New and Improved: Featuring Sour Northern Lights x Nevilles Haze

[jakezking]

daihashi, I hope you get everything sorted from Ike. Herricans ain't no fun - trust me I know what I'm talking about. I hope you are able to keep your girls alive, but more importantly I hope the rest of your life comes back into smooth order. Take good care out there, my friend!

[italian04]

damn ike sucked. my rents are still down in houston. pretty crazy. daihashi, check out my grow log. my northern brights are lookin mighty fine. gl on ur grow.

[daihashi]

well.. still no power. I'm down chilling at an ice house on my computer.

A number of my plants are really starting to look pretty sick. I'm going to give them a feeding and ph the water. It looks like lockout situation almost. I'm guessing they didn't like the 7.2 ph tap water my g/f fed them after she ran out of ph'd water.

I'll flush them out and feed them later today.

In the mean time I'm going to enjoy a few beers.

[daihashi]

Quick update.. don't want to go into detail because I'm exhausted, sick, and worn out... so here we go

I have electricity

Plants aren't looking to great. They are kind of yellow/Green from lack of light and nutrition. It appears a couple of the plants are suffering either from lock out or cal/mag issues. I'm going to go with calmag since I'm growing in coco and it's notorious for leaching it out.

I suppose it could be worse considering I didn't really do much to try to keep the plants alive.

There is some spotting, but I anticipate that the plants will bounce back.

I have 2 seedlings that will make it definitely if nothing else and I can mother those.

I wish I had taken pics of the plants before the storm hit so everyone could see how beautiful they were looking.

I'll probably take pics in about a week or so once they've had some time to recover.

I flushed all the plants with ph 5.7 water and then I fed with the following

3ml Canna Coco nute A
3ml Canna Coco nute B
5ml Calmag
1 gallon of tap water (yes it's safe where I live).

After I flushed the plants I fed them all with 8oz of nuted solution ph'd to 5.8

We'll see how they're doing soon. Their leaves are pretty thin and soft feeling; hopefully the new growth will recover.

On a positive note the root systems of these plants are looking fantastic. :thumbsup:

[Puffzter]

They will bounce back m8 don't you worry.
And isn't it just insane how the roots grow in coco man?

Just make sure you always water with a bit of runoff to ease on the salt build up and fluch once every week or every 10 days when you up the nutes above 1300ppm or so.

Waiting for those pics.

Puffzter

[daihashi]

They will bounce back m8 don't you worry.
And isn't it just insane how the roots grow in coco man?

Just make sure you always water with a bit of runoff to ease on the salt build up and fluch once every week or every 10 days when you up the nutes above 1300ppm or so.

Waiting for those pics.

Puffzter

I do have to say I am truely amazed at how coco effects the root system. These roots look very strong and healthy. And I also have alot more roots than I would normally have in soil after 3 weeks (2 weeks if you subtract my week without power).

Despite the problems from the hurricane, I have to say I am VERY pleased with coco. It is fantastic stuff.

[daihashi]

Fed the plants today:

1 gallon of tap water
6 ml of CalMag
4ml of Canna Coco Nute A
4ml of Canna Coco Nute B
Ph'd to 5.8 - 5.9 (kept fluxuating between these two for 3 minutes.)

I believe I found my mother plant. This plant, despite all the crap that has happened, is a very good looking plant. It has secondary growth and it's root system looks fantastic. Everything about this plant oozes Awesomness... all I can hope for is that it's not going to be a hermie/male dom plant (these are feminized unstable genetics... so hermies are a very real possibility).

I will give the plants another week or so and then I will give them a week of LST before I cut clones from them all.

The other plants are still looking kind of rough, but that's just because of the damaged leaves. I fully expect all the plants to recover.

One more thing I learned about coco today... you can FEEL how much the plants are drinking!!! This is something that was fairly difficult to do with soil because it occured over a course of days; however with coco you can feel it over the course of 1 day!

The plant I expect to turn into a mother drank a considerable amount of water when compared to the rest of the plants; furthermore this plant was the furthest from the fans/exhaust so I know that the plant actually utilized the water and it was not just wicked away from air blowing over it. I am very pleased with this.

Different plants had different pot weights. This was something I had never noticed before because I had never let the coco get very dry before; however after flushing the plants and then feeding it became obvious that they utilized more water/nute solution than before .

While I will still use an EC/PPM meter to determine how much they're eating.. I would have to say you can probably get a good guesstimate just by lifting the pot when growing in coco.

Do the benefits never end with this medium? I am loving it more and more every day.

[daihashi]

It feels like these plants have been in veg alot longer (by veg I mean since they popped through the soil), but they've actually only been in veg about 18 days or so.

[Weedhound]

I'm a strong DIS-liker of coco myself I'm afraid.

How about photo of the mom in contention?

[TheMetal1]

I'm a strong DIS-liker of coco myself I'm afraid.

What kind did you use? I've been checking it out a lot lately... and there are a few that have been getting awful reviews. Low pH like a muuuuuufunka. On the other hand... some people are saying it's the best thing since goosefat :rasta:

And did you use coco specific nutrients?
- actually, can you use soil/hydro nutrients in coco? I'm assuming you can use hydro nutrients since it is soilless.

Edit: Dai... just saw your post below. I feel ya bro. I wasn't defending a side... just an idea. You know you, know what's up :rasta:. Don't stress... let Mary J do her thing.

BUUUUUUUUUNGGGGG...