First ever grow and would love some constructive criticism and advise!

curious2garden said:

Coco needs to be treated like hydro. It needs more water and daily feedings. Amending coco is tricky and doesn't work unless you really know what you're doing. For example you are showing a little too much N and too little K.

Amendment requires the building of a microherd to break down the nutrients, whereas hydro nutes are immediately available to the plant. Looks like you will make it to the end. Overall your plant looks good and you've done well. Best of luck finishing her.

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speedwell68 said:

They are Autos. They should be between 18/6 and 24/0 not 12/12.

I am quite new to Autos and have sought the advice of others and the consensus is that Autos require less nutes than Photos. Mine are in a peat based off the shelf soil called Jack's Magic, the sort of stuff you'd use for general gardening, I just add a touch of Mycorrhizal fungi granules where the root will expand into it. They get nothing but water for the first two weeks after germinating. Then they get grow nutes (Blattwerk Pure & Epsom Salts) mixed at 50% until they hit the second week after flowering begins. After that they get Plant Magic Oldtimer's Bloom, PK 4-8 at 50% with a touch of Epsom Salts every other watering until the end. My plants are green and lush with no sign of any nute burn. My guess is that your mix is too rich.

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AlphaSnor said:

Appreciate the feedback man. and yes what you said I partly new but I just didnt know ameding was so tricky with coco so you live you learn. Because of my concern I did buy some nutrients specifically made for coco. Just simple Plagron coco a+b. Any reason I should not use that? better to ask a stupid question than screw up now

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speedwell68 said:

They are Autos. They should be between 18/6 and 24/0 not 12/12.

I am quite new to Autos and have sought the advice of others and the consensus is that Autos require less nutes than Photos. Mine are in a peat based off the shelf soil called Jack's Magic, the sort of stuff you'd use for general gardening, I just add a touch of Mycorrhizal fungi granules where the root will expand into it. They get nothing but water for the first two weeks after germinating. Then they get grow nutes (Blattwerk Pure & Epsom Salts) mixed at 50% until they hit the second week after flowering begins. After that they get Plant Magic Oldtimer's Bloom, PK 4-8 at 50% with a touch of Epsom Salts every other watering until the end. My plants are green and lush with no sign of any nute burn. My guess is that your mix is too rich.

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curious2garden said:

You are loaded with time released ferts that feed every watering. So you are locked into watering and feeding like soil. If you had some single major nutrients (N,P,K), you could give a little bit of K but I think you'll make it just don't panic if the foliage gets a bit ratty. You look like you have another 4 weeks give or take to finish.

PS Next grow go with Coco/perlite and your Canna A+B, be ready to feed/water daily and see the difference.

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myke said:

Would maybe a kelp tea/juice with molasses bump the K without too much N?

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bEelzeBosS said:

Like you discovered for yourself and many others have said, organics can be done in coco but I would not recommend it. Way easier to mess up and you'll get better quality and yields with regular nutrients. The canna coco line is the best I've ever tried, by far really but there are several others that will work just fine.

And you can switch now if you'd like, even though you've been going organic you can switch to coco-geared nutes. Just make sure you pH it and feed until you get a lot of drainage the first time. After that feed until it starts running out fairly well, no need to drain a third of your container size like some claim...just make sure its very well saturated and starts dripping rapidly from the bottom then stop.

Also several will disagree with me for some reason but they're wrong...there is no need to add perlite to your coco. You're just wasting the perlite and robbing the roots of space to grow. Coco is the best soil-like medium for root oxygenization, there's absolutely no need to add perlite to give them more.

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myke said:

I imagine you could water less often with out perlite.

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bEelzeBosS said:

Like you discovered for yourself and many others have said, organics can be done in coco but I would not recommend it. Way easier to mess up and you'll get better quality and yields with regular nutrients. The canna coco line is the best I've ever tried, by far really but there are several others that will work just fine.

And you can switch now if you'd like, even though you've been going organic you can switch to coco-geared nutes. Just make sure you pH it and feed until you get a lot of drainage the first time. After that feed until it starts running out fairly well, no need to drain a third of your container size like some claim...just make sure its very well saturated and starts dripping rapidly from the bottom then stop.

Also several will disagree with me for some reason but they're wrong...there is no need to add perlite to your coco. You're just wasting the perlite and robbing the roots of space to grow. Coco is the best soil-like medium for root oxygenization, there's absolutely no need to add perlite to give them more.

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AlphaSnor said:

Thanks for taking the time to reply! Right now i'm torn between a couple of routes I could take. Just use plain water for the remaining time since I have quite a lot of slow release fertilizer in my pot. (but now that I have slight nute burn won't that make it worse if I release more by watering?), doing nothing for a while so there are no new nutes going to the plant, or using the coco based nutrients I have lying around. But don't you think the nute burn will get worse then too? Oh and i'm using a pot that is 11 liters, or around 3 gallons. I have no idea what I can expect of this plant and don't have the ''right eye'' to be doing a guess while looking at the plant now. I'm hoping around 30 grams would be nice but I have no idea if that's optimistic or not. We shall see.

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