coco feeding

im new to coco and plan to run all in coco next cycle but im still unclear as to how often the get nutes... i see people water 2-3 times per day but are they feeding with nutes every time??? i cant imagne so but if so how much are you feeding? plus i read it depends on pot size... so i use 5 gallon smartpots with sunshine advanced ... can i use smaller pots with coco??

Nutes every time with coco
Sure you can use smaller pots with coco, and that is when you would water(with nutes everytime remember) more frequently. Coco can be treated sort of like that soiless you've been using(just don't ever let it dry out quite as much as you can with peat based)in larger
pots, or treated more like you would rockwool croutons in smaller pots. And everything in between.

Here's a couple examples of how I do it, and I've been growing in coco since it hit the shelves, I love the shit:

16- 1 gallon mesh bottom pots in a 4'x4' under a 1000w. Each pot is fed via basket dripper stake. I work my way up to 3 watering cycles during each 12 hour light cycle. I'm usually at that 3x's by the second week of flower. I absolutely kill it this way. It's my favorite way to rock the coco, but it's too many plants when you have lots of lights

My goto setup nowadays is 4-6, 7 gallon pots per 4'x4'. These end up getting wattered(with nutes ) every third day.

Both setups are fed 1.7-1.8 EC. The 1 gallon pots are fed right until run-off is achieved. Probably around 5% run-off? The big pots are watered until roughly 15-20% run-off has been achieved.

Getting the extra amount of Ca and Mg right that growing in coco requires, probably will be about the only possible struggle for you at first going from a soiless like sunshine advanced(has coco in it)to coco. If you even have any probs

I have been using coco for about 6 years now, I water with nutes every other watering. When I'm not using the nutes I switch to cal mag and Hygrozyme. So I basicly water with nutes, next watering is cal mag and hygrozyme, nutes, calmag/hygrozyme etc etc.

However since I water with systhinic nutes often, I use 1/4th strength, to avoid salt build up. I could use full strength without seeing damage at first but it will slowly build up and get salt build up without a flush.

Flushing your plants are not good for the plants, it leads to other problems so I just use less but more often.

IMO the plants grow better with less nutes more often, than more nutes less often.

Huh? What's do I mean? I mean some people fertilize half or full strengh once a week, while I feed 1/4 strengh every other watering.....

i have noticed a huge excel in trichs this grow cutting my feed dose in half!! so i can dig that for sure!! ... the first time i was more along the lines of thinking ... pumping it to them toward the end and bulking up... well lets just say not so much lol .... and seeing the trichs this round is really getting me pumped to start my coco for real!! im gonna feed twice as much with half the to 1/4 the dose and i think thats gonna be even more explosive ya know!!