Whats your ideal Coco/Salts setup?

Kola_Kreator said:

The most important part of a coco dtw set up is the auto watering system. You can try and hand water but the results won't even be close to what can be achieved with auto watering. Coco should be watered to run off anywhere from 3 to 12 times a day, everyday, if you want kick ass plants.

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Ok what do you use for auto-watering?
Also that sounds like a lot of water per day for 4 plants. Guess I'll need an RO system too as my tap water is 8.3ph & has 120ppm of salt already So I'll need to make a lot of RO per day & then fill up some kinda reservoir in my bedroom?

DrDukePHD said:

Ok what do you use for auto-watering?
Also that sounds like a lot of water per day for 4 plants. Guess I'll need an RO system too as my tap water is 8.3ph & has 120ppm of salt already So I'll need to make a lot of RO per day & then fill up some kinda reservoir in my bedroom?

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Go to the hydro section > drain to waste, and then you'll find a recent long thread about auto drain to waste dyi's and systems.

It's not a lot of water. When the coco is at 90%+ saturation, adding more water will take just a little bit to get runoff. Think of it as you drinking coffee at a restaurant and after every 5 minutes, the waitress tops off your cup. She is not giving you more than you're drinking - she's just making sure your cup is as fresh as possible at all times.

Perhaps that was a poor analogy, but you're fertigating frequently so that the plant has access to a precise nutrient element ratio, EC, and pH at all times. If coco is allowed to dry, the roots have to spend energy searching for nutrition so you'll get soil-like results. In 1gal pots (nursery pots, not fabric pots), I use approximately 16oz for each pot in 24 hours.

Your tap water of 240 EC is not all sodium. If you're in the US, almost all cities publish what is exactly in their city's tap water so you can know what that 240 EC is comprised of.

Flash63 said:

Here in Canada it’s $23.00 for a 40ltr compressed brick, including delivery,i love canna products.

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That's not bad at all..

Yeah I love canna products too.

So I've been growing 15 years. An old head taught me we used rock wool and full line of advanced nutrients. After we parted ways I stuck with Rockwool for a couple years and tried all different nutes. Then I tried love soil and dry amendments. I then tried coco and have done soil outdoors. Anyways coco is my favorite for a lot of reasons. I've messed with many recipes and found the simplest recipe that works fantastic. I use jacks 321, plus a teaspoon of calcium (it disables the chlorine/chloromine in water within minutes no need for ro as long as you have good tap) and up til mid flower I use recharge or ogbiowar. Ogbiowar works better but is more of a pain. Recharge is super easy and works great. My plants grow fast, big and have amazing terps. Ppl say oh soil is better terpenes. This isn't true. Genetics, proper environment and proper dry and cure. I can show more pics of previous grows so ppl don't say your full of shit but it's easy to get 3-4 oz on a one gal multiple feed coco with just jacks 321 and some bennies. Ive done side by sides with all different terpenes enhancers and no difference. I've done side by sides led vs hps, side by sides all different nutes. Here's some pics of this current crop

This was my trop cherry from another one of my posts. Week 5-6 same basic jacks 321 a scoop of calcium and some bennies

your bud's look amazing! great job sur! i have been growing indoors since around 2013 with my older brother, and i recently started dabbling with outdoor and one thing i can say with out a doubt, is that you can get amazing terpene profiles with UVA/UVB you don't need expensive fancy fertilizer's like advanced nutrients to make your bud smell good and hit hard. i used too think AN was the reason my bud was dank, after my fert's run out I'm probably switching to maxi bloom lmfao.

secretmicrogrow420 said:

your bud's look amazing! great job sur! i have been growing indoors since around 2013 with my older brother, and i recently started dabbling with outdoor and one thing i can say with out a doubt, is that you can get amazing terpene profiles with UVA/UVB you don't need expensive fancy fertilizer's like advanced nutrients to make your bud smell good and hit hard. i used too think AN was the reason my bud was dank, after my fert's run out I'm probably switching to maxi bloom lmfao.

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Hahaha totally agree my man! I feel bad for ppl who still buy into pricey nutes that are essentially the same plus way more bottles/paying for H20. Oh well to each their own. No hate on whatever ppl wanna do