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so you hand water or drip? i saw you stated you have a bucket within a bucket and the drain line is in the lower bucket..any more details on your setup? Building another room and thinking on going with coco
also you said you run PK 13/14 for 10 days is that on the 3rd week of flower? what dosage do you give them for them 10 days?
Yeah...I'm using Canna Coco AB but looking to change to an inexpensive dry nutrient formula. I'm going to try a little known nutrient manufactured by American Hydroponics. It's called GroMagnon & Big Bang Bloom. Maybe some of you NPK experts can take a look and provide some opinion. Canna works great, but I'm tired of paying $100 for some watery mixture that probably cost them $1.
Bd, you state you use a bucket within a bucket.. can you explain a bit more on how you have that setup with the drain n stuff? i plan on running coco soon and im gonna go drain to waste aswell but looking for a few setup ideas, thanks
Blind Date.......I just wanna say how much I appreciate you turnin me onto yer coco system as I`ve been usin it on my mom plants for well over a yr. with great success......... You showin me howta automate with that sur-flo pump made things pretty much maintenance free..... .......My `ol bro BlueHaze was doin the same thing as you with bucket in a bucket but he handwatered and pulled yields close to yours using GH3 part @ half-strength and that`s what`s worked for me with no additives except a lil silicablast and sm-90.......I do use tapwater w/ro half in half for the cal/mag..........You say only use tap ?.....What ppm`s can I get away with usin total tap .......I waste a buncha water with my r/o unit.....Well..... it goes outside to the yard but less waterbill per month sounds good to me...........Take care BD and thanx again............DHF........
Nice plant. Your 1 month veg time gives me hope. I'm about to shelve the bato buckets drop down to 10 plants. I think I've settled on going with straight coco in 20 gallon brutes doubled up and run DTW. I can't wait to get this setup. What did you use for your drain fittings on your bucket, bulkheads or those grommit things?
Thanx Dedhed....My tap is only <200 ppm. If it were over 300 then you should consider a 50/50 mix imo. Coco is easy to please, but when I ran Aeroflos' for some reason RO water always resulted in problems regardless of the additives.
Long long ago I would tell the old man who owned the hydro shop: "but there is calcium in the tap water", and he would say "calcium is good", and I would say "but there is chlorine in the tap water", and he would say, "chlorine is good", etc.,etc. And that's how it went. He was right and I was young.
Bucket in a bucket......Drill a bunch of drain holes in a 5 gallon bucket and then stack it inside another 5 gallon bucket that has the drain lines attached to it. Pretty simple.
So Clowntown,, Everyone who makes coco specific nutrients reduce the "K" since coco retains potassium yet they will then all sell a PK booster!! I don't get it, or is the reduced K only for veg?
Good question. Many nute companies use the same set of additives for a different line of base nutes. For example in Canna's case, you see the same PK13/14 being used for their line of products including Aqua, Terra, and Coco.
Aqua Flores A+B is 4-4-10
Coco A+B is 4-4-3
Terra Flores is 2-2-4
Anyone with a good understanding of this stuff wanna chime in?