First grow, coco coir, help PLEASE!

furious248 said:

as its your first grow, maybe ditch coco and go for soil???
its do-able, but starting with coco where you have to slowly introduce nutes, it holds not much water, and its a bloody long earning curve, you have your ladys poped up in coco, as a first time grower i would think you will run into a world of problems, i would suggest getting a bag of biobizz all mix, transpanting your plants, and only feeding water until 21 days or when the leaves start to yellow a tiny bit, then feeding half strengh veg nutes, slowly building up to flowering, then switch. i have done a couple of coco grows and i had problems from day one, it seemed every deficiency i managed to get through i had 2 more the next day and t carried on both grows until i transplanted them.... now i stick to soil, (biobizz all mix) there is alot of people out there who say it is too hot for seedlings but i have never had a problrm, i plant seeds in final pots, and the soil does most of the work, i just water/feed/watch/dry/cure/smoke and fly

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MickFoster said:

Canna are top quality nutes. I just use MaxiGrow and MaxiBloom because it is inexpensive and great quality. It only costs $0.06 per gallon of nute solution. I have grown in soil, DWC, waterfarms, hempy, and coco. Coco is by far the easiest and most forgiving. I think the people that have difficulty in coco are treating it like soil and using the wrong nutes.

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Indigoldsoul487 said:

Thanks for the advice bro, but I really wanna stick to coco despite the learning curve so I can get a larger yield nd better quality...no offense meant to soil growers this is just the way I'd like to grow personally.

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MickFoster said:

I think coco is the easiest way to grow - you can control the nutes better than soil. You already know you started them in too big of containers - I start mine in 18oz. solo cups and transplant after about 3 weeks into a larger pot. I start with 1/4 strength nutes to begin with and gradually increase. If you use GH MaxiGrow and GH MaxiBloom or GH FloraNova with tap water ( assuming it's not too bad ), you will never have a deficiency problem. Just my opinion.

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furious248 said:

n, jumping in at the deep end takes alot, just if this grow doesnt go well keep going and one day you will be a coco expert
and dont do what i did my first grow.... pick buds off day by day until you are left with one bud flowering for 2 weeks on its own, all the best

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Coliostroe said:

Did you rinse the coco unrinsed the coco-coir i got had a ph maxed out on my vial it couldn't have gotten any greener. ph 8?

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Indigoldsoul487 said:

Cool, u guys have been hella helpful...I guess I should go ahead nd make this my grow journal. 3 weeks late but lates better than never. Hopefully I can get some more assistance to rectify any future problems with my girls...

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