Quote Originally Posted by Jord0713
Depends on your pot too!! I grow in smart pots therefore I am a glutton for watering. I have to water every day to day and a half even from the very beginning...I might have been able to go 2 days, but no more for sure.
Smart pot?
They that smart, they should go get dey own water, yah.

I use what evah is at hand, but usually start wit' tall, (no cramp da tap root), paper cups, fulla coco.
Den drop dem in 4" square, plastic, seedling pots.
Den 6", den 8" square, white, plastic.

Because it's coco, I do 2 things differently.
1. I drill extra holes in, and near, the bottom.
2. I cut reflectix insulation to a close fit and cover the soil.
That stops Fungus gnats from breeding and slows evaporation loss from the soil surface.
It also reflects 97% of the light back up.
You needn't bother with perlite, or gravel in the bottom.
I don't use 'zymes either.

Not needed with this medium.

(Might not hurt, but does not help.)

Coco is NOT soil.
It's solid-state hydro and needs none of that kine stuff.
There's no "micro-herd" to coddle.
No good bugs vs. bad bugs.
We feed them directly with the end-result of the millions of hit or miss, organic, chemical reactions and digestions.

The bottom line of all that organic activity, are simple compounds that roots can absorb and the plant can apply without working too hard.

Bug poo.


With Hydro, and Coco, we skip all the underground drama and jus' feed 'em "Da blood of da vanquished", the end product of good organic activity.

Just that which they require and can use directly.:jointsmile:


All coco does is serve these compounds to the roots efficiently That, and it let's 'em have sweet, fresh air while they eat and drink all they can hold.


Is it organically naughty?:silly:
Is it cheating?

Perhaps.
But it works a treat!!:jointsmile:

Aloha,
Weezard