[budbeast]

heres my coco grow
ive screwed up a couple before so this thread is more "not what to do" than "this is how you do it"

Im not to bright so dont be shy with the advice

ive got 9 6.5ltr pots of pure coco houseing some top 44s glugging canna nutes

theres a 600w hps on the scene with light on temps 24-26c night min 10c

ive also got a chronic bonzi mom thats about 6 months old in there

i switched 12/12 last week heres apic

[budbeast]

been having a little trouble with the nutes
i over fed and now the runty one in the middle is a little deformed

[budbeast]

ive built a new room with a large self draining table it should be ready sunday so theyll get a bit more room its also been a real mare moveing all the plants to empty the tray every day

i started adding 1ml pk and 1ml boost now the flowers have started forming

to 10 litre of water im adding

25ml a+b
5ml rhizotonic
15ml cannazym
10ml cannaboost
10ml pk 13-14


ecs around 2 ph 5.7

heres a pic of the sog and one of the bonzi chronic




please reply

[gaiusmarius]

Hello budbeast,

dude that is a nice looking grow you have on the go. i love to see people use the coco pure, it's just so much simpler. anyway as you are using the canna nutes i should be able to help you out with pretty much any problems that might occur nute wise.

by those single bladed leaves i'm thinking the clones were taken at the beginning of flowering? but it could be a strain thing? anyway, they look good. if you over feed, just run some ph corrected water through to dissolve the nutes a bit and go back to nutrients next watering.

peace and good growings

[budbeast]

thanks for the kind words GM

im hopeing to get things right this time with your guidance

my last 2 grows were troubled with salt build up due to underwatering

so now im trying watering everyday with runoff checking ph + ec daily

today was ec: 1.92 ph:5.82 in ec:2.04 ph 6.14 out

[gaiusmarius]

it's a pleasure budbeast, by the way are you throwing away the run off? or do you recirculate?

your plants look nice and healthy, big leaves and a good color as far as i could see. you seem to have it well under control. depending on how heavy your strain feeds, it might be an idea to to a small flush just before the next watering. try and get the run off down a bit, but then still give them a normal batch of nutes right after the flush, you don't want to bring the plants out of their feeding rhythm, only clear out the medium of salts a bit. there is no hurry, but if you let the slab ec get too high it will burn your plants.

good growings

[budbeast]

i dont reuse the drain water with this setup due to thrips i was going to reuse it with my new dripper setup though
should i just keep pouring it back into the tank daily then adjust ec/ ph to suit (once filtered )
i still cannot decide on the way to grow with the drippers bags, beds or trays ???
still got time to think as ive not got my clones ready yet
there are roots poping through the cubes of 3 / 26 clones i took 16 days ago
i was wondering what you feel is the fastest way to progress from this stage

thanks for all the help and great advice

[gaiusmarius]

once your cubes have roots sticking out, it's time to plant them on the slabs or pots of coco, at this point i hook them up to drippers and from then on they are on a 4 x a day watering rhythm. when i first plant my cube on the coco slabs i will let the drippers run with plain ph 6.0 water, until the slabs are all full and water is gushing back out. when that happens i measure the ec of the run off, if it's reasonable, not over 1.4 max, then i add nutes to my tank and let the system run it's self from then on with automated watering till run off 4 times a day. the plants take off in a matter of days and can be flowered for see of green purposes after only a few days of veg in the slabs. if you have a slow stretching indica you might give her 10 days of veg, but a stretchy hybrid will be perfect with a few days only of veg phase. if you are talking trees it's something else and will not work well with slabs.

anyway once a rooted clone has grown and rooted into a 7cm by 7cm cube, making roots stick out of the cube, then it's time to plant them in the coco slabs or pots.

[budbeast]

sounds good for my next grow when i get 4 mothers to take cutting from but i only have 24 44's 2 weeks old and another 12 44's and 12 chronics 4 days old but the chronics wont mix with the 44's youd need to flower a 2" cron next to a 12" 44 to keepem anything like even
so im struggling this time to setup my 1200 watter in 1 hit
but i may tray up one side and put the 9 pots onthe other once the trays have veged for a week or 2

[budbeast]

some pics from last night