FlashBabylon
Active Member
You get told all sorts of things when starting out growing.
I was told coco was the way to go. In one way it's true, you give the plant everything it needs, and you get rewarded with bud. But it's certainly more complicated than a soil grow I now find.
However, today's lesson is for those who have decided to grow in coco, and start with rockwool. My friend who grows told me to put the seeds into rockwool plugs. This is sensible. He then told me:
"Once they've sprouted, put them into 4" blocks. Put the blocks straight onto the top of the coco in your 15l pots and mound a bit of coco up to the edges"
I wish I hadn't listened to him. The result of this is that:
1) The coco you push up to the edges just washes away, leaving the 4" block looking like an island in the coco.
2) The 4" block then starts to come loose and damages the roots going into the coco below.
3) Algae grows like a *bitch* on the exposed, damp rockwool and you have to make covers to block the light which then have to be removed each watering in the young days of the plant, to make sure the roots in the block get water too.
4) The rockwool then stays saturated for longer because it's not evaporating water as fast.
GAHHHH why did I ever listen to him?!
I have a question also - would I be better carefully digging out my plants, and planting them deeper and covering them with coco?
I was told coco was the way to go. In one way it's true, you give the plant everything it needs, and you get rewarded with bud. But it's certainly more complicated than a soil grow I now find.
However, today's lesson is for those who have decided to grow in coco, and start with rockwool. My friend who grows told me to put the seeds into rockwool plugs. This is sensible. He then told me:
"Once they've sprouted, put them into 4" blocks. Put the blocks straight onto the top of the coco in your 15l pots and mound a bit of coco up to the edges"
I wish I hadn't listened to him. The result of this is that:
1) The coco you push up to the edges just washes away, leaving the 4" block looking like an island in the coco.
2) The 4" block then starts to come loose and damages the roots going into the coco below.
3) Algae grows like a *bitch* on the exposed, damp rockwool and you have to make covers to block the light which then have to be removed each watering in the young days of the plant, to make sure the roots in the block get water too.
4) The rockwool then stays saturated for longer because it's not evaporating water as fast.
GAHHHH why did I ever listen to him?!
I have a question also - would I be better carefully digging out my plants, and planting them deeper and covering them with coco?