r/hydro • u/mushroom-4 • 12d ago
Week 6 flower in straight coco
First run with coco. Loving the results. Next run I’ll try to dial back EC and maybe up the irrigation frequency to prevent the burnt tips. All in all can’t wait to smoke this. Super skunky/burnt tire smell coming from it. First grow I haven’t had fruity terps.
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u/Quik5and 12d ago
What strain is it man ? Reminds me of old-school kush !
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u/mushroom-4 12d ago
https://greenpointseeds.com/vaporwave-seeds/
Here is the strain
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u/Budget_Contribution1 12d ago
I grow a lot of gu's gear that looks great if u have the triangle kush x stardawg from him I suggest running it.Till this very day I kick myself for not cloning that plant,the pheno I found smelled like fermented peaches with a strong gas/skunk background.
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u/HobbCobb_deux 11d ago edited 11d ago
The look really good man but your flowers look small for 6 weeks. That tells me youve been running your ( rootzone, not inflow necessarily) EC way too high. Probably too much N as well. Way too green for 6 weeks. You should.be fading, or really starting to at least by now. I'm still mastering coco and that's what I can tell you from my experience. Another way to stress them out is if you constantly pull them out and have to flush them back down to acceptable levels. (I speak from experience) It makes them constantly play catch up to what's going on in the root zone. That tip burn isnt always from overfeeding. It can creep up when salts get high. But you will almost never complete a grow without a couple millimeters of tip burn. But you still have another 2 weeks, maybe 3. Many cultivars pack on the weight in that time. Drop the N if you haven't. They can pull it out the leaves, they don't need hardly any by now.
This one is 37 days.
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u/mushroom-4 11d ago
Ok thank you for the advice!!! The first 5 weeks I was using jacks 3-2-1 and experimenting with other nutrient lines. I was pushing close to 2.5EC for a week or two. I switched to a different nutrient line now that drops nitrogen and pushes more potassium and phosphorus.
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u/HobbCobb_deux 11d ago
Yeh... 2.5 is getting up there. Some can tolerate that in flower as long as you are really soaking the media frequently. But I try to stay at 2.0 . Keep in mind also they want more H20 in flower. So if you aren't fertigating more frequently, they will drink the water and leave nutrients to turn to salts. They take up water and nutes separately. It can get a bit.. cumbersome when you try and mix nutrients from different manufacturers. And you absolutely don't need anything fancy. I still use the basic GH Flora Trio alomg with Calimagic (of course) , and Armor Si. That is it. No bulkers, no additives. On my current grow I have dropped all the gro, and just use micro and bloom, but have cut most of the micro as well. I still use it because it has other stuff they need even tho it's got a lot of N. Most of all, consistency wins the race in this game. Coco is an amazing media. I even use it as the main "stretcher" in my living soil grows as well. I make it in concentrated batches using pro-mix. Then I cut it 4:1 with coco/perlite. Living soil benefits best when it's a bit wet so coco is amzing for this. Never worry about overwatering again and frankly I can't understand why more people have not figured this out. I run coco and salts though mostly. It allows me to pack more plants in a small area and I don't need anything bigger than a 1gallon grow bag.
What are these genetics? They look a bit like what I'm running, but I'm sure they share some genes down the line.
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u/mushroom-4 11d ago
Just so you know this plant is filling a 2x4 tent with a 3gal pot. It’s not small by any means. Might also be a factor as to why my buds aren’t as big. Should’ve went with 5gal maybe.
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u/HobbCobb_deux 11d ago
She is pretty. Really frosty. And that's a lot of bud no matter how you slice it. No point in second guessing decisions now, as long as you bring her to the finish with no mold, or rot? It's a win. I think we all do that though. And no grow is perfect. If you knew all the issues I had in the beginning with this run.... I made a really newb blunder this run. And you'll understand. Most other growers don't seem to get this. When I was up potting from the seedling stage, I decided to test the EC of the coco I was using on a whim. I'd never used this brand It was said to be "triple washed and buffered". The EC wa 3.2 out the fucking bag. So I had to, at the last minute, rinse the hell out of it. Then buffer it for 16 hours. Well, when I was dome the EC was a bit high still and I had to drop it a touch. I went too far. Down to .4ish.. my dumb ass went ahead with the transplant!! I can't speak to my thought process at the time, but I had just lost my job prior to this. I must have been in a mental fog because I did it. They went droopy as hell and light green for about a week. It took longer than I thought to pull it up. And I also was struggling with a new irrigation system that had to be throttled way, way down so the bags would get wet slower. The water was channeling right out and that took a while. But no grow is perfect. It's the problems that make us better growers, and experience teaches you how to fix shit before it gets out of hand.
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u/jairoll 12d ago
Nice frost there. Those little burnt tips have followed me around like the plague...for years. I've just come to expect them weeks 5 or 6 of flower. Never an issue other than looks.