 Coco coir Grow From Seeds
After looking around the site, I've not seen anyone doing a coco grow. I have quite a supply of my own F1 seeds from C99xApollo11, and thought I'd give it a whorl. I had already transplanted an almost depleted mother into coco, and have been very surprised with the results.
At first, I had planned to use four seeds, then a week later, decided to germ six more as a hedge against my learning curve. One was eaten before I discovered I had a small worm trolling about.
Prior to germinating, I had presoaked the coco with a 1/4 strength solution of botanicare progrow. Once the germ'd seeds were placed in the coco, I used only water until the first real node appeared. Afterwards, I've been hand watering with the same solution once daily for the first week. Starting the second week, I've watered twice a day allowing about 10% of the solution to run to waste. After three weeks, I intend to increase to 50% solution.
I've been growing them outdoors during daylight hours, and bring them into one of my grow spaces under a T5 fixture, using only two of it's eight lamps, for a daily total of 20 hours of light. As they grow, I will increase the number of tubes active.
It's my understanding that coco can be as fast and productive as many hydroponic systems, without some of the difficult issues to maintain. I'll attempt to keep this thread updated as growth and items of interest occure...B
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Ya gotta love those T5's
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