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InvisibleEmpire
Canna Coco is to expensive for me as I can only order it online and shipping is insane, but in my experience it has been the best in producing the most healthiest plants (when combined with FFOF)
Anyway, to save cash i got some brick coco (sunleaves) and was told that i had to 'rinse' the coco of excess salts...the sunleaves description said excess salts have been rinsed but people say they havent'...
here's what i did...i put the brick into a rubbermaid and added water while breaking it up. took a long time but i only used enough water to break it down into usable form instead of a compressed brick.
i started out 10 seeds in a mix of that and FFOF and it seems as if i'm encountering some issues and don't know if it's the seeds, genetics or the coco (salts blocking nute absorption).... the plants are roughly 2 weeks old and the lowest leaves look like they have cal/mag def already, and some of the leaves on some of them are 'wrinkled' and deformed in a sense, with some others drooping. a guy here said sunleaves coco almost ruined his grow bc of the salts...so my questions...
1.) what is considered a thorough 'rinse'? if i have the broken up coco in a rubbermaid, what is the best way to rinse it aside from just pouring water in it, agitating it, dumping...repeating?
2.) at the moment my best bet to avoid any further issues (until the coco can be rinsed and is not a threat) is to (next watering) rinse with 2-3 gallons (theyre in 6 inch pots now) then finally begin feeding lightly...is this correct? is there any other way to make sure there aren't any excess salts that will damage em?
Anyway, to save cash i got some brick coco (sunleaves) and was told that i had to 'rinse' the coco of excess salts...the sunleaves description said excess salts have been rinsed but people say they havent'...
here's what i did...i put the brick into a rubbermaid and added water while breaking it up. took a long time but i only used enough water to break it down into usable form instead of a compressed brick.
i started out 10 seeds in a mix of that and FFOF and it seems as if i'm encountering some issues and don't know if it's the seeds, genetics or the coco (salts blocking nute absorption).... the plants are roughly 2 weeks old and the lowest leaves look like they have cal/mag def already, and some of the leaves on some of them are 'wrinkled' and deformed in a sense, with some others drooping. a guy here said sunleaves coco almost ruined his grow bc of the salts...so my questions...
1.) what is considered a thorough 'rinse'? if i have the broken up coco in a rubbermaid, what is the best way to rinse it aside from just pouring water in it, agitating it, dumping...repeating?
2.) at the moment my best bet to avoid any further issues (until the coco can be rinsed and is not a threat) is to (next watering) rinse with 2-3 gallons (theyre in 6 inch pots now) then finally begin feeding lightly...is this correct? is there any other way to make sure there aren't any excess salts that will damage em?