I did keep up the flora nova for a few more days after I started the canna coco nutes, but I witnessed such a remarkable change with the coco nutes. With the coco nutes at 6.0 they greened up just the way they are supposed to be. I have some seriously healthy looking plants now. The thing I didn't like seeing with the flora nova was that I had a lot of dead undergrowth developing. New growth was robbing the old growth. This was not happening with the coco. I let a few days slip between waterings with the coco and they showed no ill results, so I think I have to reconsider the every day watering thing I mentioned.
With the lights, I did have some serious light stress going on. I have always run 1000k lights. This was my first run where i decided not to run them in my cool tubes and used hood instead. When I think back now I have always been plagued by light stress. I always wondered why I would get deficiency problems in mid bloom. It was because the plants grew and got closer to the light and I had no more head room, even though they were 30" away and at all other times air cooled in tubes.
They are still feeding the same as far as I can tell by runoff. I was running 2 1000w. Now, I have 3 600w spread across and all the light stress and taco leaves have gone away. I have beautiful plants again, finally. I'm still running 1800w instead of 2000w. Slightly less lumens though. Bottom line, the 1000w were not working in my space.
In all honesty, I think the Flora Nova nutes were working just fine until my plants grew to a point to close to the lights and became stressed. That is why I couldn't figure out why at around week 3 they went crappy looking. It was the lights the whole time. The lights were the last thing I suspected, so I started screwing around with everything else and really threw things off. All the coco growers say to ph at 6.0 and they have success. I was doing that with the Flora Nova and all was good until they stretched to close to the lights.
Now that I have switched to Canna Coco nutes I like them better and find the plants to be way healthier. Even, with my mothers where nothing was ever changed. I look to them as my control.
But, the biggest thing was the change over to the 600s. Big difference and I am very optimistic for a bumper crop.
I'll post some pics in the original thread later. I just bush whacked the canopy because it was out of control while getting things right. They were vegged way too long.
With the lights, I did have some serious light stress going on. I have always run 1000k lights. This was my first run where i decided not to run them in my cool tubes and used hood instead. When I think back now I have always been plagued by light stress. I always wondered why I would get deficiency problems in mid bloom. It was because the plants grew and got closer to the light and I had no more head room, even though they were 30" away and at all other times air cooled in tubes.
They are still feeding the same as far as I can tell by runoff. I was running 2 1000w. Now, I have 3 600w spread across and all the light stress and taco leaves have gone away. I have beautiful plants again, finally. I'm still running 1800w instead of 2000w. Slightly less lumens though. Bottom line, the 1000w were not working in my space.
In all honesty, I think the Flora Nova nutes were working just fine until my plants grew to a point to close to the lights and became stressed. That is why I couldn't figure out why at around week 3 they went crappy looking. It was the lights the whole time. The lights were the last thing I suspected, so I started screwing around with everything else and really threw things off. All the coco growers say to ph at 6.0 and they have success. I was doing that with the Flora Nova and all was good until they stretched to close to the lights.
Now that I have switched to Canna Coco nutes I like them better and find the plants to be way healthier. Even, with my mothers where nothing was ever changed. I look to them as my control.
But, the biggest thing was the change over to the 600s. Big difference and I am very optimistic for a bumper crop.
I'll post some pics in the original thread later. I just bush whacked the canopy because it was out of control while getting things right. They were vegged way too long.
