New Grower First Time Growing Anything! Featuring Twisted Tree and Mephisto in Coco/Perlite

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I was happy to see this morning that my fears were unfounded and my plants have made progress. It appears that all my seedlings but one survived after being dropped from several feet onto a dirty floor and landing directly on their roots, an entire night of near 90F+ temperatures, and the classic newbie mistake of over watering and over saturating. They seem much happier now that the pellets aren’t soaking wet and the environment is stable at 79-80F and 82-85% humidity. Shoutout to Mother Nature, Mephisto, and Twisted Tree for excellent breeding because heaven knows I tried my best to kill them.

And a big thank you to @parsing_trees, I followed your advice and the membrane came off easily with no issues.

CocoforCannabis suggests transplanting to solo cups once roots emerge from the pellets. I don’t see any roots emerging from the pellets yet, but do these look ready for solo cup containers? My coco is already buffered with 5ml/gallon of calmag and later today I will fertigate the coco once more with ph’ed low EC nutrient solution so that the runoff EC is at an acceptable EC range for the babies. 3 days ago I measured the runoff of the coco at 900 EC which is obviously too high.

 

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Realized that both cookies and the 3bogxmango had roots poking out of the pellets! Neither sour stompers are quite there yet but I decided to transfer all them into solo cups.

Coco had been watered with 5ml/gallon cal mag the other day. Before transplanting I made sure to saturate the coco in solo cups until runoff with 150 ppm 5.8-5.9 ph nutrient water and sprinkle microbes around the hole. Solo cup runoff measured at 220 ppm. Starting off light then will gradually increase throughout the week. I’m using a diluted feeding chart roughly based on Dyna-gro recommendations and some charts I found on ICMag. The nutrient ratios are: 1/4 tsp/gal Pro-Tekt, 1 tsp/gal Foliage Pro, and 1/16 tsp/gal epsom salt. This time I also put a tiny pinch of Yucca as well.

Other measurements I wrote in my notebook.
Temp: 77F
Humidity: 70
VPD: 1.13-1.15
Light Schedule: 20on/4off
PAR estimate: ~230, will increase gradually
DLI: 16.56

 

[proustdreams]

It's just about to be day 4 for the plants and they're looking good. I can see the second set of leaves starting to develop for all of 5 of the plants. Making an update because after doing some more reading I adjusted my feeding schedule once more.

Adjusted my feeding chart roughly based on a chart I found here provided by @Mañ'O'Green and another I found by a user named Stoned Drifter on RIU. I'm basically using the same ratios as ManOGreen's chart, but with a base of 1ml/gal Cal Mag that some other users have been using for Dyna-Gro in coco. I also diluted the feed to ~170-180 ppm and 6.0-6.1 ph and watered until runoff. Also increased light intensity slightly today.

Temp: 76F
Humidity: 71%
Estimated PAR: 315
DLI: ~22-23

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

It's just about to be day 4 for the plants and they're looking good. I can see the second set of leaves starting to develop for all of 5 of the plants. Making an update because after doing some more reading I adjusted my feeding schedule once more.

Adjusted my feeding chart roughly based on a chart I found here provided by @Mañ'O'Green and another I found by a user named Stoned Drifter on RIU. I'm basically using the same ratios as ManOGreen's chart, but with a base of 1ml/gal Cal Mag that some other users have been using for Dyna-Gro in coco. I also diluted the feed to ~170-180 ppm and 6.0-6.1 ph and watered until runoff. Also increased light intensity slightly today.

Temp: 76F
Humidity: 71%
Estimated PAR: 315
DLI: ~22-23

What is the PPM of your water before and after the addition of the Cal-mag?

 

[proustdreams]

What is the PPM of your water before and after the addition of the Cal-mag?

My water averages 85-95 ppm, but I’ve been cutting it with 0-20 ppm water. For simplicity’s sake I’d say I’ll usually be starting with around 60 ppm base starting water.

However just for today I mixed my nutes with 1 gallon of RO water at 0-5 ppm.
First I added Pro-Tekt -> 11ppm
Then 1 ml calimagic -> 71 ppm

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

My water averages 85-95 ppm, but I’ve been cutting it with 0-20 ppm water. For simplicity’s sake I’d say I’ll usually be starting with around 60 ppm base starting water.

However just for today I mixed my nutes with 1 gallon of RO water at 0-5 ppm.
First I added Pro-Tekt -> 11ppm
Then 1 ml calimagic -> 71 ppm

I think you are flirting with the low side of Ca for coco. Harley recommends 100 - 200 PPM and coco likes some so I would shoot for 150 PPM of Ca as the minimum.

 

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Bad news!!! Disaster struck this evening and while I was adjusting the fans inside the tent, I knocked over one of my cookies! It completely fell out of the pot, roots and all. Torn roots strewn across the floor and dirt everywhere TT. I quickly picked up the remaining rootball that was attached to the plant and placed it back into the cup. I’m hoping for the best but it was a pretty rough fall.

For those who’ve had similar accidents and tried to salvage an auto, how did it go?

 

[proustdreams]

Right about to hit day 10 and I’m seeing some progress but things appeared to have slowed down. One good thing about dropping one of my plants (RIP cookies #2) is that I was able to see exactly how wet the bottom of the soil was. Turns out I may have been watering too much or I did not punch enough holes in the bottom of the solo cups for sufficient drainage and water accumulated at the bottom. I’ve watered to run-off twice at 240 ppm and 270 ppm approximately approximately 2.5 days apart.

Either way, the plants appear a bit slow or unhappy at this point. Looking at some of the other journals around here my plants seem behind at day 10.
Pic 1: Sour Stomper
2: 3bogxmango - some discoloration on the newer leaves. I did splash some nutrient solution on the leaves yesterday. So not sure if its an early sign of something or simply a result of getting nutes on the leaves.
3: Sour Stomper 2 - warped leaves possibly due to helmet head?
4: Cookies

 

[PeaceLove&Buds]

How come they’re in two solo cups?

 

[PeaceLove&Buds]

I don’t have experience with solos as I go straight to my fabric pot, but I grow in coco also and I’m wondering if you’re getting good enough drainage for oxygen or if there’s enough room in the cup for you to only water around the perimeter which is necessary to get the roots to stretch looking for moisture. Coco should be fertigated daily to about 20% runoff and the fabric pots allow the necessary drainage and the risers your cups are sitting on will get air to the bottom of your pot.