Recirculating Top Feed Coco grow. smart pots coir 4x4 flood trays perpetual.

doniawon

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View attachment 2396408View attachment 2396409View attachment 2396410View attachment 2396411View attachment 2396412View attachment 2396413View attachment 2396414View attachment 2396415Hello and thanks for stopping by! Currently i have 1 table full with 20 5 gallon smart pots just going into there 2nd week of bloom which ill post pics of tomorrow. I also have a table that ill be finishing today, 20 plants in 5 g sp's on a 4x4 flood tray as well. My media is a mix of pith and chunky coir. In the pics above i show how i layered the coco based apon info i gathered from the coco forum!. So far so good but i think ill try all coir next time for faster drainage? Actually ill run 10 in all coir, and 10 layered side by side, since i havent hit the grow shop yet.. more to come.. o i start with 12 to 20 inch rooted clones. strains are jack and blueberry
 
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View attachment 2399579View attachment 2399580These are 20 jack plants at 2 weeks in bloom. I was feeding them 2 times a day for 15 min and they did great for the first 10 days but they are now displaying signs of being overwatered. I first noticed the tops the plants wilting, then color fading in the leaves. now i have some yellowing and i checked the roots of the worst one and they are browning and the coco is just too wet all the time....

so im cutting back to 1 flood a day for 15 min. . untill the roots get established then ill try to bump it up to 2 a day?.

the new table will be a 1 flood a day also. i can afford to keep drowning these little bastards.
 
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update: i got this coco and filled the rest of my smart pots today.. no coir cubes though i had to settle for piece coir instead. less drainage but oh well....
 
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well after a day and a half without watering everythings starting to look better. starting to get green again. here is a shot of the wilted plant yesterday. it looks even better now. View attachment 2401703im still nervous about this crop because im getting signs of nitrogen deff 2.5 weeks into bloom. im seeing weak bud sites and the growth had stopped for about 2 days. 2 15 min a day drip cycles drowned everything but its getting back on track. fingers crossed. im gonna water them tonight and maybe fall back to 1 a day or 1 every other.
 
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here we are currently. 2.5 days no water... notice all the yellow leaves on the bottom of the plants. i think ill need another week of veg nutes and ill be misting them with nitrogen and silica. look better now but the damage was done. ill start watering again at lights on. View attachment 2402000
 
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this is the new table. rooted clones looked very nice and dark green. about 15 inches on average. ppm im going to be low this time and im going to be watering the pots based on moisture levels in the medium. (weight of pot) untill established then maybe once a day later in bloom.. day 1 bloom. View attachment 2402748
 
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and the other table. 2 weeks in bloom.. they were overwatered badly.. i let them dry for 3 days then watered again and i can tell it was still too early.. the wilty one drooped again and the whole table just seems to be wet again. this table is fucked and i think i may start over but i dont know if i can afford too?.. starting week 3 of bloom unfortunately they look like shit.
 
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transplanting all my 16 oz party cups, into 3 gallon bags of coco... this way they will fill the fives better during flower and i can prune them.. thinking of trying the main lining tech?.. View attachment 2404374
 
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new transplants, 2nd day of bloom sleeping and looking good.. only one watering so far with the transplant.
 
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day 3 of bloom... pots are still damp so i will not water tonight.. will be watering tomorrow at lights on.. plants looks good so far

day 21 of bloom... pots are still damp, i will not water them tonight either.. they are showing low vigor, slow growth yellowing leaves look water logged still but i hope ill get a decent yield still?.. next water will be 800ppm of mostly veg. nutes and just a lil bloom. usually i would be hitting them with liquid kool bloom at this point.. im kinda lost but keeping my fingers crossed.

pics tomorrow.
 
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at this rate im watering my coco plants like once every 3 days... not digging that at all.. my next starts will be from 2 gallon pots to 5's.. not 16 oz cups to 5 gallons.. hopeing that i can fill the pots with roots faster so i can water more often...
 
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table in the first pic is about to be scrapped they look like complete shit and the containers are taking 3 days to dry up. fuck that. My new schedule is water every other day with light nutes. my good tables showing a lil cal mag deff and a couple yellow leaves but other wise growing great looking great.
 
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