Help with 1st coco grow please

sampson4u

Member
I just put 4 plants into flower. Lemon skunk, Pineapple chunk, white rhino and Trainwreck. They where all grown from seed. Veg under 200 watt T5 and are now flowering under a air cooled 600 watt hps.
Im using 100% canna coco and nutes.
Room stays around 72 and 40% humidity.
The plants just seem to be stuck and the new leaves that are trying to come out seem very skinny.
I just flushed them with ro water ph at 5.8 then fed them today with 1000ppm of canna A and B and also added cal mag as i think that may be the problem but not sure.
 

maxpesh

Active Member
Ok you have vegged under 200w flourescent and now under 600w HPS, that's one hell of a difference in light intensity and you'll probably find that the plants are just adjusting to a different light spectrum, they could also be suffering from some kind of bug in the root system although it is very rare growing in coco. They may also be adjusting to a much higher level of UV because I noticed yellow around the edges of the leaves, back the HPS light off to 2 - 3 ft for a few days then gradually move down to normal 12inches from the canopy, for a couple of days also get your water at 5.7, I know this is not much difference but I feed twice a week at this pH as Mn (manganese) is not available to the plant at 5.8. It's all about balance, hope this helps :-)
 

del66666

Well-Known Member
id go with maxpesh about the light, i got some similar, just changed from 250 cfl to a 400 hps in a small cab .
 

sampson4u

Member
The 600 is about 2' above the plants right now. I started off high and plan to move it down in a couple of days as they acclimate to the higher watt light. I could be wrong being new to this but i believe the light is far enough away from the plants. The plants have been looking like this for a few weeks. Even when i had them under the T5s in veg. Any other suggestions that you may have would be appreciated. Thank you
 
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