I just want to know how much to water my 3gal fabric pot average to saturate Canna Coco professional plus,I am Total new to Coco.
How much water After/before I transfer my sprouting seed from paper towel method?
I read I have to keep run off and 90% saturation.But from seed too?
My temps:Average 23 C and 50% Rh.
Only One small USB fan inline and simple output fan.
200 watt led.
Any Quick advice?
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Hey bud, start in small containers and move up as your root ball goes. Shoot to get runoff from your pot, 10% or so, with each watering. Runoff is to push out salts and such.
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Can I start in a Little Cup then?Is It possible to transplant the entire Coco medium in the Cup into the 3 gal pot?
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Wait It Is an auto,I had stunting with transplant 
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Sure, start in a solo cup. The trick is to fill the new pot with coco with one of the cups in it to create the space you want to transplant and than use the same nute solution in the new pot as the old. The plant won’t even know it has been transplanted as its going into the same medium and nutes its already in. I never really have any issues with transplant shock.
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Basically putting the solo Cup inside the Coco filled pot with Say holes at bottom of Cup to let roots spread…?
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No, so when to roots fill the solo cup the will compact the coco some. If you sqeeze the outside of the cup the whole thing will come out like a plug. Now when you fill the new larger pot fill it with the cup or an empty cup in it. So say fill the bottom till the cup sits in it level with the rim. Now put the cup in and fill the whole pot with coco. When you pull the cup out you will have a hole in the exact shape of the plant you pull out of the cup. Make sense?
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Makes a lot sense,yes sir,Thank you a lot.As fare as for water quantity I Will stop at 20% runoff and use that quantity in solo Cup.Thank you so much,Quick response and very precise❤️
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No worries, you will get used to it quickly. Always around if you got a question 
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Great advice @DougDawson
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Good advice so far, something that hasn’t been mentioned is don’t let the pot sit in the runoff. You are flushing out those unused salts, and you don’t want them sucked back up!
I usually shoot for about 20% runoff. Besides flushing, having runoff also sucks oxygen into the coco. Roots love O2 
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Thank you so much friend❤️
I Will start in the 500 ml or 16 Oz solo Cup,I took It from MC Donald large menù Haahahahha.I Will put about 100 ml of nute solution to have 20% run off or…?
@HorseBadorites
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20ml, but I’m not sure 100ml of liquid will give you enough runoff. You’ll have to figure that out.
The amount of runoff is sort of arbitrary, but I would rather have more than less… unless you’re using something like AN nutes, lol! Good thing coco is pretty forgiving
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Thanks a bunch 
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Just to be sure you are understanding “runoff” (language barrier)
20% run off means if you watered with 100ml of nutrient solution, 20 ml would run out the bottom of the pot, and 80ml would be absorbed by the coco and stay in the pot 
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For 150ml it would be 30ml running out the bottom, 120ml absorbed by coco…
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Thank you so much friend,I wanted to know how much water Will take to have that famous 20% run off in 500ml solo.But I figured out I Will Just Do my math when I pur the nute solution
@Dirtron
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If you haven’t already started, try to feel the difference between an unwatered cup of coco, and a fully watered one. File it away for reference!
Just me, but after a feeding, I let seedlings go just barely moist before feeding again. Depending on temps, or my short attention span, I may go without re-feeding 3 days in solos at first.
I don’t want them too wet. They don’t need it, and could dampoff.
Coco is ez, you’ll get it pretty quickly.
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Coco in cups works fine. No matter if photo or auto, pot them up and they don’t miss a beat 
sounds like @DougDawson and I do it exactly the same. Just make sure your coco is moist when ya pot em up, makes it stay in the shape of the cup better.
Couple autos in cups in the tent now.
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Shoot,the idiots at the store did a mistake and sent me Canna Terra professional plus instead of Coco pro plus…I have to wait 2 days and got a sprouting auto seed with a long leg in my paper towel already…can It go 2 days more?
@HorseBadorites @Bow4Buck
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They sent me the right nutes though…Lol
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