Ajay86
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Good to know jtrizzy. I grow hydro and have grown in soil. Am going to do a few grows in coco. The thing that put me off was thinking you have to water once or twice a day!? But i like the idea of no res changes, running noisey air pumps, replacing air stones, pumps etc. Hated soil as growth was slow. But from what ive seen coco is nearly an in between. Do you recommend adding perlite to the coco jtrizzy? And at whay ratio? Nothing wrong with your plants man. They look good!![/
Thanks hydrolife how would I cut back nitrogen sorry to ask silly shit just not got much knowledge anbiut growing. Only smoking hahahaIts okay to use calmag (if you need it) but be careful not to overdo it. Calmag lifts your ppm and contains off memory an NPK ratio of 1-0-0 so will bump your nitrogen strength up. You need nitrogen pretty well through your whole grow but the ratio of NPK should change to match your plants feeding requirements at different stages of development. My personal opinion is that you may be using a grow nutrient and not a bloom (for flower) nutrient. Or adding something with a high nitrogen content? Can you see how dark green your leaves are? Also that curling down of the tips of the leaves? The sugar leaves are very skinny. All signs of too much nitrogen. You dont have any leaf tip burn so id say your ppm (nute strength) is not too high. Just too much nitrogen. Im not a coco grower so i have to be careful not to give you bad advice for growing in coco. (Above applies to using any medium) but you need to cut nitrogen right back for now, let the plant use the excess nitrogen in leaves. The leaves will start to look better and you want the leaves to lighten. Ive grown in soil and if it was soil id say youve over watered for a while also, those roots would need oxygen, Not sure with coco though as ive been told not to let the medium dry out?? I know some people mix perlite with their coco 60/40 something like that..? I presume it would be for this reason to help the roots get oxygen. Maybe one of the coco growers here could clarify this?