outdoor coco - how do I make AN Heavy Harvest coco Compatable?

[basilfarmer]

I am doing coco this summer with Advanced Nutrients "heavy harvest" "summer", how do I make this compatable with coco? calmag?

or, is there a better timed release fertilizer I can use for coco?

thank you! (by the way, I hate advanced nutrients and think they are jerks but I don't know what else to use as far as timed released fert - with no amendments that will attract bears)

 

[Neptune]

use perlite, that is all.

30%+ if you have the ability to water every day.

 

[PharmaCan]

You need to water coco every day, so why would you want a time release fertilizer? I'm not trying to be a jerk, it just seems like you are trying to combine incompatible methodology.

PC

 

[basilfarmer]

Thanks Neptune, don't you need cal-mag or something when using reg ferts with coco?

Pharma, good question.

I will have a gravity feed constant drip system set up from the river (ie no food in water), so it will get water every day, but I wont be there everyday.

 

[PharmaCan]

Thanks Neptune, don't you need cal-mag or something when using reg ferts with coco?

Pharma, good question.

I will have a gravity feed constant drip system set up from the river (ie no food in water), so it will get water every day, but I wont be there everyday.

That makes sense now.

You need Cal-Mag+ with r/o water and coco to replace the good stuff removed by the r/o filter. With tap (and I guess river would be the same) water you may or may not need the CM+, it just depends on what is in the river water. That being said, I use CNS17 with r/o water and no CM+ because the CNS17 has everything in it that CM+ has. Glancing at the label, it appears that the AN Heavy Harvest has everything in it that CM+ has. Combine that with river water and I doubt you would need CM+. ...but that's just an educated guess. Hopefully someone who has actually used the stuff will chime in.

PC

 

[basilfarmer]

That makes sense now.

You need Cal-Mag+ with r/o water and coco to replace the good stuff removed by the r/o filter. With tap (and I guess river would be the same) water you may or may not need the CM+, it just depends on what is in the river water. That being said, I use CNS17 with r/o water and no CM+ because the CNS17 has everything in it that CM+ has. Glancing at the label, it appears that the AN Heavy Harvest has everything in it that CM+ has. Combine that with river water and I doubt you would need CM+. ...but that's just an educated guess. Hopefully someone who has actually used the stuff will chime in.

PC

thanks Pharma that helps a lot! hopefully others will chime in that also know

my patch is small but valuable meds for me

if I could, I would just use organics with coco that would be timed release and better smoke but I have had more problems with bears than LEOs and rippers by 100 times. the little pricks are like vandals in the night and tear the shit outa everything if they smell anything good at all, even just garden store soil! they even popped my river raft 2 years ago; and 3 years ago, one went around and bit half the tops off of my plants maybe because that year I had berry smelling bud.......

 

[rabid]

Osmocote is a long-established product that HAS to be cheaper than that AN stuff.

http://www.scottsprohort.com/products/fertilizers/osmocote.cfm

 

[Neptune]

agree.

Peters will work just as well also, for 1/5 or less the price.

Outdoors you want perlite when you are talking 4cuft. + of root space, pure coco could compact too much and suffocate roots.

 

[gregor_mendel]

Outdoors you want perlite when you are talking 4cuft. + of root space, pure coco could compact too much and suffocate roots.

GH has a product called CocoTek mixed brick. It is a standard small coco brick but has dust fibers and chips. Doesn't compact, and is very high quality compared to most compressed products.

 

[suckerrepellent]

that bear picture is hilarious. the deer must be his snitches.

 

[humble1]

have you tried some other predator's urine as a preventative barrier near/around your plants?
most predators are not fond of other predators.

also, your pH is going to be way off. test your river water after you mix in the nutrients at full strength. if you're around 5.8-6.2 you'll be cool.
otherwise....... who knows?
if you've looked into brwndirtwarrior, you'll see why he uses sunshine mix.
the stuff's so acidic that regardless of your source water you'll come out near the correct range. coco can be so much more finicky.
either way, good luck.

peace, love & coco

 

[Johnny Rotten]

Find your local Lesco...thy have all types of time release chem ferts. You name it, they got it or can get it.