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I believe 'little and often' is the best method of watering a plant. Reason being the highest performing systems are the ones where nutrient, water and oxygen are all always available to the roots. Think NFT, drip systems, deep water culture. Actually the absolute best thing to do is setup a drip system. It won't cost much and with a bit of planning should be easy to do and maintain.
But feeding by hand you want to water them a little but often. Always feed them nutrients when you water them, because coco has NO nutrients in it. You must provide them with all the nutrition they require.
I personally don't believe that run off is required if you are feeding your plans properly. However run off is a good way to fool proof growing by always partially flushing the plant. To run off or not to run off if your choice. If you have a lot of perlite in your coco (say close to 50% perlite, or more than 30% at least) then it's fairly impossible to over water coco.
The EC of your water is perfect. It's slightly on the soft side so just watch out for cal/mag deficiencies. Your PPM you are feeding them at is good. Once in a while do feed until run off and capture the first shot glass worth of run off and check it's EC and pH. That will give you some insight into what's going on inside the pot.
When it comes to feeding plants like I said earlier (I'm pretty sure, because I always seem to say this) you want to feed plants water and nutrients and every single feeding you want to increase the % of nutrients by a tiny fraction. This way it increases the pressure around the root system gradually, more and more over time, forcing more and more nutrients up into the plant. I call this 'pushing the plant'. If you do this (push the plant) gradually and consistently (instead of all of a sudden increasing the nutrients the next week for the first time) the plant will acclimatize the same way a body builder at a gym does.
You can tell how well you are feeding by the intensity of the green of the leaves. If they are dark green you are pushing them enough. If they are getting light green you need to step up the amount you are pushing them slightly. If they are getting really dark green you need to step back a touch.
Hope that helps.
I believe 'little and often' is the best method of watering a plant. Reason being the highest performing systems are the ones where nutrient, water and oxygen are all always available to the roots. Think NFT, drip systems, deep water culture. Actually the absolute best thing to do is setup a drip system. It won't cost much and with a bit of planning should be easy to do and maintain.
But feeding by hand you want to water them a little but often. Always feed them nutrients when you water them, because coco has NO nutrients in it. You must provide them with all the nutrition they require.
I personally don't believe that run off is required if you are feeding your plans properly. However run off is a good way to fool proof growing by always partially flushing the plant. To run off or not to run off if your choice. If you have a lot of perlite in your coco (say close to 50% perlite, or more than 30% at least) then it's fairly impossible to over water coco.
The EC of your water is perfect. It's slightly on the soft side so just watch out for cal/mag deficiencies. Your PPM you are feeding them at is good. Once in a while do feed until run off and capture the first shot glass worth of run off and check it's EC and pH. That will give you some insight into what's going on inside the pot.
When it comes to feeding plants like I said earlier (I'm pretty sure, because I always seem to say this) you want to feed plants water and nutrients and every single feeding you want to increase the % of nutrients by a tiny fraction. This way it increases the pressure around the root system gradually, more and more over time, forcing more and more nutrients up into the plant. I call this 'pushing the plant'. If you do this (push the plant) gradually and consistently (instead of all of a sudden increasing the nutrients the next week for the first time) the plant will acclimatize the same way a body builder at a gym does.
You can tell how well you are feeding by the intensity of the green of the leaves. If they are dark green you are pushing them enough. If they are getting light green you need to step up the amount you are pushing them slightly. If they are getting really dark green you need to step back a touch.
Hope that helps.
