Coco Problems. Help Please!

Hello again Rollitup members!

This time around, I have a question regarding some problems and/or deficiencies I am noticing in my mother plant here. She has been in veg for 3 months now from seed and has been in a 1.5 gallon gallon pot for most of her life. The plant has been grown in a 50:50 coco/soil mix. I didn't notice any deficiencies throughout the lifetime of the plant until now.. I am seeing some greening of leaves happening mostly on one side of the top canopy...and also some most of the leaves have dark purple outlines...I am suspecting the greening is because of lack of feeding. I am using Technaflora's recipe for success at a little over 2/3 strength. PH of nutes going in has been consistently at 6.8 and run-off is at 6.3.

I am suspecting that the plant has outgrown the 1.5 gallon pot and there are root problems beginning. I plan on transplanting this plant to a 5 gallon pot very soon. Do you guys have any pointers to correct any apparent problems in the plant? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Below are some pictures I took of the plant. Please have a look.

Greening canopy:



Purpling outlines:



Purple outlines:

Id replant it to straight soil. Easier to manage.

Alienwidow said:

Id replant it to straight soil. Easier to manage.

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Yeah? in which ways is it easier?

when you say greening, are you saying the upper part is a pale green color? I suspect that straight soil was suggested because that way you probably don't have to add anything else, provided you use a good quality soil.

Transplant...whats needed

Straight soil without preadded time released nutrients. Or put her in a trough with rock and set the drip timers.

unlmtd216 said:

Yeah? in which ways is it easier?

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Well you dont have to water to so much runoff. Theres micros in the soil that you dont have to supply. Potting soil usually has crushed oyster shell in it and lime added. Youll pay less in fertilizer. Dont have to monitor ph as closely. Dont have to flush as often, mix nutes as often. You know, just easier all around to manage.

Thanks All! Will take the tips into consideration!

I change the res's about once a week and give everything the once over to be sure there aren't any potential flaws in the system. So if I'm late by a day or have to be early by a day to service the op no big deal. The timers will keep feeding the plants and it won't hurt the clones in the bin to go an extra day or to without watering them on the schedule. If it were a conventional soil grow being late by a day could spell potential disaster. A perpetual F&D grow op with timed drip feeders on the moms requires a lot less attention and work. It just requires more info. I figured it all by myself so hydro can't be that difficult.

bird mcbride said:

I change the res's about once a week and give everything the once over to be sure there aren't any potential flaws in the system. So if I'm late by a day or have to be early by a day to service the op no big deal. The timers will keep feeding the plants and it won't hurt the clones in the bin to go an extra day or to without watering them on the schedule. If it were a conventional soil grow being late by a day could spell potential disaster. A perpetual F&D grow op with timed drip feeders on the moms requires a lot less attention and work. It just requires more info. I figured it all by myself so hydro can't be that difficult.

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Interesting. I'm always looking to make my life easier when it comes to cultivation. My first plant I ever grew was in a peat/perlite mix. Ever since I tried coco and DWC, I never wanted to go back. But, I have heard of the ease of growing in a supersoil mix and have done research and plan on doing a 10-gallon supersoil grow. The reasons I'd like to try this is the easy factor, the fact its all organic (no flush necessary), and I also plan on growing outdoors and I need to get used to growing in soil. Anyways, I think I will transplant the mentioned plant to a Promix mix with a bit of dolomite lime and then inoculate it with bennies made with EWC and fungi. I have actually never made any teas in the past but have done research on the topic and it sure does sound like it would improve the soil experience for me.

Thank you everyone for the tips!

Hey...the experimenting is the best part of growing. I've gotten fantastic results using supersoils etc. I've just become old, spoiled and set in my ways.

How does coco work with DWC ?

*BUDS said:

How does coco work with DWC ?

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lol...coco in the netpot of course...just kidding. I obviously meant I tried the two different methods -_- lol which are both considered "hydroponics" but coco is more like soil in my opinion. EXCEPT the fact that it is completely inert of course....