Coco grow - Super Silver Haze, Blue Cheese and Trainwreck

[SnowWhite]

couple questions, do you water coco like you would water a soil grow, by letting it get dry in between waterings, or is it more like a hempy watering schedule? Also, is it true that you can reuse your coco? If so that would really cut down on soil costs....

Yeah, you water by hand pretty much like you do with soil. Mine drink a litre of water every 2-3 days at the moment. But I lift all my pots up every day and if they feel light, I water them, try not to let them dry out 100% though. As I'm growing different strains from seed, the plants water/nutrient update is slightly different between strains and phenos. I also flush the pots through with 3-4 litres every week or so, just so there is plenty of run off. Don't want too much salt build up. Coco will dryout faster than soil though.

And yes, I have heard you can re-use coco and I intend to do so. I have also heard from two other coco growers that they get increased yields the 2nd use! As I understand it, this is becuase of increased 'benficial bacteria' in the medium from the previous use. As this is my first time using coco, I can't comment from personal experience yet, but I found this very interesting....you should check out this thread too......loads of useful info.....

https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/163510-coco-growers-unite.html

and Jberry has a cool thread too.....

https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/225396-official-canna-coco-nutrients-thread.html

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

ive been hearing about this beneficial bacteria in re used coco but so far no ones been able ti give me any more info than that really. im just about to re-use for the first time (hahaha sounds like im some crack head lol) so who knows!?! maybe that jberry fella has an idea

 

[SnowWhite]

ive been hearing about this beneficial bacteria in re used coco but so far no ones been able ti give me any more info than that really. im just about to re-use for the first time (hahaha sounds like im some crack head lol) so who knows!?! maybe that jberry fella has an idea

yeah man, I wish I knew more too. It does sound a bit like marketing BS, but for two people to confirm improved yields, it's worth trying out for sure, good luck with yours, I'll be interested to see how it works out for ya.

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

you too fella! ive asked that Jberry fella just to see if he's got any more info

 

[SnowWhite]

Friday picture update, which marks one week of 12/12. Pistils are starting to appear on alomst all plants now. The next 7-14 days, I will be keeping a close eye out for balls!!

Group shots....

Blue Cheese, near the wall....

My short squat SSH...the internodal spacing is soooo tight! Love it! No plant support ring on this one yet, due to squatness, but I will put one in place next week some time.

and finally, my fav TW so far, in terms of growth.....

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

your babies are really booming man! how early do you top? i notice you have a few spray bottles, you foliar feeding or bug spraying or both?

good luck keeping boys out the girls room fella!!

 

[SnowWhite]

your babies are really booming man! how early do you top? i notice you have a few spray bottles, you foliar feeding or bug spraying or both?

good luck keeping boys out the girls room fella!!

cheers Don. I FIM'd my girls about 3 weeks in. Normally I do it just after potting up. I just do it the one time and you can see the results.

One of the sprayers is for my alg-a-mic foilar spray that I someimtes use. Just a very light dose, 1ml a litre. It is a seaweed extract organic mix containing some trace nutes, inlcluding mg and cal. Good for clones too I find.

The 2nd sprayer (pump action) is for my Neem mix. 5ml Neem to 1litre of water.

They get Neemed once a week for the first few weeks flowering. Especially the underside of leaves and the top of my pots. It is for bug prevention, specifically spider mites. I don't have any again yet, and that's how I want to keep it!!

If the spider mites do show up again, I will add some ecover dish soap to my Neem mix, then I would introduce predators again. They were pretty effective for me last time, but I will always try and get numbers down first with my sprayer!!! Spider mites must DIE!!!!!

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

too rights man ive waged war with them for the last 3 months! i tried the sprays didn't do much just slowed them down a bit then i tried the preds n they did nowt i couldn't even find them after i released them?! eventually i went for a no pest hot shot strip which is currently doing the business in my veg tent it's going in the flower room next week.

if that dont work im gonna shut down the op n give the whole room with the veg and tent in a good bleach down. possibly a napalming.

 

[Mammath]

Looking real good Snowy.
Keep 'em healthy and they'll do their thing.

Side note: When spraying mites you must spray from the bottom up!
If you got small pots, (under 20L), pick 'em up, turn your ladies upside, down and spray under the leaves... that's where the fuckers are

 

[SnowWhite]

too rights man ive waged war with them for the last 3 months! i tried the sprays didn't do much just slowed them down a bit then i tried the preds n they did nowt i couldn't even find them after i released them?! eventually i went for a no pest hot shot strip which is currently doing the business in my veg tent it's going in the flower room next week.

if that dont work im gonna shut down the op n give the whole room with the veg and tent in a good bleach down. possibly a napalming.

No pest hot strip eh? Will check them out. Anything I can add to my arsenal against them is all good. Thanks man! I find the spraying quite effective. Know what you mean about the predators though, I thought I was just tipping a load of vermiculite over my plants, but although I couldn't see them, they did seem to help keep the mite numbers/damage down.

Looking real good Snowy.
Keep 'em healthy and they'll do their thing.

Side note: When spraying mites you must spray from the bottom up!
If you got small pots, (under 20L), pick 'em up, turn your ladies upside, down and spray under the leaves... that's where the fuckers are

Cheers man. You know that mate and that's exactly what I do, start at the bottom and spray up and under the plants, lifting the leaves as I go, making sure I get a good coating on the underside. The top of the leaves kind of get covered by default this way. I would tip them up to do it, but the support canes will make that kinda tricky in my small space!

But thanks for stopping by guys! Enjoy your weekends!

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

No pest hot strip eh? Will check them out. Anything I can add to my arsenal against them is all good. Thanks man! I find the spraying quite effective. Know what you mean about the predators though, I thought I was just tipping a load of vermiculite over my plants, but although I couldn't see them, they did seem to help keep the mite numbers/damage down.

yeah they got some pretty bad press and the US government tried to ban them cos they tested them on mice n it killed quite a few apparently all i know is that must be killing the mites if the mices toes are curling up!

enjoy your weekend too fella!

 

[liljheazy]

their looking real healthy great job

 

[SnowWhite]

their looking real healthy great job

thanks very much....welcome on board!

 

[SnowWhite]

This afternoon I have mostly been making bubble hash! This was made just using the trim from my last harvest.

I'm so happy to have some nice sticky bubble again!!!!




and my plants.....well, they're still growing!! Snapped this pic this morning before lights out.

 

[liljheazy]

that hash looks good, hows it smoke

 

[Jerry Garcia]

That's some nice looking trim hash you got there snow! And the plants look nice too!

 

[SnowWhite]

cheers guys....it's still drying out, but I did roll up a small hash ball in my hands for the bubbler! What can I say....it's bubbly and taste's amazing!!

 

[SnowWhite]

Just cos I'm bored.......nothing really new to report......

The trainwreck still continues to impress me the most so far!

 

[Mammath]

Nice looking hash there mate. How many bags in your system?
Plants look like they're getting their stretch on.
Which ones which and what day of 12/12 you at?

 

[SnowWhite]

Nice looking hash there mate. How many bags in your system?
Plants look like they're getting their stretch on.
Which ones which and what day of 12/12 you at?

Cheers Mammath. It really is divine and one of my favourite things about growing my own, the fact I can make this gorgeous stuff using just water and ice!! Doesn't get any purer or cleaner. I use the bubble bag 7 bag system. Just the small bags, 1 gallon I think. I never have enough trim to justify the 5 gal bags. I wish!!

My bubble is dry this morning, pretty much......check out the grades......

3 runs......on the the 3rd run I just use the 220, 160 and 25 bags....ditching the 160 and collecting the 25. I wan't sure if it was worth a 3rd run, but it sooooo is! You can see the colour difference between the actual 25s and then the mixed 25 on run 3, which is much lighter.

I make this stuff after every harvest and I always find it very interesting and exciting to see what each bag will yield. It really varies. The overall total amount is usually pretty similar, but the difference in the grades is sometimes quite significant. This time the 160 barely yielded anything, but that's not a bad thing cos the 160 is generally considered low grade! But it's not if you compare it to what you can buy on the streets here!!

My girls are stretching out a treat and really showing their potential. Pistils going crazy all over. No balls yet, fingers firmly crossed! We're on 10-11 days of 12/12 now I think. Bigger update tomorrow with more details. But the plant in the forefront of the previous pic is my trainwreck. SSH is hiding behind that, and then the BC is at the back.