cnile
Well-Known Member
I started from the beginning. In the begining I bet it was just shock from environment change and moving them.
Then you transplanted them and shocked even more.
Then you didn't match their environment so more shock after acclimating to your temp humidity.
Then you changed the medium in half of the pot causing some of the soil to hold less water (coco/perlite) in the center sandwiched into plain coco that holds more water. I've done it. It creates a funny drainage problem. For me it did.
Once they grow roots into it is fine but can mess with you in begining especially after first couple waterings.
Ok so onto the coco.
Wash coco first with ro water to a low ppm. I go to 50 ppm coming out of coco flushing with 0ppm RO water. Water slow, let it saturate.
Then you'll need to prep the coco with a light nute solution PHed to set the ph of the medium and allow the coco to "hold onto" some of those nutes in the solution. It kind of stores some so you need to do this.
After rinsing to low ppm them running low strength nutes 400 ppm ( half of which is cal mag)
You will need to rinse you perlite, ro water for dust then ph balanced nute solution (a lot less rinse for perlite)
Mix em up and then it's good to go for your plants.
With coco a common dose of calmag is going to be around
100-200 ppm and is commonly used to prep coco and then each feed
Calmag is a supplement coco will require if using ro water. If using city water or well water quote this post and I'll tell you some info on that.
If those were clones you said you don't thing they been getting nutes. Well I doubt that. Coco has nothing in it. By size they probably were getting around 400 ppm before coming to u.
Anyway. Shock is fine for plants. It happens. Just don't re shock a shocked plant.
Next time move them in, let them get healthy.
Then transplant.
Also find out temps humidity and feed schedule so you can get a base line of what these plants liked before.
Good luck man I think they will be ok.
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Then you transplanted them and shocked even more.
Then you didn't match their environment so more shock after acclimating to your temp humidity.
Then you changed the medium in half of the pot causing some of the soil to hold less water (coco/perlite) in the center sandwiched into plain coco that holds more water. I've done it. It creates a funny drainage problem. For me it did.
Once they grow roots into it is fine but can mess with you in begining especially after first couple waterings.
Ok so onto the coco.
Wash coco first with ro water to a low ppm. I go to 50 ppm coming out of coco flushing with 0ppm RO water. Water slow, let it saturate.
Then you'll need to prep the coco with a light nute solution PHed to set the ph of the medium and allow the coco to "hold onto" some of those nutes in the solution. It kind of stores some so you need to do this.
After rinsing to low ppm them running low strength nutes 400 ppm ( half of which is cal mag)
You will need to rinse you perlite, ro water for dust then ph balanced nute solution (a lot less rinse for perlite)
Mix em up and then it's good to go for your plants.
With coco a common dose of calmag is going to be around
100-200 ppm and is commonly used to prep coco and then each feed
Calmag is a supplement coco will require if using ro water. If using city water or well water quote this post and I'll tell you some info on that.
If those were clones you said you don't thing they been getting nutes. Well I doubt that. Coco has nothing in it. By size they probably were getting around 400 ppm before coming to u.
Anyway. Shock is fine for plants. It happens. Just don't re shock a shocked plant.
Next time move them in, let them get healthy.
Then transplant.
Also find out temps humidity and feed schedule so you can get a base line of what these plants liked before.
Good luck man I think they will be ok.
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