No real difference between yours at day 3 & mine. They look about the same.
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Ok good to know I'm on track, only difference I saw when compared to your first pics was that your lady's seemed to stretch more.
The 2 Photo's & the N.L. got a little stretch. 5 are short & 3 are bushy at this point 3 weeks in. The AK 47 looks like a little Bonzai Tree.
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So here is day #4 and not to much change from yesterday but looking healthy nonetheless!
On another note the baby cups are sprouting up and looking good!
On another note the baby cups are sprouting up and looking good!
Finally here and subbed up.
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Glad to have you here bro!! Your plants are absolutely gorgeous! That gsc and blue look fire
Are you aware that hot air rises & cold air sinks to the floor? Your cold air should be vented at the top so the cold air falls down on your plants. You are only cooling the lower part of your tent & it will take a lot longer for it to cool with the duct on the bottom. I use to do heating & cooling til I moved to AZ. Too hot outdoors for me to do that work anymore. My dad & brother both own AC companies. Just something to consider that might just help some.
Hey there, Stopped by to see the Day 7 pics but I guess you haven't posted them yet. Your plants being a little smaller now doesn't really mean anything. You could wake up tomorrow & have them grow 3" over night. At 7 days they are just getting ready to take off. When you look at your plants every day it's hard to notice the difference. But when you compare pics every 7 days you sure see it. By week 3 they will all look good.
Gotta Run. Time to feed & take Day 25 pics. Hopefully have time to post to my journal before work. If not, I'll do it when I get home.
Gotta Run. Time to feed & take Day 25 pics. Hopefully have time to post to my journal before work. If not, I'll do it when I get home.
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Sorry Been mia cause ive been disappointed in my plants progress, there was no noticable difference from day 5 to 7.. but nonetheless I fed them just a half glass of week #1 nutes.
I gave 2ml cal/mag, 2ml grow, 1.5ml micro, and .5 ml of bloom from the GH Flora trio. I also gave some more rapid start roots booster and some diamond nectar and Armor si which is a silica solution, all these were in a gallon of distilled and ph'd down to 5.9 then shaken and let sit for an hour. Ppm were at 223 and ec was 174, I gave each plant about a glass full of this nutrient solution.
My pots have been heavy as fudge since first adding cal mag and ph'd water before I even put seeds in there, I was told the first few days to bottom feed so that's what I did and then after have been top feeding but have never got a drop of run off so far? Am I not watering enough? I've heard so many mixed ways that my head hurts... Some people let it dry out some before watering again and others like @Buds Buddy waters 2x a day and never lets em dry.. I'm confuzzled but here is pics of day#8 luckily my nutes didn't burn them.
I gave 2ml cal/mag, 2ml grow, 1.5ml micro, and .5 ml of bloom from the GH Flora trio. I also gave some more rapid start roots booster and some diamond nectar and Armor si which is a silica solution, all these were in a gallon of distilled and ph'd down to 5.9 then shaken and let sit for an hour. Ppm were at 223 and ec was 174, I gave each plant about a glass full of this nutrient solution.
My pots have been heavy as fudge since first adding cal mag and ph'd water before I even put seeds in there, I was told the first few days to bottom feed so that's what I did and then after have been top feeding but have never got a drop of run off so far? Am I not watering enough? I've heard so many mixed ways that my head hurts... Some people let it dry out some before watering again and others like @Buds Buddy waters 2x a day and never lets em dry.. I'm confuzzled but here is pics of day#8 luckily my nutes didn't burn them.
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is this coco or soil?
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70% coco 30% perlite.
Emilya Green
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Check out @Barney86's recent article on how to grow in coco... I know you are getting a lot of conflicting information, but I strongly suggest going with one who is excelling with this grow method.
All you need to know about how to feed in Coco
Hi 420 ! So, As much as possible, I like to spend my time on here helping out new coco/hydro growers. I started out like those guys and someone spoon fed me untill I was a big boy and could handle reading a number on a stick. I'm finding myself spending my limited time here on the wrong...
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I'll check it out for sure but I'm only asking people with tons of experience in the medium and those who show amazing results and it's all different.
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depends a lot on which forum you are on and who the resident experts are... you are probably finding that on some boards, not a lot of experting is going on although there is plenty of pontificating. Around here it is all about the grow journals. We believe in putting up or shutting up. If it didn't get documented in a grow journal, it didn't happen. This, IMHO makes it a lot easier to figure out who you might want to follow.
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I've mainly Been talking to people on Instagram who have 15+ years grow exp and all 5+ years with coco and can pull results back to back. I'm looking at @Barney86 thread though and have heard those suggestions also.
Barney's Method is the one I'm using. Follow it .... it works !!!
You can pretty much throw pot weight out the window from what I'm seeing. How can you possibly water to run off twice a day & expect to ever have a light pot. With Coco it seems the main thing is putting in new nutrients often so they don't dry up into salts & cause problems. I've been told over & over you can't over water Coco so I haven't paid any attention to pot weight lately & just worry about feeding often & getting run off so I don't get salts.
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Watered with the same nutes as yesterday, each pot took a full gallon till run off to 20% so I'll try it, no harm can come unless I over nute.
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Let me clear up a misconception... nutes don't just turn into salts if there are too many in there. Synthetic nutes are chemically locked up into a salt based structure so that they stay intact until they are ready to use. They are designed so that they stay stable in the bottle or in a powder form until they are put into a solution that is pH adjusted into the correct range. Much like a pharmaceutical capsule of drugs that you would swallow, the chemical enclosure dissolves in this solution and the salt bond falls away. This is the salt that builds up; it comes from actually using the nutes.
I agree with that but with one exception. If you let your Coco dry to much the nutes turn to salts. Therefore, if you feed small amounts once or twice a day you wash out the old nutes in the run off & prevent salt build up when you add new nutes. At least that's the way I understand Barney's thread. I'm sure over a period of time you might get some build up though. None the less, that's the method I've followed so far. Seems to be working ???
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