I'm running Dyna-Gro, with added Cal-Mag+ and a prebuffered coir. The girls love it, no weirdness to speak of. The coco nutes are made to be easy, but there's always a work around for whatever you want to design to. The trick question is whether it's worth doing, and I can say that for me, it is.
I'm using coco-perlite-castings (50-30-20) with a couple different types of guano and some kelp meal. I don't do any EC, ppm, or pH metering. Works for me.
this is helpful, i'll still prolly PH the water for the organic runs, but nice to know its not entirely needed.
Hey man, I've been running municiple water at ~200 ppm for them. I think I'm going to be switching to half and half R/O here soon though, just as soon as I can put in a R/O tank. Plant health and vigour are great, but I can still see a touch of weirdness with how the alkalinity makes my PH drift.Hey got some questions for you. Are you using RO or tap water on that? And what brand of coco are you using?
Hey man, I've been running municiple water at ~200 ppm for them. I think I'm going to be switching to half and half R/O here soon though, just as soon as I can put in a R/O tank. Plant health and vigour are great, but I can still see a touch of weirdness with how the alkalinity makes my PH drift.
title pretty much explains everything. If not using coco specific nutes, i know it releases potassium and with holds calcium, is there a way around this? thanks.
Alternatively, anyone just not worrying about it and using whatever without problems?
Hey man, I've been running municiple water at ~200 ppm for them. I think I'm going to be switching to half and half R/O here soon though, just as soon as I can put in a R/O tank. Plant health and vigour are great, but I can still see a touch of weirdness with how the alkalinity makes my PH drift.
I'm actually running a number of different brands right now, but the most success I've been having has actually come from the Sunleaves compressed bricks. They need to be flushed and expanded with Cal-Mag, but once you get them right, they have a nice texture, and the price is very right. Good results with Canna out of the bag too, but I can't justify the cost jump, as the plants don't care.
You'll probably be all right, depending on your genetics. My girls haven't been asking for it much, but I have one strain that likes 5ml/g extra weeks 3-6. If you're running some hogs, then they'll be asking for it. It's also useful to have if you're in expanded blocks, seems to get everything ready much faster.Did you find that the Cal-Mag was absolutely necessary with Dyna-Gro and tap water? I'm trying to avoid it if I can, but I might need just a hair of it. What I'm thinking is getting cal through tap the whole cycle then getting mag from tap in early stages and when it requires more in later stages using Dyna's PK booster which has another little mag kick for flowers.