watering everyday in coco????

im a new grower only been through 2 harvest and about to go through my 3rd in a few weeks.
I recently went from happyfrog soil to coco loco, and im loving it. I have found that many people say to water the coco everyday and to treat it as if it were a hydroponic system of some sort. which i still dont understand but im still researching on it. i only water about every 2 days. so if this was true i would have a big fucking problem. If i do need to water daily how much are we talking about? most of my pots are from 5 gallon to 2 gallon being the smallest. please help

Nah man....inless ur using alot of perlite or excessive draining every other day should be more then ok

Less is more in coco...use 1/3 concentrate of ur nute but use every watering.

Best thing I have found is wait till to coco is dry on top poke your finger into the coco if it's dry at the tip of your finger water it if it's still moist leave it another day

In flowering you will have to water everyday expecially in 5 gal pots. Maybe switch to 10-15. Will increase yield dramatically. You'll get into a schedule of watering erry day. Nothing said the best was easy.


Sawse!

dabbindylan said:

Nah man....inless ur using alot of perlite or excessive draining every other day should be more then ok

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yeah no excessive perlite. Just coco Loco straight from bag.

dabbindylan said:

Less is more in coco...use 1/3 concentrate of ur nute but use every watering.

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I'm using right now full strength blooms nutes. For the vegging I'm using full strength veg nutes. I am showing signs of nite burn so I'll take it down half or 1/3. I was told to do half strength nutes for first watering and for second watering use all water with added call mag. Have imllt been doing it wrong? I also bought great white mycorrhizae and have been using with my general hydro flora trio series. And I bought calmag plus from GH. how do I incorporate all my nutes into my grow. I heard mixing my mycorrhizae with flora trio serves no purpose because the nutes kill the bacteria or something like that

DirtyEyeball696 said:

In flowering you will have to water everyday expecially in 5 gal pots. Maybe switch to 10-15. Will increase yield dramatically. You'll get into a schedule of watering erry day. Nothing said the best was easy.


Sawse!

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yes I plan on switching to 10 or 15gal starting Oct 1st.
Can't wait to see the results

DANK PURPY said:

yes I plan on switching to 10 or 15gal starting Oct 1st.
Can't wait to see the results

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Just remember to give yourself at least 4-6 weeks for the roots to spread around in that big pot after transplant


Sawse!

You'll be like dammmmm


Sawse!

Use myco with fresh water and molasses...dont mix with flora veg salts will halt bennies

dabbindylan said:

Use myco with fresh water and molasses...dont mix with flora veg salts will halt bennies

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I just watered them last night with half strength of the trio ( flora-bloom,gro and micro) added bacteria as directed. Now i know. to not mix the 2. I don't have molasses but I will get some this weekend what is it btw? What nutritional value does it have ? As far as the trio? Should I ditch it or what should I use and not use? do the salts effect it the bacteria that much? If so I wanna ditch the salts completely. I wish I wanna knew more about chemicals and nutrients. I love my plants so much. I hate ton see them mistreated. Especially by me ):

DirtyEyeball696 said:

You'll be like dammmmm


Sawse!

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I know dude I can't wait. I just got approved for my first house. Ditching these shady apartments lol. Very sketchy growing there. I can't wait to take advantage of the space.

Molasses adds carbs that ur mycos can eat and help promote a healthy plant with a great taste...bigger pots doesnt mean bigger plants...bigger plants dont exactly equal bigger buds either...balance is key in all things...ive got a 8ft plant in a 3.5 gallon plastic bucket

Bigger root zone allows more uptake if ur not giving exactly what it takes then ur bigger root zone might be the solution to ur nutrient depravtion or balanceing ur rhizosphere in anycase i wish u luck

DANK PURPY said:

im a new grower only been through 2 harvest and about to go through my 3rd in a few weeks.
I recently went from happyfrog soil to coco loco, and im loving it. I have found that many people say to water the coco everyday and to treat it as if it were a hydroponic system of some sort. which i still dont understand but im still researching on it. i only water about every 2 days. so if this was true i would have a big fucking problem. If i do need to water daily how much are we talking about? most of my pots are from 5 gallon to 2 gallon being the smallest. please help

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Ive heard the same thing. Its almost like running an ebb n flow table in a way. The way it was explained to me is that some guys water it up to six times a day, low dose nutes, low water volume so its dry in four hours when your watering again for the sixth time of the day.
If you want to get obsessive about it thats one way to go. Personally id much rather water more, higher ppm, less often and have less stress in my life

It depends on the size of the pot they're in. The idea behind using coco in hydro is to keep it moist for two reasons. It keeps the salt build up down and keeps the roots from having to grow to search for water. Water frequently and you can use smaller pots. I use coco in flood and drain, feed twice a day. You can keep coco fairly damp, you don't wait for it to dry as this leaves salts behind and dry salts are harder to flush and you will end up with salt build-up.

When plants are small, I water(with nute solution everytime) when plants need watering, but never let them dry out as much as you would with dirt or soil.
The plants are treated this way until they are in flower, when they are usually then being fed as described below.

These plants below are in 1gal mesh bottom pots, filled with coco and perlite blend, get fed 3x's a light cycle via basket drip stakes. Each of those feed cycles is with a nute solution at 1.7/1.8 EC and until run-off has been achieved. This has been my favorite way to grow with coco ever since coco came out. I don't usually grow this way much anymore due to plant counts though
Below are plants in 7 gal pots. Although they are filled with Vermisoil this time, they are treated the same when filled with coco/perlite blend. They are fed every 3 days with a nute solution at 1.7-1.8 EC until roughly 15-20% runoff is achieved. This is my goto setup these days due to plant counts.

I'd take that perlite out and add gnat nix. Perlite attracts gnats and green algae. Gnat nix doesn't allow gnat larvae to hatch into gnats. & coco loves to be fed. I stay at 1.6 because I run multiple strains & I find some are more nute sensitive than others. If your feeding every 3 days your having nute uptake issues. Those pots being as small as they are will suck up very quickly. Nice plants tho. Experiment with 10-15 Gallon pots you won't be disappointed


Bawse!

Thanks for the replies everyone. I can't thank yall enough. Going to get bigger pots for sure. And I have let my pots dry out many times before. ): like to the point that there droopy as fuck. So I'm assuming I have a bad case of salt build up

No your plant feed very vigorously in coco. In flower they love to be fed


I love the coco!