I'll be using this thread to keep a diary of my outdoor coco grow.
Nutrients:
This time round I've been using GH floracoco as nutes with some potassium silicate every third watering.
I've pretty much been using 2/3 of the doses specified on the back of the bottle with tap water, feeding every second watering. Now that the plants are flowering I'm feeding full strength every watering
It's the first time I'm using coco and I'm pretty happy with the performance of the nutrients so far, No pH issues, nutrients seem to buffer the tap water perfectly.
When I add the potassium silicate I add it first and then add 4-5 drops of 30% HCL to get the pH down to about 7. After adding the nutrients the pH is around 6.0
These coco nutes don't seem to need any calmag ... I do however add a small amount of calmag like every 5th feeding just out of deficiency paranoia
Strains:
I am growing 4 strains:
Ethos genetics - Crescendo RBX2 - Very nice uniform plant sofar
Paradise Seeds - Sensi Start - Awesome plant , love the structure , thick and bushy
Ripper Seeds - BrainCake - Weird plant , was super slow in veg and now suddenly it's shooting up , very little leaves , tall sativa like structure , didn't really respond to the lst
Amadeadly seeds - Grape Balls of Fire - Great plant , very big , good structure , seems like a perfect 50/50 hybrid
*The plants are always in this order front to back in the photos
Week 3 (from seed):
front to back: Crescendo , Sensi Star, BrainCake, GBOF
Week 4:
front to back: Crescendo , Sensi Star, BrainCake, GBOF
Week 7:
front to back: Crescendo , Sensi Star, BrainCake, GBOF
I topped all of the plants except brain cake. I went on holiday during week 5 and 6 and left the plants in an auto watering tray and came back to this
I decided to try training the plants around a ring, ended up snaping the main stems so the training reslted in more of a supercropping vibe than pure lst.
Week 8:
The plant had some gnats and
whiteflies on them so I decided to spray them with pyrol. Ended up burning them pretty badly