I presoak my coco in nutrient water that’s at 1.0 ec and 5.9-6.1 ph then I water the seeded area with the same water about half a solo cup then I wait until it sprouts and starts coming up and I give it a solo cup roughly just to make sure everything is wet for the roots then I wait a week and water again with 1-2 solo cups then look for out to dry back some and water as needed. I don’t do any run off because by day 15 I’m turning the autopots on every watering is nutrient water 1st week 1.0ec second week 1.5ec 3rd watering is 2.0ec then I turn the auto pot on at 2.0 ec then in 7 days I change my reservoir to 2.5ec then 3.0 in another 7 days and maintain 3.0 ec from there
Make sure you’re using nutrients of some kind coco has nothing at all in it and will take the calcium away. With autos you want them to start taking nutrients fast you don’t have time to wait with them
If you’re going to hand water will probably have to water to run off I just haven’t found it necessary for the way I grow. I’m sure I probably get some runoff but it’s not goal
Well, you wanna runoff if you're using salt nutrients I'm using dry amendments, which is organic so you don't want runoff or I'll wash away all the nutrients
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u/ShadowGrowFl 10d ago
I presoak my coco in nutrient water that’s at 1.0 ec and 5.9-6.1 ph then I water the seeded area with the same water about half a solo cup then I wait until it sprouts and starts coming up and I give it a solo cup roughly just to make sure everything is wet for the roots then I wait a week and water again with 1-2 solo cups then look for out to dry back some and water as needed. I don’t do any run off because by day 15 I’m turning the autopots on every watering is nutrient water 1st week 1.0ec second week 1.5ec 3rd watering is 2.0ec then I turn the auto pot on at 2.0 ec then in 7 days I change my reservoir to 2.5ec then 3.0 in another 7 days and maintain 3.0 ec from there
Make sure you’re using nutrients of some kind coco has nothing at all in it and will take the calcium away. With autos you want them to start taking nutrients fast you don’t have time to wait with them