First Time Auto Grow , any advice welcome :)

[nard420]

Awesome thanks heaps for that ! I lowered the light as soon as I read your response and when I woke up this morning she has popped through the soil !

 

[420Forever]

into the brave new world! ppp

 

[nard420]

I'd add to remember not to let the coco dry out completely once the plant is bigger and never use only water (don't treat it as soil, coco is a bit different)... always water with some nutes. Next watering shoud be with low strength nutes.

Awesome thank you for that info ! I’ll post a picture of what I have at home , could you please recommend if it would be ok ?

 

[nard420]

I'd add to remember not to let the coco dry out completely once the plant is bigger and never use only water (don't treat it as soil, coco is a bit different)... always water with some nutes. Next watering shoud be with low strength nutes.

I had no idea that coco was not soil haha ! I’m very new to this lol , could you please give me some more detailed instructions on how and what to water with ? thank you so much !

 

[nard420]

I'd add to remember not to let the coco dry out completely once the plant is bigger and never use only water (don't treat it as soil, coco is a bit different)... always water with some nutes. Next watering shoud be with low strength nutes.

This is what I planted it in , I think it’s got nutrients added

 

[420Forever]

I had no idea that coco was not soil haha ! I’m very new to this lol , could you please give me some more detailed instructions on how and what to water with ? thank you so much !

i'm not a coconut, but i do know u can't let it go dry & u hafta feed with each watering, and....yup, that'z all i know about it ppp

 

[nard420]

i'm not a coconut, but i do know u can't let it go dry & u hafta feed with each watering, and....yup, that'z all i know about it ppp

haha no worries thank you !

 

[Garage_Grower]

Make sure you feed with each watering, not just plain water. Try and shoot for 10-15% runoff each time once the plants are 3 weeks old or so. Keep the ph between 5.7-5.9 to keep the nutrient uptake in the sweet spot. Other then that, I stopped growing in coco because it grows too big of plants! It’s a great medium to master! :smoking:

 

[NorthernLights_420]

I drench the whole pot when I plant a seed in the soil. Lol never no damping off or nothing bad that's happened to my plants as of yet. But I lightly water from there on out. Until they're more established of course. Definently dont want to overwater but I usually do a quarter of a gallon to half gallon per 5 gallon grow bags and havent had any troubles yet. Maybe I'll try to water less at first when I plant too to see if theres a difference or not

 

[NorthernLights_420]

Make sure you feed with each watering, not just plain water. Try and shoot for 10-15% runoff each time once the plants are 3 weeks old or so. Keep the ph between 5.7-5.9 to keep the nutrient uptake in the sweet spot. Other then that, I stopped growing in coco because it grows too big of plants! It’s a great medium to master! :smoking:

Oh man I miss how big my hydro plants wud get compared to soil. But height is an issue for me now in tents so i grow autos in soil now instead. But i grew some big autos in hydro.
Never tried coco but I'd like to rock that and organics down the road. I like learning to master all the methods just for the fun of it