Growlog link: Afgooey
This is the same practically for all plants. I know each plant reacts differently but idk. They all seem sorta ok but 2 of em seem like they r sorts stunted and this afgooey is doing pretty well since I began watering half a gallon a day, regardless of if it was decently dry or not. It just keeps accepting more water and is loving it. I’m doing it 1x per day. Any and all help is appreciated!
Where are the pictures?
I pasted a grow log of everything I’ve been doing to it, let me update a picture of the 3 plants…
^afgooey
The other 2 are a bit behind. Idk if it’s somehow overwatering or what.
^Purple Monkey Balls (#1)
^purple monkey balls (#2)
I just wanna figure out how to get these guys going better, almost day 30
This is just 70/30 coco and perlite with Gaia green ammendments. Like 4 tbsp of 444 per gallon and 2tbsp of 284. And have been now watering 0.5 gallon everyday sorta tryna treat it like a hydroponic medium. So it’s never really even gettin dry, like I keep it near field limit everyday. Like it could possibly have used like 10% of the water and I then pour in another half gallon but I feel they aren’t drinking fast enough. I’ve been told not to treat it like soil and let It go through wet/dry cycles. Idk if I’m doing this right or not.
I don’t do autos but I have been running coco in a HFF/DTW setup for 25+ years now. I think you mentioned 5 gallon pots . . . in my opinion when running coco, 1-2 gallon pots are sufficient. As you have discovered, coco likes water and can be treated as a hydroponic media . . . perlite is ok but no other amendments, nutrients in all water, multiple feedings to runoff daily.
I know you’ll have people chime in that they run amended coco and all is good without the hydro approach . . . likely true, coco is one of the more forgiving medias. treat it like soil and get soil results, treat it like hydro and get hydro results.
I’ve been using coco with Gaia Green for my second year now. I add Advanced Nutrients Voodoo Juice, Piranha, Tarantula, and Bud Candy, Recharge, and Epsom salts. I’m starting my third run in the same pot and Coco, I cut one plant out and then plant the next.
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I was tryna maximize my grows, the cycle lasts around 3 months. I could try the 1 gallon but last year I tried hat with some promix and it seemed to outgrow the 2.9 gallon container I had it in, but then again it wasn’t pure coco and perlite and it was a plastic pot. I was thinking of lowering it down to a 3 gallon pot for next time. The afgooey seems to have almost gone rim to rim which to me means it’s almost filled the pot. I was thinking doing like 6 3-gallon grows with coco and grow bags. It do like coco, it is a little more like having to do stuff doily but it’s nice to see the plant having less issues. Since I am in 5 gallons tho, should I go to watering every other day, when I was doing that I’d notice that the pot would be come decently dry but nowhere near completely dry. Like probably 50%-30% dry. But that was when I also wasn’t really gettin runoff to the outsides it was funneling to the middle.
I wanna boost it up, but trying a first grow with coco sorta basic. I’d hate to kill these babies on accident.
If you really want to boost plant growth in coco you should lean towards the hydro side . . . reservoir(s), pumps, drip lines, timers, drainage, etc. If you don’t have any experience with the like it can sound confusing or expensive but really isn’t too bad. Plants are given fresh nutrients 2 or more times per day depending on growth stage and container size. Stick with plastic pots, bags can be messy in a hydroponic environment and have a less consistent dry back when feeding multiple times daily.
Feeding to runoff 2 or more times per day is why I say to avoid any added amendments to coco other than perlite . . . it would be flushed away before having time to benefit the plants.
Your next level up in high performance growing would be crop steering . . . I’d suggest looking at something like the Floraflex Burn & Turn guide as a reference if you’re after the very maximum performance from the media.
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