You say coco but something looks off, it’s important to be very specific here. Can you shoot a pic of the bag or package? A lot of grow media now is kinda bastardized part coco part peat moss so the lines get blurred. I’m going to write about coco grows
I’m not an expert by any stretch of imagination but I have been watching the faq boards for a while to learn more. Coco is totally different from soil, coco coir is a waste by product of the coconut industry, it is totally inert meaning there are zero nutrients in coco to sustain a plant so they must be bottle fed nutrients. Coco is considered a low tech version of hydroponic growing its called drain to waste so hydro rules appply. Whatever comes out of the bucket in runoff water, don’t pour back on your weed plants toss it out or put it on your houseplants, lawn or other garden. So yours is 70/30 coco perlite mix and of course perlite is totally inert too. For coco plants you can’t let the media dry out or it turns hydrophobic and resists water, it gotta stay moist at all times. For coco grows you cannot run a wet dry cycle like growers do in soil, it’s gotta stay moist at all times.
But for coco it’s important that you forget about plain water and feed low dose nutrients every time so don’t give her plain water anymore. Mix your nutes at 1/4 strength dose and be sure to feed until you get 10% runoff out the bottom. The runoff deal sounds wasteful but there’s a trick each time you feed - part of the old nutes are washed out and new nutes are delivered. Also for coco grows it’s very important to adjust the ph of your nutes. So measure out your water, then add 1/4 strength nutes, stir and wait 10 minutes, stir again and checck your ph then adjust to 5.8 for coco. This is the part about hydro rules apply - for soil grows the ph gets set to 6.3 to 6.5 but for coco adjust the ph to 5.8 One more thing for coco you will need cal-mag. its an add on nutrient to supply calcium & magnesium.
Going forward it would make it easier for you to get an all in one like mega crop. All you need it a gram scale, you measure 1 gram per gallon of water and read the plant. If the plant stays green you are good, if it yellows up then it asking for another .5 gram on the next feed. Anyway you work you way up to about 4 grams in veg, and then in flower the max is about 5 or 5.5 grams per gallon. This MC nute has its own calcium & magnesium added so you don’t need a separate cal-mag, but if you are committed to growing its good to have a cal-mag product on your shelf anyway.
coco plants get fed every other day starting out, then in later veg feed every day. In early flower you go to feed 2X per day, then in flower you feed 3X per day. The sad part is a lot of people jump on coco cuz some dude at the hydro store said yeah go with this stuff and didn’t explain the rules. This happened to me and I had no clue.... still don’t but I’m trying!
If you stay with fox farms nutes then get some cal mag and start using it right away at low dose. But when using an add on cal-mag product the process changes so measure out your water and add the cal-mag first stir and wait 10 minutes, then add your FF nutes stir and wait 10 minutes, then stir check your ph, adjust to 5.8 and feed your crew.
Your plants look hungry - they need feeding low dose nutes right away.
I’m not an expert by any stretch of imagination but I have been watching the faq boards for a while to learn more. Coco is totally different from soil, coco coir is a waste by product of the coconut industry, it is totally inert meaning there are zero nutrients in coco to sustain a plant so they must be bottle fed nutrients. Coco is considered a low tech version of hydroponic growing its called drain to waste so hydro rules appply. Whatever comes out of the bucket in runoff water, don’t pour back on your weed plants toss it out or put it on your houseplants, lawn or other garden. So yours is 70/30 coco perlite mix and of course perlite is totally inert too. For coco plants you can’t let the media dry out or it turns hydrophobic and resists water, it gotta stay moist at all times. For coco grows you cannot run a wet dry cycle like growers do in soil, it’s gotta stay moist at all times.
But for coco it’s important that you forget about plain water and feed low dose nutrients every time so don’t give her plain water anymore. Mix your nutes at 1/4 strength dose and be sure to feed until you get 10% runoff out the bottom. The runoff deal sounds wasteful but there’s a trick each time you feed - part of the old nutes are washed out and new nutes are delivered. Also for coco grows it’s very important to adjust the ph of your nutes. So measure out your water, then add 1/4 strength nutes, stir and wait 10 minutes, stir again and checck your ph then adjust to 5.8 for coco. This is the part about hydro rules apply - for soil grows the ph gets set to 6.3 to 6.5 but for coco adjust the ph to 5.8 One more thing for coco you will need cal-mag. its an add on nutrient to supply calcium & magnesium.
Going forward it would make it easier for you to get an all in one like mega crop. All you need it a gram scale, you measure 1 gram per gallon of water and read the plant. If the plant stays green you are good, if it yellows up then it asking for another .5 gram on the next feed. Anyway you work you way up to about 4 grams in veg, and then in flower the max is about 5 or 5.5 grams per gallon. This MC nute has its own calcium & magnesium added so you don’t need a separate cal-mag, but if you are committed to growing its good to have a cal-mag product on your shelf anyway.
coco plants get fed every other day starting out, then in later veg feed every day. In early flower you go to feed 2X per day, then in flower you feed 3X per day. The sad part is a lot of people jump on coco cuz some dude at the hydro store said yeah go with this stuff and didn’t explain the rules. This happened to me and I had no clue.... still don’t but I’m trying!
If you stay with fox farms nutes then get some cal mag and start using it right away at low dose. But when using an add on cal-mag product the process changes so measure out your water and add the cal-mag first stir and wait 10 minutes, then add your FF nutes stir and wait 10 minutes, then stir check your ph, adjust to 5.8 and feed your crew.
Your plants look hungry - they need feeding low dose nutes right away.
