Day 8 - When Should I Start With Nutrients

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Nilspoulsen

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First time grow. I germinated the seed directly in coco and it popped 8 days ago. It has been seeing some really good growth. Even though its coco I haven't been watering much because it doesn't get dry. I was watering with what I thought was 5.9 PH water but I calibrated my meter today and the water Ive been giving is around 6.8. New batch 5.8 PH tap water with like 260ppm.
Got it in a grow tent with 100w LED's about 30 inches from the top.
Cat pissed in my coco in the pot I had outside the tent so I had to to a coco/ perlite mix that I got ready today for whenever I need to transplant
When should I start giving the plant nutrients and when do you guys think I should transplant into my 5 gallon pot. Ill attach a pic of what nutes I bought.
Any advice helps and If anything with the plant looks wrong please let me know
Sour d auto
 

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blueberrymilkshake

blueberrymilkshake

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rkymtnman said:
if they have leaves and they aren't in soil, i give them nutes.
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My first coco plant had castings and I used fish emulsion. I didn't know any better. But it exploded right away and I switched to nutes and all was better than well.

My next ones it was straight coco. Well, I was wondering why they were growing slow and realized I didn't know how many ppm I needed for a newborn or even how early to feed. Good thing one of them is my first auto lol.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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i grow in coco, and start feeding after the third set of leaves come out...no real scientific reason for that, just seems like it doesn't make much difference whether i give them ph'd water or nutes that early, while they still have their cotyledon leaves...but yeah, i start them off at about 250 ppm, and thats with nutes...so get some distilled water to use till you can get the ro system hooked up. i just give them about 1/4 strength jack's 3-2-1 ratio to start, and they seem to love it...and i know a lot of places say 5.8 for coco, but after 10 years of using it, i ph about 6 all the time...if it's a half a point high or low i don't sweat it, but i stay within that one point range, centered on 6, and my plants do a lot better than they used to, when i stayed close to 5.8
 
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Roger A. Shrubber said:
i grow in coco, and start feeding after the third set of leaves come out...no real scientific reason for that, just seems like it doesn't make much difference whether i give them ph'd water or nutes that early, while they still have their cotyledon leaves...but yeah, i start them off at about 250 ppm, and thats with nutes...so get some distilled water to use till you can get the ro system hooked up. i just give them about 1/4 strength jack's 3-2-1 ratio to start, and they seem to love it...and i know a lot of places say 5.8 for coco, but after 10 years of using it, i ph about 6 all the time...if it's a half a point high or low i don't sweat it, but i stay within that one point range, centered on 6, and my plants do a lot better than they used to, when i stayed close to 5.8
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thank you that was very helpful.
 
blueberrymilkshake

blueberrymilkshake

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
i grow in coco, and start feeding after the third set of leaves come out...no real scientific reason for that, just seems like it doesn't make much difference whether i give them ph'd water or nutes that early, while they still have their cotyledon leaves...but yeah, i start them off at about 250 ppm, and thats with nutes...so get some distilled water to use till you can get the ro system hooked up. i just give them about 1/4 strength jack's 3-2-1 ratio to start, and they seem to love it...and i know a lot of places say 5.8 for coco, but after 10 years of using it, i ph about 6 all the time...if it's a half a point high or low i don't sweat it, but i stay within that one point range, centered on 6, and my plants do a lot better than they used to, when i stayed close to 5.8
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Could the .2 pH difference have anything to do with using ro?
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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blueberrymilkshake said:
Could the .2 pH difference have anything to do with using ro?
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i don't use ro, our water comes our of the tap around 75ppm...and most of that is chlorine and calcium, i fill my buckets the day before to let some of the chlorine evaporate, you can smell it coming out of the tap, not so much the next day
 
blueberrymilkshake

blueberrymilkshake

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
i don't use ro, our water comes our of the tap around 75ppm...and most of that is chlorine and calcium, i fill my buckets the day before to let some of the chlorine evaporate, you can smell it coming out of the tap, not so much the next day
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Oh shoot my bad. I've been doing 5.9, but I tried 6.0 tonight for s&g. You seem pretty knowledgeable.
 
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