Hello everyone
I am new to the forum and also to gardening. I am on my second run and am using very, very coarse and chunky coco coir and H&G Cocos A+B.
I am NOT using anything else from the H&G line. So far I have also been supplementing each watering with CaliMagic (from the start), because I am using RO water and I've read that it's needed.
The plants were showing what I took to be signs of calcium and magnesium deficiencies, so I eventually worked my way up to adding 5ml of CaliMagic per gallon of RO water, before adding in the Cocos A+B. By and large, this put an end to the yellow/browning of the leaf edges and spotting and such, but I am still seeing purple striping on the main stalk of the plant, and also purple creeping around the petioles. So far the undersides of the petioles are not yet purple, for the most part.The plants question are in veg from seed - about 2-3 weeks from sprouting. I have not been following the H&G feed chart because I do not intend to flower these girls (manifesting my reality@!) - I will keep them as mothers.
Anyway, enough background info - here are my questions:
1. I have been feeding them "full-strength" since they started showing sets of true leaves, and aside from the deficiencies mentioned above they have handled it well. I started at a total of 800 ppm after adding 2.5ml CaliMagic, and am now at about 1100pm-1200ppm total after adding 5ml of CaliMagic. My intentions are to keep feeding them at this level as long as they are mothers. Is this OK or how much do you guys feed your mothers?
2. Is it OK to do this with the H&G Cocos A+B nutes? I have read a few people stating that they heard from H&G themselves not to mess up the feeding schedule or everything would go haywire. I have are hard time believing this is the case, but like I said above I am completely new to gardening in general, so I'm just trying to wrap my head around how everything works.
3. If you use H&G Cocos A+B, roughly what kind of feeding schedule do you use? i.e. 300ppm for seedlings/clones, 900-1200ppm for veg, 1200-1400 ppm for flowering...
I had some other questions about CalMag and coco but it will get pretty long so I'll start another thread
Feel free to post answers to whatever you can answer, I'm looking for as much input as possible!
I am new to the forum and also to gardening. I am on my second run and am using very, very coarse and chunky coco coir and H&G Cocos A+B.
I am NOT using anything else from the H&G line. So far I have also been supplementing each watering with CaliMagic (from the start), because I am using RO water and I've read that it's needed.
The plants were showing what I took to be signs of calcium and magnesium deficiencies, so I eventually worked my way up to adding 5ml of CaliMagic per gallon of RO water, before adding in the Cocos A+B. By and large, this put an end to the yellow/browning of the leaf edges and spotting and such, but I am still seeing purple striping on the main stalk of the plant, and also purple creeping around the petioles. So far the undersides of the petioles are not yet purple, for the most part.The plants question are in veg from seed - about 2-3 weeks from sprouting. I have not been following the H&G feed chart because I do not intend to flower these girls (manifesting my reality@!) - I will keep them as mothers.
Anyway, enough background info - here are my questions:
1. I have been feeding them "full-strength" since they started showing sets of true leaves, and aside from the deficiencies mentioned above they have handled it well. I started at a total of 800 ppm after adding 2.5ml CaliMagic, and am now at about 1100pm-1200ppm total after adding 5ml of CaliMagic. My intentions are to keep feeding them at this level as long as they are mothers. Is this OK or how much do you guys feed your mothers?
2. Is it OK to do this with the H&G Cocos A+B nutes? I have read a few people stating that they heard from H&G themselves not to mess up the feeding schedule or everything would go haywire. I have are hard time believing this is the case, but like I said above I am completely new to gardening in general, so I'm just trying to wrap my head around how everything works.
3. If you use H&G Cocos A+B, roughly what kind of feeding schedule do you use? i.e. 300ppm for seedlings/clones, 900-1200ppm for veg, 1200-1400 ppm for flowering...
I had some other questions about CalMag and coco but it will get pretty long so I'll start another thread
Feel free to post answers to whatever you can answer, I'm looking for as much input as possible!