Do these look healthy?

[Rollitupwarrior]

Good stuff man, yeah those top 2 seem to be recovering and the 3rd one as long as there is green coming through theres a chance!

Assume your giving a light feed of nutes when watering?

Yep, still giving 1/4 strength feeds, never watering without nutes. I might bump this up to half strength for the healthier two in 4 days or so. The coco seems to be drying out quicker, I’m assuming from the plants consuming more. As for the last plant, I will have it under the light and keep feeding until it collapses if I have to lol. You might be able to tell in the top plant I trimmed most of the dying leaf off, is this okay to do to the other one that has grown more leaves?

 

[MrGreenFingers99]

Yep, still giving 1/4 strength feeds, never watering without nutes. I might bump this up to half strength for the healthier two in 4 days or so. The coco seems to be drying out quicker, I’m assuming from the plants consuming more. As for the last plant, I will have it under the light and keep feeding until it collapses if I have to lol. You might be able to tell in the top plant I trimmed most of the dying leaf off, is this okay to do to the other one that has grown more leaves?

I would just leave it at 1/4 strength for time being and not trim any of the leaf as no need for additional stress whilst they are recovering, you've got a fair amount of time before transplanting but make sure your coco is prepared properly this time with correct PH before transplanting, try to plan ahead as much as possible as prevention is better then cure!

 

[MrGreenFingers99]

Yep, still giving 1/4 strength feeds, never watering without nutes. I might bump this up to half strength for the healthier two in 4 days or so. The coco seems to be drying out quicker, I’m assuming from the plants consuming more. As for the last plant, I will have it under the light and keep feeding until it collapses if I have to lol. You might be able to tell in the top plant I trimmed most of the dying leaf off, is this okay to do to the other one that has grown more leaves?

Good news there drying out quicker now as well, means those roots are growing!

 

[Rollitupwarrior]

Good news there drying out quicker now as well, means those roots are growing!

Already got 1 gallon pots filled with correctly buffered coco which are waiting to be pH’d, I’ll pop them in the tent and feed them with the same feed as the plants for 3 days prior to transplanting into them. Won’t be rushing this though, just like you said, getting well prepared. Will provide another update on coming days. Cheers.

 

[Rollitupwarrior]

sorry for the blurple.
They’re starting to come along nicely but I still can’t get the pH of the coco below 6, I wonder if it’s the quality of the coco?
Anyway, as of tomorrow I was thinking to up feeds to half strength, thoughts?

 

[MrGreenFingers99]

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sorry for the blurple.
They’re starting to come along nicely but I still can’t get the pH of the coco below 6, I wonder if it’s the quality of the coco?
Anyway, as of tomorrow I was thinking to up feeds to half strength, thoughts?

Cant really see there true colour under that blurple but I think there fairly dark green? I'm always in the camp of less is more and dont force feed, once you overfeed it's very hard to correct whereas if you under feed it's very easy to correct, in other words it's easy to add but you cant take away!

Also do you have an EC meter to check the strength of your feed as you can also start measuring the input and runoff values.

 

[MrGreenFingers99]

Weird you cant get the runoff below 6.1 - what's your input PH?

What have you pre buffered the next pot of coco to?

 

[Rollitupwarrior]

Weird you cant get the runoff below 6.1 - what's your input PH?

What have you pre buffered the next pot of coco to?

My EC pen just came a few days ago, the ec of the inflow last feed was 400, I’ve yet to check the outflow at all. Noted, I’ll give less for longer and look for signs for more feed.
The input pH has been 5.5-5.7, it has not been higher since the start of the thread.
For the next pots, the coco was buffered in 7.5ml of GH Cali-magic for 8 hours, I took the coco out and let it drain and then soaked for another 8 hours in a fresh batch of the same buffering solution.

 

[Rollitupwarrior]

I’ll send some new photos shortly

 

[MrGreenFingers99]

My EC pen just came a few days ago, the ec of the inflow last feed was 400, I’ve yet to check the outflow at all. Noted, I’ll give less for longer and look for signs for more feed.
The input pH has been 5.5-5.7, it has not been higher since the start of the thread.
For the next pots, the coco was buffered in 7.5ml of GH Cali-magic for 8 hours, I took the coco out and let it drain and then soaked for another 8 hours in a fresh batch of the same buffering solution.

Ok cool, yeah take a reading of your input and output PPM'S, if the output PPM reading is higher then cut back, if slightly lower then leave it where it is, if a lot lower then up the feed a little but dont go crazy, you have weeks ahead of you to get it dialled in.

Maybe next feed, feed at whatever your output PH was last time, I think 6.1? Just want to see what happens, in theory it should come out at 6.4/5 but let's see!

 

[Rollitupwarrior]

When you say, up it or cut it back, is this the amount of feed or the strength of the feed?
I’ll feed at the same pH as runoff tomorrow, which was 6.1. Doing this, am I hoping that output pH rises or remains at 6.1?

How’s the color?

 

[MrGreenFingers99]

When you say, up it or cut it back, is this the amount of feed or the strength of the feed?
I’ll feed at the same pH as runoff tomorrow, which was 6.1. Doing this, am I hoping that output pH rises or remains at 6.1?
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How’s the color?

Colour looks fine, just remember the new growth will always be lighter until the leaf grows and then it will get darker, when I say cut back I mean the strength (EC), i forget what your nutes are? But in most cases just drop the amount of base nutes down (A&B) to get the EC you want.

Yeah just interested to see if you feed at 6.1 what comes back, if it comes out as 6.1 then perfect you can continue to feed at 5.8-6.1.

 

[Herbo313666]

Oh!! I'm sorry!

Hope someone else can come to the rescue.

Still should wait till the first few sets of leafs come in. Usually good seeds will have grow just fine and not become deficient as a seedling. Even without feeding. Just de chlorinated water. Looks like your going to hard on her to me

 

[Rollitupwarrior]

Unfortunately I had something pop up and had to leave the plants for 2 weeks, I’ve transferred the care to a family member and have heard they are doing good and have grown a fair bit. Before I left I transplanted into bigger pots, I would have preferred to wait a little longer but things happen. I noticed that the pH of the new coco also was really struggling to come down. Super confusing but I’m going to try a different brand next grow, any recommendations? Anyway, will provide an update when I get home in 10 days, keen to see the growth.
Pictures from the day I left.

 

[MrGreenFingers99]

Unfortunately I had something pop up and had to leave the plants for 2 weeks, I’ve transferred the care to a family member and have heard they are doing good and have grown a fair bit. Before I left I transplanted into bigger pots, I would have preferred to wait a little longer but things happen. I noticed that the pH of the new coco also was really struggling to come down. Super confusing but I’m going to try a different brand next grow, any recommendations? Anyway, will provide an update when I get home in 10 days, keen to see the growth.
Pictures from the day I left.
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Top one is looking great! Bottom one looks like you could be starting to run into issues again, try get that PH down mate if you can, how high is it?

I would be looking at Canna Coco professional or professional plus or gold label

 

[Rollitupwarrior]

Update: arrived back home a few days ago and had to wash and buffer coco and get final pots ready over the last few days. I’m unsure if I forgot to mention that 1 of the 3 didn’t make it.
Anyways, plants are now in 7gal fabric pots and ive started LST and topped. Only planning on topping once. They’re both looking much healthier than the last post and are ≈1.5ft tall. I’ll add a few photos once the light is off.

 

[Rollitupwarrior]

 

[Rollitupwarrior]

Is there anything you notice that I should be changing or do they look all good? I haven’t noticed any problems since I’ve been back