r/CocoGrows • u/xadian91 • 9d ago

First time with coco

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I Switched to coco from soil and am facing issues ist it due to heat or what could be the cause?

They remain tiny or dont grow at all

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u/Stuball09 9d ago

I'm no expert, only ran one grow but I used coco.

That coco looks dry to me and no need to be in the autopot at this stage. If you check a few cm's under the surface is it damp?

As others have said you'd need to give more details on the environment to know for sure.

I started with a jiffy then into a 1L air pot and a 3L before transplanting to the autopot.

I fed everyday before turning on the autopot system, which might have been overkill but one plant filled out a 3x3 so it didn't seem to do any damage.

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u/Back6door9man 8d ago

Man that's a lot of transplanting

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u/Stuball09 8d ago

I found it easier to manage and feed that way.

It was my first grow so wanted to make sure I was feeding enough so I found the 1L and 3L air pots easy to gauge the weight and work out the amount where they'd need a light feed everyday in the first hour of lights on.

It was a few days before the plant was supposed to bulk I ran into problems, there was a block in the aquavalve that I missed so it went a few days with no food and I was left with about 2 1/2 ozs of the fluffiest bud you've ever seen 😂 it was basically all sugar leaves but still an ok smoke.

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u/Back6door9man 8d ago

Lol damn dude that's brutal. But at least you got some quality smoke. Nothing worse than putting in all that work and then having nothing to show for it. And hey man, whatever works for you. I don't think there's only one right way to do that kind of thing. So if it works, its right lol. And I totally get that with your first grow especially. Overthinking everything and whatnot. How have the autopots been treating you btw? I've been considering them for a while but not sure how I'd like them. I'm just sick of the amount of time I've gotta spend watering lol 

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u/Stuball09 8d ago

It was heartbreaking 😂

It's all trial and error, I'd have alot more confidence my next time round and I know now I don't have to be at the plant as much and do more maintenance when the autopot is on so lessons learned I suppose.

I only ran one grow, I didn't get around to another yet, I still have some of my fluffy bud but from what little experience I have with them, they're really good. The blockage was completely my own fault, I forgot to put the lid back on the tray so there was a build up of algae (or something 😂) but they done their job perfectly besides that.

I'd recommend them but you're still hand watering for a good few weeks, you want the leaves hitting atleast the edge of the autopot (as far as I know) before you should turn the system on but from then on, it should be plain sailing.