Plenty of firsts

[No3odiesShad0w]

That's strange. I never do the paper towel method. That's the one I get the least amount of germination success. I either have the paper too wet or too dry. I always soak the seed in water for 12 hours in a warm spot then p plant it right into the substrate on a bed of mycorrhize. I never had issues in the past. Almost 100% success rate.
I only had some kelp meal and worm castings in the Coco with perlite. Didn't think it was going to be so different. But that's okay. More learning. I'm just gonna do what I did with the purple punch. Start in the happy frog soil then transplant after 10 days to the Coco and watch it take off!

[Bluey]

I put my seedlings straight into coco once the tap root has popped and at least an inch long.

The coco has been given a hot shot of veg nutes prior at the recommended first week dosage and domes go on top. I only do a half strength or less foliar spray until I've got good strong leaf then remove the lids from the clear drink bottle domes. I always over spray to keep the coco moist and Jkeep the coco wet around the outside of the domes by pouring the left over spray around them.

It's always a very slow process watching the seedlings come on.. seems to take forever but I've only lost one of the last 15 at that stage...it kept falling over so I tossed it.

[No3odiesShad0w]

Some more updates. The purple punch is doing fantastic. She's on day 12 of the stretch so another week and I'll do a defoliation and give her a top feed of some bloom amendments and just keep watering her

My dad's cutting that I did a hard reset on last week. She's coming back to life!! New growth all over. I put my cube cage on there so I can get it to grow in that shape and I started on a 12/12 cycle. My dad's is flowering and it smells citrusy and gassy so I'm more curious about it. My kinda flavor profile. After giving her all those organic amendments, she really came back to life. Not sure what was going on.

Another "IDK what's going on" are the 2 seedlings I'm germinating in the Coco. They're on day 12 and they still have one leaf. They look yellow and the stems are purple dark red looking from tip to base..... The one blue dream seedling in the soil looks nice and dark green. She's on day 7 and in about the same place as the purple punch was at 7 days old. Planting in the final container is not going well.....

After 11 days there's no roots even showing on the clear cup. So I just planted another blue dream and tangie seed but this time in the soil.... On the heating mat.... Inside my basket cups.... I expect those to go the way they're supposed to. I'm not liking the Coco for a starter but at the same time I can't blame the Coco. Too many other variables from the way I normally do it. Any one of those variables could be the culprit. Not too mention it's been raining and humid AF here so I have a fungus gnats infestation in my whole house and my yard... It's been lousy. I'm making stinging nettle tea tonight to water the plants with. Root stimulator and kills off the fungus gnats larvae and the adults hate the smell. Always been very effective in the past so I grow a patch in my yard just for that reason. Just need my thick insulated rubber gloves that go to me elbow before i handle it lolol

If I manage to bring the 2 back to life in the Coco, I have some willing to take them and grow them out on their porch. They don't care about the size or amount. They just want to learn a little before they get serious. So it hopefully won't be a total loss

[Bluey]

+1

Really nice flowers.

And it's so simple and cheap and reusable

[Ckbrew]

Coco is all I do. Want something done quick and easy? find a lazy person to do it. Hats off to everyone who grows in living soil, that is not for me. Measuring out a precise volume of something needed, mix it in water, that is easy. And it does grow nice flowers.

[Ckbrew]

Nice looking plant.

[No3odiesShad0w]

That's a hefty stalk!

[No3odiesShad0w]

Have I mentioned that I'm loving this Coco grow? She's already as big as the gorilla glue was at it's height. She's only on day 5 of the stretch? The net is almost filled out. Not a single red stem to be seen anywhere. The pH is cooperating with me the purple punch is looking FANTASTIC 🥰 If I had known growing in coco would be so easy, I would have done this 3 grows ago when I was deciding to stay with Fox farm or try something new. But that's okay. Everything is in motion for a great Christmas and new years. Gonna have 5 different cultivars. A wonderful variety!

[No3odiesShad0w]

The blue dream in the soil made it 2 days behind the blue dream in the Coco. The blue dream and the Tangie in the Coco are off to a great start.. I expected the soil one to take longer. Of course the soil has fungus gnats even though it's been drying for 3 months. Somehow they made it. Don't have that issue with Coco. So that's another tick for the Coco.

With my father's cutting, I flushed it last night. Took 2 cups of Coco and added all my favorite organic amendments. I'm sure by next week, she's going to come back to life. I took the cutting back in July ..... No excuse for her to look like this. I need to find some really detailed sheets of ppm and EC after adding each separate bottle. I need to make sure those things are still good and they haven't lost potency. I may just toss these. If I were to go to the hospital again.... My plant sitter had a hard time pHing water for the plants ..... There's no way he would mix up 4 bottles of nutes without messing it up. I rather just make it simple. I have 2 gallons of water already pH'd. All you need to do is water. K.I.S.S 💋. I'm already doing enough experiments the synthetics can wait. I want to focus on making the Coco and organics. Get my method down to a baking recipe.

[No3odiesShad0w]

Yeah but I just didn't feel like spending another $40 on synthetic nutrients when I have literally brand new bottles that I bought 3 years ago that I never used (general hydroponics trio). I did look at the Canna nutes since I did get the canna coco. Maybe in the future

[MagicMike66]

If you’re in canna coco it literally couldn’t be easier to add nutes. They do a line called A&B, you use this along with cal mag from seedling to harvest. Done. I use several other things now but my first couple grows I used only this

[No3odiesShad0w]

When I had it in that little black container the roots were literally crawling out the bottom there was so many of them out of each hole there was four roots crawling out so I don't think the rooting was the problem

[Bluey]

Sounds like a root problem with the cutting if it's not taking anything. It may just need a lot more time to throw down roots. Are you using a heat mat? I'm not at all experienced with cannabis clones but I'd be hitting it with more blue than red to try and stimulate root growth.

[No3odiesShad0w]

I've only been able to water the plant 2 times in the whole month... It's just not drinking anything. It's not growing it's more doing much. So I'm just gonna hard reset and give it only organics

[No3odiesShad0w]

Last time I watered and flushed I added 1.6 EC synthetic solution. The weird part to get that EC I had to double up on the nutrients from what was in the feeding schedule. So IDK. Clearly the plant doesn't know what's up so I'm just giving up on the synthetic. Just gonna flush and add the organics and just stick to straight organic.