stikky budz
Active member
Hi guy's n gals.
Ya know, for the past few months i've started over 50 seeds in coco just to see them start off ok for the first few days then see them go to shit. It was like the coco was sucking all the goodness straight out the plant. The stem would shrink in size to a pathetic spindly thing and turn a reddish/purply colour, the cotlydons were turning yellow, and the first set of true leaves (single blades) were "iffy" to say the least. Growth would stop and i'd be left thinking "wtf!"...again
I'd even had clones which were rooted in RW and doing great developing roots and growing in a d,w,c,,, only to see it stop as soon i placed the RW in coco. I'd give them nutes straight away (1/2 strength Canna a+b) but it would take a good week or two to see any development. Even with the seeds i was putting them on nutes 2 to 3 days into veg but i wouldn't really see growth start until week 3 of veg ~ and by then it was too late for some of the plants.
If it wasn't for my first coco grows going so well i would have given up altogether and gone back to N.F.T. ~ the only thing stopping me at the moment is high temperatures and the risk of root rot etc.
Why all these plants were turning to shit for a while was, to be blunt, doing my fuckin head in and niggling the hell out of me. However, i was determined to get to the bottom of it. It was obvious to me its a nute type problem,,,but why? how? what? ~ i'm following all the "rules",,,,this shouldn't be happening.
So i thought, fuck this, lets try pre-ferting the coco! Lets take the coco prepping flush one step further and add nutes before a seed gets anywhere near it.
I had a litre of water, added 1 ml rhizo, 1ml cannazym, and canna a+b to a ppm of approx 500. The coco i was going to use i left to soak over night in this solution. The following day (when the seeds were ready to go in) i squeezed all the excess water from the coco and planted the seeds as normal,,,,,, then watered with a mix using the same quantities of cannazym, rhizo and nutes as above. (note : seeds germed but still not out of shell at this point )
Two day later (seeds out of shells - day 1 of veg) i watered again (same ratios as above)
Two days after that,,,, watered again,,,,same ratios.
A further two days later (yesterday as it happens) i upped the nutes to 840ppm.
All i can say is the results have been amazing.
These plants are on day 6 of veg today.(i count day 1 from whem the first true leaves are approx 7mm long - very small)
11 days ago they were still in their packet in the fridge.
I've convinced myself this IS the way to start seeds off in coco,,,,,it would be great if some others of you would try this and report back
Ya know, for the past few months i've started over 50 seeds in coco just to see them start off ok for the first few days then see them go to shit. It was like the coco was sucking all the goodness straight out the plant. The stem would shrink in size to a pathetic spindly thing and turn a reddish/purply colour, the cotlydons were turning yellow, and the first set of true leaves (single blades) were "iffy" to say the least. Growth would stop and i'd be left thinking "wtf!"...again
I'd even had clones which were rooted in RW and doing great developing roots and growing in a d,w,c,,, only to see it stop as soon i placed the RW in coco. I'd give them nutes straight away (1/2 strength Canna a+b) but it would take a good week or two to see any development. Even with the seeds i was putting them on nutes 2 to 3 days into veg but i wouldn't really see growth start until week 3 of veg ~ and by then it was too late for some of the plants.
If it wasn't for my first coco grows going so well i would have given up altogether and gone back to N.F.T. ~ the only thing stopping me at the moment is high temperatures and the risk of root rot etc.
Why all these plants were turning to shit for a while was, to be blunt, doing my fuckin head in and niggling the hell out of me. However, i was determined to get to the bottom of it. It was obvious to me its a nute type problem,,,but why? how? what? ~ i'm following all the "rules",,,,this shouldn't be happening.
So i thought, fuck this, lets try pre-ferting the coco! Lets take the coco prepping flush one step further and add nutes before a seed gets anywhere near it.
I had a litre of water, added 1 ml rhizo, 1ml cannazym, and canna a+b to a ppm of approx 500. The coco i was going to use i left to soak over night in this solution. The following day (when the seeds were ready to go in) i squeezed all the excess water from the coco and planted the seeds as normal,,,,,, then watered with a mix using the same quantities of cannazym, rhizo and nutes as above. (note : seeds germed but still not out of shell at this point )
Two day later (seeds out of shells - day 1 of veg) i watered again (same ratios as above)
Two days after that,,,, watered again,,,,same ratios.
A further two days later (yesterday as it happens) i upped the nutes to 840ppm.
All i can say is the results have been amazing.
These plants are on day 6 of veg today.(i count day 1 from whem the first true leaves are approx 7mm long - very small)
11 days ago they were still in their packet in the fridge.
I've convinced myself this IS the way to start seeds off in coco,,,,,it would be great if some others of you would try this and report back
