I do this a lot, and also water only, I know I’m playing with fire because I’m in coco, but so far no issues and it saves me some nutrients lol.
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Looking good in there Sir.
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Everything looks amazing
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That’s some sexy ladies Brother!! 
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Mang! The Northern Dawgs look great! 
You can definitely pick out the personalities in that pic. I’m getting the vibe. Being stoned helps too. 
You think they’ll be about average height?
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Oh that’s definitely Blue Dream for me!
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Happy cannavesery mam
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Im loving those NorthernDawgs! They look great!
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I’ll get to try blue dream 2 ways. Solo cup grow if it lives thru the flower session lol and the top I took I clones so I have a bigger version just in case it don’t work out 
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Haha we in the same boat I want my 2 survive
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BOM voting is open, everyone go vote
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I have been using my soil mixture since my second grow. For those that doesn’t know it’s a 50/50 mixture of FF Ocean Forest and Coco Loco. I’ve been fairly successful with it and generally don’t need to start nutrients until flowering starts. The Coco Loco is supposed to be 50-60% coco ,the remaining is supposed to be aged forest products. It is also amended and buffered the same as Ocean Forest. I do use Tribus during Veg and add Botanicare cal-mag plus. I switched to Jack’s 321 during my 3rd grow and have been very satisfied with results.
When I was mixing up my soil I noticed that the Coco Loco seemed to have a different consistency and appearance than in the past. It actually appeared to have more coco than usual. I didn’t think anymore about until this week. I noticed that I was getting some, what appeared to be calcium deficiency. Then I noticed that some lower leaves were yellowing. Fairly unusual based on my past experience with this mixture. So I had a choice to make. Take runoff ppm’s or go with my gut, which was telling me that with the mixture having more coco in it I probably should start using Jack’s. I went with adding Jack’s, which may end up burning my girls or actually help with issues. If it burns them up, then I’ll be smacking myself on the head. If it doesn’t and it helps, then I’ll be telling myself damn, I’m good. 
I’ll update in a couple of days with results.
The yellowing
Calcium issue
Group photo
Northern Dawgs
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Good luck with the Jacks. I hope that does it for you. Jacks is easy to tweak if you need to.
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Hope jacks fixes the mistake there. I’ve tried cocoloco before any other coco and I must say I didn’t like it one bit. I had the same issues u have there and could not get it fixed. Took me taking the plant out and mixing ffof with the cocoloco finally got it on track and made it to the finish line. I’ve buffered the cocoloco set pH on it and all and still had nothing. Ut issues til I switched and mixed it. Cocoloco is a weird coco if u ask me lol
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That’s the thing, it’s not pure coco. Being mixed with soil you can’t really treat it like coco. When I first started using it I didn’t know that it wasn’t pure coco. When I realized that it was a mixture and it worked well I just kept using it. I’m fairly confident that by starting Jack’s things will get back on track.
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Hmmm maybe that’s my issue. I was setting pH to 5.8 like coco should be. Oh well that’s long gone now lol.
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You have to treat the Coco loco like soil it’s like Happy frog 6.5
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Looks like you’ve found the issue early enough with them needing a nute bump. Either my eyes are old or your lighting is different in each tent but the first group pic looks a bit lighter green. Or the OG’s are just more sensitive and need a bump. Your ND’s aren’t even fazed and kicking azz!
Have you done a pH and ppm runoff to see where you are? Just curious to know. Sometime in the future after a couple more grows I’m thinking about a jump to coco only. But I don’t really want to water every day, just yet. 
Still looking great after a month!
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I keep telling myself I should make the change, but I don’t for the same reason. With the Ocean Forest and Coco Loco mix I can 3-4 days between watering. I’ve been looking at HydroLock auto watering systems, I would like to invest into the 6 plant system. If I do I’ll make the jump to Coco.
I went with my gut and started nutrients Friday, so far they are responding great, no burn. I’ll put pics up tomorrow. I’m using Pacific Light Concepts strips in big tent and BudgetLed dot com lights in the 4x4. They’re similar to HLG QB’s .
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