The Cinderella 99 Story GH FloraNova

— Day 15 (10/25/2020): It’s now the beginning of week 3 and these girls are starting to get bigger day by day. Soon they will out grow their starting pots and will need to be transplanted soon! I decided to start transplanting them into 1 gal fabric pots instead of the 1L pots, as I think they will out grow these fast. So I started hydrating and buffering my Canna Coco. I know it is probably unnecessary since Canna Coco did this already but I also wanted to filter out all the coco fines, which canna coco bricks have at least 10-15% of its weight in it, I will also buffer by soaking my coco in a solution on GH CalMagic at a ration of 10ml per gal of water coco mix. So here are the steps I used to wash and buffer my coco. Step 1: Fully hydrate your coco. Step 2: Start straining your coco using a medium to fine mesh food strainer. Flush the coco with dechlorinated tap water. Keep flushing until majority of the fines are out. Step 3: Put washed coco in a 5 gallon bucket and fill it until it becomes a nice slurry that can be easily stirred. Add the corresponding amount of CalMagic depending on how full your bucket is (10ml/gal). Let soak for 24hrs Step 4: Strain and rinse your coco once more to clear out solution. Put washed and buffered coco in fabric bags to drain excess water. Your coco is now ready for use! You’ll be amazed on how much fine coco dust is in your bricks. Buffering also prevents Calcium and Magnesium lockouts which is notorious when using coco as a medium. I’m still waiting for my coco to be be buffered so I will update the photos as time goes by! — Day 16 (10/26/2020): Today I water each cell about 20ml of dechlorinated water. I still have the all plants in the dome as a way to control my humidity. So far growth is consistent. Today I strained out my coco from the slurry of dechlorinated tap water and CalMagic. I then rinsed the coco for a second time through a food strainer. I then put the rinsed and buffered coco in a fabric bag to drain to dry it out a bit. I’ll be transplanting tomorrow using my Soiless medium mix: Coco medium: + 7 parts Coco + 3 part Perlite I will then be using GH FloraNova Series Nutes. — Day 17 (10/27/2020): It was a very eventful and busy day today as I started mixing up a small batch of Veg Medium Mix with 7 parts coco and 3 parts perlite. Simple and plain! Following a salt based nute plan is very simple and it’s really easy to correct a nute deficiency as the nutrients are already available to the roots. With organic you feed your soil, with salt based nutes you feed your plants. I’m curious on how this grow will compare to their organic sisters in my other diary. Anyways to make the medium it’s really easy. Just two ingredients coco and perlite. I then transplanted these baby girls into 1 gal fabric pots with maybe at least 1” of stem buried. I kept the ppfd around 350-400umol as they get situated with there new homes. I’m going to continuously spritz water on the tent and the plants to keep the humidity higher. — Day 18 (10/28/2020): It is halfway through the week and it’s time for these girls to give them there first feeding of GH FloraNova Nutes! See the nutrient section my dosages per gallon. On most of my plants using GH FloraNova, I always feed twice then use ph water in between the two feedings. So basically when the plant are dry I do feed, feed, water and repeat. I also runoff at least 10-20%. I do this to keep the salts down, so they don’t create problems in the future. I keep the dosages low so the plants can slowly acclimate to their new feed. These girls will probably won’t respond in a few days due to the transplant, but we should see rapid growth by the end of this week.