Help Coco not Looking as Good as Soil

asaph · Mar 16, 2011

Snow Crash said:
It is very important to keep the CEC of the coco balanced. If there is an electrical imbalance based on an element deficiency of the media then nutrients can be leached from the seedling to achieve equilibrium.
You are trying to create a harmony and bond of roots and media. If the seeding has a high concentration of nutrition when the media does not then the nutrition can flow out of the plant into the media to create this harmony. Maintaining this balance and harmonization is coco is arguably the most difficult part of using the media hydroponically.

I had the notion of osmotic pressure in my mind but this important point I did not reach. A thousand reps to you my friend for teaching. Now I'm gonna see your grow thread.

soon i'll post pics of my (slowly yet steadily) improving plants.

asaph · May 8, 2011

I should update this. Adding more nutes to the coco that had no nutes to begin with helped my plants, and they've been thriving every since. I'm 3 weeks into flowering now.

dmwk1822 · Jun 15, 2011

hey man im using havest moon coco and its working perfect. i dont add any perlite or anything else. any ways if your not putting any nutes in your coco the runoff should not be 1500ppm it should be around the same as the water you give it (water ppm is 60 than your runoff should be 80) you have to wash coco before you use it. and i give my plants nutes at like day 4 or day 4 out of the soil. i start with 1/8 then move to 1/4 after a week. coco has nothing in it after you wash it so they dont have much to eat. maybe you dont have to feed them im not very experienced but i do have 2 sets of plants 2 that are 2 weeks old and i didnt give them any nutes till like 4 days ago and i have 3 that are 1 week old and i give them nutes and they have done alot better than my first ones. anyways your main problem is that you didnt wash the coco right???

asaph · Jun 15, 2011

dmwk1822 said:
hey man im using havest moon coco and its working perfect. i dont add any perlite or anything else. any ways if your not putting any nutes in your coco the runoff should not be 1500ppm it should be around the same as the water you give it (water ppm is 60 than your runoff should be 80) you have to wash coco before you use it. and i give my plants nutes at like day 4 or day 4 out of the soil. i start with 1/8 then move to 1/4 after a week. coco has nothing in it after you wash it so they dont have much to eat. maybe you dont have to feed them im not very experienced but i do have 2 sets of plants 2 that are 2 weeks old and i didnt give them any nutes till like 4 days ago and i have 3 that are 1 week old and i give them nutes and they have done alot better than my first ones. anyways your main problem is that you didnt wash the coco right???

nah, i think my main problem was that I didn't give them any nutes. like you said coco has nothing in it and my plants were hungry (it could even be that it was sucking the food out of them).

not washing the coco, i think that has also been problematic, but in other contexts.

Help Coco not Looking as Good as Soil

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