ninja1
Well-Known Member
Growing in pure canna coco coir. always noticed my veg time was slow compare to my mates. He would come over and see my plants n tell me to water them. Doing so mine would go over watered. I was needing mine to be bone dry basically as was packing down the coco to much. He gave me some well rooted clones and I potted them into the finals. Didn’t compact the coco and started watering sooner and they grew faster than any plants I’ve ever had in the past.
so I thought that was my issues sorted. Started some seeds. Watered daily from the start till run off. Noticed I had poor roots though, I even lost one plant due to over watering. Turns out you can over water coco if the roots aren’t there. also the coco seemed to lose its airyness/fluffyness and wasn’t sure if that was down to me flooding the coco even when it was still wet.
Popped some freebies to try get it right and I shoved them under a cfl just to save on the electric. Watered and as under such a weak light the pots stayed wet for longer. Noticed I had way better roots. So I potted up into 2 litre pots and kept them under a cfl and roots was looking like this.
once they needed a second watering I decided to put them under a 400w hps. Few days later I got roots looking like this. Different plant possibly but you get the idea…
Would love to know what I am doing wrong? The roots see, less thick and white. I’m not letting the pots go bone dry but makes me wonder am I still letting them get too light?
I know people say water coco every day but think I was put off from that when I over watered previous plants with doing that from the start. I’m also maybe being over paranoid here. But I’m wondering has me taking the plant out the pot. Then dumping it back in while still wet and heavy.actually pressed the coco down as it does seem to have lost some of its airyness to it.
I am putting all these plants into a Wilma system as always had good roots with that and can’t afford to fuck up another crop. Just be good to know if people think judging by how the roots have changed in appearance has it come from letting the coco get too dry? Certainly can’t be over watering so it’s kinda all I’m left to think as the cause.
so I thought that was my issues sorted. Started some seeds. Watered daily from the start till run off. Noticed I had poor roots though, I even lost one plant due to over watering. Turns out you can over water coco if the roots aren’t there. also the coco seemed to lose its airyness/fluffyness and wasn’t sure if that was down to me flooding the coco even when it was still wet.
Popped some freebies to try get it right and I shoved them under a cfl just to save on the electric. Watered and as under such a weak light the pots stayed wet for longer. Noticed I had way better roots. So I potted up into 2 litre pots and kept them under a cfl and roots was looking like this.
once they needed a second watering I decided to put them under a 400w hps. Few days later I got roots looking like this. Different plant possibly but you get the idea…
Would love to know what I am doing wrong? The roots see, less thick and white. I’m not letting the pots go bone dry but makes me wonder am I still letting them get too light?
I know people say water coco every day but think I was put off from that when I over watered previous plants with doing that from the start. I’m also maybe being over paranoid here. But I’m wondering has me taking the plant out the pot. Then dumping it back in while still wet and heavy.actually pressed the coco down as it does seem to have lost some of its airyness to it.
I am putting all these plants into a Wilma system as always had good roots with that and can’t afford to fuck up another crop. Just be good to know if people think judging by how the roots have changed in appearance has it come from letting the coco get too dry? Certainly can’t be over watering so it’s kinda all I’m left to think as the cause.
