the thing abut pot size in a coco grow, will depend on what style grow you are doing. ie tree grow, bush grow, scrog, sog. then there is a sog with short veg of a few days, or there is the sog with 2 weeks of veg time.
obviously when working with trees or bushes, pot size will play an important roll. what you can rely on is that a plant grown in coco needs less medium then the same plant in earth would. but still the longer you veg the bigger your container will need to be.
the point is that with coco, you can actually get away with a very small amount of medium, while maintaining 1 gpw harvest levels. you just don't veg for more then a few days, then the plants will still have plenty of space in the initial weeks of flowering to expand their root systems. the cool thing about coco slabs is that the roots can really go searching, even though there is not alot of medium in one slab. the fact that they are 1 meter long makes the roots think they are in a huge space. but i would not use coco slabs for plants that get more then 14 days of veg time. as the roots would start getting cramped.
to me coco is made for sog grows, ideally 30 plants per 600watts. let the clones root into the 7by7rw cubes for a week, then plant them on the coco slabs 4 plants per slab. give them 3 days of 18/6 and then whack them in to 12/12 and you end up with plants around 80 to 90 cm tall, which are covered from top to bottom in bud.
hey southpaw, your tap water ec seems incredibly high at 1.0, ph 8 on the other hand is not such a big deal just use ph minus till you get ph 6,0 including the nutes which also have some ph down included. but the ec value should be some thing bellow 0.450 you might want to think about a RO filter to give you some perfect water. because if your ec is already at 1.1 before you add a drop of ferts you will end up with ec 2.0 at a quarter dosage of A+B if you added the full recommended dose you would get ec 4.5 lol. you need to find a way to get that ec level down from your starting water. some times it helps to let the water sit in a tank for 24 hours then the chlorine can evaporate. if you get an ro unit you could use 60% ro water and 40% tap water for the trace elements.
obviously when working with trees or bushes, pot size will play an important roll. what you can rely on is that a plant grown in coco needs less medium then the same plant in earth would. but still the longer you veg the bigger your container will need to be.
the point is that with coco, you can actually get away with a very small amount of medium, while maintaining 1 gpw harvest levels. you just don't veg for more then a few days, then the plants will still have plenty of space in the initial weeks of flowering to expand their root systems. the cool thing about coco slabs is that the roots can really go searching, even though there is not alot of medium in one slab. the fact that they are 1 meter long makes the roots think they are in a huge space. but i would not use coco slabs for plants that get more then 14 days of veg time. as the roots would start getting cramped.
to me coco is made for sog grows, ideally 30 plants per 600watts. let the clones root into the 7by7rw cubes for a week, then plant them on the coco slabs 4 plants per slab. give them 3 days of 18/6 and then whack them in to 12/12 and you end up with plants around 80 to 90 cm tall, which are covered from top to bottom in bud.
hey southpaw, your tap water ec seems incredibly high at 1.0, ph 8 on the other hand is not such a big deal just use ph minus till you get ph 6,0 including the nutes which also have some ph down included. but the ec value should be some thing bellow 0.450 you might want to think about a RO filter to give you some perfect water. because if your ec is already at 1.1 before you add a drop of ferts you will end up with ec 2.0 at a quarter dosage of A+B if you added the full recommended dose you would get ec 4.5 lol. you need to find a way to get that ec level down from your starting water. some times it helps to let the water sit in a tank for 24 hours then the chlorine can evaporate. if you get an ro unit you could use 60% ro water and 40% tap water for the trace elements.
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but I am definitely going to have to scrape some pennies together to give this medium a shot.
thats nasty as hell,....you could of been a millionare selling RO units over there...
