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A few things that I've learned about growing in coco with a drip systm DTW
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those roots are pretty impresive,man. How long veg? and flower?
Or is that how they are supposed to be and towards the end of flowering they have massive roots holding all the medium together like hydroton in an ebb and flow? I think I am just a bit concerned about overwatering. Currently the coco is damp, but doesn't make balls when you compress it in your hand and no water runs out when i squeeze it. Was thinking of uping the watering frequency from 1 a day to 3 but think I might give it a few more days - they have only been in bloom under the drippers for appox 4 days now.
first time trying multiple feeds on drip rings and im loving it. going to veg the ladies for 1 more week before flipping to 12/12, but right now im feeding 3 times a day...lights on for 2 mins, 6 hours later for 2 mins, and then right before lights off for a minute. seems to be doing well for me so far. going to bang it up to at least 4 once i hit flowering
what size pots are you using?
I leave my Art Dne to feed the same, I just do water add backs to taper the EC for the last week.
I'd be curious to here people watering VOLUME in addition to their intervals.
Are you all going to run-off each and every feed?
For instance.. DTW in 2 Gal smart pots of straight coco. You are feeding how many ounces of solution every X minutes/hours.
One's manifold/pump/size pot/etc obviously has a lot to do with this. Your feeding ~3 times a day or whatever, but how much are they getting per feed.
Has anyone taken their feed lines and captured what your plants are getting per watering interval. Seems like this could be endlessly tweaked, but how does one determine what is ideal if not going to run-off every interval. Going to run-off every interval may be the most fool-proof, but can we see further explosion of growth by dialing to smaller more frequent intervals.
Would be interested in your inputs.
Are you all going to run-off each and every feed?
For instance.. DTW in 2 Gal smart pots of straight coco. You are feeding how many ounces of solution every X minutes/hours.
One's manifold/pump/size pot/etc obviously has a lot to do with this. Your feeding ~3 times a day or whatever, but how much are they getting per feed.
Has anyone taken their feed lines and captured what your plants are getting per watering interval. Seems like this could be endlessly tweaked, but how does one determine what is ideal if not going to run-off every interval. Going to run-off every interval may be the most fool-proof, but can we see further explosion of growth by dialing to smaller more frequent intervals.
Would be interested in your inputs.
I currently run in #2 smartpots filled about 3/4 of the way with coco and then some hydroton on top for fungus gnats. I water for 2 mins at lights on, 2 mins 6 hours later, and 1 min6 hours later. each gets me just BARELY any runoff. i use 1ml per gal of drip clean so the runoff is not essential, but it does let me know that the coco is saturated.
My first attempt is doing at coco DTW is doing really well, but not amazingly well. I think I have yet to dial in my watering times. Also, the first round was not rooted out enough into the coco at the time of initiating flowering....I think, haha. Next time will be better I think as the plants will be more rooted and be able to be fed more often. As it is now, the ones in bloom seem to stay pretty moist.
exactly what I was thinking! the first thing I think when I read ...
is ok very informative but how many litres!!
I use drippers that are restricted to 2litres per/hour so if I feed for 15mins I deliver 500ml. in a 6.5 lifter pot I can feed up to 5 or 6 times a day if I run a low ec.
I think the less frequent the watering the higher the EC thus more run off is needed just to fully saturate and rinse off excess salts that have accumulated.
im relatively new to coco and have been trying to get my head around feeding for a while!
I don't use drip emitters , I use basket stakes & i feed 2x to 3x a day till runoff every time . no i don't know how many liters .... don't really need to know.....& as long as i'm getting runoff .... i know the salts aren't building up & causing problems . which is the main reason for runoff with coco . i use drip clean too but i still feed to runoff as a precaution .
Hosttrevor
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Have I messed up?
Have I messed up?
Hi I'm using 11 ltr pots, feeding once a day, but now going to up it to twice a day. I've always used 15ltr pots before and once a day was perfect, and yields were the best I'd had in over 25yrs growing.
However setting up my latest dripper system I've managed to miss calculate the spacings of the drippers on the main feed ring. Instead of having 16 perfectly evenly spaced drippers, I've managed to f*ck up and only made 15 evenly spaced dripper lines. This means I have to add one between two others somewhere on the ring.
Is this going to mess up the evenness of feed given to the plants by having, in effect, 3 drippers spaced closer together than the rest?
I do use adjustable flow rate drippers, so if there is unevenness, will I be able to account for it by adjusting the dripper flow rates. Or should I rip the main feed ring out and replace it with 16 evenly spaced dripper lines as I'd originally planned.
Of course one answer is ditch one of the plants, but sod that eh? ;-)
Would really appreciate your advice here as I'm really need to get this system up and running in the next day or so.
Thanks, Trev
Have I messed up?
Hi I'm using 11 ltr pots, feeding once a day, but now going to up it to twice a day. I've always used 15ltr pots before and once a day was perfect, and yields were the best I'd had in over 25yrs growing.
However setting up my latest dripper system I've managed to miss calculate the spacings of the drippers on the main feed ring. Instead of having 16 perfectly evenly spaced drippers, I've managed to f*ck up and only made 15 evenly spaced dripper lines. This means I have to add one between two others somewhere on the ring.
Is this going to mess up the evenness of feed given to the plants by having, in effect, 3 drippers spaced closer together than the rest?
I do use adjustable flow rate drippers, so if there is unevenness, will I be able to account for it by adjusting the dripper flow rates. Or should I rip the main feed ring out and replace it with 16 evenly spaced dripper lines as I'd originally planned.
Of course one answer is ditch one of the plants, but sod that eh? ;-)
Would really appreciate your advice here as I'm really need to get this system up and running in the next day or so.
Thanks, Trev
