30 Plant Grow Project

I also feel you could be feeding more bloom nute to your flowering plants. All my vegging plants are at 1000ppm (or close) before I toss them in flower. I increase it 100ppm a week in flower, until I get to 1500ppm or so ( some strains can take much more then this) then I switch over to a 1-5-4 finisher @1500ppm, and gradually work my way down over the last 3 weeks before flushing.

as I said though, adding too much Ca in coco isnt a good thing, it causes problems. Also if you ever run into a Mg deficiency, use epsom salts as a foliar spray rather then feeding cal/mag. This seemed to help me.

When I do add calmag to my 0ppm RO water, I add it till I see 150-250 ppm, then add the rest of my nutes.

Also. Do you have a silicon supplement? If not, go pick up some dyna grow protekt.

to me, using the cns17 line is a fool proof way to learn coco. But you have to add more then recommended.

I flush every other watering so I shouldn't have any build up plus I use RO water. I don't see why I would have a deficiency but what the hell do I know LOL.

lambofgod said:

I also feel you could be feeding more bloom nute to your flowering plants. All my vegging plants are at 1000ppm (or close) before I toss them in flower. I increase it 100ppm a week in flower, until I get to 1500ppm or so ( some strains can take much more then this) then I switch over to a 1-5-4 finisher @1500ppm, and gradually work my way down over the last 3 weeks before flushing.

as I said though, adding too much Ca in coco isnt a good thing, it causes problems. Also if you ever run into a Mg deficiency, use epsom salts as a foliar spray rather then feeding cal/mag. This seemed to help me.

When I do add calmag to my 0ppm RO water, I add it till I see 150-250 ppm, then add the rest of my nutes.

Also. Do you have a silicon supplement? If not, go pick up some dyna grow protekt.

to me, using the cns17 line is a fool proof way to learn coco. But you have to add more then recommended.

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I am not using bloom right now but will on my next feed. I am only up to 700-800 and was going to start increasing it with my bloom nutes. Maybe they need more..... so more they will get.

Windsblow said:

I am not using bloom right now but will on my next feed. I am only up to 700-800 and was going to start increasing it with my bloom nutes. Maybe they need more..... so more they will get.

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oh I thought they where all in flower.

I give a combination 50/50 grow and bloom the first week of flower, then another dose of grow, for two feedings, 4-5 weeks into flower.

lambofgod said:

oh I thought they where all in flower.

I give a combination 50/50 grow and bloom the first week of flower, then another dose of grow, for two feedings, 4-5 weeks into flower.

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They are all in flower... I just haven't started my bloom nutes.

Did u read those threads I told u about?

TheLastWood said:

Did u read those threads I told u about?

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I can't log in. It says I have to wait 48 hours for moderation or something. I waited and it still says I have to wait. I sent an email to the site querying why. I will as soon as I get over there.

It always does that, but you don't need to sign up to read them

I am reading them now... Looks like a good forum. Thanks Peckerwood.

Plants are all looking good. Just learn to read them and give em what they need. I'm interested to see how they turn out. I use soil-less organic Sunshine mix and have heard a lot about coco- that it takes some getting used to but once you figure it out growing some dank is pretty easy. Good luck bro!

Yup. Just takes time to learn, all good things do.

If you stick with it, apply the things you read in that forum, when you learn coco, its the most forgiving medium there is.

Yup. Just takes time to learn, all good things do.

If you stick with it, apply the things you read in that forum, when you learn coco, its the most forgiving medium there is.

TheLastWood said:

Yup. Just takes time to learn, all good things do.

If you stick with it, apply the things you read in that forum, when you learn coco, its the most forgiving medium there is.

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The fact that this is my second grow and they are still alive and looking as well as they do is testiment to how forgiving coco can be.

I better get the hang of it this round because I finally have good beans coming for the next grow.

Anyone grown Jilly Bean?

Hey wood... Do you think a feed feed feed is at a low ppm is better than feed, water (flush), feed at a higher ppm.

I get several theories and wonder if you have tried both schedules.

I think I need to be able to read my plants and feed as they need but,

1. I am not familiar with this strain (bagseed)
2. I am not skilled enough yet to understand the language of leaves.

I feed water feed water for a few reasons. One reason is so I don't have to mix 3 nute strengths for different aged plants. On the days I "water" I put just enough veg nutes in for my seedlings.

Also, I never have to do a conventional flush, meaning 3x the pot size in water. There are ppl that just feed feed feed. Just preferance I guess.

Plus I use less nutes.

I have heard it makes the plants react like a rain. I water (flush/just a good run off not a real flush) then they want there nutes and then after they are fed they want the rain again. Theory is that really get them growing.

I will get the hang of it I am sure.

Yeah I know who you got the "make it rain" thing from lol. Kinda the same idea.

I don't really mesaure 20% runoff lol. I just get a saucer 1 size bigger than my pot, and water till the saucer is at the level I have determined good.

Gonna just buy a tray soon and let em all run into the bucket instead of manualy emptying my saucers. Its not bad tho, I have a big frying pan, I lift the plant, put the frying pan under, empty saucer into bucket, put plant back.

Will still be easier with a tray but the extra time I spend is enjoyed and let's me check out every plant every day

It that what it is called "make it rain"?

I am going to make a set up for my drip system on my next round, after I move, that I think will work really well for me.

I use 400 watt parabolic warehouse lighting that produces a round lighting pattern so I decided I would use 10 round kiddy pools (the 3.5' diameter ones) put these grid like things I found at a nursery that are round and the same size as the inside of the pool. It will keep my pots about 6 inches off the bottom. Then I will run a drip system and when I refill my tank I will use the submersible pump to pump out the waste water in the bottom of the pool. The plants will be in a circle pattern area fitting the pattern of the light minimizing wasted light. I will also build a 8X8 room out of aluminum sided artic board to house all of this. It will have a blower/charcoal filter and an a/c unit.

Any problems you can see with this set up?
The only problem I can think of is humidity.

Your rh will be fine man. Its dry there.

If your going to do a big circle shape like that, you might consider doing verticle bulb in the middle with plants around the light. This gives you room for much bigger plants and the side lighting makes big buds all the way down the plant. If your gonna hook up ac you might as well ya kno?

I prefer an air cooled lighting setup. I can run co2 and not exhaust it.

Did you read that coco slabs n drippers thread?