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Beachwalker
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Dude I can't help you in Coco. A high % of the problems posted are noobs growing in Coco
.. I'm not a fan of Coco, if you want to get a successful grow under your belt I suggest at minimum three things:
Good soil
Good newts
& a good pH meter
.. I offer that as my opinion only, in case you might consider it going forward.
Regarding what you've got going on now, if you would post your pH and PPM it would be a good and hopefully some coco growers can help, also how are you adjusting the ph and with what ?
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CannaCountry
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What is your Feed pH? How often are you feeding / watering? Do you have an idea of your PPM / EC? Does your nutrient line contain all the necessary micros needed by Cannabis? Are you letting your medium dry out between watering? Are you premixing your nutrients in a reservoir? All of these are important questions to know. For me; coco is a breeze to use, once you learn its quirks.
StuffedOrange
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Can I mix some soil from the garden, most of my plants and trees in the garden are completely healthy and produce fruit yearly (Thanks to how much my mom takes care of her plants) I think I'm missing out the microbes part. Keep in mind that this plant was growing in a mix of peat potting soil, with chemical fertilizers I believe it is similar to miracle grow that you guys have in the states. When I was using that, my plants did not have any problems and were going completely fine. I have researched this and found out that coco does not have any microbes and you would need to use things like Root juice or you would need to add some microbes for that. It is really expensive in my country. I have already spent a good amount of money on my last visit to a hydrogrowshop. Things there are like triple the price of what things are on amazon or in the states.
StuffedOrange
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Can I perhaps take a small amount of soil and mix it with the coco to start a microbial life in it?
StuffedOrange
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Yes I'm mixing all my nutes in a 1.5 liter water bottle, I'm using Bio Grow which is an organic fertilizer. Do you think the problem is that I'm using Organic fertilizer. I recently found out that organic fertilizer needs to be processed by the microbes first before it can be absorbed by the plants. Is this true or its just one of those myths?
StuffedOrange
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the problem is not from the ph or from overwatering. I have already passed through these stages from before and learned my mistakes.
Bernie420
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I think its stunted by the ph being off. You can get ph drops till you get a ph meter if that is available to you.
Your plant looks potassium deficient.
And yes you should have a decent microbe product on hand and use a little bit once a week or so to make sure you have microbes in there working for you. Top dress worm castings if you have it to get some microbes or learn to make a tea, plenty of videos on that. I wouldn't mess with your roots any more by putting yard dirt in it as that is one sure fire way to stress out a plant and stunt it and probably what had happened that and ph off a bit.
About the only thing i can think you need to do is water it at the right ph and then leave it alone and let it recover. The damaged leaves will not come back.
kelp, humic acid and microbes are things you could add and it would help alot ./ B-vitamin also since its stressed.
CannaCountry
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Firstly you need to commit to a growing method (coco, soil, soil-less, whatever). It does not behoove the Grower nor his / her plants when you don't. Once you determine which method you're going to use, you can research what works best for your situation in terms of what supplies you can buy and afford to buy. If you don't do your homework and commit you're simply going to spend a lot of time spinning your wheels.
StuffedOrange
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hmmm, I can't figure out what is the problem guys, I have not had this problem with the previous plants, once I started using coco, the problem has started. It is not the ph and I measure the ph every time I water or feed. My ph is always between 5-6. You guys have spent lots of time in helping me out, but I try to include as many of your suggestions. I have taken some fish water from my fish aquarium and added it to my feed bottle. I took around 50ml of fish water, around 20ml of milk, some sugar and mixed it all with my bio grow fertilizer and have added a little bit of rice. Some weird things are going on in in the bottle. I believe this will start a microbial life in there. I hope it works!
StuffedOrange
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the reason why I started using coco is so that I won't have to use something in my country that is like miracle grow
Beachwalker
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Everyone says pH (I know you don't want to hear it so if it's not pH and you're sure then you've got some dreadful Coco
Between 5 and 6 is not controlling your pH. 5 is too acidic. Everybody's been trying to tell you it's a pH related issue but you don't seem to want to hear it, that's your choice. I wish you well Orange
StuffedOrange
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The only way I can measure the ph is for me to use these ph stick papers, it has a chart with color indicators. It is very hard in my country to find things that are hobby related, and things that are hobby related are usually 3x the price of what they are supposed to be. I'm waiting on my PH meter and it still did not arrive. There is nothing I can do to test my ph except using those strips at the moment.
StuffedOrange
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You need to understand that this is the only plant out of 6 plants that has had this issue. I'm growing other seedlings in coco and they are completely fine. Same water, same nutrients, same everything! I literally feed them with the same bottle that I use for this plant too! Could it be just a really bad seed?
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