Sog in coco

[Guest]

Hi all. This is my first go @ using coco.
Strains are as follows, Strawberry Cough, Swazi Safari, and one Hog.
I bought earthjuice companion coir and Fox farms perlite. I mixed 4 11# bales of coco with 1.5 bags of the large F.F perlite for each 4'x4' 1000 watt bed. My food is Pure-blend pro grow with Cal-mag+ and Liquid Karma. For flowering I have FloraNova bloom. Lighting is Hortilux eye 1000k (x4) 8" air cooled light hoods w/ one Elicent fan for each 2 lights and one 8" Elicent fresh air in fan (filtered air w/3M Filtrete filter).

The clones went in on Feb. 1st + 2nd. I'm hand watering every day with a light nute stregnth with some run-off. I can't belive my eyes buy, there's already new growth! In soli I used to have to wait a few days for the lil' girls to adjust but they look a week old and are already putting out new leafs after 3 days. Amazing

I'll update this thread as I can. Any advice will be welcomed since I'm new to this medium (but not to growing and I read and studied most of the existing threads in this forum). So, with this forums excellent info, I decided it was time to switch (plus the fact that 35 bags of dirt up the front stairs in Jan. would have raised a few eyebrows)!







This fourth bed is dirt since I had some moms going at the time I was prepping the coco beds. This one has Purple Cream, Hawaiian Mauiwowie Skunk, Northern lights, Sensi Star, Trainwreck and Chronic.

 

[NPK]

It'll be interesting to compare the coco grows against your one soil bed. Luck to ya, I think you're going to like this medium!

 

[gaiusmarius]

Hi ic user,

i like the look of your set up a lot man. a bed of coco has always tempted me. the plants will thank you for all the root space.

it looks like you planted the small rw cube directly into the coco bed? this is ok and will work, but it saves you time to pre veg and root them a bit before hand in 7cm by 7cm rw cubes or small pots of coco, once these are rooted the clone is perfectly ready for a regular watering plan. if you plant the clone in directly, you need to give them water a bit less often for the first week or so. it will help them make a good root system quickly.

anyway can't wait to see more, keep up the great work, i'm sure you will be well pleased with the results in coco.

welcome to the coco section of this site by the way

 

[Guest]

First update at 8 days

First update at 8 days

Hi everybody. I'm really liking this coco medium. The growth is so fast. I've been using Pureblend pro grow, Liquid Karma, Cal-mag+ and Nitrozyme about 70-80% max rates listed on the bottles. I have vegged for 8 days now and will start flowering Sat or sun. Here's the pics--------(I didn't take one of the soil bed-it looks about the same as last week)

 

[gaiusmarius]

Looking good ic_user, i bet you can't wait to start 12/12. i can't wait to see them in 6 weeks or so.

peace
gm

 

[Guest]

Damn! The coco grows just keep comin in so many forms. Looking really nice Ic.
Peace.

 

[bullseye]

coco beds nice ic cant wait till there in flower dude. good luck!

 

[budbeast]

hey ic nice set up mate

how deep are those beds ? do you think you could water witha dripper system

how many weeks do the chronic take?

 

[Guest]

Thanks Budbeast. The beds are 8"-9" deep. I usually use a 12" bed but there's 44 pounds of coco in each one and 1 and 1/3 bags of perlite. I had the grow shop owner figure the size and we fell a little short.

A dripper setup can be done but I like to hand water.

The cronic will be ready around 8 weeks and it's a serious heavy producer. I let some bottom growth go for 10 and it wasn't much different.

 

[Ono Nadagin]

Nice dog... Jack Russell?

the dog in my icon is... he is my best bud

 

[pico]

very nice. I am always tempted to try beds inside. I just built some 4x8 beds in my vege garden the other day.

 

[Guest]

Update at day 12

Update at day 12

I set the lights to 12/12 last nite. One more set of pics before they start flowering.








The dirt bed is coming along but slowly.....



Ono Nadagin,
The dog is a mixed breed. She has 2 diff color eyes and her name was seven.

 

[nandro]

This is gonna' be a fun one for ya, I remember my 1st coco SOG like it was yesterday...Lovely bed, have fun.

Peace,
Nandro

 

[pico]

Do you have drainage on those beds?

 

[gaiusmarius]

cool stuff ic user, that system has a lot of potential. your plants have a root freedom most indoor can only dream about, lol. those plants will make a fine web of roots spread out all over, you plants should be amazing in the end, with side branches growing up to make secondary colas. i can't wait to see them once they have been flowering for 7 weeks or so.
peace

 

[Guest]

Yes, I have drainage. 1 and 1/4" holes under each plant with the plastic liner cut-out and screened. (25 holes per bed). I do get run-off every watering. I'm giving 2 cups + or - each time.

 

[bonecarver_OG]

how deep are the trays?

i just planted as an experiment about 20 well rooted clones in a rectangular container - about 1,5 foot x 2 feet wide and long and i planned to put drippers there for the end of flowering. its about 1,5 foot deep.

they got about 70 liters (15 galons) of coco to share. it would be fun to compare the size etc of the containers - since coco beds seems to me to be a fun way to do it

ive been thinking of some ideas - and i will start a thread in due time.. its going to take about 10 months untill i can start with it.. so its going to be long time to polish the ideas..

peace

 

[gdawg]

IC user man that looks killer! you might need a chainsaw to cut up the roots after harvest to get em outa there!!

 

[Guest]

how deep are the trays?
peace

The bins are 12" deep and are filled 8-10" of medium.

 

[bonecarver_OG]

i guess thats deep enough if u dont want ur plants to grow too tall well thought thru

the idea im working on is using one tray (3x4 foot) for 5 plants - making it about 16 inch deep - thats enough for monsters going to try that in my future greenhouse. im going to make the boxes out of high density styrofoam since i got access to that and its a very light and very strong material. black industrial plastic on the inside - a layer of drainage material about a bit less than an inch underneath the coco bed.

the good thing about the styro is its an excellen isolant and it will help keep the roots cooler here in the summer (we get record temps). secondly the drainage material, hydroton or chunks of the same high density styrofoam.

the experiment now is just to see how the drainage works having the whole botom "open" - if the aded oxygenation of the roots will benefit the clones compared to the ones planted in plain coco. i got one controll pot with a clone of each pheno also represented in the bigger box.

the main idea with this for my greenhouse is: to recycle the coco in an easy manner - and not to have to carry big loads of coco to the garden etc.

for example - all coco im using in this current grow will be recycled turned down into the soil of my future garden.

ill keep track of the progress have a nice one

peace