New and Improved: Featuring Sour Northern Lights x Nevilles Haze

[daihashi]

The close up in this one is how I believe they should all look. This one looks fairly healthy when compared to the rest of them.

[daihashi]

FYI, I'm growing in Canna Coco presoaked in PH 6.0 water, watering once a day with ph 6.0 water.

There are no nutes in the coco, it is inert pretty much and will take on the ph properties of whatever you feed it. They say treat coco similar to hydro and I've been kind of been doing that following the guidelines at ICmag.

I don't know the EC of my water, I could move to distilled with calmag if needed though, I have both on hand.

[Weedhound]

Coco.....my mortal enemy. I know ZERO about coco. I swear that looks like a ph issue to me. Most of the time my kids crack looking normal.....and then funk up later.

I've always had the questions of this....are Rapid rooters hydro or soil? So are you supposed to use soil ph or hydro ph with them?

I've always used regular water when things are in RR....ph approximately 6.6.....not r o or distilled but I HAVE put them then into my hydro setup at baby age and then begun watering them with something along the ph of 5.7 and they do fine as well.

That just LOOKS like a ph issue to me. Perhaps try watering your kids with normal water but ph'd to 6.5-6.6 and see if it makes a difference.

There shouldn't be a nute issue at this stage....it has to be ph somehow.

STINKY!!

[Weedhound]

And if you can in some way.....check the runoff of the water from the rr's......just curious......

[Weedhound]

Some of those kids DO HAVE the funked up look I have come to know.

Hmmm.....I don't hold out alot of hope for those........unless someone else can spot the issue.....it COULD be the seeds with those tweaky looks.....

Send me an email when you have a chance. We may have to start over with something different than these sucky little devils.

[daihashi]

Coco.....my mortal enemy. I know ZERO about coco. I swear that looks like a ph issue to me. Most of the time my kids crack looking normal.....and then funk up later.

I initially though PH also, but my run off checks out to be 6.0

I've always had the questions of this....are Rapid rooters hydro or soil? So are you supposed to use soil ph or hydro ph with them?

I've been told to treat it as hydro. While in the rapid rooters I feed with PH 5.9 water. I heard the roots really like it better in the RR.

That just LOOKS like a ph issue to me. Perhaps try watering your kids with normal water but ph'd to 6.5-6.6 and see if it makes a difference.

There shouldn't be a nute issue at this stage....it has to be ph somehow.

Definitely not nute related. If it wasn't for the history of the seeds I'd post this problem at ICmag but I would like to narrow down my problem somewhat before I go post pics of my mutated plants.. heh

STINKY!!

STINK!!!!!!! HALP! :hippy:

[daihashi]

Also is it possible I introduced them to the MH too soon? They all seemed to have a pretty good root system built up in the Rapid Rooters.

They are approximately 9 days old from when the tap root first broke through the seed. They sat under CFLs for 6 days and friday evening I moved them under the MH.

Was this too premature? I did my entire Veg with CFL's last time so I'm not sure if I'm shocking them with too much light at once. They're under a 400 watt MH right now.

[SnSstealth]

D...looks to me like your using Hydro Ph levels in soil. I have always kept my soil plants 6.7-7.0.But IMHO the Ph is way off....
Other than that, most of my SNLxNH also got the purpleish new growth, and funky grow patterns, wacked out leaves and such.
whiskeytango

[Weedhound]

I don't think it's you dai.....i think it may be your seeds and/or something about coco that I just don't know about. But I wouldn't put it past those buggers to just grow funky to make life hard......a good half of mine have been useless devils.

edit: I don't think it's your lighting but how far away from the mh are they? They don't look burned.....it's just looks like a ph thing. They're curly even for my freaky little devils

PS....you've recently calibrated your ph meter of course.......just typing out loud......

[daihashi]

D...looks to me like your using Hydro Ph levels in soil. I have always kept my soil plants 6.7-7.0.But IMHO the Ph is way off....
Other than that, most of my SNLxNH also got the purpleish new growth, and funky grow patterns, wacked out leaves and such.
whiskeytango

Coco is technically goes by neither. This is from a sticky from ICmag in their Coco specific forum:

i just thought it could be nice to start a thread with tips for growing in coco - but using handwatering and pots..

since im kind of busy i thought this could run on a question and answer basis - also if other growers feel like chipping in with their bit it would be cool.

first of with the do's and dont's:

• do check ur PH! - range from 5.5 to 6.5 works really well
• do make sure you use nutes specific for coco! - this will give the best results and easy of use.
• do make sure you use pots big enough for the watering intervals you want to have. bigger pots means less watering.
• do make sure you have some run off when watering. about 10-15% is enough.
• do make sure the coco never gets dry - this is a hydro medium. watering often gives better results.

DONT treat coco like a soil grow.



growing in coco gives great results outdoors also. it slightly more expensive than soil growing - but the end results will speak for them selves. huge yields and lots of flavour!