Coco problems, need help asap!!

kingzt

kingzt

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Hey everyone I need some help with a problem that occurred. I am growing in Gold Tupur and coco based medium, and I am starting to notice these brown spots on some strains. My base nutrients are house and garden coco nutrients and I am also using cal mag plus. My first reaction was a cal mag deficiency but these spot seem a little different. Also these plants are almost two weeks into flowering and in veg I never ran into a problem. My ppms are around 1000 and ph is always around 5.7- 5.9. I am getting concerned because I have noticed this issue on only two strains both different but starting to see changes in the others. Please any help will be greatly appreciated.
 

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RolllingStone

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I am using the H&G base only but someone told me you get amazing result if you use their whole line up like multi zen. Flower stage nuts>> Budxl, shooting powder
 
kingzt

kingzt

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Well here's an update. The plants look amazing but these strange spots. So the way I water might be causing the issue. I hand water every other day about 2 gallons each. The plants are in 7 gallon smart pots with a large coaster underneath them. So when I water the run off goes into the coaster and I just leave it there so the pot can wick up the run off. So there might lie the issue. I the checked the ph of the run off and it was at 7. Maybe when I allow the plants to wick up the run off it's causing a ph drift in the medium when i should really just drain to waste. Anybody with some tips or can tell me I'm heading in the right directions will be appreciated, thanks.
 
RolllingStone

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kingzt said:
Well here's an update. The plants look amazing but these strange spots. So the way I water might be causing the issue. I hand water every other day about 2 gallons each. The plants are in 7 gallon smart pots with a large coaster underneath them. So when I water the run off goes into the coaster and I just leave it there so the pot can wick up the run off. So there might lie the issue. I the checked the ph of the run off and it was at 7. Maybe when I allow the plants to wick up the run off it's causing a ph drift in the medium when i should really just drain to waste. Anybody with some tips or can tell me I'm heading in the right directions will be appreciated, thanks.
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kingzt

kingzt

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RolllingStone said:
Yep im growing in coco i might try full hydro next run with there aqua nutes
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Pictures are in first post. I ran aqua flakes for a long time in sunshine mix and had great results then I wanted to try coco. I have noticed significant growths compared to all my other grows. Only problem I ran into with coco so far is this current one.
 
RolllingStone

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kingzt said:
Pictures are in first post. I ran aqua flakes for a long time in sunshine mix and had great results then I wanted to try coco. I have noticed significant growths compared to all my other grows. Only problem I ran into with coco so far is this current one.
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Here are mine clone
 
kingzt

kingzt

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@Stonironi So I measured the ppms of my runoff and they were extremely high, so I now know what my problem was. I was just letting the salts build up by watering every other day and letting wick back up in the pot. I am actually surprised that they look as good as they do from basking in that high of nute solution. So I guess I have to work a little more at it. I am not looking forward to water 2 gallons every day and I bought a shop vac to suck up the run off
 
CoB_nUt

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@kingtz, appears you have it sorted. I was thinking you are good with the two gals, but being that you are in 7 gal pots, it probably a good idea to not let them sit in runoff. Also I don't check my coco runoff,it can be very misleading. I feed with <750 1.4-1.5 ec all the wasy thru veg&flower. Checked the runoff once and the ppms were well over 1400!!! The girls didn't notice nor did they skip a beat.
 
coreywebster

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kingzt said:
@Stonironi So I measured the ppms of my runoff and they were extremely high, so I now know what my problem was. I was just letting the salts build up by watering every other day and letting wick back up in the pot. I am actually surprised that they look as good as they do from basking in that high of nute solution. So I guess I have to work a little more at it. I am not looking forward to water 2 gallons every day and I bought a shop vac to suck up the run off
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I throw towels down and it soaks up, remove them 30mins later and throw them in the laundry. I have a lot of towels!
 
Stonironi

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CoB_nUt said:
lol corey, the wife will not allow nutrient,compost tea etc... towels into her washer nor dryer! shop vac it is!!!!
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Get a pump from harbour freight . It sits outside of the room and you can hook a hose to it and suck the water right out of the saucers into a garbage can or whatever . I went directly into my garage drain but it makes it easy and the pump is like 30 bucks no towels no mess . You don't need to feed at 1.7 that will always cause build up . 8 mls per gallon works all the way through . Maybe a little less on babies. It is like .9 ec before the additives. But the additives don't raise it much at all anyways.
 
Stonironi

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kingzt said:
@Stonironi So I measured the ppms of my runoff and they were extremely high, so I now know what my problem was. I was just letting the salts build up by watering every other day and letting wick back up in the pot. I am actually surprised that they look as good as they do from basking in that high of nute solution. So I guess I have to work a little more at it. I am not looking forward to water 2 gallons every day and I bought a shop vac to suck up the run off
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Lol I told you sir :) if you need anymore help with the coco and house and garden I will try to help . It's the end product that matters
 
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