I was wondering the same thing.Interesting
with the compost added can you still feed everyday like straight coco ? or do you treat it like a soil/compost grow ?
i'm gonna have to keep an eye on this one Deo
Interesting
with the compost added can you still feed everyday like straight coco ? or do you treat it like a soil/compost grow ?
i'm gonna have to keep an eye on this one Deo
I was wondering the same thing.
Deoxy,
Very nice plants you have going there.
I recently switched to coco and am very interested in your semi-organic experiment with it.
I'll be following along
room looks nice.
im supprised the Purple Cow contains no cow manure?
I use black cow compost some times, ill have to read the lable to see what it has in it lol
Hey DeoXy,
Those plants have ended up being quite tall and stretchy. More so than mine anyway. Do you have any flexibility with height. Looks to me that they are going to grow straight through the roof when it comes to flowering time. I think if I was in your position I'd consider bending them over so your light doesn't have to penetrate as far to reach the bud sites and they are not as tall and growing through the ceiling.
I'm sure you know what you are doing however. Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing what happens next
Sorry for the lack of updates.. I just spent the last 10 days since transplanting dealing with a major problem I discovered while up potting.. fucking bastard ass root aphids .. second grow in a row I've been forced to deal with these damn things.. FML!
I correctly identified them with my jewelers loupe crawling around the roots and bottoms of pots(micro sized white/translucent).. same plant symptoms happened as the last time.. fast progression of phantom mag deficiency w/ yellowing and odd spotting within the first 2 weeks of introducing the plants to intense HPS lighting.. coming from a prior healthy state.
I gave them a imid soak a week ago and they have since started growing good again.. the new growth is green and healthy..haven't seen a single crawler or flier either.. I was hoping not to have to use any kind of pesticide but I can't lose this round, as I have too much time and money invested already.. The good news is I have a whole tray of cuttings rooted and ready just in case.. I think I caught it early enough this time so they should all pull thru just fine, 6 out of the 13 were affected the worse, the other 7 didn't skip a beat.
- On a side note they are loving the coco/compost/perlite medium.. roots are bursting out the bottoms of the pots which is a good to see.. they also seem to be liking the v+b dirty and +life so far.. gotta love simplified things that just work w/o fuss .. I'll be posting up a proper update w/ pix by the weekend before flip.. Giving them some recovery time and keeping the stress to a minimum ATM.
Thats why i got away from any type of bagged soils & am using straight coco ...... no RA's sense !!! good luck brutha in getting rid of them destructive little bastards !!!
if theres any way you can bake your bagged soil first ..... it would kill them off right from the start . it only has to be in the oven for a short time at 120 degrees to kill them .
Thanks for the tip brutha dan!.. I wish I knew where they came from.. it might be from the window as I discovered a small hole in the screen.. they could also of came in with the bags of canna coco.. either way it sucks to have to deal with.. the affected plants are doing a lot better which is good.. would you recommend that same oven method for bagged coco? I have been keeping the room as clean I as I can.. I plan on setting off a dr. doom fogger during lights out a little later to kill any fliers still hiding.
I ended up binning one of the 6(twisted lemon OG) plants that were affected by the RA's the worse.. it looks like it will take a while to recover and grow a healthier root mass.. I don't want to waste more time letting it recover as it's far behind the rest in development and I'm ready to flip.. I got a few cuttings to try again with it.. + the 12 remaining plants are enough to pack under the two 600w and fill the space well .. they are nice and bushy after being topped.
Here's a few random plant pix I snapped earlier after watering in no particular order .. let me know what you guys think :
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i seriously doubt they came from the canna coco , but yeah the oven trick will work with that too .
RA's are the main reason i got away from soils & started in coco . have only ever used canna bagged or Mother Earths bagged & never had any RA's sense i started using them .
the main thing about buying bagged anything ...... is if its setting outside on a pallet like the big box stores ..... your guarenteed to get bugs !!! my guy keeps his bagged stuff in the store & wrapped in the plastic that the pallet came wrapped in . its a good practice that alot of shops should adhere to if they care at all about they're customers .
Plant & root shots all look great brutha !!! keep up the good work
They are looking pretty frigging happy there brother
Is that coco or Rapid Rooter type medium in your cloner tray mate??
I really like the look of your cloner, so it's just a seedling tray sitting over the top of a deeper container?? Is the seedling tray a hard plastic or a softer plastic?? I have heaps of the soft plastic ones lying around from the vege garden and I can get a bottom container exactly the same as yours from the pet store. So do you have any sort of bubblers in the bottom in the water?? I can't see any in the photo
Regards Mate