1st Grow In Coco: 70% With 30% Perlite

[odinsmaster]

Your room looks great , as you said every man does his thing a llittle way different.Smoke some and mellow
my friend i can only comment on myself and i did not comment to offend anyone.But seems like u catched a feeling.
Sorry how about that.

My bad man, was not you. Just when people give absolutes as answers it bugs me. I have 6ft tall mothers in Coco that get watered twice a week. Hate to see a new grower grab on to the wrong info. Definitely need to burn one and chill. I apologize to all for getting in my feels.

 

[DeeBoy]

DAY 17

I might be asking for trouble, but I have decided to quadline this 1st grow. They should be ready to prune shortly, I think.
I have been watering every other day with half strength nutes til I get run off. Ph at 5.8.
any help would be appreciated!

 

[DeeBoy]

After reading and re-reading lots of posts. I have decided to quadline these plants. I have topped and removed the 1st 2 nodes of the Northern Lights and Big Bud. The other 2 aren’t ready. Will be moving up to 3 gallon pots once they heal up a bit.

 

[Nunyabiz]

I would recommend to not use fabric pots if you feel you must transplant until the final pot which should absolutely be fabric.

 

[DeeBoy]

I would recommend to not use fabric pots if you feel you must transplant until the final pot which should absolutely be fabric.

I plan on the 3 gallon fabric pots to be the final ones in my 3’x3’ tent. Can you elaborate on not using fabric pots until the end? Making notes for the next grow...

 

[Nunyabiz]

I plan on the 3 gallon fabric pots to be the final ones in my 3’x3’ tent. Can you elaborate on not using fabric pots until the end? Making notes for the next grow...

If your roots reach the sides of the pot they will burrow into the fabric and self prune.
When you transplant you can tear off a lot of root tips.
A plastic pot it just slips right out.

Personally I'd recommend just forgetting about all the transplanting and go right into the final pot especially since its so small anyway.

 

[Listersmeghead]

Looking real nice DeeBoy, respect to you for going quad straight out the gate.

 

[DeeBoy]

Looking real nice DeeBoy, respect to you for going quad straight out the gate.

I have been studying and studying and this way makes sense to me. I hope I don’t fuck it up too badly...

 

[Listersmeghead]

Well it's looking perfect so far.
We all make mistakes along the way, that's how you learn. The bending and shaping of the branches is where the plants can be vunerable, we've all snapped a few, so don't be too hard on yourself.
I had a blueberry auto growing six weeks ago, it was about 3 weeks old and I bent it over for LST, clean broke the plant, snapped the main stem and was left with with a little stump sticking out the dirt. Lol. So I'd expect the odd casualty here and there when training.

 

[Listersmeghead]

Do you have two journals Deeboy?
You have two links in your signature, I pressed/followed one link to end up here, the coco grow. But I pressed the other link ( the green crack, amnesia)
but the link doesn't work.

 

[DeeBoy]

Day 22 all 4 plants are now topped at the 5th node with 1st & 2nd node removed. Watered with 1/2 nutes but full serving of calmag, because the Green Crack had a under mag problem. Looks like it's gone on the new growth. This one has been a problem child from the jump. Hopefully she will recover....

 

[DeeBoy]

Do you have two journals Deeboy?
You have two links in your signature, I pressed/followed one link to end up here, the coco grow. But I pressed the other link ( the green crack, amnesia)
but the link doesn't work.

I only have 1 journal, prly messed something up... I will try and fix it...

 

[DeeBoy]

Day 28. All the ladies are looking pretty healthy. Even the seed helmet Green Crack. I messed up 1 watering about 2 weeks ago when I forgot to lower the ph. I believe that's what caused the leaf issue on the GC. Newer growth is looking fine. All 4 are only taking about a gallon of plant gravy (nutes) every 3 days at this point. I am rotating the plants around everyday to make sure light is getting everywhere. Doing some light training the keep nodes 3 & 4 more level to each other. Re-potting next week into final 4 gal smart pots and moving everything into the bigger tent with the stronger light.

 

[DeeBoy]

Day 30: the strain of the evening is Ice Cream Cake, nice reward for up-potting my 4 ladies this afternoon. My 4 gallon pots didn’t arrive so I used 3 gallon smart pots. I’m not going any bigger, my tent is only 3x3ft.
I found a happy mistake. I had been looking forward to smoking the Green Crack so much. I got an ounce of it one time and it was nice creative stuff... my favorite! Play my guitar... anyway, the Green Crack has been a problem child from the beginning. Seed helmet on... when getting ready to re pot, I discovered I had mislabeled the Green Crack it’s actually Amnesia that is the scraggly one. GC looking good. Hopefully I didn’t disturb the too much, 1st time I’ve ever re-potted anything.

 

[DeeBoy]

Day 31: New digs and a new light. Set the light to half power until I figure out the best set up for it. Saw someone talking about leaf temperatures?

 

[DeeBoy]

Day 32: All the ladies got a little haircut & Started some easy training on 2 of the 4.

 

[odinsmaster]

Day 32: All the ladies got a little haircut & Started some easy training on 2 of the 4.

Looking good

 

[Plant Dad]

I'll be watching them like a hawk. Thanks and please keep watching....

Looks like fun.... I wish you a lot of luck... I grew coco last grow for some autos. I grew in 3 and 5 gallon and my 3 gallon out preformed. Probably genetics played a part. I don't think the 3 or 5 gallon size made any difference. I had to water 3 gallon twice a day tho. Huge yields in coco over soil grow. It wasn't plug and play like soil was.

I just started new grow and trying 50/50 coco and soil... fingers crossed in finding the perfect medium. I'm sure you can get away with less waterings in coco. I listened to the masses about watering coco. I did read when top of coco is dry it's time to water. That makes sense because it seems roots are jumping out of the top of medium.
Anyway, welcome aboard.

 

[DeeBoy]

Looks like fun.... I wish you a lot of luck... I grew coco last grow for some autos. I grew in 3 and 5 gallon and my 3 gallon out preformed. Probably genetics played a part. I don't think the 3 or 5 gallon size made any difference. I had to water 3 gallon twice a day tho. Huge yields in coco over soil grow. It wasn't plug and play like soil was.

I just started new grow and trying 50/50 coco and soil... fingers crossed in finding the perfect medium. I'm sure you can get away with less waterings in coco. I listened to the masses about watering coco. I did read when top of coco is dry it's time to water. That makes sense because it seems roots are jumping out of the top of medium.
Anyway, welcome aboard.

Thanks! The 3 gallon seem huge compared to the 2 gallon, but that's where they are gonna stay. Next grow, I'll try to end them in 4 gallon, that's about as big as the tent will allow.

 

[Plant Dad]

Thanks! The 3 gallon seem huge compared to the 2 gallon, but that's where they are gonna stay. Next grow, I'll try to end them in 4 gallon, that's about as big as the tent will allow.

Watering will take a long time last month or so... Roots are so massive at that point in small pot, it will take forever for water and nutes to get down. 3 gallon was bad I can only imagine a 2 gallon... lol You will be watering at least twice a day in flower I suspect maybe even three times. I'm going to keep my eye's on this. I'm so curious what things you will run into with 2 gallon. I was so tired of watering twice a day and of course the length of time it took to water at the end. I just wanted to pull out my hair some days. I will never grow in straight coco again... lol Not worth the yield for me. Every grow is a lesson. I learned mine. You'll also find most of the people giving you coco advice are set up on irrigation. You have just started a journey that most grower will never understand... haha
I highly recommend you pot up now!!!! I wouldn't wait. I'd carefully cut 2 gallon bag off and pot up now. If you wait you will I think you may stunt more if you wait. Regardless I still kinda want to see what happens in 2 gallon. I think it may result in really low yield. That is just a guess tho.