MickFoster
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Coco is hydroponics......it should never be dry.
Coco holds 30% oxygen when completely saturated.
Coco holds 30% oxygen when completely saturated.
New Coco grow
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Doug Dawson
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Yes, coco is great for keeping O2 at the roots, I also mix 25% or more of Perlite into my Coco, the medium cannot be over watered and always has O2 available for roots.
Hot Diggity Sog
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This may be true but I did not know that. And I've never had troubles letting it dry out completely each and every time in between waterings. That said, my next go around is going to be multiple waterings a day never letting it dry...just to see.
Some pics of my last round. Small pots that I watered every other day. Lots of run off and let dry before rewatering.
Maybe by watering more frequently I can do even better. We'll see.
twentyeight.threefive
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I noticed a HUGE difference when adjusting from feeding incorrectly every other day, to feeding daily. Hope you have as much improvement as I did.
Hot Diggity Sog
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Wow - That's really exciting. Can't wait to try. I assume you did not start this until you had a nice root system established?
budolskie
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Look Nice they see what mine are like in 2 month haha
twentyeight.threefive
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Yes. Everything I've grown is fully documented in my journal if you were looking for details. When I started the autoflower pair I started feeding daily. The trunks were huge and side branching with huge ring knuckles at their base.
Hot Diggity Sog
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I will certainly be reading it.
Merkn4aSquirtn
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Fed every other day as well with minimal perlite.
When I mean minimal.. I mean there’s no perlite besides the top 2 inches.
The plant above is 34 days old from sprout. (Petco reptile coco substrate)
Same watering schedule, once every 48 hours.
Minimal perlite again, maybe a little more than last plant.
Probably close to 40-50% runoff each watering.
This is my 5th coco grow and I’m seeing a trend in better growth with the ones I water every two days.
I’m re using coco from last grow on another plant, so far so good.
I hear others reuse too.
I’m getting to the point where I’m wanting to recirculate my runoff back to the plant just one time and dump.
I’ll have a difficult time doing that considering I only water once every 2 days and it makes my runoff ec jump pretty high after a good watering
xtsho
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After years of using the same nutrients I don't bother checking EC either. I've memorized how much to measure out to get the EC I want. I also never bother checking runoff. I run a lower EC than many people and way less than some of the feed chart recommendations for numerous nutrient brands. I'm convinced that many of the problems some growers have is from overfeeding. That and adding numerous additives that change the balance of the feed. For instance I see many growers completely stopping nitrogen in flower and using multiple bloom enhancers / high P&K and nothing else. That can lead to nutrient antagonism which will lock out needed nutrients making them unavailable to the plant.
James19920
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What strain is this, it looks so nice. What seed bank do you use?
twentyeight.threefive
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Your leaves have a bit of cupping going on. What are your temperatures like, and light height?
