I was pressing down my coco super hard, absolutely no idea why. With that if I didn’t water when it was bone dry I’d have over watered plants. my own fault for pushing it down and fucking it’s ability to hold oxygen. I’d get crops down but veg was so slow. Mates cuttings came and potted up and saw lose fluffy coco and worked out what I’d been doing wrong.
fast forward now, I watered daily from day 1 and lost a plant due to over watering. Have seen others say it’s possible when the roots aren’t established. Anyway I think that knocked me a little back into my old way of treating coco. Under cfl I would see decent roots as coco was staying wet for longer. Switch to hps and suddenly the roots wasn’t looking as good. Which is why I thought gotta be letting them get a little too dry.
anyway I potted one up today, other I’ll do when i wake up. These two still have only been under cfl but I been watering them every other day. That’s under cfl with no fans on. if I did no doubt it’ll be daily. now I know I ain’t under hps yet but the roots look better than last time I potted up. All I’ve been doing is watering sooner which I’m gonna of course do when I put the hps on next watering.
Now these aren’t the greatest looking roots I’d admit but hear me out. They look better than the last time I potted up. Last time I was watering the pots a lot lighter. seeing these roots also reminded me when I potted up last time I let the pots get light because I wanted to pot everything up at the same time, when I potted up the roots actually looked a little like the way they’d gone in the bigger pot where I wasn’t sure. So sorta confirms my mistake of letting things get to light.
anyway potted up one other can get done when I wake up. Think this time they are in one litres. I’ll leave em under cfl for now but move to hps next watering. only the 250w as probably won’t even finish these two.