From coco to soil

flodas

flodas

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Hey i whant to transplant my plants from coco to soil is it okey or will it cause any problems?. I am som fucking mad at this shit coco its only giving me problems i dont get it earning 1 extra week in veg or something and you get tons of problems balance issues, calmag, medium holding on to the nutrients, backbreaking runoff every watering and thats ALOT. Im OUT !!!!!!!!!!!
 
Growdict

Growdict

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sorry to hear that. I have the opposite experience. I had been having issues in promix, but the coco/perlite mix is doing much better. I am just running GH micro 6/ bloom 9/ botanicare calmag 3 per gallon PH 5.8 and everything is very happy. pour the water/nutes in, come back in 30 minutes and shop vac the runoff, super easy. I got some plastic oil pans from the dollar store for runoff, they hold 7 Quarts.
back to your point, if you are still in veg, you can wash off some or all the coco and transplant into new soil, but it will take 2 weeks for the roots to re-establish properly, and there is always a possibility of it going into shock and stunting. if you are in flower already, dont do it.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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i've had the opposite experience as well. i use perlite/coco in hempy buckets, feed every other day, in veg, they grow about twice as fast as they did in dirt. i use 20 gallon totes made into hempys when i flower, they finish about two weeks faster than they used to, and on average i get about twice as much as i got out of 8 gallon pots of soil.
i agree with Grow, you can do it, but be very careful if you do, root damage takes a while to get over.
 
Growdict

Growdict

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sorry for the hijack, but dude, how are you doing 20 gallon totes as hempys? 1 plant per tote? thats huge.
 
vostok

vostok

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flodas said:
Hey i whant to transplant my plants from coco to soil is it okey or will it cause any problems?. I am som fucking mad at this shit coco its only giving me problems i dont get it earning 1 extra week in veg or something and you get tons of problems balance issues, calmag, medium holding on to the nutrients, backbreaking runoff every watering and thats ALOT. Im OUT !!!!!!!!!!!
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No Biggy

allow the plants to dry out some and

simply pot up to a good quality soil (FFOF) with 25% perlite

15 liters/3usg

then water well

good luck
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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^yes, 3 20s and a 5 in a 5x5, or will be shortly. have 2 20s now and 2 5s, when the older plant in a 5 gets ready, i'll replace it with another 20. i'd go with 4 but it would make it too hard to get in there and do anything. i can take a plant in a 5 out and work on the other 3 when i need to.
 
flodas

flodas

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Growdict said:
sorry to hear that. I have the opposite experience. I had been having issues in promix, but the coco/perlite mix is doing much better. I am just running GH micro 6/ bloom 9/ botanicare calmag 3 per gallon PH 5.8 and everything is very happy. pour the water/nutes in, come back in 30 minutes and shop vac the runoff, super easy. I got some plastic oil pans from the dollar store for runoff, they hold 7 Quarts.
back to your point, if you are still in veg, you can wash off some or all the coco and transplant into new soil, but it will take 2 weeks for the roots to re-establish properly, and there is always a possibility of it going into shock and stunting. if you are in flower already, dont do it.
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Thank you for the reply. They are in veg week 2 so i tok the rootball out almoste no roots in. 2 weeks sounds very long
 
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