possible overwatering..what do you think ?
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BenGman
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xtsho
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Have you grown in coco coir before?
keep it real.
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IMO it’s just to dry, causing it to feed off itself. Water couple times a day if you can.
I wouldn't. Especially since you have no perlite in your coco. Should only take a week for them to become root bound in a 1 gal pot. I have clones that have been in a 1 gal pot for prob a week now and they're just about root bound taking water once a day, should be needing twice a day soon.
Samb213
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yeah think I'll hold off the watering slightly till I see a few more roots ..I've got a few coming out the bottom already but I just had a look at my pots after watering yesterday ..if I tilt the pot I get drips of water coming out of the bottom..I might go every other day till its rooted out a bit
harrychilds
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Never let your coco dry out, feed daily until run off.
Samb213
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even when it's 100 percent saturated and not rooted out its new pot yet ?
harrychilds
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yes, you can't overwater coco. You can feed it 5 times a day if you like.
harrychilds
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You should never let coco dry out. your plants are bone dry.
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harrychilds
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Feed daily at 1.0 EC until run off and watch the growth explode 
Grow Monster
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you CAN over water in coco, if you have a small plant in a big pot that hasn't rooted the pot out properly , it can take days for it to dry out especially when you water till you get run off. Believe what u will. U will find out soon who is rt or wrong. Use a lil common sense. U only asking cus u seeing something that don't add up. Why are u watering a plant that is already saturated.
Grow Monster
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Plant has no say in it? Lol 
Creature1969
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Stop telling coco growers to treat it like soil. Or, are you tying to insinuate that everyone else in this thread is wrong?
Billy the Mountain
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No they don't
xtsho
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I'll chime in and say that I don't water to runoff in coco daily after transplanting plants into 3 gallon pots. I start with good and damp not dripping wet coco but I never let it dry out either. I just don't water it to soaking where there is runoff. I water enough to keep it damp. I've found that the initial root growth after transplant is more robust in just damp coco than saturated coco. Within 3-7 days roots will be either coming out the bottom holes in plastic pots or poking through the sides and bottom of fabric pots.
Once I see roots then I start watering daily until slight runoff. After a couple weeks of veg they go into the flower tent where I plug in the Blumats and they irrigate the plant until finished. There is no runoff with Blumats and I never hand flush so they finish their lives being drip fed for a constant moisture content in the coco. They are watered constantly by the Blumats but there is no runoff during the grow except for the hand watering done while they're vegging. I don't do the 10-20% runoff because it's just wasting nutrient solution. I don't get salt build ups because I don't overfeed.
Going back to the OP's original post, 3-4 days without any irrigation and allowing the coco dry out is too long. If you look at the photos the top is dry and you can see that it's slightly damp around the plants. The problem is that the coco dries from the outside towards the middle so the plants are now ringed by dry coco where roots are not going to grow. I'm also going to speculate that those plants were watered the day before the photos were taken and that the coco has been significantly dryer in the past.
Regardless of how I do it or not those plants need to be irrigated much more than they have been.
Once I see roots then I start watering daily until slight runoff. After a couple weeks of veg they go into the flower tent where I plug in the Blumats and they irrigate the plant until finished. There is no runoff with Blumats and I never hand flush so they finish their lives being drip fed for a constant moisture content in the coco. They are watered constantly by the Blumats but there is no runoff during the grow except for the hand watering done while they're vegging. I don't do the 10-20% runoff because it's just wasting nutrient solution. I don't get salt build ups because I don't overfeed.
Going back to the OP's original post, 3-4 days without any irrigation and allowing the coco dry out is too long. If you look at the photos the top is dry and you can see that it's slightly damp around the plants. The problem is that the coco dries from the outside towards the middle so the plants are now ringed by dry coco where roots are not going to grow. I'm also going to speculate that those plants were watered the day before the photos were taken and that the coco has been significantly dryer in the past.
Regardless of how I do it or not those plants need to be irrigated much more than they have been.
Grow Monster
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exactly! just like the rooting pods which are coco. u dont want em saturated just moist. just like drip irrigation it keeps the moisture but not trying to drown it. guys here seem to only believe what they've seen to be fact. No respect in other grow styles is just a learning cap. Closed minds.