I don't know about Canna's coco nutes.
Very creative to split the formulas like that. Would love to know the results.
I don't know about you but my runs don't track the nute calculator- they are much longer...the calculator seems like it's for Perfect Conditions. My room runs cold... perhaps that extends things. You may be right about cutting them short in the other additives, too. But with the new Amino and Zen products they are selling for veg, they probably don't have too many other additives in A and B- make more money selling the stuff separately. (?!)
Think about adding perlite...it's so airy now and dries out so fast! Might be good tho if perlite retains water but doesn't that defeat the oxygen-advantage to coir in the first place?
If you haven't transplanted yet, consider Geopots- I love them. But not the old black Smart Pots. I was given some with handles that are junk.
One issue I had was with lockout (before I corrected my calmag.) Just did a flush with Epsom salts and 5.8 water. Just fine now.
Don't know about other nutes but I'm flushing now and the run-off is 6.0. I'd think that's pretty great...need to see if that's good news.
Have fun
I didnt flush the botanicare CocoGro and I checked the Ph of my runnoff and for the first couple waterings it was insane, the first time I checked it was at 4.1Ph. So I guess I should be flushing before using this stuff. but my plants survived at anyrate and I didnt do a flush to it. I just water to waste every watering. I thought perlite was even more airy and less water renensive than coco? My idea is to have a pot that is so damn big that even with perlite in the coco it wont dry out too fast. Im thinking 5 gallons ought to take a while to dry no matter how airy the medium is. Not for this grow though, just gunna go straight coco right through.
The A+B should have all the trace minerals that the plant needs to survive. You should be able to grow a good plant using their AB base nutrients in Ph'd water and not add anything else and your plants will not have any deficiencies. Of course Im using a few other products to give my plants a boost, such as root excelerator and humic and fulvic acid. but in theory I could grow without using these. I dont know anything about the HG Amino or Zen, but Im going to guess they are stupidly expensive.
Im going to be using airpots as soon as I transplant, I have the 3 gallon size. with airpots/coco I should have some really nice roots Im hoping.
Your not likely to match up to the nute schedule unless you are growing an 8 week flowering strain(usually 8 weeks is the example), and vegging for the same amount of time that is shown in the schedule(3 weeks is usually what they give examples for). But you can just use the same numbers by stretching it out, so week 6 for example matches to week 9 in a 12 week flowering strain.
so far its day 3 in my experiment and no results yet, all the plants look pretty much the same. I will be sure to stop in and let everyone know If I find anything bad/good happening with my experiment plants. Im sure alot of people have considered doing this but didnt want to sacrafice their plants. plus mixing nutes takes double the work
