Howdy yall,
Im slowly learning the coco game and ive been blown away with the results so far. I’ve got 2 Dynasty mochalops that im using for my first coco grow. I didnt want to start a bunch of plants in coco at once incase this grow ended in utter failure. Im using canna a+b nute line with rhizo, and bloom, with some extra calmag tossed in. I think i screwed up by keeping them in 1 gallon fab pots. Ive only been hand watering them once daily, and they’ve been doing fine, but now that the are getting later in flower, the coco has been getting dry and im starting to see some issues. Ive got my halo system setup and ready to go, but looking for input on the optimal feed schedule. Ive heard you only want to feed / water your plants when lights are on which makes sense. My current light schedule is 3pm-3am. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
My opinion; yeah, way too small of pots to water once daily. Have the drip system run multiple times a day. You absolutely can run the drip system during lights-off, it’s going in the dark & hand watering that’s not advised.
I also grow in coco but I’m not well versed on running drip systems so I’m hoping someone with more experience will chime in. But that’s the simple answer; run it multiple times a day.
On drip I’d start water a couple of hours after lights on and have multiple shots throughout the “day” to get to field capacity(full pot saturation).
Best way to do that is time your system to see how long it takes to fully water your pots(to runoff) and then once you have that info you can split that time up for multiple shots throughout the day.
1g’s are fine IF you maintain them with a drip. Hand watering kind goes out the window with smaller pots like 2g’s and under in my experience. If I’m hand watering once a day 3g’s seems to be the sweet spot for me. Any thing smaller with decent sized plants though and I’d be switching to drip.
When I run 3 gallon coco pots I water 3-5 times a day, depending on strain needs. so yes in one gallon you need multiple daily watering and a fabric pot would dry even faster then the plastic pots I use. Your plants don’t look bad but you should definitely have more frequent waterings
Yes, defiantly. Like i said, this run was more of learning experience and trial and error before i go adding more plants. I bought a bunch of 3 gallon air pots, just never got around to transplanting. Ill probably shoot for 6 feedings daily.
Where did you get that setup from, and are the plant saucers draining back in the five gallon bucket 🪣 to be recirculated?
No, this is drain to waste. I just built the halo system how they reccomended on that coco for cannabis site.
Gotcha 
, nice looking 
DIY set up. 
Thanks for the help guys i think i can set my timer to 9 seperate intervals so i think ill do 8 small feedings split up evenly in a 24 hr period. Next time, bigger pots.
Still watering once a day. They seem to be doing great… maby i just got lucky lol? Next round will be automated lol
Coco really starts to shine when it needs multiple waterings per day. Highly recommend Coco for Canabis for more info, as another poster suggested.
Pot size is not a big issue in Coco.
Coco is hydrophonic not soil.
If you water daily with wet-dry system you are growing in soil not Coco.
To unlock the potential of Coco you need to treat it as pure hydro. 3-5 fertigation daily.
If Coco become dry 100% you are building up salt on it…you need 10-20% runoff to oxigenate and mantaine the correct EC.
If you fertigate 3-5 time your medium Will be 80-90% saturated …if not 90-95% so you need only 5% runoff.
An extra weekly manual fertigation with runoff by 30% is a good technique to keep clean the Coco.
If 3 fertigations:
- at light on 3pm
- after 6-8 hours at light on
- at light off
If 5
- at light on
And every 3.5 hours
I’m on my second run in coco with Canna nutrients, my first run being a bit of a disaster. The problem with the first run was that I bought cheap coco bricks that got waterlogged and also had a calmag issue. Second run is going a lot better but even in wk5 of flower I’m still only hand watering every other day about 3L. They’re in 10L planter pots and seem to be happy. The pot feels light before watering but the plants aren’t wilting. My runoff is high so I think there’s some salt buildup, but there’s a good amount of runoff so I think of it as flushing with fresh nutes. They seem to be happy so should I just keep doing what I’m doing?
As long as they looking good, id say you’re good to go. After switching to autopots, ill never look back.
Do you run coco in the Autopots? I did an Autopot grow of chillis on my balcony once but it was with the supplied perlite/vermiculite mix. It worked well. One day I’d like to try flood and drain with Coco.
Im running coco loco with canna nutes and epsom salt. Plants are blowing up. No issues at all.
@douggyfresh420 when you mixing your canna do you run full strength or reduced?
@douggyfresh420 I posted that then did some searching and found some of your threads and pics. Great work brother. I’m Canna all the way. I used to grow in tiny Rockwell cubes, like croutons but I can’t find them here. I used to use cannazyme all the time but realised it was a bit of a waste of time since I wasn’t re-using my medium. I started using Rhizatonic though and man that stuff is good. I had seeds that couldn’t decide if they wanted to pop or die. 7 days in a wet towel, tiny root showing but starting to rot at the same time. One drop of Rhizatonic and 12 hours late there’s an inch long root fighting for life.
Epson salt is a form of magnesium, does that work like a Cal mag additive?