truentgoon
Well-Known Member
Sorry if this has been asked before but I'm kind of confused.
When starting a seed that was germinated in a paper towel than moved to a 5 gallon pot with coco/perlite how much do you water it?
Considering it takes a gallon give or take until water starts running out the bottom. Do I water it with that much while it's so young or is it more like a liter if that? Do you still need to see runoff even if the seed only has its first small set of leaves or codyledons?
1. How do you get the coco ready? I understand that it has to be rinsed well with warm/hot water. Should I rinse the coco with regular water? My water is soft around 60 ppm so should I rinse with calmag?
Should I rinse with regular water, wait for coco to dry then water with the calmag and 1/8 strength nutes or no nutes just calmag? Rinsing with calmag seems like a waste to me. I'm so confused about what to do this part.
2. When the seed goes in the soil do I keep the top misted with a soda bottle over it or just leave it in the pre moistened coco then water next day?
3. When the seed pops out of the ground should I water it? With how much?
4. I heard you have to use nutes at the first set of leaves in coco. Do I mix 1/8-1/4 strength batch in a gallon and water until runoff? Or will making a batch in a liter bottle suffice.
Right now I'm practicing with a bagseed in a 100% perlite solo hempy and water once per day. I caused so much stress by taking it out of the rockwool and then scorching the 1st set of leaves but it's chugging on regardless lol.
I'm thinking it's better just to make a nice mix of coco/perlite and throw the germinated seed in a 5 gallon air pot and let it do its thing. I have no experience with this so I would really appreciate the help.
Only thing I really got down pat was breaking down the nute ratios for the gallon and liter bottle with the fox farm nute schedule and the back of the calmag bottle.
5. Going to be needing full strength calmag throughout do to my 60 ppm soft tap water. That should bring the ppm to optimal level if I'm not mistaken. Should I feed with calmag every watering?
Aside from knowing how much nutes goes into it I have no clue how to actually start it correctly.
When starting a seed that was germinated in a paper towel than moved to a 5 gallon pot with coco/perlite how much do you water it?
Considering it takes a gallon give or take until water starts running out the bottom. Do I water it with that much while it's so young or is it more like a liter if that? Do you still need to see runoff even if the seed only has its first small set of leaves or codyledons?
1. How do you get the coco ready? I understand that it has to be rinsed well with warm/hot water. Should I rinse the coco with regular water? My water is soft around 60 ppm so should I rinse with calmag?
Should I rinse with regular water, wait for coco to dry then water with the calmag and 1/8 strength nutes or no nutes just calmag? Rinsing with calmag seems like a waste to me. I'm so confused about what to do this part.
2. When the seed goes in the soil do I keep the top misted with a soda bottle over it or just leave it in the pre moistened coco then water next day?
3. When the seed pops out of the ground should I water it? With how much?
4. I heard you have to use nutes at the first set of leaves in coco. Do I mix 1/8-1/4 strength batch in a gallon and water until runoff? Or will making a batch in a liter bottle suffice.
Right now I'm practicing with a bagseed in a 100% perlite solo hempy and water once per day. I caused so much stress by taking it out of the rockwool and then scorching the 1st set of leaves but it's chugging on regardless lol.
I'm thinking it's better just to make a nice mix of coco/perlite and throw the germinated seed in a 5 gallon air pot and let it do its thing. I have no experience with this so I would really appreciate the help.
Only thing I really got down pat was breaking down the nute ratios for the gallon and liter bottle with the fox farm nute schedule and the back of the calmag bottle.
5. Going to be needing full strength calmag throughout do to my 60 ppm soft tap water. That should bring the ppm to optimal level if I'm not mistaken. Should I feed with calmag every watering?
Aside from knowing how much nutes goes into it I have no clue how to actually start it correctly.
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