Very first water to run off????

[Sheriffatman]

hi peeps,
my first plant ever is at 2 1/2 weeks, straight into 5 gallon root pouch ( coco )when she popped, ive been advised to water until run off, so just had a go, obviously it hasn’t gone great, I just gave her 4 .5 litres of water, 20 mins later base of root pouch is still bone dry. Do I have to just keep until run off because I feel like I’ve just finished her off for good.
cheers
The Sheriff

 

[JSH1973]

Sounds a bit like your coco has gone to dry and water is just running straight through it.
For Coco it needs to be kept moist/wet but not soaking.
Before even putting your seed in to the pot you are best giving the pot it's first watering until run off and then drop the seeds, first week or so you won't need a full run off, just until it starts dripping.

 

[St. Tom]

hi peeps,
my first plant ever is at 2 1/2 weeks, straight into 5 gallon root pouch ( coco )when she popped, ive been advised to water until run off, so just had a go, obviously it hasn’t gone great, I just gave her 4 .5 litres of water, 20 mins later base of root pouch is still bone dry. Do I have to just keep until run off because I feel like I’ve just finished her off for good.
cheers
The Sheriff

hi bro you did 2 threads the same so i deleted that for you also @JSH1973 hit the nail on the head about letting coco run dry for future referance

 

[JSH1973]

You can probably rescue the whole thing but after only 2 weeks I would bin it and start over in new fresh coco.

 

[Sheriffatman]

Can’t let her go, sorry lol. Would I get run off with 4.5 litres if it hadn’t dried out?

 

[Sheriffatman]

Sorry for double thread, it said something went wrong and did not post. Obviously it did.
also I heard nothing but good things about this forum and how helpful people are, so for someone’s advice is “ just bin it” , that didn’t go down to favourably with me. You all started from scratch once like I am now. I’ve obviously misread and mislead myself into the world of coco growing, and was under the impression that I only watered around the seedling a couple of inch, until it’s more developed, then water to run off. I don’t wanna get anyone’s back up on here because it’s a good place to pick brains. And I’ve only just joined. This is my plant in the last 24 hours. She’s so pretty and full of symmetry lmao I just can’t kill her off. If she dies naturally then so be it, but I don’t give up that easily. If I get anything out of this it will be a lesson learned and some more know how for my next attempt.
sorry to rant , I just put one out
The Sheriff

 

[Arthur]

Watering around the seedling works well in soil, especially with new growers that tend to get heavy with the watering.
Coco is not like soil, you should treat as growing hydroponically. You feed every time you water, and overwatering is virtually impossible. ( I have friends that feed coco every 6 hrs.... they're in drastically smaller containers, closer to one gallon) 5 gallons is a lot of coco for a single plant...
You need to be monitoring several things, pH of your feeds, ppm or EC of same.

Runoff ph & ppm/ec

These are your guiding stars running coco. And... one of the best parts about coco, if things get out of range, you just flush with a corrected mix and off you go. In soil, that's a fast way to mess things up!


Been a while since I ran coco regularly, am a soil guy. Run into problems, post something in the infirmary. Lots of great growers around here to watch and learn from.

 

[JSH1973]

I said just bin it because it's only two weeks, reason for starting over fresh instead of trying to save something that is damaged to much while very young is that it is way more likely to give you a best possible 1st grow experience and motivate you for another.. And another
I'm only on my second grow and learning myself.
Plant doesn't look bad though so if you just watered the whole pot through it will probably pick up, give it a week and then decide if you want to keep going with it or start over fresh.

 

[EP3]

I concur, coco sounds very dry. Nothing wrong with the method you have employed. Just she could have handled water to run off sooner.
I agree with run the coco to run off before planting or my new method, after good advice on AFN, start in a solo then into a large pot.
EP3

 

[Capt.Quirk]

I know nothing about coco but the plant looks swell.