New Grower 1st grow / 4 seedbanks / coco / TSW2000 / GHE Trio

[Nunia720]

I can't wrap my head around how trying 2 fix if there was no soak/buffering. Your lucky I'm OCDso I have 2 find out now, lol.

 

[Jaydot]

I can't wrap my head around how trying 2 fix if there was no soak/buffering. Your lucky I'm OCDso I have 2 find out now, lol.

I did presoak with water and Plagron is supposed to be prebuffered so I thought I was good to go.
Besides that I water everyday with high PH run off, I should have flushed it right away when I noticed but yeah like I said, I read it wasn't important.
5.7 was going in and and 7 was coming out, but there's no saving them anymore.
I already have some new ones in paper towel anyway.

 

[Nunia720]

What plagron do you have? Seems like they have many variations

 

[Jaydot]

What plagron do you have? Seems like they have many variations

I use the normal bagged one coco premium.
This is also their take on it;
"Should Cocos Premium be rinsed or buffered before use?
No. Cocos Premium has already been rinsed and buffered, in accordance with the highest standards. You can start potting your plants immediately."

 

[Nunia720]

I'd deffinelty buffer before you start again, regardless what the package says.

 

[Jaydot]

So I keep rinsing the coco with 5.7PH 0.5EC water and the run off is ALWAYS around 6.5 PH
I've ran about 6 gallon through the pot and the PH has not changed one bit.
I am honestly starting to lose my mind here...

 

[Jaydot]

I had to plant the 5 seeds in party cups because I'm not able to drop the PH in the coco.

I think if I want to bring the PH down I will have to bathe the whole pot in 5.3 PH solution to drop to 5.9 PH
I ordered GHE PH down to replace the organic one I'm using.

 

[Jaydot]

They're at day 2 in party cups, hopefully this will be better to maintain PH while I bathe the pot in nutrient solution.
I feed them 0.5EC 5.7PH everyday, I do have 1L pots to transplant them too aswell if needed.
Let's hope for the best..

It seems General Hydroponics has changed up some things, new name (Terra Aquatic), new products, new feeding chart.
Some products are the same under a different name.

 

[Zer0]

Coco is kinda complicated but I'm new, I'd just transplant in some ffof and your favorite mycorrhizae blend (recharge, great white, i used bigfoot) and let them feed themselves but again i opted for the easy way out, heck i didn't even use light mix for seeds, i used the "to hot" ffof for seeds and they did great, although next time just to be safe i'll put some light mix in a pocket around the seed.
The only thing i do is ph down my 8.1 tap to 6.2-6.5 until i get to around week 4-5 in my soil then i'll 50% nute or maybe 25%, not sure yet as i'm not there yet.

I look forward to watching how your batch does.

 

[Jaydot]

Coco is kinda complicated but I'm new, I'd just transplant in some ffof and your favorite mycorrhizae blend (recharge, great white, i used bigfoot) and let them feed themselves but again i opted for the easy way out, heck i didn't even use light mix for seeds, i used the "to hot" ffof for seeds and they did great, although next time just to be safe i'll put some light mix in a pocket around the seed.
The only thing i do is ph down my 8.1 tap to 6.2-6.5 until i get to around week 4-5 in my soil then i'll 50% nute or maybe 25%, not sure yet as i'm not there yet.

I look forward to watching how your batch does.

I still think something is not good about my tap water, maybe its the calcium carbonate making the ph rise.
I'm kinda looking at RO systems but they're kind off expensive.

Does anyone know a cheaper option for RO water?
What about those 10L brita filters, does that work?