Plants drooping/browning 5 days post transplant
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TintEastwood
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I leave them in solos until they are more robust, with roots. No perlite in the solo coco.
Never plain water.
Ph 5.8 thru 6.2
Your coco is consuming mg and ca. Leaving little for the plant. Cocoforcannabis
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Never plain water.
Ph 5.8 thru 6.2
Your coco is consuming mg and ca. Leaving little for the plant. Cocoforcannabis
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Bubba. Here is my 1st coco grow using the feed 1ml cal mag , then feed nutes schedule. 600-700ppm/tds. Never higher than that. Fed them twice per day and they loved it. Pull up a chair in the journal. Stick with coco. Once you get dialled in it's so easy. Less is more. I feed my plants quite a bit less than most. I don't miss the bugs that I had in soil. I live where I grow so the less insects the better. Plus bigger yields. I just grow autoflowers.
https://www.rollitup.org/t/autoflowers-coco-back-fresh-after-a-long-break.999967/
https://www.rollitup.org/t/autoflowers-coco-back-fresh-after-a-long-break.999967/
BubbaBiscuit
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Thanks. Next time I do solos I will leave them in longer.
BubbaBiscuit
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Thanks for sharing your grow journal, those autos look great! I will definitely stick with coco until I can get it right (hopefully I can turn around this first grow). I have some Seedsman auto kush, so after this grow I'll give those a go.
Also, I ordered an Apera pH meter today, so I'm looking forward to removing the estimations from my pH adjustments. Cheers.
@BubbaBiscuit how's your plants doing?
CannaCountry
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Not to beat a dead horse, but as Jipsy Dog has mentioned, your pH is off, if you're growing in coco. 5.8 is your sweet spot. Secondly, coco lends little to the plant in terms of nutrients, so you need to feed every time you water...don't water with plain water. Conversely, you need to be sure every feed has Ca and Mg in it...I prefer to add them separately so I can adjust one or the other, but if 'calmag' is all you have, incorporate it in every feed. While your plants are struggling, be mindful of keeping them too wet...but don't let the coco dry out either. Good luck.
BubbaBiscuit
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They seem to be doing much better, thanks. I haven’t had a chance to read the pH meter manual and get it calibrated (on the schedule for today) so I’ve still been using the GH indicator solution. I’ve added just a smidge more of the pH Down after mixing the nutrients into my water, so I’m probably not hitting 5.8 exactly but hopefully I’m closer than I was before.
The browning that I was originally seeing hasn’t spread, so I’m really happy about that. Barring any additional steps you think I might need to take based on the pics below, my plan is to top them and try mainlining once the sixth nodes fully develop.
BubbaBiscuit
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Thanks. Just to be clear, I only watered them with plain water once after transplanting, and only because I thought they had nutrient burn and thus followed the advice of an article to flush with plain water. Obviously this was not the correct approach, so lesson learned there.
I have a bottle of calmag, so maybe after I go through this bottle I’ll try separate bottles of Ca and Mg next time around.
Next feeds just feed them cal mag in the 1st feed at recommended dose (mine is 1ml per litre), but feed twice per day, even if they're still wet ignore it and just start feeding them twice per day. They'll rocket with supreme health. 1st feed cal mag, 2nd feeds nutes without added cal mag to nutes feed. Coco nutes already have extra cal mag in. The stems maybe a bit purple. Either the cold or magnesium deficiency. If you feed just cal mag 1 in every 2 feeds, then you will find growing very easy. Your plants will uptake the nutes feed far easier without you giving them too much cal mag, by adding cal mag to nutes that already have plenty in to accommodate the fact they are being used in coco. Even if you do that for the next 10-14 days you will never look back. No nutes build up as you're topping them off with cal mag 1 in 2 feeds, so that helps use up the excess nutes. You just get less problems that way.
Feeding them added cal mag alongside base nutes ups the ppm's to higher than ideal. My plants are healthier doing cal mag only/nutes/cal mag only/ nutes.
When you get the ph nailed it will make a world of difference.
Feeding them added cal mag alongside base nutes ups the ppm's to higher than ideal. My plants are healthier doing cal mag only/nutes/cal mag only/ nutes.
When you get the ph nailed it will make a world of difference.
BubbaBiscuit
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Thanks for the great feedback, I will implement this feeding regimen right away.