New to growing in general and started with cocoloco as my local shop said it was easy and doesn’t require any nutes or feeding until right before flower.
I’m starting to read mixed things saying it indeed will require feeding. I’m about 10 days into my seedlings sprouting and have purchased megacrop for my nutes. When would I start to use this with my waterings and how would one determine how much to feed?
I’m not familiar with Coco loco so I don’t know how much nutrients it has in the mix. I would tend to doubt many at all as I believe it’s Coco. Once you see the cotyledon leaves turning yellow I use that as a sign the plant is getting hungry and start off with 1/4 strength nutes to see how it reacts. If growth is good and no signs of burn I’ll go to 1/2 strength in a week or so and just keep bumping up the feed weekly until I see a tiny bit of tip burn on the leaves. Then just back it down some and maintain proper ph until it’s flower time when they will start eating a lot more. Learning to read your plants will come with experience and you can always post pics here and ask for advice. There are some truly top class growers here that are glad to help.
I had a bunch to say but @FirstCavApache64 said it all.
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I’m familiar with coco loco. You won’t have to worry about feeding them right away. It’s an amended coco, so it has food.
As @FirstCavApache64 when you see the cotyledon turn yellow start to feed.
I get amazing root development with this mix
How are they looking? 10 days in the cocoloco no feeding. Using bottled water because I’m afraid of my tap water 7.2.
Looking nice off to a GR8 start!
Look like they need megacrop yet? How strong do you all mix it?
That question is above my pay grade, but I am sure someone will chime in with help and suggestions😎
Have you gotten a water report to see what is in the tap? 7.2 is fine and a little ph down or Citric acid will bring it down if you want. I tried the bottled water route and it got expensive and annoying. Now I just use water from the tap and a tiny bit of Citric acid to drop the ph to 6.3-6.8.
First cav to the rescue 
you are in good hands now:nerd_face:
I have ph down on hand. No water tests. I do have a ppm meter arriving today.
When do you normally add feed to coco?
I got some 5g buckets last night and plan to fill each w 4g of water and ph it down. What’s the ideal ph I want?
Do I want to mix my mega top in to the 4g, measure ph then adjuat down or adjust first then add my feed?
I’ll let a more experienced Coco Loco grower answer on when to add feed. Someone earlier in the thread said Coco loco had nutrients in it, but with plain Coco you start feeding a weak nute solution as soon as they have rooted as pure Coco has zero nutrients. You always adjust ph after mixing your nutrients as the chemicals will drop ph as they’re added. Once you get the strength(EC or PPM) you’re looking for you adjust the ph to where you want it. I grow in soil and 6.3-6.8 is the range I use. Coco is more like hydroponics in that you want a lower ph than soil. I believe it’s between 5.8-6.2 for a good range in Coco but hopefully a Coco grower can tell you what works for them.
I sort of make my own coco loco with loose buffered coco coir, performance organics soil and perlite. Equal amounts of each. I amend with powdered calcitic dolomite lime.
I run outdoors at 6.5 with no problems.
That 7.2 isn’t going to bother your plants “bottled water is neutral at 7.0”. Just let it sit out for a few hours uncapped so the chlorine and shit is removed. You also might give them half a shot of cal mag supplement or molasses.
Just measured my ppm coming in at 98 and 7.2ph any tips?
I have well water at 140 ppm and 7.3 ph. I adjust mine down to 6.3-6.8 but I have done grows without touching it and not really seen a problem. I’m just OCD and like things to be easier for the plants to absorb. You can find your water report online for most metropolitan areas and posting it up will let the chemists in the forum give you some really dialed in recommendations.
City water but couldn’t find such report online.
I use bio biz coco strait up and add 3 tbs of 4’4’4 Gia green and worm castings put the babies in peat grow thingies and as soon as they pop I put ‘em in the coco with some mycro and call it a day. Ph ro/di water once a week water until I see run off in the tray
These are about 20 days since germination
At 30 days or so I will top dress with a 50/50 mix of Gia green. 4/4/4 and 2/8/4 veg and bloom with worm castings about 1/2 a cup or so these are in 3 gallon grow bags . The only transplanting I do is when I put the peat pods in the grow bags. Also spray 3 to 4 times a day with cal mag. Been doing it this way for years seems to work for me. Also the nute regimen is topdrees every 30 days or so
What does the cal mag do? What is it? I’m a noob sorry
It’s nutrient needed for proper growth calcium/magnezium
