coco watering guide

Do both, mix it up, monitor, come back and let us know. 😀

It’s always good to water your plants thoroughly . Make sure there’s a little bit of runoff water when you water your plants. Make sure to let the soil dry out thoroughly before watering again if you were to water more often than less water, more likely than less, the soil would just be damp all the time and cause problems.

Its impossible to say without knowing how big the plants are,how hot it is and how big the pots are and so on.You can't say without knowing the grow.

*surfactant -- spelling error -- same thing as a 'wetting agent' if one doesn't turn up a local product, searching the other will.

cocoforcannabis.com -- hands down best guides and articles. avoid the forums, as you should on any other site... always be skeptical of anecdotes.. always look to verify what 'grow bros' say. Soiless is the same regardless of coco or something else. Alwys fertilize. Always get 10% runoff or greater. Wait for appropriate dryback and repeat. Don't overthink it. Yes, the 10% runoff is essential to taking advantage of soiless/hydro growing. By doign so, over time any symptoms you see are 100% about adjusting the formula and all other factors are eliminated. Take notes of how you fertilize from start to finish. Adjust based on what you see. Avoid problems in future. It is very feasible to find consistency and never be concerned about running as many strains as you want coinciding. How much dryback? There's some user preference here. I would suggest a more pronounced wet-dry cycle early on in vege phase. this will promote a greater root mass that you can take advantage of later with more frequent fertigations allowing less dryback/loss of weight between. As i enter flower, i don't wait as long to re-fertigate. So, early on i let the top surface changen color -- if plant shows any sign of wilting, that's too long. Later on, the color may not even change on top when i fertigate. I don't use coco anymore. Not a big fan of it, tbh. Nothing done with coco is exclusive to coco. Never let that hold you back due to some deification of this hippy medium, lol. it's also not 'better for the environment" as it wastes a whole shit-ton of fresh water to make it non-lethal to plants as well as contribute to aquifer pollution due to runoff of the buffering solution... similar to farm irrigation runoff concerns. Multi-fertigations per day require the right-sized pot. You need to get about 1/3rd weight loss between irrigations to warrant multi-fertigations per day, and from what i read no point in doing more than 3. So, the plant has to drink fast enough relative to pot size to warrant it or else you'll just cause root rot. I've never bothered to do this, more power to you if you do. I doubt the return is worth the effort.. might shave a day or two off a 5+ week vege? Definitely use 33% perlite. The "#2" size is best unless it's pulverized to dust. Brand can matter a bit there. Avoid the super chunk. The pre-packaged 70/30 is good enough, too. 1/3rd is a guideline and a few percent of volume less won't matter. Coco isn't magic. It's simply a soilless medium. Don't project superhero qualities onto it. Treat it just as you would any other soilless medium. Beware of bad batches.. end up with dead or saline-sick plants. I'd recommend promix HP/BX or whatever it's being replaced by called something fancy like active-g or soemthing, lol. Those bales do need more perlite or similar - i'd suggest vermiculite over perlite any day due to it adding some plant-available silica. Sphagnum peat moss needs 50% of volume to be perlite/vermiculite or similar amendment for best gas:water mixture that will match "70/30" coco. Typically cheaper route with promix, too. If stored well, soilless should last a long time. if it totally dries out may need a wetting agent (sufactant). When any solid medium dries out it can become hydrophobic. It's not ruined, just needs a wetting agent applied. Feel free to store excess in a dry spot.

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Watering 101 (Easy Rule of Thumb): - Give your plant 1/3 of the pot’s volume each time you water. - Only water again when the pot feels light, just lift it daily, and you’ll get the hang of it fast! - Remember, watering needs change as your plant grows, so keep an eye on it. You likely need to water a bit more often with coco then as in general soil but that's normal, if you want to retain more water I do recommend do add like 10-20% worm humus or some peat soil or instead of using perlite you could use gray granular( not Pebbles).

As long as its wet with coco it's good. I like to aim for fully saturate 20%run off every 2 days. Having the correct pot to plant ratio for this to work. Everyone waters coco differently and it can be.. Good luck ✌️ 💚