Switching to coco

[Gl1tch]

Damn, I was pulling for you bro. I guess they can’t all be girls.

[JPhoenixX]

Well it is 2024 maybe I can have a talk with him and see if he wants to identify as a girl?

At some point I would like to get my own seeds but I’m not ready for that yet I only have the 4x4 tent for a while yet

[JPhoenixX]

So Safety Sam told me not to risk anything happening to the ATF. I had to get rid of the male and I can’t even be mad about it. The bastard went down swinging I cut my finger on the pot while taking him out. Guess I gotta respect that at least

[MagicCultivator420]

Hello again @Low @Gl1tch @JPhoenixX

Thanks so much for this information and support Low.

@Low

Most of those things come with soil. Hydro application should be kept clean. Bacteria is very beneficial in place of microbes. Keeps lines clean, and keeps salts moving. Better health for root zone. However would be killed by peroxide.

@Low

Use them if you got em! I would just do it outside of the reservoir and separately just to be safe.

Got it Low. For the first 2 weeks application it shouldn’t be an issue. The plants will still be in a small pot where I’ll be handwatering/feeding with a syringe at that point not using the rez and H2O2. AN’s schedule is first 2 weeks of veg and first 2 weeks of flower. They’ll go in the bigger Air Pot with the auto watering once they’re around 3 weeks old. For the 2 weeks of flower I’ll add them in separately by hand I guess.

@Low

Cleaning an empty reservoir is preventative as well, build up in the res can still happen with or without the use of peroxide. I go through 500 gallons a month of nutrients, clean the reservoir 8 times a month, clean filters every res. I use peroxide in my RO before I transfer to nutrient tank

500 gallons? For how many plants? Between 3 plants I was feeding 60 litres a week at max and always getting at least 20% run-off. I wonder if I have something wrong with this as I see various growers feeding way more gallons than I am. But if I’m getting ample run-off doesn’t that mean the coco is fully saturated?

Got it about keeping everything clean, I’ll definitely give all this information priority and be doing all this every time I make a nute mix.

So the peroxide goes before making the nute mix then, I was assuming afterwards to sterilize it? Or both?

@Low

Keeping a clean system is priority as it is literally the life blood of the grow.

@Low

I take every opportunity I can to help clean the system.

You have really expained the importance of taking every opportunity possible to get a cleaning in for the system, especially for hard to reach places like the tubing. Thank you so much.

@Gl1tch

It’s far more impotent to worry about the conditions in the root zone than to worry about lacking this bacteria or that fungi.

Thank you for that detailed explanation about microbes. By conditions in the root zone you mean keeping an optimum pH and PPM from the run-off?

@Gl1tch

helps to sterilize the fresh solution and in the process it also aerates it at the same time. you clean your res to sterilize it and you add H2O2 to nutes to sterilize the solution itself before sealing it up to be used. It’s yet another step to help keep anaerobic bacteria at bay for as long as possible by reducing their population to start with a clean slate

Got it, makes perfect sense. Low said he adds the H202 to the RO water before it goes in the rez. I fill water into 25 litre jerry cans from my RO. So, drop some H2O2 in each jerry can, transfer that to the rez, make the nute mix, then add some more H2O2 to the mix?

@Gl1tch

I didn’t mean to give you the wrong idea. You can add pharmaceutical H2O2 to your water with no problems. The stabilizers will wash through or get broken down by microbes. Unless you don’t plan on eating large quantities of your soil you should be ok. You just wouldn’t want to clean vegetables or spray your nugs with it because you are going to consume those and you don’t want to consume the stabilizers with them.

Thanks, that’s good to know, and thank you for the health warnings. I’ll be careful with it. It’s much easier to find the regular stuff here than the food grade version, I’ve made a few calls ith no luck.

@JPhoenixX Really sorry to hear about the male plant, that sucks The ATF looks nice though. Some of your comments are funny lol, with the flamethrower and the plant putting up a fight till the end

Thanks again for your time and advice everyone, I truly appreciate it and feel like I’ve learnt some very useful knowledge from this topic.

[JPhoenixX]

Thank you @MagicCultivator420 I’m at a point in my life that I don’t have the energy to be angry I try to find some humor in it and move along

[MagicCultivator420]

That’s a very positive and zen-like outlook, well done. Best of luck with the coco grow!

[Cloudy8241]

Me too.

[JPhoenixX]

Just a little progress report for you guys that helped get me going in coco @Gl1tch @Low @DRsDank @MagicCultivator420

I hope I can keep the canopy this even throughout flower

And just because I think it’s funny here’s my new truck alarm system

Thanks again for the push I’m really enjoying the results I’m getting in coco

[Low]

Looking good! Start putting feeder mice out for that guy

[Gl1tch]

Girls are looking great. I had a little buzzard hanging out by my greenhouse the other day. He was eating a eating a cholla rat while I worked on the greenhouse. I think the ravens also figured out that they can use the watering can as a flotation device to get water out of the garden rez.

[JPhoenixX]

@Low

feeder mice

He prefers birds he chased one out of the wife’s feeder it hit the side of my truck so hard I heard it from inside

[JPhoenixX]

@Gl1tch

eating a cholla rat

I thought he would go for the squirrel that hangs out on my tire but he just bitched at it lol

[cc014572]

Awesome advice. I use 3 gallon air pots in 50/50 mix but have an automated watering system and fertigate 4 times a day. Definately need 5 gallon pots if hand watering else you will go crazy as big plants suck up a ton af water.

[JPhoenixX]

Gave the girls a haircut this morning. Thinking of going 12/12 maybe this weekend. I’m still really happy I switched to coco

Then just because I figured why not try getting a clone to root.

[JPhoenixX]

The girls are 63 days old today, flipped the lights a few days ago. They seem to like the coco as much as I have so that’s always good.

Candy kush

She’s getting big she took to all the training and asked for more. She should have been bushier but I messed up and left her next to the humidifier while getting blasted by the fan and she ended up losing a whole arm of her manifold.

ATF

She’s a shorty I tried a few times to get her to stretch out a little but she wasn’t having it. She just wants to be a little teapot short and stout.
I don’t think I’ve ever dealt with one that is this compact. I’m hoping she’ll stretch and make some room.

@Low @Gl1tch @DRsDank @MagicCultivator420 @DoneDeal

[Gl1tch]

The girls are looking fantastic bro, Looks like it’s going to be a merry Christmas for you.

@JPhoenixX

She just wants to be a little teapot short and stout.

I have a white widow now with the same issue. I believe it’s just a different genotype coming through. There are some environmental things you can do to help her spread but changing the environment will affect them all so, not ideal with more then one. I was actually just reading last night about using auxins (the plant equivalent of HGH) to create greater internodal spacing, but there are a lot of unwanted side effects too. I’m just letting mine ride.

[JPhoenixX]

Thank you I can’t wait till the flowering starts.
I gave up trying to get her to do what I wanted and just left her alone. I’m curious as to how well it’s going to do I’ve never had one stay this compact. I take some leaves off to open her up a bit and you can’t tell the next time I open the tent so at least she’s happy lol

[Gl1tch]

She will likely do just fine. She looks good and healthy is just a different shape. The one I have killing it in early flower.

[MagicCultivator420]

Those look brilliant and super healthy @JPhoenixX Well done and keep up the good work! Keep us updated! Looking forward to seeing them in flower ^-^

[JPhoenixX]

@Gl1tch

likely do just fine

I sure hope so lol

Normally I can see where it’s going and how I want to shape it. This one has me stumped maybe when she starts flowing I’ll get an idea. At this point she looks like she’s strangling herself she is starting to stretch a little tho

Thanks @MagicCultivator420 it’s nice when things work as I planned lol