New Grower First auto flower to start in a few weeks!

[jdot]

Arg! I require some advice. As you know I am using coco and the coco I bought (and now have my girls in) was supposed to be pre-rinsed and buffered...apparently I was incorrect. What recommendations do you have for doing a full flush/rinse of the coco? Do I remove the girls first or is there a way to safely do it with the 5 day old plants in the pots?

Yo dude, I got the same light and stunted my plants at the start too. I'm a noob and just learning, but I recovered mine by moving the light to ~32-36" above the plants and give it a few days with just water. The other thing I did was switch to AN ph perfect stuff + RO water and ditch the pen. I need to figure out one thing at a time....

Round 2 with the lights that high and bam all is good....that 800W COB is hot.

Edit: I assume they are the same but mine is red in color otherwise identical, it has the Epistar chips drawing 210W.

 

[DJ High]

Yo dude, I got the same light and stunted my plants at the start too. I'm a noob and just learning, but I recovered mine by moving the light to ~32-36" above the plants and give it a few days with just water. The other thing I did was switch to AN ph perfect stuff + RO water and ditch the pen. I need to figure out one thing at a time....

Round 2 with the lights that high and bam all is good....that 800W COB is hot.

Edit: I assume they are the same but mine is red in color otherwise identical, it has the Epistar chips drawing 210W.

Thanks for your reply but my issue has nothing to do with the lights. It has to do with using un-rinsed coco and the damage it can cause.

 

[jdot]

Thanks for your reply but my issue has nothing to do with the lights. It has to do with using un-rinsed coco and the damage it can cause.

No sweat, mine looked about the same at that stage with the same height and was just passing on what helped me and maybe help out. Once my runts recovered and grew into the light they showed stress around 24" again and had to move it up some more. Royally boned my first grow...I chased all the same stuff, flushed, decreased nutes and kept fighting different symptoms with really slow growth until I bumped up the lights. Our setups are almost identical..

 

[DJ High]

So in the absence of direct assistance I decided to flush the coco with my girls still in it...I just avoided getting the plants wet. I flushed 2x the pot volume (11L/3g) with tap water and let it drain completely (took about an hour to stop draining). Ph'd and did a TDS test on the run off and got a ph of 6.8 and a TDS of close to 800ppm. Then I made up a batch (3 gallons) of calmag 1/4 strength and dumped it in (slowly again avoiding contact with the seedlings) and ph'd the run off at 6.3 and the TDS was now down to 327ppm.

Hope this won't disrupt the girls too much. I am planning on starting the base nutes in about a week.

Hope I did this correctly

 

[DJ High]

Mild signs from the one young-un of over watering...eg; slight curling up of one side of one leaf. Turned on small fan for added air circulation and will not feed for a few days. Hope they will be ok.

This pic is about 6 hours after the flush...

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

theres a lot of threads in lots of sections on this forum hard to keep track of half of them.
bad news i know bugger all about coco other than its a bit trickier than soil,some rinse some no rinse.but lets see what we can do,blue had a good coco tips thread https://www.autoflower.org/threads/canna-coco-growing-tips.29173/
another from Slater https://www.autoflower.org/threads/watering-times-frequencys-schedule-etc-discussion.64541/
Ash has a great starters thread https://www.autoflower.org/threads/school-daze-seed-to-jar-live-guide.65331/page-11#post-1837726
if you have a general type question pop over to live stoners https://www.autoflower.org/threads/current-live-stoner-gossip-may-june-july-2018.65428/page-1395 you may have to skip 100 pages its full of stoners but some of them know what theier doing,or knows someone who knows.
good luck n keep er lit.

 

[DJ High]

theres a lot of threads in lots of sections on this forum hard to keep track of half of them.
bad news i know bugger all about coco other than its a bit trickier than soil,some rinse some no rinse.but lets see what we can do,blue had a good coco tips thread https://www.autoflower.org/threads/canna-coco-growing-tips.29173/
another from Slater https://www.autoflower.org/threads/watering-times-frequencys-schedule-etc-discussion.64541/
Ash has a great starters thread https://www.autoflower.org/threads/school-daze-seed-to-jar-live-guide.65331/page-11#post-1837726
if you have a general type question pop over to live stoners https://www.autoflower.org/threads/current-live-stoner-gossip-may-june-july-2018.65428/page-1395 you may have to skip 100 pages its full of stoners but some of them know what theier doing,or knows someone who knows.
good luck n keep er lit.

Rock on bro...thanks!

 

[DJ High]

Ok the first full week is past and here is the update...

It has been friggin' hot here lately with high humidity and even with AC I was having a struggle to keep the tent under 82 with the lights on. But a reasonable 75ish with the lights off. Humidity is now dropping but still bouncing back and forth from about 55 RH to 65 RH...I'm good with that tho.

The girls are growing with not too much stretch yet. They are both about 1.5" tall and about 1.5" at the widest leaves. Both have their second set of double leaves and just today I am seeing signs of both having the third set of leaves popping out. As stated a few posts back I had to flush the coco the girls were in because I was mistaken that the coco I got was pre-rinsed and buffered...I was wrong. So I decided to do a flush and buffer the coco even though I knew it would likely stress the girls a bit (better now then trying to deal with nute lockout via high salt levels).

About 6 hours after the flush and buffer the one lady looked a bit like she was over watered (leaf edges slightly curling up a but...see 2nd pic below). But today she is praying to the COB Led gods like a good girl. I decided to skip one or two watering/feedings seeing that the coco was flushed yesterday; I want to let them recover a bit before I continue with the feeding/watering. The other lady is doing well also.

Going to continue to water/feed about 100ml each with 1.25ml/g of calmag and nothing else ph'd to 6.2 @ about 250ppm. Once they enter vegetative stage (hopefully in about a week ) I will start to increase water volume (500ml) and start with the Calmag 2.5ml/g & 1.25ml/g of Micro & Grow.

Here are some pics

Oh and BTW ... if anyone sees anything of concern please let me know...as the saying goes..."it takes a village..." ...do the girls look a bit pale to you?

 

[KREATURE]

It’s hard for me to tell but they look good to me!!!

 

[DJ High]

It’s hard for me to tell but they look good to me!!!

To me they just look a bit pale and the one the tips are a darker green...that's all.