Coco; feed every watering??

cannabis culture

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First time in coco, (Botanicare cocogro). Useing cocos a & b , roots excelleator, multi zen and drip clean. Should I be feeding nutrients every single watering? Or should I perhaps do a FEED-FEED-ALL WATER-FEED-FEED, and so on? I'm about 3 weeks from seed.
 

Flash63

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Yes always feed @ low e.c.and most important DTW...don't let the coco loose more than 50% of its weight after watering.I have been in coco using H&G for many years with great results.good luck
 

kali kid greenthumb

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Yup feed every time ,you should always have some cal-mag around coco tends to hold on to cal-mag even potassium and won't make it available until the cation exchange capacity is at max ,now thats a very simple way of explaining it do some research you will find it real quick. I feed every time some people do exactly what you thought feed,feed,water,feed,feed... but I just alternate between kelp and amino's on the plain water day to help prevent from leaching all the cal-mag out.

Oh yea are you hand watering or using drip system?
 

teknival

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also as cali green said .. Definitely have cal mag on hand. You don't want to get signs of an early calcium and magnesium deficiency and not have it around. I currently use it at about .5 ec in my feed. It is actually getting quite expensive and I am looking into making some diy cal mag from calcium nitrate and magenesium nitrate. I just need the proper ratios.
 

Aeroknow

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I would definitely use a drip system. Plus with coco smaller pots with multiple daily feedings at low strength is way better. I didn't believe smaller pots was better until I tried it. It also saves money on coco as well. Check out this coco thread it really explains a lot and I have been using it as reference for my grow.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=241341

my grow
https://www.rollitup.org/t/2-1000w-moby-dick-scrogs-4x4.859571/
I like multiple feeds per light cycle via basket drip stakes also. Problem is, when I rock that type of setup, it's usually 16- 1gal mesh bottom pots per 4X4 tray/1000w light. Kicks ass yes!
Problem is, if you got 20 lights, well, do the math and thats a lot of plants.
I grow trees also in 5 or 7gal pots and kill it also.
I prefer a coco blend(30% perlite) in either setup.
I feed everytime to about a 20% run-off. Usually at 1.6-1.7 EC. I've been doing this since coco came out as a medium for us.
 
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