
This stuff has me stressed out.
Plants are ab3 weeks old. Planted 21 seeds but only got 13 to germinate. Crop Kings Blue cookies 1 out of 7? The rest are Haze Exteme and Green Crack. GC & cookies were feminized seeds. After reading a billion threads on this coco loco I’ve come to the conclusion I was treating things to much like a plain coco grow and over watering.
-ph 5.8-6.0 with distilled water.
Since Saturday I’ve only been watering once every 3 days with 1/4 strength silicate and Cal-Mag ph’Ed.
-Today they got their first feeding with 1/4 strength General Hydroponics base nutes.
First silicate, let that sit for an hour then added the CalMag. Next the micro, grow & bloom. Checked the ppm, think it was at 560ish. The PH was spot on at 5.9 so didn’t mess with that. Lastly I added Rapid Start.
-I have a little 3 gallon jug thingy with an air stone running that I used to mix everything in. I use a solo cup to water around the edges of my planted solo cups. Planted cups have drainage holes on the bottom I saw a video of a guy using a lighter on the bottom edges & that worked awesome. I also used a paper clip & pokes some holes in the sides thinking it might help dry the medium a little faster. So far no signs of mold or fungus nats.
-Still under the T5 between 6-12” from the top of my plants. I’ll wait till I transplant to 1gl pot to turn on my California Lightworks 1100. I had one lady pop with only 1 starter leaf and she hasn’t grown much in 2weeks?? Is she a hermy? I’ve got another one with that looks way different. She has super long skinny leafs compared to the rest. It’s a Haze Extreme but looks different than the other. Those aren’t feminized so maybe that’s a male or possibly the only female from that bunch?
-The rest seem to be doing ok other than the fact I got stoned and accidentally dropped 2 cups while watering... Grr! They were a bit stretchy anyway so I planted them a bit lower in the cup before water/feed so hopefully I didn’t damage any of the roots. Guess I’ll have something else to worry about now ha ha! On the bright side of that I was able to get a good look at the root structure & we are a couple weeks from any transplanting unless things take off.
-This is my first grow obviously. I’m 42 years old and have been wanting to do that since I was 16 so nerves and excitement all bundled in one but don’t want to screw anything up either. So here’s where my environment has been at since I started. Please if you have any advice or tips I’m all ears.
— 4x8 tent with temperature between 69 lowest and 85 high.
Humidity 40 - 60%
I also have a Co2 bag but not sure if I should be using it now or if that’s a veg/flower thing?
This stuff has me stressed out.
Plants are ab3 weeks old. Planted 21 seeds but only got 13 to germinate. Crop Kings Blue cookies 1 out of 7? The rest are Haze Exteme and Green Crack. GC & cookies were feminized seeds. After reading a billion threads on this coco loco I’ve come to the conclusion I was treating things to much like a plain coco grow and over watering.
-ph 5.8-6.0 with distilled water.
Since Saturday I’ve only been watering once every 3 days with 1/4 strength silicate and Cal-Mag ph’Ed.
-Today they got their first feeding with 1/4 strength General Hydroponics base nutes.
First silicate, let that sit for an hour then added the CalMag. Next the micro, grow & bloom. Checked the ppm, think it was at 560ish. The PH was spot on at 5.9 so didn’t mess with that. Lastly I added Rapid Start.
-I have a little 3 gallon jug thingy with an air stone running that I used to mix everything in. I use a solo cup to water around the edges of my planted solo cups. Planted cups have drainage holes on the bottom I saw a video of a guy using a lighter on the bottom edges & that worked awesome. I also used a paper clip & pokes some holes in the sides thinking it might help dry the medium a little faster. So far no signs of mold or fungus nats.
-Still under the T5 between 6-12” from the top of my plants. I’ll wait till I transplant to 1gl pot to turn on my California Lightworks 1100. I had one lady pop with only 1 starter leaf and she hasn’t grown much in 2weeks?? Is she a hermy? I’ve got another one with that looks way different. She has super long skinny leafs compared to the rest. It’s a Haze Extreme but looks different than the other. Those aren’t feminized so maybe that’s a male or possibly the only female from that bunch?
-The rest seem to be doing ok other than the fact I got stoned and accidentally dropped 2 cups while watering... Grr! They were a bit stretchy anyway so I planted them a bit lower in the cup before water/feed so hopefully I didn’t damage any of the roots. Guess I’ll have something else to worry about now ha ha! On the bright side of that I was able to get a good look at the root structure & we are a couple weeks from any transplanting unless things take off.
-This is my first grow obviously. I’m 42 years old and have been wanting to do that since I was 16 so nerves and excitement all bundled in one but don’t want to screw anything up either. So here’s where my environment has been at since I started. Please if you have any advice or tips I’m all ears.
— 4x8 tent with temperature between 69 lowest and 85 high.
Humidity 40 - 60%
I also have a Co2 bag but not sure if I should be using it now or if that’s a veg/flower thing?
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