Coco: Feed every watering or when needed?
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i'm shocked by the results. i have had plenty success doing my own thing. i voted every time but i thought everybody was doing the h3ad and rez formulas, which call for water in between feeds or as needed if i understood that correctly. correct me if i'm wrong on that, don't want to spread bad info on IC.
question for the every water feeders, what ppm do you run at peak flower, pre flush time? also what strain with your feed level?
question for the every water feeders, what ppm do you run at peak flower, pre flush time? also what strain with your feed level?
CottonMouth
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Now that post from he3d was post # 40 of his sticky thread. However I did not read all the way through the thread again to find if he has changed his watering schedule.
As for what I use
tap water (with pH down)
5 ml cal/mag
6 ml micro
9 ml bloom
until the 4th or 5th week of flower
the
tap water (with pH down)
5 ml cal/mag
12 ml bloom
until the last week
then just a one week flush.
But that is what works for me, and like just about any post with any medium, you have to figure out your plants and judge from there what does work and what doesn't.
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GrapeDRANK
Member
I am in my first grow using straight coco for flower and i havnt flushed at all,im in week 5 of flower and am feeding at full strength nutes also pk13/14 silica majic and canna boost excellerator. im thinking il do a light flush this weekend going into week six and cut out the micro and pk,any suggestions on this??
Castelvetro
Member
my first grow was floranova, then switched to flora series, mid way through switched back to floranova, plants look sooooooooooooo much better and just keep getting shinnier n shinnier , the health the nova gives my girls is second to none. if it aint broke dont fix it right.
in the first post in his thread, he says he gives plain water every other watering, but that was for promix and lucas. must of thrown me off when i originally read it.
i see you use 5ml cal mag in addition to 6/9, and cal/mag up until the final week. quite different from the rest of the pack. how do your buds taste? i would think all that nitrogen, magnesium late in the cycle would make them burn and taste like poo. no?
CottonMouth
Member
It isn't that much nitrogen l dont run the 6/9 all the way through. I only use that up to the 4th or 5th week depeding on the finish time of the strain. After that I use the 12 ml of bloom. I always add the cal/mag because of my tap water. I have never had any bad taste in the final product, and no complaints either. I also flush for the last week so that is probably why there isn't any bad taste.
By the last week when I get ready to flush I already have leaves that are turning yellow from the plant using up the stored nitrogen. I wont get into what the final weight of any one bud is but lets just say I don't every run short.
CM
By the last week when I get ready to flush I already have leaves that are turning yellow from the plant using up the stored nitrogen. I wont get into what the final weight of any one bud is but lets just say I don't every run short.
CM
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Guywithoutajeep
this guy knows whats up
its all about your situation, i feed every watering no question, get your plants on a regime, dont try and guess when you think they need plain water and when they need to be fed, they should be taking in nutrients all the time
i think about like this: even people are healthier when they eat a whole bunch of smaller servings through out the day rather than 2 big meals, they want the nutrients on their schedule, not yours...a stretch for an analogy but it really does serve my theory about using coco with the blumats feeding system, i'm using them in my next cycle...sorry for the tangent...
feeding/watering is all about accuracy and precision for your plant size and environmental factors (humidity especially)
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Carl Carlson
really, two weeks with no water in coco? How big is the container, 175 gallons?
seriously, i couldn't help but crack a joke but do want to know what your reasoning is.
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lysol
He just worded it oddly. He said last few days to [of] the final weeks. I think the only way "over watering" in coco is possible is if you don't have enough drainage (hint: you should have a lot, when a pot has drainage only on bottom and u leave it on flat ground, there is no drainage)
Anyways I think the poll is flawed because people are mis-understanding it. They are mixing up "watering daily" with "feeding every watering" which are two distinct concepts.
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Carl Carlson
ah thank you lysol!
