Blue281's Perfect Sun Coco Grow Journal

[Blue281]

Hello everyone and welcome to my second grow journal. In this journal I will be finishing of my previous journal and also I'll be starting two new plants. This is my first grow in coco so please feel free to give me as much advice as possible and let me know if you feel I should change ! I hope you enjoy the grow as much as I do

Link to first grow


The Set Up
For my Set up I have gone for a stealth cupboard grow. Here is a list of everything I use for my set up;

- Grow tent (W 900 x D 500 x H 1600)
- Drying Tent ( W 500 x D 500 x H 900)
- Perfect Sun Dwarf Star
- 4" extraction set up with carbon filter
- Temperature controlled 6" KSA box fan
- 2 x 6" Vortex Fan for air circulation
- 3l Air Pots for starting
- 10l Air Pots for finishing
- Screen for supporting Buds

The Plants
1 Auto Northern Lights (from previous journal)
1 Auto Blueberry
1 Auto Gorilla Glue

Both the new plants are starting out in 3l Air Pots, normally I'd start straight in there final pot however I don't have the room for three 10L pots in my tent. Hopefully the repotting later on will be ok.

The Nutrients
- Advanced Nutrients B52
- CalMag (because of the light mix soil)
- Advanced Nutrients Micro
- Advanced Nutrients Grow
- Advanced Nutrients Big Bud
- Advanced Nutrients Overdrive

Planting

To start of these two new plants, I've mixed about 30% perlite into some canna coco. I then got 1 litre of water and mixed in 0.5ml of CalMag, Micro, Grow and bloom to supplement the coco. This was then split between both pots and the seeds where planted. I've then covered the pots with cling film to try keep the humidity up in the pots.

Photo's of everything set up

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[VexGrows]

Sub'd!

As I am highly interested in the Dwarf Star.

 

[123D]

Am I correct in observing no big changes from your first journal? Don't mess with success .


Innovating daily

 

[Blue281]

That is correct, only thing I've changed is growing in coco rather than soil. Hopefully this will help produce a bigger yield.


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[VexGrows]

I purchased a Dwarf Star! Whooooot!

 

[Blue281]

Nice! I'm sure you will be very happy with your purchase! I'm loving mine already and I've only done half a grow with it


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[VexGrows]

Sweet. Thanks!

I'll be doing the same, will flip to 12/12 once the Dwarf is installed.

Excited!

 

[Blue281]

Day 2

The two new seeds popped yesterday. I gave them there first watering today as the coco had dried out a little. So at the back we have the Blueberry and the front we have the Gorilla Glue.

 

[Blue281]

Day 4

The Gorrila Glue is racing ahead already! Fed again today to get more oxygen into the coco. Just PH'd water, PH'd to 5.8

 

[Blue281]

Day 6

Just purchased some voodoo juice and B-52 from advanced nutrients, so gave these girls a 1/4 strength feed of this all PH'd to 5.8.

 

[Blue281]

Day 9

So far so good with growing in coco, think it's much better to grow in than soil so far. I've been feeding the girls daily and they seem to be loving it so far!

 

[BedroomFarmer]

Subbed looking good!

 

[Blue281]

Day 12
Nearly at the two week mark! Going well so far, I'm hoping my Northern Lights finishes soon so I will have the room in my tent to put these girls in there 10l pots. I've never potted up before, anyone recommend anything that will help me?

 

[Blue281]

Day 15
Just another quick update, the girls are growing well however I've noticed some roots starting to appear around the pots so will need to put them into bigger pots as soon as I can which hopefully will be tomorrow.

 

[Blue281]

Day 18
Quite a bit has changed since my last post, so my Northern Lights finally finished and was hung up to dry last night. This has given me the room to move these girls into there bigger 10L air pots. Also I built a better drip tray to catch and collect the run off ready for my automation system. Finally I have also fimmed both of the plants as you can see in the photos below.

Gorilla Glue

Blueberry

New drip tray

 

[Blue281]

Day 23

I've just noticed a few pistils appearing on the blueberry. The gorilla glue slacking behind a little. Today I've also decided to do some LSTing so I used some pipe cleaners and pulled the canopy down to try create an even height for all the nodes. Also I've recently order a few parts to make a hydro drip system with a 38 litre reservoir that will sit under the drip tray. Also I purchased a pump with four dripper lines (two for each plant). Hopefully this will all arrive within the next few days and I can get it set up!

 

[wiley420]

Ur Gona love coco I switched myself this grow an wow! Faster healthier easy. U seem to be off to a good start. Iam not a pro with coco as of yet but my plants r big an beautiful. I treat mine like hydro though u can treat it like soil as well with good results. Don't know how much u know about coco but if u have any questions Iam more then willing to answer to the best of my knowledge. Many grow with coco in many different ways so u will get lots of different opinions just find what works for u biggest thing feed atleast once a day an never let the coco dry out.

 

[Blue281]

Thank for the kind words!! I should be ok as I've been researching coco for a few months now as I like to be over prepared .. I've been feeding once a day so far and as soon as I've set up the drippers I'll be feeding twice a day.

 

[wiley420]

Yeah I researched for mths before making the switch to lol but Iam glad I did. I like the simplicity of coco. Oops made a mistake oh well flush an start over gotta love it

 

[Blue281]

Day 25
All the parts arrived for the dripper system and it has been set up. The tank underneath holds 30 litres of water. It has a water pump connected to a timer that turn on at 7am and pm for half an hour. This pumps the water to four dripper lines (two for each plant), finally I have an air pump to ensure the feed has got plenty of oxygen in and it keeps the water moving to prevent alge.