Going to try Coco... some advice please

[gaiusmarius]

Howdy Nite Tiger

so glad to see you made the jump or will be making it, to coco. i have only been back from 420 a few days and needed time before doing some catching up on this forum. anyway i see that you are getting perfect advise, which is wicked. shows how many growers on this site are proficient in coco growing.

yes the coco specific nutes are some thing that help to make things simple, but there are indeed a number of routes one can go. what i do know is that the best results are achieved by those that realize that coco has a few unique qualities or attributes, that have to be accounted for when creating a feeding program from non specific nutes. Gh3ad's thread is a superb thread on how to do it with non specific nutes. there are others too.

one also has to remember that a plant can be grown out and stay healthy all it's life and end up with 30g on it dry. while another plant , also looks healthy it's whole life, but ends up with double or triple that on it. with the same life span and conditions. what i mean to say is showing a healthy looking plant alone is no guarantee that that plant will achieve it's maximum potential budwise. so unless you really know what you are doing you end up saving money by the fact that you get a decent yield from spending a bit more an decent nutes. same with things like taste etc. you want to use quality as you want to produce quality. anyway that's just some thoughts on the subject. there are enough threads now that one can chose a method that one can relate to best.

 

[stevr59]

noooooooooooooo dont tell me i will get 30 grams off my baby lol but i know what ur saying and i do plan on going with canna nutes but as of now i don't have funds for nutes but thats what i wanted to do a side by side test run with 2 clones on in canna nutes and the other in floranova nutes just to see how much differents it make. but as far as veggin goes it seems to be working well but its not flowering time either and it would be a shame to end up with just 30 grams after this much love i put into it.

 

[gaiusmarius]

that was meant as an example, lol. lets hope your plant yields more then you are hoping for.

but i tell it how it is, i've seen a strain grown out looking healthy all the way and making finger buds, while another time the same strain makes monster colas just because the nutes are that extra bit dialed in.

 

[Guest]

dont forget canna's coco nutes contain humic and fulvic acids and their coco medium contains trichoderma ,
all 3 additives available at extra cost from other companies ,

 

[NiteTiger]

Hey guys, sorry I haven't updated you on how the coco experiment was going.

I got the BrainWarp girl transplanted over into a gallon pot of Coco and Perlite, which I'd flushed with double the volume of water, as a standard flush. It was not suffecient.

The girl was immediately burned and the developed a lockout deficiency. I have since flushed again with 5 times the volume, and that appears to have done the trick. She's recovering quickly, and seeming to finally enjoy her new coco home.

I have added 6 more plants to the flowering pod, although none in coco. This isn't because I've given up on the medium, it's just that I have learned my lesson on counting on an unknown medium for a steady supply. Until I'm sure I have the basics of coco down (ie, putting a clone into coco with out torching it), I'll keep some soil going in the flower pod.

Just wanted to let you guys know what was going on!