ebenezerfagglegold
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ok so I have been sending seed after seed to the meatgrinder trying to get these things going in coco. second time grower. did my first with miracle gro and thought that was bad but that was nothing compared to this.
problems are obvious in the pics. Orange burnt leaves on one. Miserably sick fuck of a plant in the other. The orange one may possibly be a nutrient burn, because light nute solution is one of the things I've tried on THAT ones.
so it's gone like this: bought a hot house humidity dome with heat pad. Tried that. Lost 4 seeds right away to damping off. Tried using heat pad without the humidity dome. lost 4 more to damping off, though more slowly this time. All of these are after only 1 initial watering and that's IT, and this is a 80/20 coco/perlite mix, which(*from what I've read) you should be able to water every single day and be fine.
next thing I tried was germinating in paper towels for a long tap root before planting and only very lightly watering. This time it was like a dead stunting. They'd pop out of the soil and never push out any true leaves. They would have little crispy moldy looking spots where the true leaves should have been. I have one survivor from this session, though I made the executive decision to cut off the mold to prevent spreading.
next thing I tried was disinfecting the coco. gave it a soak in a hydrogen peroxide solution. let it sit overnight. flushed the bejesus out of it with plain water, then baked the coco in the oven at 250 for 3 hours straight, then used very diluted general hydroponics rapidstart (npk 1,.5,1) with 2 drops of calmag to a gallon of water. Planted a seed and this is where the orange burnt one came from. That one sprouted 2 days ago but the other one sprouted on the 15th, so its obviously stunted to hell, but still alive.
Next I tried starting them in jiffy peat pellets before transplanting them into coco, which I'm having success with at the moment, but I don't know what's going to happen when those roots go deep into that coco.
Anyway this is a total mindfuck. Everything looks good on paper. Plenty of light. Temps and humidity are right. Lightly watering. phing water to 6.5. sterile medium, sterile equipement, rubber gloves.
Guys if anybody has experienced something like this, specifically with coco coir, could you give me some help. Its not genetics because I have two different strains of shit weed in there.
problems are obvious in the pics. Orange burnt leaves on one. Miserably sick fuck of a plant in the other. The orange one may possibly be a nutrient burn, because light nute solution is one of the things I've tried on THAT ones.
so it's gone like this: bought a hot house humidity dome with heat pad. Tried that. Lost 4 seeds right away to damping off. Tried using heat pad without the humidity dome. lost 4 more to damping off, though more slowly this time. All of these are after only 1 initial watering and that's IT, and this is a 80/20 coco/perlite mix, which(*from what I've read) you should be able to water every single day and be fine.
next thing I tried was germinating in paper towels for a long tap root before planting and only very lightly watering. This time it was like a dead stunting. They'd pop out of the soil and never push out any true leaves. They would have little crispy moldy looking spots where the true leaves should have been. I have one survivor from this session, though I made the executive decision to cut off the mold to prevent spreading.
next thing I tried was disinfecting the coco. gave it a soak in a hydrogen peroxide solution. let it sit overnight. flushed the bejesus out of it with plain water, then baked the coco in the oven at 250 for 3 hours straight, then used very diluted general hydroponics rapidstart (npk 1,.5,1) with 2 drops of calmag to a gallon of water. Planted a seed and this is where the orange burnt one came from. That one sprouted 2 days ago but the other one sprouted on the 15th, so its obviously stunted to hell, but still alive.
Next I tried starting them in jiffy peat pellets before transplanting them into coco, which I'm having success with at the moment, but I don't know what's going to happen when those roots go deep into that coco.
Anyway this is a total mindfuck. Everything looks good on paper. Plenty of light. Temps and humidity are right. Lightly watering. phing water to 6.5. sterile medium, sterile equipement, rubber gloves.
Guys if anybody has experienced something like this, specifically with coco coir, could you give me some help. Its not genetics because I have two different strains of shit weed in there.
