Plan for 1st grow, next season, so far, is to get a couple of cheap, used kids’ wagons, and put a 10 gallon cloth pot on each. Medium will be a 70 coco-30 perlite mix, and I’m looking at Jack’s 321 for nutes. I’ll stick an inverted-cone tomato support in each pot, to help support the massive plants in the wind.
The wagons will facilitate moving the plants back and forth a couple times a day to get a reasonable amount of direct light, probably only 40-50’.
My question is: what quantity of water should I expect to use to mix with nutes for daily watering? This will help me figure out the best way to get that done; thanks.
It all depends on the stage of growth and how big they end up getting but I would think in full flower in a 10 gallon pot you could plan on at least a gallon per plant every 2-3 days or more depending on environment. Autoflower will be smaller and not require quite as much.
I’m not a coco grower but talking with a few of them and reading others stuff with coco outside it’s possible you will have to water them multiple time a day depending on what the weather is like where you live. Humidity is going to be a big part of how often you will have to water, I live in the desert so I’d probably have to water pretty often
I don’t want to mislead you, as I said I don’t grow in coco, but I believe I can call up some helpful people… @Covertgrower@Myfriendis410@BobbyDigital@beardless@Mark0427
I believe that all these guys grow coco and if not I’ll bet they’ll help you find help
You’re welcome, I know probably 40 more people that would be happy to help I just have this old man brain that only works when it wants to @JJ520 is coco for cannabis… umm @kaptain3d@kellydans
Most definitely there’s a lot of people on here that grow with cocoa it uses a different pH and you have to water more frequently and you get a lot more growth but yeah Coco’s definitely for cannabis and yes she would be feeding with every watering with Coco it doesn’t get anything unless you give it to it I personally still use soil would not be able to water so frequently myself But I’m very happy with the growth
I tried this and found them to be incredibly inconvenient. I would rather suggest using bamboo stakes and twist ties.
This is entirely dependent on the number of plants, plant size, pot size, environment, age of plant etc but plan on watering daily to runoff once plant is larger than the pot diameter. Coco needs to remain damp or it becomes hydrophobic and your nute water just runs out the bottom. Depending on pot size and how dry your climate may be, you could be watering twice a day.
excellent responses; thank you. I shall use stakes ‘n’ ties. wrt the water, this will be within range of my garden hose, so I’ll easily be able to mix nutes and water wherever the plants happen to be hanging out.
May I suggest another wagon for a 5 gallon nutrient reservoir and a gravity fed drip irrigation system. Another possibility is using sub-irrigation planters (SIP) also called self-watering planters. They work well with coco or peat. I made it through 6th week of flower with 5-gallon SIPs I was experimenting with. I did run into some pH issues and I had a bigger appetite for calmag than the plants. But I believe had I done some preventative maintenance like a good flush at pre flower, I could have made it to harvest. If I grew autos outdoors it would definitely be my container and watering system I would choose.
5 gallon is plenty in coco. It’s not soil. I normally do a 12 oz plant in 3 gallon with soilless. If you are wanting to grow monsters then 10 gallon and coco would not be my choice. @Big123 does his outdoor container grows and his are maturing nicely now.
I agree: you should not water a container plant straight out of the tap. Chlorine needs time to dissipate and chloramines require treatment: get a water report from your municipality to know which.
Also; coco can be kept very damp. Automated watering works pretty well and there are growers who water every hour while in coco.
lots of nute mixing.
