Leaching for harvest

[Bobbo4200]

How do you leach your ladies that live in Coco? Do it the same as soil-pour a bunch of water through the pot? I have only grown one lady in coco, and i dont think I leached well enough. Thank you

 

[paulycali]

You can use a leaching agent like final phase

 

[greekgardner]

i use plain water..........

 

[BrownThumb]

Tap water...last two or so weeks.

 

[Bobbo4200]

I tried to pour water through the pot, but it seemed to take forever to go through the coco... I am a coco noob, and I think I coulda have been giving her plain water everyday rather than trying to put 4-5 gallons through every 3 days. Thanks for the input

 

[BullnAChinaShop]

I feed plain un-ph'ed water for the final 14 days. Same schedule (once a day) as the rest of the cycle. In my mind (and also depending on your fert method) you are trying to get the plant to use up it's stored nutes as opposed to trying to wash them out of the coco.

 

[Lowman]

Leaching(flushing) coco is not as easy as other mediums I have found. I flush for one week with a flushing agent every watering and then a week of plain water...and there is still plenty of green on the plant. In promix...and regime like that would make every leaf yellow. Coco tends to hold on to lots of food.

 

[Puscifer]

True that coco tends to hold onto nutrients longer than soil. I don't flush per se, rather I feed plain un-ph'd tap water for the last two weeks prior to harvest. (Starting on day 46 on a 60 day strain, for example).
It takes 7 days before they start yellowing but they look like fall foliage by day 60.

 

[Puscifer]

Double post.

 

[vapor]

peat has a higher cec then coco and hold about 30 times it weight in water, coco holds 8-9 times its weight in water and 22% 02 when fully saturated.

 

[Granger2]

Flushing has a 2 fold purpose. First, to remove nutrients from the medium so the plant has little available to it, so, second, it is forced to use up stored nutrients. I use tap and RO. For this purpose, since different nutrients dissolve at different pH's, I like to vary the pH as I vary the use of tap and RO. Nutes dissolve easier in RO than in my tap, which has lots of dissolved lime, etc. Good luck. -granger

 

[Puscifer]

Here's an example of what I was talking about. These were 5 days from harvest

 

[Bobbo4200]

Im gonna try and cut the nutes sooner rather than later, feed water every day for about 2 1/2 weeks. Nice color Puscifer!, what strain? Thanks for the input everyone!

 

[Puscifer]

The lighter colored strain was Chimera's MountainJam, the purple ones were Outlaw's Gorilla Grape.

 

[Bobbo4200]

How was the Gorilla?

 

[Puscifer]

The Gorilla is divine! Sweet/sour/spicy wine taste with a great body stone. A keeper for life

 

[MobK4life]

Interesting post. i usually flush with the rain water i collect and molasses black strap or light organic

 

[MobK4life]

to clarify. flush for 10 days and then hit with table spoon per gallon of molasses. let medium dryout and harvest.

 

[smurfin'herb]

I am also in coco. The 2nd to last week, I lower the food significantly (0.3-0.6ec) while adding plenty of fulvic acid, enzymes, drip clean, yucca ect. Pretty much anything to help the remaining nutrients become available, taken up by the plants, and/or flushed out of the medium.
Ill run this solution through the plants giving them about twice as much water as they would get on a normal feeding. Continue feeding this low food regimen with about 10-15% runoff until the last week, then just feed with ph'ed water. If your using r/o, add about 1/8th tsp calmag plus (25-35ppm) so its easier to adjust. Works like a charm.