Precharging coco

Snoopy808

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Is the plant in the cup or not? Rooting clone, rooted clone or seedling younger than 4 wks.
Water in with liquid cal-mag if rooted clones, nothing in it or established seedling. Most liquid cal-mag contain nitrate so could burn young roots.
Otherwise you can mix up dolomite lime solution or top dress and water it in.
 
I read you need to wash coco first to get salts then make a solution with 150ml for every 800 grams of coco and legit soak in with normal water and put it in a tub of some sort
 

Snoopy808

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I agree with boat guy. Thats the best course of action for you. You could do what I reccomend but you could fuck up your fuck up. I bet you wont make this mistake again.
 
Super shot- my mix... 6ml cal mag. 1 ml micro from flora trio. 1 tablespoon black strap molasses. Plants aren’t dead but ones bottom leaves are very yellow and dying. New growth is still green and looks heathy. Watered with cal mag and water earlier to kinda flush and maintain. Then 5 hours later I just added a five good squirts out of squirt bottle directly aimed at bottom of steam. We shell see guys. Yeah I did just pre charge the new coco so this will not happen to the bianca seeds that I also just started germination on. I’ll keep you guys posted
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
Super shot- my mix... 6ml cal mag. 1 ml micro from flora trio. 1 tablespoon black strap molasses. Plants aren’t dead but ones bottom leaves are very yellow and dying. New growth is still green and looks heathy. Watered with cal mag and water earlier to kinda flush and maintain. Then 5 hours later I just added a five good squirts out of squirt bottle directly aimed at bottom of steam. We shell see guys. Yeah I did just pre charge the new coco so this will not happen to the bianca seeds that I also just started germination on. I’ll keep you guys posted
Why molasses?
 
I’ve been running the 18/6 lighting with mars hydro but I’m thinking I should switch to 24 to make sure these baby girls dry out in a timely matter. Thoughts on if switching back to 24 is Bad idea?they are two weeks old so I don’t know if it will really matter
 

Snoopy808

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Jeezus christ youre getting bad info or not knowing how to use it.
Lets start with molasses. Its an acidifier for one, will definitely lower pH. Hope you take that into account.
Plants do not absorb sugars. They make all the carbs they need. Thats why they are green. Or in your pics chlorotic! Not green!
The molasses are needed to boost microbes in the soil if you rely on salts instead of organic ferts. The microbes are needed to eat up the extra salts especially nitrogen during flowering and flushing.
Youd be much better off feeding 0-0-0 maxi-crop (not with Iron) to young plants.
To boost growth using molasses you need the ferts and microbes in soil. The molasses is the simple carbon source for microbes. Easier than other cellulose from compost or coir which takes months to become food for microbes. Carbon thats what limits the microbe population growth. They use N+ in the ferts to multiply and grow. They then release ammoniacal and urea wastes that plants will use first and preferential to nitrates.
 

Snoopy808

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Yep the dreaded nitrate dump around 4-5 months. Looks like calcium and or magnesium and it is but liquid cal mags usually have nitrate further locking up cations and poisoning with more nitrate.
 
Jeezus christ youre getting bad info or not knowing how to use it.
Lets start with molasses. Its an acidifier for one, will definitely lower pH. Hope you take that into account.
Plants do not absorb sugars. They make all the carbs they need. Thats why they are green. Or in your pics chlorotic! Not green!
The molasses are needed to boost microbes in the soil if you rely on salts instead of organic ferts. The microbes are needed to eat up the extra salts especially nitrogen during flowering and flushing.
Youd be much better off feeding 0-0-0 maxi-crop (not with Iron) to young plants.
To boost growth using molasses you need the ferts and microbes in soil. The molasses is the simple carbon source for microbes. Easier than other cellulose from compost or coir which takes months to become food for microbes. Carbon thats what limits the microbe population growth. They use N+ in the ferts to multiply and grow. They then release ammoniacal and urea wastes that plants will use first and preferential to nitrates.
Hey man can u send me a private message please
 
Girls responding very well to the cocktail they got last night. So if anyone ever forgets to pre-charge there coco coir, follow the cocktail I made using one gallon of RO water and what I listed.
 

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