Yeah, the GH feed charts show the nutrients in categories; the bottles give the order. For example, Armor Si they indicate to place it in first before any nutrients. On Calimagic, they indicate to place it in before the 3-part. The nute chart you have from CFC has the correct order for all parts and supplements - always stirring/mixing after adding each part before adding in the next one.
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Yeah, the GH feed charts show the nutrients in categories; the bottles give the order. For example, Armor Si they indicate to place it in first before any nutrients. On Calimagic, they indicate to place it in before the 3-part. The nute chart you have from CFC has the correct order for all parts and supplements - always stirring/mixing after adding each part before adding in the next one.
Yeah, whenever I say you can't overwater in coco, I always preface that by saying you can't realistically overwater or it's virtually impossible to overwater because there are definitely outliers. I never have gone over 6x daily and never had a problem.
I think to do 12x you need to make sure the drainage is very good and that there are no dead zones in the medium. If I were to attempt to do 12x a day, I'd be using 50/50 coco/perlite (maybe even 40/60) in 1g pots. What size bags are you using?
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I do 90% coco 10% perlite half gallon worth in a one gallon tall narrow fabric pot I like their drainage. I use the slack to staple shut around stem for IPM. For plants/clones 2.5x2.5 foot or 3x3 in flower. It cuts down on water usage.
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Integrated pest management. I had gnats and aphids take over my grow and bti, nothing worked but this. I staple fabric pot shut around main stem then bug jell the seam right away so I can turn my back on it for mins or even a few days.
Then put garbage bags around it sealed/ bug jelled on the main stem and dripper. Then just bunched and tied around the drain away pvc pipe area. Then a piece of panty hose tied around the pvc part where it dumps into drain bucket.
If growing beards need to prune them before it reaches the panty hose and grows beyond there. They might be fine without the bag Ive done it before but the bag helps with my new enviorment of 83F, 35rh and box fan for circulation. It dries back slower so I can rest on making extra solution.
The bags I like to do for all of them for extra IPM after seeing gnats lay eggs under a microscope. I suspect they can easily lay eggs through the fabric pot where the roots poke out. If you just cant because its a flood tray or etc Id say its still a huge improvement and will trap them inside. So they dont fruitfully multiply and spread.
I know that because I used just panty hose around the whole pot and stem. It did stop them but some still crawled out of the stretched panty hose area. I use athena IPM on my coco soaked for atleast an hr before I double buffer 8hrs in calmag. Even the perlite is rinsed before mixing.
I hand craft my own coco basically from dry brick coco. Rinsed coco before I soaked in IPM and calmag. So people cant say its waterlogged coco or unbuffered causing my issues if I have them. Given issues can overlap in visual signs its helpful. My grow has improved ten fold since doing all this.
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For seedlings I have this. Basically a bug proofed veg hub. So seedlings grow in solo cups until theyre big enough to plant in fabric pot and staple around stem/bug jell. Otherwise I take 7-9” clones so when they root I just plant, staple and bug jell immediately.
I just untie and open it to access and be vigilant for bugs coming in. This is where some clone copies for pheno hunt or mother reselection can sit. For extended time with no bag around it but stapled shut in nursery pots. To cut the bottom rootbound off and up pot in slightly bigger nursery fabric pot a couple more times to buy time.
Just stick the pot with the cut off bottom right into a bigger pot. I believe Bushy Old Grower came up with that. Basically I wouldnt worry about bugs as bad since its in a giant plastic dome.Tho it will at least be closed pots aside from roots poking out.
Maybe not the veg hub but when I move the mini clones outside to make room for 8 seedlings.. It should be ok short term.
I just untie and open it to access and be vigilant for bugs coming in. This is where some clone copies for pheno hunt or mother reselection can sit. For extended time with no bag around it but stapled shut in nursery pots. To cut the bottom rootbound off and up pot in slightly bigger nursery fabric pot a couple more times to buy time.
Just stick the pot with the cut off bottom right into a bigger pot. I believe Bushy Old Grower came up with that. Basically I wouldnt worry about bugs as bad since its in a giant plastic dome.Tho it will at least be closed pots aside from roots poking out.
Maybe not the veg hub but when I move the mini clones outside to make room for 8 seedlings.. It should be ok short term.
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It only works if you do it before bugs get in. When I said I put panty hose that was my first attempt but didnt realize some where inside as larva already. So it trapped them and rid so many of them from a house full to barely any. The panty hosed ones that where pantied from rhe start didnt get any.
Some where able to crawl out of some holes in panty. Then the fabric staple shut bug jell method was born. I did a run with no bags in veg but bags in flower, no bugs. Its just extra IPM and dryback control. To help sleep at night after seeing eggs layed under microscope. You should see it. They multiply so freakin fast.
Some where able to crawl out of some holes in panty. Then the fabric staple shut bug jell method was born. I did a run with no bags in veg but bags in flower, no bugs. Its just extra IPM and dryback control. To help sleep at night after seeing eggs layed under microscope. You should see it. They multiply so freakin fast.
