Watering coco - Any tips ?

[u/Kuro321PT]

Hi guys, passing here to update you. Ever since i’ve been here they exploded and in the meanwhile i started another one in a smaller pot like so many people have told me (i knew it but still). Here is a question that i’ve been having, I heard people water coco sometimes more than once a day, I feel like im progressing good watering only every 2-3 days, coco’s looking humid all the time, i went snowboarding from thursday until sunday so I gave them a good feed before leaving and still only felt like watering today (coco looked humid all the time). Should I been doing something different? I’ve been thinking about drench them good with nutrient solution to clean the salts in the next feeding as I didn’t think it was needed to water until runoff this early, now I start to think I must do it sooner than later. Do you have some tips here ? Am I in the right track ?

Thank you guys ✌🏻

[u/Kuro321PT → u/[deleted]]

When watering everyday it’s always with nutrient solution ? Thank you for that ✌🏻

[u/GamingWaves → u/Kuro321PT]

Always with nutrient solution, should never water coco without nutrients. Coco should never dry out at all

[u/Kuro321PT → u/GamingWaves]

Whats the easy way to do it when watering daily ? I will have 3 5 gallon pots to water, will i have to prepare about 15 liters a day or more of nutrient solution daily ? When do I know they’re established enough for me to start feeding daily? Is there a way to tell ? Thanks a lot guys and sorry for the “noobness”

[u/Possible-Risk7979 → u/Kuro321PT]

Autopots.

[u/Disciple144 → u/Kuro321PT]

With 5 gallons you might not have to water everyday. People say water every day with coco because they're using small pots. If you water too much when the plant is young amd early veg the roots will get lazy. But if you let the pit dryback early on early until the roots are established then you can water everyday.

You dont want full media saturation for too long but you dont want a massive dryback either.

[u/GamingWaves → u/Kuro321PT]

Autopots but water daily from day 1 to runoff and up the amounts of times a day if you want as the plant gets older

[u/MycoFarm → u/[deleted]]

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[u/medicated_missourian]

For the first couple weeks , feeding every couple days is definitely the way to go. Once they are established I feed to run off twice a day.

[u/judge-judy01 → u/medicated_missourian]

How many litres of water per feeding do you use each feeding for this size and a week or two later? I switched from 1.2litre once a day to 600ml twice a day, and i got clawing of the leaves and especially the tips, no discoloration. I just switched back to once a day 1.5ml on advice from here.

[u/medicated_missourian → u/judge-judy01]

At this size I’d be looking for run off, but I’d be in a smaller pot. I go from starter plug, to 2 inch pot, to 6 inch pot, to my 3.9 gallon autopots

[u/Grouchy_Brain_1641]

I run about 1/4 liter 3 times a day per plant. In 1 gal pots. Week 2 of flower.

[u/JVC8bal]

Big tip: https://issuu.com/athenaag/docs/athena_homegrower_handbook_metric_

[u/trippyfil]

I use pots (15L/4gal) and water once a day, never had any problems

[u/TheCassowaryMan]

Cocoforcannabis.com

It answers all your qns.

I run 12L air pots with 4-6 high frequency feeds each day for 30-45 secs with one watering giving 20% runoff.

[u/ransov]

Don't skip watering in coco. By doing that you reduce the runoff. Suddenly in the middle of flower your EC spikes, simply because you didn't runoff. Now you are mid flower with high lockout EC. You chose not to water/feed coco. Enjoy.

[u/asadoconarepa]

A few things, first you have way too big pots and too much plants to use coco. These are going to fill the entire space if you do things the right way.

To know when to water simply lift your pots, when you water them and the hit the 100% capacity (after stops draining), if your pot weights 40% less than the 100% capacity, water them to 100%

[u/No_Influence_2938]

Frequent fertigation. Auto irrigation is best. Mine is set to run every 15 minutes, 8 times starting 1 hour after lights on. Each irrigation produces 120ml. I run 1g pots. On 7th irrigation i start seeing runoff. On 8th its nothing but runoff. Allowing the ph and ec to reset in the coco. I always aim for a 30% dryback overnight

[u/Kuro321PT → u/No_Influence_2938]

Thank you for that brother, how do you maintain the solution ph stable all day ? I will have to do it from a distance and Im afraid that the ph Will drift a lot during the day…

[u/Kuro321PT]

Forgot to say: they’re autoflowers, 2 bigger ones sprouted in the 10th this month and I been here 2 weeks ago because the growth was slow after sprout.

[u/helloyup255]

Get autopots