I want to change my Growing medium from soil to Coco. How good is Coco for our plant? What nutrients are easy to grow with maybe Canna Coco A+B?
New Grower How good is Coco for Growing?
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It's pretty good!
You'll need an EC meter & PH meter if you don't have one.
Other than that fairly straight forward. PH to 5.8 through the first grow and it should see you good.
If you're going for the Canna range .. I'd get Rhizotonic, CannaA, CannaB, (maybe some cannamono calcium) and for PK booster, i prefer dutch pro explode over CannaPK13/14
The most efficient way to feed coco is drip feeding multiple times a day, although i got fine results watering drain to waste like soil ... wating for the pots to dry and then watering to 10% reun off (and not letting the pots sit in the water ... you can put the pot on little feet if discarding water is a pain in the arse)
There's some great coco growers on the forums, I think Hansbricks and ronin both rock coco grows well!
hope this helps
Blue
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here's a link to the coco subforums here https://www.autoflower.org/forums/growing-with-coco-coir.244/?order=reply_count
The link should sort the threads by reply count so you'll have the popular ones at the top!
There's also some stickes which hold a good bit of information!
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How is the quality from the Buds? Thank you guys!
Blue really covered the basics well. I'll just add a little bit of my own stuff.
I do Coco it's a great medium and is sure to give you really large yields, all things being equal. Most of the time with Autos I hand water on a drain to waste setup. Lately, I've been doing Auto water. I prefer halo rings and pumping the water with a large pump so I water each plant in about 25 seconds. Usually about 4 times in a 24-hour period depending on pot size.
You can get organic nutrients and beneficial microbes and get I'm sure the same quality as soil if done well. Or you can get nutrients where the minerals have been chelated or put in the best form for the plant to uptake. That's really what beneficials do in organic they just take a form of mineral that's not all that usable to the plant and turn it into something that's highly usable.
I've run both organic and non-organic nutrients in Coco as well as used some of the more expensive supplements on the market and I just don't see any difference at all between the different methods. I've lab tested quite a bit of what I've grown at least when it is high CBD and I don't see any difference in the terpene profiles between organic or non-organic. One thing I can say is I can get better terpene profile if I use terpinator at the end of my grow. @Unique swears by using terpinator all the way through.
It's easier to grow in Coco if your background water is not too high in EC or total dissolved solids. I would prefer under a hundred and fifty total dissolved solids myself. Usually when you go higher than that some nutrient companies will make a hard water line of nutrients or suggest other additives.
Coco Growers should use Silica and Cal Mag in every grow. Some Coco specific nutrients may have enough Cal Mag if you're not using LEDs.
It's worthwhile to cover the top of your coco with an inch or two of well washed clay Pebbles to keep the bugs out of the Coco. You won't have near the problem with bugs that you would in soil, but it's still a good idea to put a barrier on top.
If you switch be prepared for large plants. That means lights that can penetrate as far into a canopy as you can get, mine go about 36 in. You also need to do significant training or have plenty of height in your grow area. That complicates things if you think about the quality of light needed to penetrate 36 in and the distance you'll need to keep from your plant which will get much larger in Coco.
You can tag me by putting the @ in front of my name, if you have more questions
I do Coco it's a great medium and is sure to give you really large yields, all things being equal. Most of the time with Autos I hand water on a drain to waste setup. Lately, I've been doing Auto water. I prefer halo rings and pumping the water with a large pump so I water each plant in about 25 seconds. Usually about 4 times in a 24-hour period depending on pot size.
You can get organic nutrients and beneficial microbes and get I'm sure the same quality as soil if done well. Or you can get nutrients where the minerals have been chelated or put in the best form for the plant to uptake. That's really what beneficials do in organic they just take a form of mineral that's not all that usable to the plant and turn it into something that's highly usable.
I've run both organic and non-organic nutrients in Coco as well as used some of the more expensive supplements on the market and I just don't see any difference at all between the different methods. I've lab tested quite a bit of what I've grown at least when it is high CBD and I don't see any difference in the terpene profiles between organic or non-organic. One thing I can say is I can get better terpene profile if I use terpinator at the end of my grow. @Unique swears by using terpinator all the way through.
It's easier to grow in Coco if your background water is not too high in EC or total dissolved solids. I would prefer under a hundred and fifty total dissolved solids myself. Usually when you go higher than that some nutrient companies will make a hard water line of nutrients or suggest other additives.
Coco Growers should use Silica and Cal Mag in every grow. Some Coco specific nutrients may have enough Cal Mag if you're not using LEDs.
It's worthwhile to cover the top of your coco with an inch or two of well washed clay Pebbles to keep the bugs out of the Coco. You won't have near the problem with bugs that you would in soil, but it's still a good idea to put a barrier on top.
If you switch be prepared for large plants. That means lights that can penetrate as far into a canopy as you can get, mine go about 36 in. You also need to do significant training or have plenty of height in your grow area. That complicates things if you think about the quality of light needed to penetrate 36 in and the distance you'll need to keep from your plant which will get much larger in Coco.
You can tag me by putting the @ in front of my name, if you have more questions
AutoWonders
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One question is....you will water more with coco if not hydro, do you have the time to cover that?
I use Canna A&B and like the product. Same with Sensi A&B coco and Fox Farm solubles
I use Canna A&B and like the product. Same with Sensi A&B coco and Fox Farm solubles
Free Flow
Hydro Junkie
I need to get me a few of theseJoin us in autopot section. Set it and forget it method.
More time a Day?
I Grow the last Years in 15l Airpots with Soil most only 1 plant! I see BIG plants growing in Coco that's Crazy so 15 Liter are way to much i think
6 ore 7 Liter are great?How much Water do you mean guys? Today I water every 2 Days 3 Liter with litte bit Run off how much Water with Coco?
With Coco you only use smaller Pots if you plan on watering frequently. It's best to stick to the 3,4 and 5 gallon pots in my opinion. If you got a big 5 gallon fabric pot you could water like soil probably every 3 days when the plant is mature.More time a Day?
I Grow the last Years in 15l Airpots with Soil most only 1 plant! I see BIG plants growing in Coco that's Crazy so 15 Liter are way to much i think
How much Water do you mean guys? Today I water every 2 Days 3 Liter with litte bit Run off how much Water with Coco?
