Plenty of firsts

[No3odiesShad0w]

The only plant that's getting synthetic is the cutting I took from my dad's plant. I haven't given that one any kind of organic amendments. The others in growing in coco with organics and I'm not using any kind of synthetic in those and those are fine. The only plant in running 100% synthetic is the one that's looking sad

[Bluey]

If your using synthetics in coco why do you keep adding organic stuff? I don't think you will be able to manage the pH at the roots the way your doing it. You have lockout. Bring your EC up to the recommended amount, judging by your pics probably around 1.2 to 1.4. Don't go by the 30ml/10ltr just use EC as your measurement.
1 water ever day or 2 should do.
Trying to measure pH runoff is not an accurate indication of what is going on at the roots.
3 year old nutes? The shelf life is normally not more than 12 months although with good storage you can get longer with some nutes.

[No3odiesShad0w]

On the other hand.....I have NO IDEA what I'm doing when it comes to synthetic nutrients. The numbers don't match up with the ppm and EC of the feeding schedule I'm following. These nutes are 3 years old butt they should be fine. It's not like they resolidified. They were kept stored in optimal conditions.. but this plant looks miserable. The stems I never seen such red stems in all my grows. There's def a phosphorus lockout of some kind going on ..
.... I'm just gonna hit the abort button.....
It's been a month and she looks worse than she did when I first planted her as a cutting. I'm gonna flush her and give her a nice topping of Coco, castings, compost and all the lovely and smelly organic amendments I've been using and in a week she'll be back to life.. this synthetic stuff isn't for me. I love chemistry but I'm not liking it when I mix it with organic chemistry. I guess i prefer the smelly stuff. That's how I know it's working. When the smell goes away, then I know it's almost completely broken down.

[No3odiesShad0w]

Wooo both babies are on their way!! Like blue dream and little tangie. They're both waiting on their soil sister to sprout 🤣. She's probably going to pop out of the ground by tomorrow. These seeds from Fast Buds have all been 1 day sprouters.
I never germinated in coco. I figured it's easier for the roots to work through compared to soil.... But then plants even germinated on glass shards and cement so they're not too picky lol.
Not much more to say here. Everyone in the Coco is happy. When I come into the room after 12 hours of lights on, all the plants are praying for light so nice to see.

[No3odiesShad0w]

My first time germinating seeds in a Coco substrate!! They both made it!!
The Tangie is so tiny and the blue dream, despite sprouting upside down and replanting, she popped up today in the afternoon. ......I didn't think she was going to make it honestly....... So I ummmmmm started germinating another seed. The next problem, I only have a gallon of Coco.....I have plenty of the same Fox Farm that's been giving me trouble. After reaching out to some ppl, I'm going to use it for this second Blue Dream seed and just do a head to head Coco vs Soil both amended with living and natural amendments. I did 2 tsp per gallon for the Bruce banner and they did much better than the gorilla. I reached out to Jeremy from build a soil and he said to use 5-7 tsp of dolomite lime do in going to try 7 tsp. I want to give the soil a fair chance against the Coco when though I know the Coco will probably win. Only reason I'm even doing this is because I won't throw away the seed. I love blue dream. So I'll make it happen. I got space for 4 plants so I have the space.

[Bluey]

Testing on the coco medium has shown this occurs over a 2 to 3 week period. Then it stops doing that. I'm not sure at what point exactly it occurs but I'd guess early on so when you are in early to mid veg. It shouldn't impact your grow much if that is the case. It may slow things down a little for that period. I don't know how best to work with that but you could give it a flush once a week or so just using your regular nute mix.

[No3odiesShad0w]

Yeah? Okay I guess I'll leave it. I know it's possible for pH to creep upwards as the Coco decays and let's out the potassium it held on to. That can cause the pH to move upwards. I guess it's still too early for that

[No3odiesShad0w]

The Tangie....I had to stick the blue dream back in the soil. Apparently what you see in the previous picture is the root. The seeds popped and the root shot out in a different direction. Hopefully it's going to be fine. It looked like the seeds that people usually bury when they do the paper towel method. Just had a long tail. I buried it and misted it with water. Hopefully by the time I get back from work, it will pop out again

[Bluey]

I wouldn't lower your pH. It probably varies slightly the ideal pH so I'd vary the pH a little.....veg I go with 6.0 flower with 6.2 to 6.3.
Ideal pH at the roots is 6.5 but its fine to bump it around a little. Lowering the pH is reducing the cal/mag available at the roots.

[No3odiesShad0w]

I totally plan on reusing my Coco. I'm going to wash it, buffer it and then soak it in some innoculant before I amend it with my regular blend. After the washing, I'm sure there will be less Coco so I'll have to add some fresh stuff from the bag to it. I just have to figure out what to do with all this Fox farm soil I have. It's just taking up space. I may just bring it to the basement for long term storage. I definitely plan on using the Coco for the rest of the grows this year and into the future

[No3odiesShad0w]

Wow she took a whole gallon before I started getting runoff. I have her 6.2 water and got runoff at 6.3.... Never in my 3 years of growing have I had that happen. Normally there's a 1.5 difference or more between my water and runoff. I also gave her a top dressing of some neem seed, alfalfa meal, compost, castings, and upped the call mag to 3.2ml per gallon. She's got flower sites all over so the stretch is about to start any day now. Man this grow is going so smooth. But then I never have any issues during veg. We'll see what happens on flower. I think the only adjustment I might make is using 6.0 water instead of 6.2. With my runoff at 6.3 I rather be safe than sorry. That seems like it's getting to the higher level of Coco. Aside from that minor adjustment, I just keep training her with the trellis net.

The other good news.... The blue dream auto has popped already. The soil is raised in the center of the tangie so she's making her entrance later today!! Both successfully germinated. That means I chopped the gorilla glue. And the cycle continues!!!

[Bluey]

With my grows in coco I started out fertigating about once every 2 or 3 days and by the time it hit mid flower which was about day 95 I was fertigating 3 times a day with no runoff 9 out of 10 times.
I had a cal/mag deficiency that followed me through the grow but she still produced a lb of very very nice bud on each plant and the grow was far from perfect. I had reused the coco from a previous grow and didn't buffer it, just gave it a good soaking of a typical veg nute mix after washing it.

I'm not buffering my next grow in the same coco but will suppliment with cal/mag from the get go.

[SoOrbudgal]

Looking great

[No3odiesShad0w]

If you notice on some of the leaves they have some yellow tips. That was the one day it got too dry. So I'm being very mindful about keeping the Coco wet. I'm sure the microbes are happy about the water as well.

[No3odiesShad0w]

I've always grown organically so even in soil, I had to keep it wet to keep the microbes happy and thriving to feed the plant. I've noticed in watering every 2 days work the Coco. Once I see the top dry out, I usually water. I know Coco does weird stuff when dry. I've def been mindful to keep it wet. As far as feeding goes, I've just been doing my same feeding as with soil but I might have to bump up the quantity because of the plants size already. So I'm preparing the correct amendments and quantities I'll need to get me to the next phase.

The only one that's struggling is the Coco with synthetic. It's a learning curve and the nutes don't seem to be cooperating with me but I'll get it down.