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[gaiusmarius]

great update Dalton, you are certainly keeping those plants happy.

even on a time plan, lol.

you know, with a bed of coco, you could surely use the same bed for a year and a half or even 2. being a bed it would allow you to pull the main roots out with your stem. also the bed means you have access to all the medium for things like mosquito dunks to get rid of your gnat larva, making a medium drench treatment easy and effective.

the plants also grow a treat in a nice thick coco bed, it's a pleasure to see. the only thing that speaks against it in my opinion is the time it takes to clear it out should the need arise. you can bag up slabs quickly same with pots. but a real nice and thick bed of coco, will take for ever to clear out, lol.

 

[20kw dreams]

Those plants are healthy as fuck Dalton.

 

[Dalton]

hey whatsup guys
everything is chugging along nice and smooth

Got all of the little buds forming(11days flower)


stretching seems to be slowing down to a nice height.(11days)



you can see it's staring to get pretty crowded again and it's only been a week since I trimmed. I might try double harvesting if I wind up with nothing down below.




The replacement clones from my whole medical fiasco are going in tommorow


I'm gonna be using more of the bushmaster tainted coco in the beds, so I might wanna cut my plant numbers in half. I might not sure what do you guys think?

I also might be bailing out on the nutrient testing because I am really happy with the IONIC. It's a one part, it's ph is really good at self adjusting and staying stable, it's not too pricey and my plants are the happiest I have ever seen them. Why ruin a good thing. I'm also following their directions to a tee and based on what my plants are eating it's the perfect amount

rkrone- thanks alot and thanks for popping in

bullseye- thanks, If this grow turns out like yours I'll be dancing in the streets!

gauis- thanks for the heads up on clearing up the tables. If anything god forbid were to happen, I guess i'll start ripping em out, and maybe I'll throw
strawberries on the leftover coco ..lol
No seriously I have high hopes for the beds I'm sure the plants are gonna go nuts with all of that coco.

20k- lol... thanks man I got a kick out of that. What's goin with you? I'm gonna have to bug you for some info on your threads

 

[Guest]

They are looking great so far =] Would ya happen to be able to take some root shots?

 

[Dalton]

Thanks I/S. I grabbed you a shot when I tranplanted yesterday, they were only veg for a short time but still a little root porn for ya

 

[Farmer John]

Great grow Dalton, things look great in Sri Lanka!

 

[Caligrown]

Hey Dalton, Doing a great job friend!!!


What is your humidity and watering schedule while rooting your cuts?

What nutrients and at what strength do you get them started with?

I am going to pull a chair and watch the coco mat experiment.

Loving it...

And 20K get off the sauce bro. It's the voodoo juice for you :friends:

-Cali

 

[bullseye]

dalton that canopy looks excellent , if they are done stretchig it should fill out just nice gonna be some big colas 'if they need triming nows about the last week ide trim them i use'lly trim early flower i remove lower branches and any scrag for me this works well.stick with your nutes dude there loving them the only thing i would say is stay away from ionic boost its a crappy booster my pal ,s got a grow shop he tested it and theres not much of anything init b.cuzz bloomstims good shit and its coco spacific .

 

[SEEDYNONO]

call me crazy but it looks to me like your coco is pretty dry.. especially looking from the tops views of the coco in the square pots.. i see where there is moisture in 'patches' around the trunk and where the drippers are.. but i am confused why the rest of the coco is so light in color and looks pretty bone dry?

am i way off here?

i thought the coco would break down and get salty if left dry like that so i have been keeping mine thouroughly wet.. even the coco i'm not currently growing in yet..

do i have to do this or can i let the coco i'm not using dry out until i'm ready to use it?

i thought it was weird fluffing a whole huge block if i was gonna have to keep it wet from then on.. and only using a few 16 oz cups full at first..

 

[gaiusmarius]

you can let the coco get dry no problem when you are not using it. but it doesn't dry up totally if you have it in the original bags and you seal those bags again. that way the coco stays pretty much the way it is when you put it in.

Drip fed coco can look dry on top , but underneath it is quite wett. it also depends on how the grower works with it. consistency is the name of the game.

 

[SEEDYNONO]

okay thanks gaiusmarius!

just was curious because for some reason i had it in my head the coco should never get dry once its been decompressed..

it makes sense with the consistency of coco and the way the drippers are set up that it could let those dry spots form on top but i thought it was detrimental to let any of the coco dry.. i had also seen a lot about roots in coco growing right up into the upper corners of the pots so i figured it would always be beneficial to keep the whole pot nice and wet.

excuse my noobism i'm slowly piecing this expertise together..

 

[Dalton]

Hey what's up guys
I'm gonna be quick because I still have alot to do, but the COCO BED is done

Allright I got the table level, then I layed out the mat





I put the course coco on the bottom



then I laid the plants out...transfered..then I filled in with the more fine coco.



Here we go day 1 of flower



Allright be back later

 

[Blunted22]

Hey Dalton nice setup man i was wondering if you ever ran a ebb and flow with rockwool? Thats what i use right now i was wondering if you think the coco coir is better (which im sure it is), is it more work? more yeild? Healthier plants? etc. etc.

theres not many peopl eon here runnin a ebb and flow so my questions get limited to a few people. Any suggestions or things like that would be appreciated.


As for my specs im running a 4'x8" table with 3 brand new 1000w over it. The medium is 4' rock wool cubes. and i flood once a day (when small) and 2 times when they can start takeing it.

I have an aero flow cloner that i want to expirement the problem is that useing that means i have no medium. my plans where to try and dig out anextra inch of the rockwool and then fill it with coco 2 to 3 inches set the plant in and then stablize with 1 inch rock wool cubes.

Do you think the 2-3 inch of coco will be enough to reek benifits from the coco?

 

[Dalton]

Hey what's up everybody
well today was the first day of the coco-bed in action and so far so good.
seeing some new growth and hopefully they will blow up quick. I'm too broke for another timer so, right now so they are on the same schedule as the drippers 5 minutes 4 times a day and everything is seems to be fine. I don't understand why people flood less then drip?

Farmer John- thanks bro, sri lanka indeed.

Cali- sup man, I keep the my clones under the dome for 3 days then I leave the dome cracked the rest of the time. So i guess dome on is like 100 percent and slightly less cracked. I water them as needed usually when the cubes feel too light. I use dip and grow @10x dilution and floranova grow @ 0.7 ec and hygrozyme once I see roots. before that it's just tap water. Hope that helps, thanks for coming by

Bullseye- Thanks alot man. I wound up just shifting em around and tucking some fans. and thanks for the heads up on the IONIC BOOST, I was thinking about it. I'm sticking with the awsome blossoms, seems to be the craze around here Is that hammerhead just a BOOST OR SOMETHING ELSE..ah capslock

Seedyono, nothing wrong with making observations and askin Q's.
They stay pretty muched soked. It's just a dusting on the top that drys
up quick. And i let some coco dry up between grows and there was no problem. I think it's only important while your growing in it. Even then Coco
can dry up on ocasion with no real problems to a point. I just noticed one of my drip spikes was out, and It must have happened when I shifted them around 4 days ago and the plant looks fine didn't even wilt. Obviously you wouldn't want to do this all of the time though So yeah what Gauis said.

HEy blunted dude I wish I could help you out but this only my first day of ebb and flow, so I really don't know too much and my only experience with rockwool is cloning in mini cubes. I love coco and I highly suggest it. Seems to be the hottest new thing and I can see why. It fits my needs perfectly. I don't really think that the coco would do much wrapped in so much rockwool. I can see your problem though I see no reason why your plan wouldn't work, hell give it a shot. The coco bed isn't much work and it's re-usable and pretty cheap. it was 30 bucks for the mat and 30 dollars in coco to fill the 4x4. Dude 3k is alot for a 4x8 I would just use 2 and your plant's would probably do better without the heat that the extra 1k would be kicking out. Good luck man, If you need help with coco theres plenty of cool people around here to help you out

 

[SEEDYNONO]

that bed is looking sweet!

 

[20kw dreams]

your a pimp D, I didn't hink you were going to get right into it! Sheeit!

And whoever said something about me and sauce: Yeah BABY!, I'm SAUCY!

 

[gaiusmarius]

great stuff Dalton, i would have vegged them for a day or 3. still all depends on strain and pheno. anyway great looking bed. very clean and tidy with that coco mat underneath.

 

[Neptune]

word! lookin' like a worthy experiment, already in action!

 

[Blunted22]

Hey dalton are you useing coco for your drips to? Also my nutes i use are just ionic grow and ionic bloom i c that your running multiple nutes, i would like to improve my nutes system so if you can get with me and maybe talk some nutes what why when etc.. it would be sweet.

and one last thing sorry if its in your post read it days ago (stoner lol) but what are you useing to clone?(medium wise) like i would use 1" rockwool, do you use that and then put the rock in the coco?

 

[20kw dreams]

Where are your drain fittings? You are running that ebb/flow?