Sour Diesel, Second Grow, First Time In Coco!

[TDM]

Good to see they are going well. Regarding you asking about lst with smart pots. I was planning on ordering those support rings, not sure of their actual name but a search for plant support rings will bring them up. Also paper clips should be able to pierce the cloth, use them to loop the lst wires through, I'll have some of them to use also.

 

[Aero808]

Thanks for the tip!

 

[Aero808]

Heading to the lake for a few days.... I lucked out and a friend is going to do me a solid and water my plants on Friday. Take care all. Will post an update when I return on Sunday

 

[Aero808]

Back from the lake and ready to get cracking. The girls are happy and doing well. I'll be moving them to the 5x5 soon, just need to sort out where I'll be exhausting the hot air. Likely going to pull the basement window out and install a decent looking board with some mesh or a grate of some sort during summer. Come winter I'm planning on venting in to the cold air return.

Cheers!

 

[Aero808]

Went to the local garden store and picked up some new goodies. 5.2 gallon equivalent airpots. I should be able to LST pretty easily, seeing as though they are made from plastic and have little holes all over to tie in to. Should be pretty sweet!

Also planning my attack for replacing the window with a board for air outtake. I'm going to build a little box on the outside of the house and put a couple of metal grilles on the walls. It should prevent mice from finding their way in (hopefully) and not be a big eyesore that the better half will complain about (hopefullyx2). haha.

Cheers!

 

[Smokiemcpot19]

When in coco you want to be watering literally as much as possible with 1/4th str nutes. Im on my first grow also and using coco and i thought id be fine just watering 1x a day and the people on drip systems or who water more frequent all have bigger plants! Watering forces oxygen to the roots of coco and makes them grow faster.

 

[Aero808]

I'm doing Mr. Canuks method of organic dry amendments. I just PH my water and let the slow release nutes do their thing. Check him out

 

[Smokiemcpot19]

Still want to be watering atleast 2x a day to run off, watering provides oxygen to the roots.

 

[Aero808]

I'm going to amp up the watering once I'm all moved in to the 5x5. Thanks for the tip!

 

[Aero808]

The runt is still hella runty, and seems destined to be the small fry of the group... but I'll baby her along and hope for the best. I've raised the lights to encourage a a little stretch prior to moving them in the 5.2 gallon air pots.

Here's a natural light shot following a good watering with cal-mag added.

Cheers!

 

[Aero808]

I gave the old 5x5 a thorough cleaning and moved the ladies in to their forever home. They were up-potted into 5 gallon air pots with a 400w MH about 3 feet away until they acclimate to the new surroundings. Temps have been sitting pretty at 24c. Hope to see them explode in the coming weeks. Cheers!

 

[Aero808]

The girls are happy following the transplant and relocation. I'll be moving the light to 14 inches away today. I had the light on 24/7 in my little 2x2, they are going to be on an 18/6 cycle now that I'm using HID's. Lights out from 1200 - 1800.

I've done a lot of reading regarding topping, and I think I'll likely just stick with topping once, which happened about a week ago. I washed my scrog net, and will be using it again this grow. I'm going to be more aggressive with creating an even canopy. Last time I only had the scrog net about 70 percent full before the flip to flower. I'm shooting for more like 90 percent this time. Also going to be supercropping any of the budsites that grow too tall.

I have a 1000 watt HPS, but I may just stick with a 600 for flower this go. My temps got too high with the 1000w, although that was upstairs in a house without central a/c to be fair. I had plenty of leaf curl going on last time and believe I sacrificed trichs as a result. I'm also doing a better job of venting the air out this time too. If I can keep temps around 27c with a 1000, it's on. Time will tell. Cheers!

 

[Aero808]

Waiting for the electric bill like...

 

[TDM]

They're looking really healthy, my money is on the runt

 

[Aero808]

Haha. Mine is on the short and bushy one.

 

[Aero808]

Growth is really taking off now that they are under the 400w MH. At this rate, I'll start scrogging in a couple of weeks. Cheers!

 

[Canuckush]

I'm doing Mr. Canuks method of organic dry amendments. I just PH my water and let the slow release nutes do their thing. Check him out

I've heard of this Mr. Canucks from a couple of other journals and so far they both have dropped his method, somehow he gets it to work using a dry soil amendment but coco isn't soil and shouldn't be treated as such. I hope it works for you but you should read this thread, as mentioned above, 1/4 strength nutes to run off daily or risk build up in the coco, leads to more flushing or plant problems

All you need to know about how to feed in Coco

Hi 420 ! So, As much as possible, I like to spend my time on here helping out new coco/hydro growers. I started out like those guys and someone spoon fed me untill I was a big boy and could handle reading a number on a stick. I'm finding myself spending my limited time here on the wrong...

www.420magazine.com

Good luck, I'll follow along and see how this dry amendments works for you.

Happy growing!

 

[Barney86]

Heya buddy gonna grab a chair if that's alright. See this canuk character mentioned a lot and what he does goes against absolutely every single thing I've ever learned about Coco growing.
It just doesn't make sense in so many ways. I won't be able to offer any advice sadly for that reason but im intreagued to see what happens so jumping on for the ride. Hopefully learn a few new tricks along the way
Hope it all goes to plan for ya buddy

 

[Aero808]

I've heard of this Mr. Canucks from a couple of other journals and so far they both have dropped his method, somehow he gets it to work using a dry soil amendment but coco isn't soil and shouldn't be treated as such. I hope it works for you but you should read this thread, as mentioned above, 1/4 strength nutes to run off daily or risk build up in the coco, leads to more flushing or plant problems

All you need to know about how to feed in Coco

Hi 420 ! So, As much as possible, I like to spend my time on here helping out new coco/hydro growers. I started out like those guys and someone spoon fed me untill I was a big boy and could handle reading a number on a stick. I'm finding myself spending my limited time here on the wrong...

www.420magazine.com

Good luck, I'll follow along and see how this dry amendments works for you.

Happy growing!

Glad to have you along for the ride. So far, my plants are healthy and growing more quickly than my previous soil grow using the ph perfect line from Advanced Nutrients.

I have been adding cal-mag with every watering and doing liquid seaweed once a week, other than that I'm following Canuk's method with the Gaia Green nutes. I'm going to stick to the course and hope to pull it off. I've seen one more journal that did Canuk's method from start to finish - it was his first time growing and he did pretty well.

I've upped my watering frequency based on comments I've received. It seems everyone tries to talk people out of Canuk's method. I must be stubborn. Haha

 

[Aero808]

Heya buddy gonna grab a chair if that's alright. See this canuk character mentioned a lot and what he does goes against absolutely every single thing I've ever learned about Coco growing.
It just doesn't make sense in so many ways. I won't be able to offer any advice sadly for that reason but im intreagued to see what happens so jumping on for the ride. Hopefully learn a few new tricks along the way
Hope it all goes to plan for ya buddy

His methods are definitely controversial round these parts. It's just so cheap and convenient! I've enjoyed your journals and I'm glad to have you around!