[murran]

You need to drain that runoff way, it would be a bad thing for the plants to absorb that water, it's not oxygenated, probably warm and has excess salts due to evaporation .
If you can reach the saucers use a sponge or large syringe some people even use a wet and dry shop vac

[chomsky]

Originally Posted by murran

You need to drain that runoff way, it would be a bad thing for the plants to absorb that water, it's not oxygenated, probably warm and has excess salts due to evaporation .
If you can reach the saucers use a sponge or large syringe some people even use a wet and dry shop vac

Works best for me!!! Snaps right on a 5 gal bucket.

https://www.google.com/shopping/prod...dnrhoCmcvw_wcB

[SamsonsRiddle]

you shouldn't need that much calmag with DG FP. try only using .5ml of calimagic. I would also recommend using DG Protekt which will help balance your ph so you won't need any ph up or down while adding silicon and K.

[Old Toker]

Originally Posted by chomsky

Works best for me!!! Snaps right on a 5 gal bucket.

https://www.google.com/shopping/prod...dnrhoCmcvw_wcB

X2 Works for me.

[roDDin]

Thanks guys. I'm not actually from the states so it's a little hard for my to buy direct from best buy. But will look for alternatives

[RumblefishTwist]

Originally Posted by SamsonsRiddle

you shouldn't need that much calmag with DG FP. try only using .5ml of calimagic. I would also recommend using DG Protekt which will help balance your ph so you won't need any ph up or down while adding silicon and K.

Thanks. What do you think was causing my brown spotting? Can too much CalMag do that? I just did a flush with ph'ed water/Calimagic only and new growth is looking better. Also added some gravel to my drainage trays so my pots aren't water logged.

[Cocogrogro]

Here's a question I've had for a while... I'd like to hear from a few people there experiences with feeding schedules when hand watering coco..
What I'd like to know are these things.

- nute line
-feed schedule, meaning feed/feed/water or feed with every watering
-nutrient strength, because I've heard feed lighter feed and feed every time to only feed once a week and feed heavy.

Got 2 harvests so far. First I fed to good runoff and kept ph good and got ok results... it got too hot...but Idid ok.

Second run didn't go so smooth in flower. Veg awesome.. flower,, I think I tried too hard.. burnt, to deficient I was scrachin my head... I came to the clusion I Burnt them.. only too late.. and my ph had climbed... I was doctoring other symptoms while never doing the obvious and checking runoff... still had a little crop, just a lot of burn yellow leaves to trim...

I'd like advice on feeding in coco.
I use botanicare kind nutes. Cal mag+ superthrive. And I have on hand some head masta additive, molasses, mammoth microbes, and need more but use hydrogaurd.

[GrowerGoneWild]

Originally Posted by RumblefishTwist

Thanks. What do you think was causing my brown spotting? Can too much CalMag do that? I just did a flush with ph'ed water/Calimagic only and new growth is looking better. Also added some gravel to my drainage trays so my pots aren't water logged.

Brown spots is usually caused by lack of calcium..

I'm partial to calmag by botanicare, its calcium nitrate, and should absorb faster than carbonates, added bonus is it has iron in it.

So really you have 3 actions in that product to keep the leaves green, the Calcium, Magnesium and Iron.

Factor in your source water too to determine if you are low calcium. Off the top of my head, I have around 250-300 PPM of calcium in solution in various forms when using calmag with city tap.

So its like canna+sourcewater+calmag.

[Twisted pleasur]

I switched to hand water every 3-5 days in veg. instead of what I was doing 4 times per day.
Then in flower bump in the multi waterings for the first 4 weeks they get 4 times per day on a seconds timer with a little run off. Then weeks 5 on they get 8 times per day little run off. And what a difference... def. 20-30% increase in yield. Watering this way in veg... Really help the roots develop. with the hand water. Thanks for all the tips in this thread guys!!

[Suntana]

Originally Posted by Twisted pleasur

I switched to hand water every 3-5 days in veg. instead of what I was doing 4 times per day.
Then in flower bump in the multi waterings for the first 4 weeks they get 4 times per day on a seconds timer with a little run off. Then weeks 5 on they get 8 times per day little run off. And what a difference... def. 20-30% increase in yield. Watering this way in veg... Really help the roots develop. with the hand water. Thanks for all the tips in this thread guys!!

You do exactly what I do, it alway turns into an argument that no matter what, feed everyday to 30-40% run off. I go light on the nutes but only water in veg when they need it. Massive explosion of roots, then it's time to pour on the gas!