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Would like some advice with watering in coco
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Would like some advice with watering in coco
Hey DGC, I’m a soon to be new grower when it comes to indoor growing. I’ve had many successful outdoor grows, so I’m not a complete newbie to growing in general.
I’m just looking for advice for watering when it comes to using coco as a media. I know many variables play into it such as environment, pot size, and pure coco vs coco/perlite. I’ve seen so many different opinions when it comes to watering. That you can’t water it like soil, that you can water it like soil, that you have to water till run off multiple times a day, you never use just water and always have nutes, etc.
I plan to have my final pot size in flower as pure coco in 3 gal pots. I would love to hear any advice as far as watering frequency that has worked for you, and if you use nutes every time or a watering schedule like feed/water/water/feed for example to optimize quality. I would like to aim for watering twice a day if that’s an effective way of working with coco. I work a lot of overtime so watering more than that would be quite a challenge.
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I use straight Canna Coco with the occasional chunk or two of perlite, but very little. 1,3,5 & 7 gallon fabric and panda bags from damn near everybody. I like clones in 1 gals in a flood, 3’s to flesh one out and learn her from seed. Fives for mothers and bigger stuff I want to veg a big more and drop autos in 7’s after a stint in a solo cup. You gotta stay on coco because it can dry back hard. That starts messing with all kinds of things when you get it wet again. I had that happen a few times. Don’t overwhelm yourself. I’ve done that too.
I’ve not run the bottom feeder bases but that’s kinda what I do. I’d recommend irrigation until run off and collect and reuse in your reservoir if you have the capa$ity and space.
When I hand water it I hit it with Nutes and recycle later in the day. Recharge five days later. In between I add PHd RO with Dune silica and a micro drop of TRiA… neat stuff, as needed. It all balances well, for me at least.
In the flood it’s hit with a whole 20 gallon dose of Canna for the week I’m in and then as it is absorbed or evaporates, I add 50/50 RO/Well water. Never touch a bottle of Cal-Mag again!🤣
Im staring down a big box of Hugo blocks and emitters that I want to give a run at hitting them with shots… I’m trying it all at some point. No DWC except our berries and veggies.
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This reply was modified 2 days, 16 hours ago by casadelwhacko.
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I appreciate the advice. I suppose I have some research to do. Haven’t a clue about setting up an irrigation system. I live in a two bedroom apartment with the spare bedroom being where my plants and fungi all live. I’ll have to figure out what size reservoir I can get away with for 3 flowering plants in aloud to grow here in NY.
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Get some real buckets or auto pots!!! Simple grow style bottom wick systems. Works great with coco too.
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Definitely prefer hand watering as I’m pretty old school, but I’m definitely open to other options. I guess I have to be if I want to try coco. Thanks for the input.
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another angle…. 3 gallon pots with coco and grow dots. hand water, water only, get a crop under your belt, get the environment dialed in ect. Then each grow you can add automatic watering or try Cana nuts ect. keep it simply to start.
3 gallon pots with grow dots puts my autos on automatic, to easy. its like cheating.
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Thanks for the advice, highly appreciated. Now is there any benefit to using grow dots in coco vs soil? Or is it about the same? Do you water differently in coco with the dots?
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