Coco: Tips, techniques, and the facts you will need
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TheOrganic
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Ya man I single water when lights come on with lil run off and I get great ass results plants perfect through whole grow. Growth is beyond any medium I’ve used
Budbreath
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Mine seem to like the 1 water a day also.
kmog33
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They’ll grow faster, and you will yield more feeding twice or more times a day.
jarvild
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many factors that should determine feeding or watering frequency. 1 grade of coir being used, 2 size and type of pots being used to plant size, 3 environment, just always saw best results no matter what type of system I've run ( Areo, DWC, coir or soil ) the limiting factor has always been amount of oxygen that the roots had available to them.
DrKiz
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Yep, 9 times in a 12 hour period on an irrigation system. In comparison kills my tent I water once a day.
Night and day results.
DrKiz
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Yeah man, even in multifeed I let dryback in flower. Don't feed during lights out or too close too lights off. Want a slight dryback and EC rise during night time. Then water in half hour after lights on with a little more run off than the rest of the feeds and away she goes again for the day.
PopAndSonGrows
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GREAT info here!! I'm a new grower, started last July, and have been using coco coir in 3gal fabric pots. Holy crap, I LOVE this stuff. I wanna be buried in coco when I die! 
I first used Mother Earth, great stuff, great texture & not very clumpy. Recently found Tupur Royal Gold locally for like $12 a bag, but this stuff has big clumps and pieces of straight-up driftwood in it, lol. But for less than half the price, I can deal with that.
What's worked REALLY well for me, haven't had a single magnesium issue (had a calcium issue but I suspect it was pH related) since then: I fill my pots with coco in the morning, soak em with 5 ml/gal cal-mag water, let them drip-drain for 12 hours, at which point I plant my seeds or clones. And since switching from GH Flora Trio to Fox Farm trio, I haven't needed to add Cal-Mag to the feed regimen OR flush with it. Just that first does before planting and I'm good.
My current issue: trying to keep the top perlite from turning green, a typical sign of overwatering. Turns out, I didn't have enough airflow below the canopy, which wasn't letting the top of the coco dry out at all, always staying damp. And that leads me to probably, in my opinion, the trickiest part of coco: letting the TOP of it dry, without anything below the first inch getting dry. A light breeze across the top of your medium helps with that.
I first used Mother Earth, great stuff, great texture & not very clumpy. Recently found Tupur Royal Gold locally for like $12 a bag, but this stuff has big clumps and pieces of straight-up driftwood in it, lol. But for less than half the price, I can deal with that.What's worked REALLY well for me, haven't had a single magnesium issue (had a calcium issue but I suspect it was pH related) since then: I fill my pots with coco in the morning, soak em with 5 ml/gal cal-mag water, let them drip-drain for 12 hours, at which point I plant my seeds or clones. And since switching from GH Flora Trio to Fox Farm trio, I haven't needed to add Cal-Mag to the feed regimen OR flush with it. Just that first does before planting and I'm good.
My current issue: trying to keep the top perlite from turning green, a typical sign of overwatering. Turns out, I didn't have enough airflow below the canopy, which wasn't letting the top of the coco dry out at all, always staying damp. And that leads me to probably, in my opinion, the trickiest part of coco: letting the TOP of it dry, without anything below the first inch getting dry. A light breeze across the top of your medium helps with that.
PopAndSonGrows
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I throw my coco on the side yard after each grow. Fabric pots thrown away, start over new every time.
PJ Diaz
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Over and over.
PJ Diaz
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How wasteful.
PopAndSonGrows
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Actually no, because now my side yards are prepped for succulents. Do you, pal. I got me.
UpstateRecGrower
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until the end of time
UpstateRecGrower
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Cover the coco. You don't want the coco to dry out to the air surrounding it, that'll increase the salt buildup.GREAT info here!! I'm a new grower, started last July, and have been using coco coir in 3gal fabric pots. Holy crap, I LOVE this stuff. I wanna be buried in coco when I die!
What's worked REALLY well for me, haven't had a single magnesium issue (had a calcium issue but I suspect it was pH related) since then: I fill my pots with coco in the morning, soak em with 5 ml/gal cal-mag water, let them drip-drain for 12 hours, at which point I plant my seeds or clones. And since switching from GH Flora Trio to Fox Farm trio, I haven't needed to add Cal-Mag to the feed regimen OR flush with it. Just that first does before planting and I'm good.
My current issue: trying to keep the top perlite from turning green, a typical sign of overwatering. Turns out, I didn't have enough airflow below the canopy, which wasn't letting the top of the coco dry out at all, always staying damp. And that leads me to probably, in my opinion, the trickiest part of coco: letting the TOP of it dry, without anything below the first inch getting dry. A light breeze across the top of your medium helps with that.
PopAndSonGrows
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I tried the "paper plate" technique my dad told me about, but i got tired of moving them every single day for feeding. I always water to plenty of runoff, buildup is never a problem for me.