Coco watering

Budbreath

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I have been watering with flora trio. Half strength every time instead of nutes then water. I was thinking of doing it like they say. If I use to water on the day I use only water do I have to ph it or since it is so pure it can be put straight in? ro water is hard to ph because 1 drop changes ph a lot. Need help!
 

Silentvirtue

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Yes as soil/coco ph is just as important as what you put in.

Run off in coco should equal what you up in at the top. If you want to know why gimme a shout.
 

Budbreath

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Going to check that in the morning. My first coco grow and first dwc grow at the same time! What a ride. Lol. I will post results tomorrow and would love input on how to fine tune this. I like coco better than soil and dwc. Got 1 of each. Coco is awsome.
 

curious2garden

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I have been watering with flora trio. Half strength every time instead of nutes then water. I was thinking of doing it like they say. If I use to water on the day I use only water do I have to ph it or since it is so pure it can be put straight in? ro water is hard to ph because 1 drop changes ph a lot. Need help!
I use GH Flora series trio and feed every watering, pH is important to your uptake. I run 5.8 to 6.01. I don't bother measuring run off. I flush once every two weeks with a copious volume of water and go back to feeding daily after that. Here are two Bodhi Space Monkey from my last harvest (02/2020). Best of luck with your grow.

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Budbreath

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How much of each on the trio per gal 4 th week of flower? My first time probably needs adjusting but she is doing well. I am doing 1/4 of each and calmag every watering
 

curious2garden

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How much of each on the trio per gal 4 th week of flower? My first time probably needs adjusting but she is doing well. I am doing 1/4 of each and calmag every watering
I use the GH Drain to Waste chart.
What kind of water is it phed?
I have used RO water but I have been using my tap since it contains chlorine and not chloramine and is around 250 PPM mostly Ca and Mg.

Your plant looks good.
 

curious2garden

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Do you let the chlorine evap?
Not necessarily, however you need to pH initially a little lower and there will be some pH bounce higher in the first 24 hours. For example I pH down to 5.5 to 5.6 and by the next day when I feed with my new reservoir it's usually bounced back to 5.8. Since you have less PPM I'd pH down to 5.7 and see where you bounce up to.

Also to learn your water you should pH your reservoir daily prior to feeding for awhile until you know your water and nutrient's pattern.
 

Budbreath

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Not necessarily, however you need to pH initially a little lower and there will be some pH bounce higher in the first 24 hours. For example I pH down to 5.5 to 5.6 and by the next day when I feed with my new reservoir it's usually bounced back to 5.8. Since you have less PPM I'd pH down to 5.7 and see where you bounce up to.

Also to learn your water you should pH your reservoir daily prior to feeding for awhile until you know your water and nutrient's pattern.
So I watered with 700 ec nutes this same volume I always do. The ph of the run off was 6.1 and the ec was 350 ????? That dont seem right. What to do?
 

Budbreath

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On ec my meter reads 350 if I put it on ppms its 140. Not sure how to read ec on this meter but ppms I understand. So I flushed with 3 gal water. Going to mix up nutes and water agian.
 

rkymtnman

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I use GH Flora series trio and feed every watering, pH is important to your uptake. I run 5.8 to 6.01. I don't bother measuring run off. I flush once every two weeks with a copious volume of water and go back to feeding daily after that. Here are two Bodhi Space Monkey from my last harvest (02/2020). Best of luck with your grow.

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you ever try H3AD's formula for Coco? based off of Lucas. i tried coco for 2 grows and went back to dwc.

p.s. i wish Bodhi would run some fem seeds!!!
 

curious2garden

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you ever try H3AD's formula for Coco? based off of Lucas. i tried coco for 2 grows and went back to dwc.

p.s. i wish Bodhi would run some fem seeds!!!
I'm either to fucked up or not smart enough to run anything but GH's DTW table. I would like to look smart and try it but I'd fuck it up. I'm really an awful grower, shhhhhh don't tell anyone.

Oh and Bodhi and fem seeds! I f'n wish. I love SSH and his Dragon Fruit is a nice representation of it. I ran an F2 table of it and I'm running 80% males, as are friends I sent seeds to. I'm running his Space Monkey and Blueberry Hashplant for seed tables but if I can get a third seed table in I'm going to fem him Dragon Fruit!
 

Budbreath

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I love how healthy a plant looks in coco. I am using a 3 gal bag. I like plastic containers. And was wondering if plastic would work as good. Anyone have experience running both would like to share?
 
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