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Ok folks, ive failed on 9 x mephistos seedlings already and have the next lot 5 days from germination as the link to my diary shows.


The two larger plants are mephistos that grew and are around 5 weeks from germination, ive switched lights a few times and am sticking with the sf4000 on 200w atm, the 9 x shitty looking plants are the mephistos that are dire and getting the bin today.

I have all the gear with no idea, lol, so any help would be massively appreciated.

Im growing in canna coco pro plus, use vitalink coco nutes grow bloom npk, have rhizo. silicon, etcetc.

Thanks in advance forum members.

uk420man
 
uk420man said:
Ok folks, ive failed on 9 x mephistos seedlings already and have the next lot 5 days from germination as the link to my diary shows.


The two larger plants are mephistos that grew and are around 5 weeks from germination, ive switched lights a few times and am sticking with the sf4000 on 200w atm, the 9 x shitty looking plants are the mephistos that are dire and getting the bin today.

I have all the gear with no idea, lol, so any help would be massively appreciated.

Im growing in canna coco pro plus, use vitalink coco nutes grow bloom npk, have rhizo. silicon, etcetc.

Thanks in advance forum members.

uk420man
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Cocos not the easiest medium to jump straight in with ... but if you put in the time, it will reward you.

1. Get the environment stable
2. Keep the coco moist and PH'd to 5.8 with at least some nutes in at all times. (people have different opinions on this .. but i'm right lol)

I can't mentor you as i'm on lazy grow super light duties. I keep things as simple as possible and spend as little time as possible. That involves Soil .. Simple nutes (Veg ... Flower ... PK) and an autopot.

There's a few handy guides that may help in the coco section

https://www.autoflower.org/forums/growing-with-coco-coir-discussion.244/


The canna coco tips was put together by yours truly some 8 years ago .. but it's specifically for canna coco pro plus, and taken directly from Canna info pages (which don't seem to exist any more, unless hidden behind the club membership)

Some other really good guides in there too.

If you wanna try lazy mode and can get Biobizz Lightmix soil and Canna nutes, i'm happy to send you my schdeule.

All the best

Blue ^_^

:d5:
 
I primarily use a living soil, but have been contemplating doing a coco run and the following is just a few tips I have in my notes.

One thing I noticed is you do not use any perlite. Every one that I know who uses coco has at least 30-40% perlite in their coco.

Nutes should be approx half of what a photo would be given.
 
Soil is alot more forgiving than coco.
Starting your growing journey in cocos is brave
but as @blue says it will reward you in time.
I'd rather use pre amended soil as its makes life easy and a I'm lazy. Lol
When I started growing. I would try copy a person who's grow style was a style i liked and copy thier methods.
Then tweek it to suit me or to get the desired results i wanted.

Keep the faith bro is the main thing.
 
blue said:
Cocos not the easiest medium to jump straight in with ... but if you put in the time, it will reward you.

1. Get the environment stable
2. Keep the coco moist and PH'd to 5.8 with at least some nutes in at all times. (people have different opinions on this .. but i'm right lol)

I can't mentor you as i'm on lazy grow super light duties. I keep things as simple as possible and spend as little time as possible. That involves Soil .. Simple nutes (Veg ... Flower ... PK) and an autopot.

There's a few handy guides that may help in the coco section

https://www.autoflower.org/forums/growing-with-coco-coir-discussion.244/


The canna coco tips was put together by yours truly some 8 years ago .. but it's specifically for canna coco pro plus, and taken directly from Canna info pages (which don't seem to exist any more, unless hidden behind the club membership)

Some other really good guides in there too.

If you wanna try lazy mode and can get Biobizz Lightmix soil and Canna nutes, i'm happy to send you my schdeule.

All the best

Blue ^_^

:d5:
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Lazy mode for the win lol
 
blue said:
Cocos not the easiest medium to jump straight in with ... but if you put in the time, it will reward you.

1. Get the environment stable
2. Keep the coco moist and PH'd to 5.8 with at least some nutes in at all times. (people have different opinions on this .. but i'm right lol)

I can't mentor you as i'm on lazy grow super light duties. I keep things as simple as possible and spend as little time as possible. That involves Soil .. Simple nutes (Veg ... Flower ... PK) and an autopot.

There's a few handy guides that may help in the coco section

https://www.autoflower.org/forums/growing-with-coco-coir-discussion.244/


The canna coco tips was put together by yours truly some 8 years ago .. but it's specifically for canna coco pro plus, and taken directly from Canna info pages (which don't seem to exist any more, unless hidden behind the club membership)

Some other really good guides in there too.

If you wanna try lazy mode and can get Biobizz Lightmix soil and Canna nutes, i'm happy to send you my schdeule.

All the best

Blue ^_^

:d5:
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ive been growing in canna coco pro plus past 10 plus years always sue vitalink nutes as tried all the others and always something amiss etc etc, never ever have issues with vitalink classic nutes and i just use grow, bloom and pk and rhizo starting off and just started using silicon for better a resistance to mold, which i've had a few times, anyway i know the basics been growing 20+ years constantly, just never with auto's. I alway ph 5.9 this being the sweet spot, i've used this for 10 years now with no problems.
I prefer to hand water even though i have everything to hand, new/boxed to do a complete dripper feed system etc just prefer the watering can, lift pot light, water, heavy don't, lol.

thanks for advice fella.

uk420man
 
Talonxracer said:
I primarily use a living soil, but have been contemplating doing a coco run and the following is just a few tips I have in my notes.

One thing I noticed is you do not use any perlite. Every one that I know who uses coco has at least 30-40% perlite in their coco.

Nutes should be approx half of what a photo would be given.
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Lol been down perlite/vermiculite route years ago, absolutely no benefit from using it, it just attracts algae imho, they say coco is airey, i disagree to an extent, imho it holds water like a sponge, i water when needed and will do the half strength ratio from next feed tonight.

I will try living soil very soon, my mate keeps going on about it and i like what i've read about it.

thanks for advice fella.
uk420man
 
Lol brave
Born slippy said:
Soil is alot more forgiving than coco.
Starting your growing journey in cocos is brave
but as @blue says it will reward you in time.
I'd rather use pre amended soil as its makes life easy and a I'm lazy. Lol
When I started growing. I would try copy a person who's grow style was a style i liked and copy thier methods.
Then tweek it to suit me or to get the desired results i wanted.

Keep the faith bro is the main thing.
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Lol, whats brave about it. i know exactly what is in the inert coco as i am feeding it unlike soil where the bugs like to breed, ool done soil 20 years ago never again, maybe living soil very soon.

Keep The Faith, Lol you opened a can of worms there mate, i'm well into my northern soul music and dancing.
uk420man
 
uk420man said:
Lol brave

Lol, whats brave about it. i know exactly what is in the inert coco as i am feeding it unlike soil where the bugs like to breed, ool done soil 20 years ago never again, maybe living soil very soon.

Keep The Faith, Lol you opened a can of worms there mate, i'm well into my northern soul music and dancing.
uk420man
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Keep on dancing then buddy
 
So I am about to make up a feed any recommendations on strength please the seedlings are 4-5 days since germination thanks in advance folks uk420man
 
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