DTW Coco: Am I way out in left-field?

I'm using myself as a guinea pig, I was a pig to start with so it isn't much of a stretch.

I'm sure you guys have better ideas than mine, but I'm running my first drain-to-waste Coco plants, and I'm trying something a bit different. I am only running one Cannabis plant, (Samsara Green Love Potion fem) and it is alongside two climbing Nasturtiums (Tropolaeum). I have a hunch that people over-feed Cannabis and under-feed Nasturtiums, so I'm running them both on the same feed. I also have chilis, tomatoes and thai basil in the closet, also on DTW Coco.

I'm planning on using Jack's Pro Hydro FeED 16-4-17 and Jack's Classic Bloom Booster with a little CalMag+ here and there.

I bought the big brick of GH CocoTek, expanded it in tap water, then stirred in a small bag of GrowStone Aerator stuff and a fair bit of perlite. I then thoroughly rinsed it with distilled water, which was pH'd after adding 1 teaspoon of CalMag+ per gallon to charge and stabilize the cation exchange potential. I also mixed in some Mosquito Bits to keep the gnats at bay.

I germinated in RockWool 1-inchers and planted them in the coco, all the veggies are in 2 gallon smart pots. One Nasturtium and the Cannabis are in 3 gallon smart pots, the other Nasturtium is in a 3.5 gallon Hempy bucket! I'm running Blumats on everything but the Hempy, I'll post pictures shortly. Anyone think I'm way off base? Anyone think I'm a genius? Anyone bored to fracking tears?

I have had trouble running maters- weed together don't let them touch I hope those maters were bread for in door.

thumper60 said:

I have had trouble running maters- weed together don't let them touch I hope those maters were bread for in door.

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They are in separate areas, flowers and cannabis in the tent, veggies in the closet. I have pics, just need to process them...thanks!

Pictures, as promised: The nasturtium in the Hempy is two full weeks younger than the rest. Everything else was sown on the same day.

The highlighted tomato (Thai Grape 'maters) had TMV! I'm certain of it, I just carefully culled and removed it. No symptoms elsewhere. Yeesh, you are probably right, there is multiplied risk. Everything else seems to be going swimmingly.

The GLP is looking great, just topped her a couple days ago.

I learned the hard way one. I never mix any more, I grow a lot of veggies from seed .

yes tmv lives in bad seed

I have never seen it pop in the wild. just one time when I grew clones an maters in same room some people say it cant happen,i no what tmv looks like I plant over 100 maters each year.

have u run coco dtw, I think u going to like.irun coco dtw but I handwater

I have never run coco before. I think I am going to like it, the rate of growth so far is amazing. I hope all my Thai Grape Tomato seeds aren't infected with TMV. I know the seed producer, I'll give them a hard time about it.

the roots explode in coco.dont let that coco dry out to much always use light fert.

Cal/mag a must in coco (incase you weren't aware)
SH420

So far, things are going great, the GLP is all trimmed up and one week into 12/12. Only gave her about 3 weeks veg time, but I'm not going for a big yield. The Nasturtiums are going nuts feeding on the same mix as the Cannabis, can't wait to see some flowers on these bitches. Tomatoes and chilis are doing variously well, and the basil went crazy, it is getting a little nute burn from coping with the feed level on the chilis and maters. Anyway, not hard, easyish.

shrxhky420 said:

Cal/mag a must in coco (incase you weren't aware)
SH420

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If your nutrients have cal mag in them then I disagree. I use 1 part floranova bloom with RO water in coco, ph'd to 5.8. Pinch of Epsom salt and 2 tablespoons of budswel. Cal mag has specific uses but it's by no means a must in coco.

Epsom salt provides one of the 2. do you go without epsom salt? probably not, cause it's needed
SH420

Floranova has 5% and 2% respectively. So yes I'm adding a little mag but no calcium.

Cal mag supplements are not a must when growing in coco coir....maybe for you but.....

If your having calcium or magnesium issues using a base feed with decent amounts in it (most do) i suggest you look into your relative humidity and temperatures.

since1991 said:

If your having calcium or magnesium issues using a base feed with decent amounts in it (most do) i suggest you look into your relative humidity and temperatures.

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i'd look at pH first. unless it's a coco specific nute, Mg is usually needed to be added. check out H3ADs formula for coco which is a slightly modified Lucas formula (6/9 vs 8/16) with 1g/gal epsom added.