Seedling soil?

[Head896]

Bought fox farms coco loco. Was hoping to start my seedling in there in a small 3" pot and when ready transfer them to a 5 gal pot with ffof. Any thoughts on if I should use the coco loco?

Btw my seeds already sprouted "wet paper"

[Gingerbeard]

Hey Head896 . You will want to add perlite to your coco. 30% perlite to 70% coco. My towel sprouted went to coco on Oct 1 and poked out on Oct 2. All are starting to grow their first one finger fans. Better results than I had with FF Ocean Forest.
A popular seedling grow pot is a Solo cup. But whatever works. Some people think a second transplant and root trimming helps growth. Trimming roots is a common thing to do when transplanting vegetables from trays, if you do anything outside.
Since I have sun to use, I go with Solo cups for sprout, then into one gallons. This allows me to go from tent to sun without much fuss. Once I put them into their final five gallon fabric pots, they stay in my tent.
Since they need constant nutrients, I've been giving 1/16 tsp of veg nutes and CalMag. Since I'm using a new nute, I'll be increasing strength in a day or so.

[Head896]

So I should be fine basically ?I'm just using the Coco in solo cup, then transfering it to ffof 5 gal pot. Just wanna make sure I wont cause any nut burn or wrong MOVES

[Gingerbeard]

My bad. I read you ffof but dabbed it out of my mind.
Either way you go is fine, really. One transplant or two. Are you familiar with FFOF?

[Head896]

First time, heard its really hot so I didn't want to pop my seeds in them. Instead i bought Decomposable 3" cups that I wanna fill Coco loco and then a week later put them in the Fox farm. Just scared to make any moves atm

[Head896]

Before I put the seeds in the Cocoa loco they are already popped using the wet napkin method

[Gingerbeard]

FFOF is hot. I killed many seeds and sprouts before I realized (surmised) it was the FFOF. Once you get a good cup-o-roots, you can go right in. Figure the soil will cool down after 2 weeks. Then start adding nutes. Half strength once or twice to make sure you don't overdo. Then get your nute schedule on. During those first two weeks, I use a foliar spray of 1/4 tsp of veg nutes to a gallon of water. Do a little research on foliar sprays. Heck! Do a search on the GWE Forum home page search engine. You'll get a hundred ideas.

[Head896]

Should I be doing anything to cool down the soil?

[Gingerbeard]

Watering will wash out the nutes. Nothing special. Premoisten before you plant.

[Head896]

Ill wash it 4 times within the 2 weeks, should that cool it without wasting to much of the nuts? Thanks for all the help

[Gingerbeard]

You aren't wanting to wash anything out, intentionally. It will happen naturally with regular plant watering. 4 or 5 times will be enough to cool it for nutes.