BedroomFarmer
Well-Known Member
I've tried what you are trying to do 3 separate times and it didn't work and that was with a few grows under my belt already. Could you make it work? Probably but it would act the same as normal soil with wet and dry cycles not like hydroponics that coco is famous for. You are just better off going with a promix recipe or something similar but..
I live in a small apartment too and coco makes it possible to keep things down to a minimum. think of all the amendments you want to keep on hand. I have a 2x4 tent a 10 gallon reservoir next to it and the reservoir runs on a timer. I have to remind myself to look in the tent and you want to take a peak to make sure there is no issues. I would say growing synthetically will save you more space in your apartment then organic.
You can cut veg time with more plants in smaller pots but either way its gonna be faster treated as hydro then soil. With enough plants you can do like a 2 week veg and flip. Either way we if you want to get buds without a headache for your first grow then dont try to reinvent the wheel. You wont get faster organic growth that way.
With that said they do sell "organic" bottled nutrients you can try for coco but I dont know how well the work.
Dont check your runoff, your gonna get yourself into trouble that way and you dont want your pots sitting in the runoff for very long or at all.
I live in a small apartment too and coco makes it possible to keep things down to a minimum. think of all the amendments you want to keep on hand. I have a 2x4 tent a 10 gallon reservoir next to it and the reservoir runs on a timer. I have to remind myself to look in the tent and you want to take a peak to make sure there is no issues. I would say growing synthetically will save you more space in your apartment then organic.
You can cut veg time with more plants in smaller pots but either way its gonna be faster treated as hydro then soil. With enough plants you can do like a 2 week veg and flip. Either way we if you want to get buds without a headache for your first grow then dont try to reinvent the wheel. You wont get faster organic growth that way.
With that said they do sell "organic" bottled nutrients you can try for coco but I dont know how well the work.
Dont check your runoff, your gonna get yourself into trouble that way and you dont want your pots sitting in the runoff for very long or at all.