[jocat]

is coco growing "dead" i think not my friend....

[thal]

I switched from soil to coco last January and haven't looked back.

I veg and flower in flood and drain. My veg plants are in 1 gallon plastic containers. My flower plants are in 3 gallon roots pots or 5 gallon smart pots. I flood once per day for 15 minutes at the start of flower, and twice per day for 15 minutes from the middle to end of flower.

I top dress all of my containers in sand as a means of gnat control. So far this has worked beautifully. I get huge plants, tight buds, and great potency.

[Bobbo4200]

Hello!!,
I see that noone has posted in this thread in a bit, but I am new to the Coco scene and kinda need some help. I bought a bag of Roots Organic Coco Fiber Hydroponic Soiless Media, and transplanted some clones into solo cups filled with it. I thought I'd just dive in lol, but looking at the beginning of this thread-I need to learn a few things... I am wondering a couple things, what should I use for a ph? It says to use a ph of 5.5-6.5 on the bag. On the first page it says to use Nutrients for coco, am I using coco-or just a blend of coco? I have grown in soil before, and am on my second Hempy bucket. I am using Flairform's Greendream in soil, and Ionic in the Hempy bucket. It say's on the Flairform bottle that it can be used in soil, or hydro-can I use it with the coco fiber, or should I get specific coco nutes? Should I feed every watering? What about strength, work up to full strength like in Hempy bucket's? Sorry about all the questions... Thanks for your help, it is greatly appreciated!

Originally Posted by captinknots

so I just switched to coco after doing a lot of reading about it here.

would it be safe to say that consistency of ec and ph are the most critical aspects of coco growing? followed by watering frequency?

You are definitely safe to say this...

with clones, is 1.0 ec a good starting point?

.7 ec is best for newly rooted clones...

i want to veg for 2 weeks max and get them flowering asap, but want a good harvest.
I plan on slowly working my way up to 1.8ec by week 3 or 4 (not sure when is better) of flower. ive started with a ph of 5.8 and plan on raising that to 6 by week 3 or 4 as well for better P flow.

1.1ec is the sweet spot in coco ime...when i add boosters it'll spike to 1.4 but thats the Highest i'd ever want to feed My plants... are your plants heavy feeders or ??


sound like a good plan? my coco was flushed twice no 3 times with hot water then soaked in 5.6ph 1/4 strength nutes. bc nutrients recipe for success. which i plan on using till i run out.

what kind of coco you usin? you may want to precharge with calmag if you are using bricks or cheap stuff..

(then off to maxibloom!)

Good Luck, H8

[ChaChaChiba]

Very interesting thread here. I think I screwed up by getting roots organic coco because I'm not finding the ease in using it as most of the posters here are. The roots is so full of perlite that the coco and perlite literally floats up when I water so the new clones are basically in water for the long time it takes for the water to soak in; anyone else have this problem and how do I fix it? Should I add Turface MVP on top? THanks.

solution is not to mix perlite with coco.

[farmdalefurr]

25% or so of perlite wont cause you any problems.

that roots organic "coco" is shitty. we use it at work just to start seedlings in since it has somewhat of a "charge" to it.

the reason we dont use it for anything else is because of it being so "floaty". who wants to water their containers and have to keep waiting for the water to drain through?

not me ! ! !

I was actually going to try that Roots Organic Coco mix the next time I go shopping. Would Canna Coco or BioBizz Coco Mix be the better choice?
And do I need "coco nutes" if I go with straight coco? I'm totally new to coco/coco mixes and am interested in trying and comparing it to soil.. Going to be reading up when I'm not surfing IC with my phone.

[Reg Dixon]

Hi growers. Have just finished flushing my coco coir chips which along with coco coir dust and a little superpeat will make up my mix.

I plan to use Maxibloom all the way through the grow for feeding and worm tea/molasses water for the rest of the time.

If it looks like there is a need I may mix a little 25-5-5 into the feeding also.

Sound like a good plan? I will be hand watering SCRoG.

[ChaChaChiba]

I'm updating my 3-week ago comments about the coco; seems it was me in getting used to slowly hand water & waiting til the water/nutes soak in, which, unlike soil, the roots organic coco coir takes it's time to absorbe the water but now those sog-clones are full & perky,healthy colored-whispy leaves~basically couldn't be better. I've been nuteing with assortments of organic and chemical products to see which does the best but they all worked fine -no issues whatever,so i couldn't distinguish which was best - and the water they get is either straight outta the faucet (kinda lime-ish area here) or rain water. I have em in pots outside now hoping they start flowering, though the dark lacks 34 min. I'm gonna reuse the coco add brick coco & ferts to it, not perlite cause Roots has a seemingly excessive amount of it in it. Anyways thats where i'm at now, thanks to all the help from here and Bonecarvers thread.