B.O.G. LifeStar day F-44

Awesome looking plant how you like the nutrients? Got the same line you in coco?

J-Plug said:

Awesome looking plant how you like the nutrients? Got the same line you in coco?

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50/50 coco and vermiculite. I love GH, super easy, but thinking about going to a one-part dry fertilizer like Megacrop or something...just to give it a try.

low_and_slow said:

50/50 coco and vermiculite. I love GH, super easy, but thinking about going to a one-part dry fertilizer like Megacrop or something...just to give it a try.

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Awesome, I was planning on experimenting with 50/50 coco/perlite mix. I want to try that way and with 100% coco tek brand.
You mean like next time your going to mix mega crop into your medium, at the beginning of a grow? And still run your GH nutes? I was thinking about testing GH line with hydroponic trio. Just the two bottles of the Fox Farms pack. Not big bloom everyone here basically uses mega crop. I see also, but there’s so much choices hard to pick sometimes strains,nutes, soil brands.

No no no, haha, nothing of the sort.

1) Perlite is terrible and it pollutes. Either use 100% coco or add vermiculite, but Perlite is literally garbage, as in it floats away and runs into watershed when you throw it out or recycle it. I know this sounds like it's bucking a lot of mainstream advice. The only reason Perlite is popular is because it's way way cheaper than vermiculite, so lots of potting soil companies choose it over verm. That said, if you want a premium mix for cannabis, it's worth the extra money. I grew for a long time with straight coco and it works much much better than when you add Perlite. Coco plus hydroponic nutrients is the easiest method I've found for growing craft cannabis, when you dilute the coco with Perlite, it's cation exchange capacity and therefore it's effectiveness plummet. I honestly can't explain why people do it...

2) Only use one product line from one manufacturer at a time. If you combine products and GH products, you will definitely, 100% fail. What I meant was that I have been using General Hydroponic Flora Trio with good success, but I'm considering using a different nutrient lineup from a different manufacturer on a subsequent grow in fresh medium, once my bottles run out. GH is a liquid-based product, and I'm curious if dry powder nutrients can produce similar or superior results; lots of good results in threads on other forums. The benefit of dry powders is that you're not paying for the water; liquid nutrients are essentially dry powders pre-dissolved in water, if you get what I'm saying. Since all I'm after are the elemental salts, I can spend less to get them if the product isn't priced to account for shipping a bunch of water.

3) For a dry nutrient like Megacrop or similar, you dissolve it in some water, then adjust EC (ppm) to get the desired concentration by adding fresh water. Then you pH adjust to the target range. From there, you apply the fertilizer like you would for any other hydroponic system. I know there are some YouTube growers that pre-ammend coco with dry slow release organic fertilizer, but that's not my grow style, and it won't work at all with a salt-based fertilizer. Lots of sick plants in the infirmary forum struggling to mimic Mr. Canuck's Grow...

Check out "Coco for cannabis" it's a whole website about getting started with coco, tons of good info, although I don't agree with 100% of their content...