when the pots have lost 50% of the weight feed them, and let them get 10-30% runoff. the runoff will take care off the older nutes in the coco so always let it be runoff so it doesent build up salts. i think that answers boath your questions and sinnce i dont know your pot size i dont know how many gallons it takes to get 10-30% runoff so you do the math on that one. Good luck
coco really rocks..............
lol...cocoa. like chocolate milk....no. its COCO. nothing like chocolate milk ;P
they say it is coco coir on their website that require special nutes but they dont recomend anything on their website? dont let it get to dry when it loses about 50% of its weigt water it.if you are giving it nutes and letting it dry out you gonna get salt bildup and thats gonna f... up things.
I'm doing a coco grow for my first time after switching from a flood table with rockwool and it's kicking my ass. I find it MUCH more time consuming. All my plants are exhibiting problems of one nature or another though none are the same. It's hard for me to tell when to water, I lift it and it's still heavy but it looks like my plants are thirsty. My leaves are bleaching out on a couple while a couple of my big ladies are really dark green and the new growth is coming out twisted. Stuff I've never seen. Hand watering is a big issue because I'm growing in 5 gallon buckets so I'm having to life a 10 gallon jug to water. I would definitely go with a flood table if I were you. The thing is I don't know if Coco wicks like rockwool.
Botanicare's line of Veg nutes, at full strength. the Pro Blend Pro, liquid Karma and the Cal/Mag. and im at week 7, and they are getting ugly!! and yes i was just told today to never let them get dry, but i developed a gnat issue, so i cut back on the watering drastically. like to when the pots are bone dry. i just found out today that is no good at all. i just bought my PH meter about 3 days ago. so i am able to get my ph honed in right where i need it at 5.8-6.1.
im no expert and also fairly new to the coco scene and the advise ive have gotten from people is to keep it simple the first few times then maybe start adding new elements. i like the idea on only coco but maybe later start experementing with lets say 2 out of 10 pots with coco and perlite to se how its going. ive never tryed or heard of someone trying a hole bed of plants but pots seems easier, but if you gonna use 45 small plants pots it could be to much. i personaly do 12 3 gallon pots in 4 by 4 its easye to handle vatering and move around but thats just my two cents. for good info read this thread and this one : https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/225396-official-canna-coco-nutrients-thread.html
the only thing worse than to little nutes is to much nutes to fast so be careful. for the gnats i use yellow stickers it seems to hold them under control. you have other things to but i havent tryed them yet going but to try a layer of perlite or sand on the top so the gnats cant get to the coco.
I can account for this, watched one of the worst spider mite problems be solved like that on a finished product. The bastards showed up in the last few days right before harvest, moved it back a couple days to let the Co2 kill everything and they came out with no problem whatsoever. You ran your finger right over the top and all the webs and mites disappeared. Just be careful because you don't want to be breathing in that much Co2 for an extended period of time. And as for the pots/no pots thing, I just feel like pots will just take away more space and since I'm essentially trying to only produce as many nugs as I have clones. In soil, my friend pulled 330g from a 4x4 square under the same settings only a bigger room, but suffered production problems from neglect early on. He had 25 plants and as smaller collective nugs he averaged about a half ounce per plant. At the most, I'd only like to have about 4 nugs on each plant to keep space utilized the most, and to produce the best possible bud
Yeah I tell people all the time if they have Co2 and a bug problem to just crank that sucker up to 10,000 PPM and let the bugs die. It might use half a bottle or a full bottle but a refill is 20 bucks so thats cheap for a mite problem in my book.