Nutrient Questions

Peace and blessing!!

Looking to start my baby on nutrients. I’m a first time grower so bare with me..

At what we should I start?
I have 6 plants..
they’re 4 weeks
They’re in Mother Earth Pro mix Coco Coir Plus Perlite
Why dosages should I give them?
any suggestions on what the best nutrients?
I have fish shit, terpinator and a few others

thanks for your time!

I'd give them Maxibloom, easiest for a new grower to stick to an all in one nutrient. You will need to test for PH and PPMs-a PH test kit is more reliable than a cheap PH pen, but a decent PH pen works best. You'll need to test for PH/PPMs regardless of what fertilizer you choose, esp in coco. You'll need PH down and possibly PH up, depending on your starting water source, to adjust your PH to your target. If you get a PH test kit, aim for a PH of 6. I'd start these on 2 grams per gallon Maxibloom (you could get grow and bloom both, but bloom works fine all the way through.) As the plants get bigger, you can increase the dosage up to around 7 grams when they are fully grown and in bloom. https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=191645. If this media is coco, you should be feeding them every single time you "water", which is probably once per day at this point.

Your growing in coco? And have not been feeding at all?

Am I reading correct?

Failmore said:

Your growing in coco? And have not been feeding at all?

Am I reading correct?

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I haven’t..

Coco is an innert media. It contains zero nutrients. When growing in coco you feed with every water.

You treat growing in coco similar to the way you grow in hydro.

You start with low ec of .4 or so. Then as plants grow you increase.

So yeah...start feeding.


I assume you use tap water, and your tap is probably got a lot of dissolved solids in it.

I use tap yes I adjust with ph up and down after applying cal mag.. I’m extremely new to this

Yeah you 100% need to start feeding. Need to read up on information about growing and coco and feed schedules.

Everyday should be water with feed. Should be watering every day. Coco is not supposed to dry out.

Failmore said:

Your growing in coco? And have not been feeding at all?

Am I reading correct?

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Im in no way trying to be rude but this is why i say coco is not inert. It dont contain enough food for a balanced diet which is why he is just now seeing the issues. lack of N and just plain hungry at this point.
I would go with maxibloom like ren suggested , its very easy to use. Same as failmore says , you should feed it every watering with a low dose.



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fish shit is perfect to hold you over till you get food for them. use the fish shit right away. (if its still good)