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    my first bet would be overwatering maybe even burning with high EC but what's the pot size? what EC was before flush? what temperature and humidity you have in a tent/room/...? how many plants? pics and evrything else would help me to help you bless man
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    Thanks to every one of you for your advice and help. Hope everything goes well. Happy growing to all. Peace out brothers
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    They wet!!! Coco is NOTORIUS for it. Ive had it ruin entire crops. Worst shit in the world in my opinion to use as a medium. Hate it with a passion cause of the time , energy, and money it wasted me. Let em dry out and be careful going forward how much you give them. Only give small amount and let it feed and dry out again. Then, get rid of Coco, its shit. Dont think even ONE commercial size grower here in Canada is using that shit. Its garbage. Cant say it enough. And, if people dont think the commercial guys here in Canada are on their game, think again and book a trip to Canada. lolol
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    Yeah, same as the two guys before, dont overdo anything as the dont look bad at all, not 100% perfect but hell, I have seen a lot worse with people having less concerns that theirs goes south..LoL. I havent used Canna in decades but stick to the labels and dosis on the bottle, rather less than more as rule of thumb. In coco you have to feed with each and every watering until the final flush and water-only period comes. Coco is almost inert and has nothing for the plant to offer, so you really have to have a proper nutrient(s) and secondary nutrients so you give it all. Coco has some advantages but it also has drawbacks, depending on perspective. Your water-cycle will be faster in same potsize compared to soil, this is good and bad, depending on your personal sitiuation. YOu need to work more but your plants get more oxygen through the roots and you have more options in general. The complete opposite is a pot that only needs watering every 7-9 days. That is easy works but only leaves a few cycles to work with, totally different game with salt based fert that needs a flushing that also fits in time etc.. In coco, usually, you have to water every other day as it is a faster medium than earth in general. 20L coco may go 3 days, 30L may 4-5 max..also HEAVILY depending on how much wattage you hammer down from above, humidity and temperature and last not least strain of choice, week number...veg or flower etc... endless. The key is to let AIR go through the pot...which happens AFTER you have completely saturated it with water/solution and the water slowly drips out, gets sucked up or evaporates, any volume released is filled by freshly sucked in air....good for your roots...and the root is the key to a nice plant. Mess it up there and you already lost the game before it started ! Lift them, judge them by weight and water or don't water according to the felt weight. Educate your roots ! Dont let them get lazy * The last guy I visited had 10L pots, soil, Canna fertilizer AND NO HOLES IN THE POTS !!! Now go figure what that looked like ! ...and how it tastes !!!!! ...he also watered 1L every day, always with fertilizer, still...he had some good weed that "ONLY" had a side taste for fertilizer and spider mites etc... Your's looks 10x better, just relax and obey the golden rule of watering pots...wait until they are light !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...and then, water until 20% of what you put in runs out as run-off !!! Fim
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    That 1x1x2m tent, yeah.... there are many variants that you can do, 1, 4, 8, 16 plants... I think the best one was with 4 bushy ones in 30L air-pots of any kind, each one around 135-150gr dry yield. All other numbers have not dropped more yield, most less, but had considerably more work involved, weak branches, small pots.. I see the need for cont. harvest or supply, just put 1 new big one in evry 2-3 weeks so you can take one out also every 2-3 weeks with a nice yield per plant. There are really too many ways to do it, the hard part is finding the ones that suites one best, and that does change over time, gained experience etc.. always evolving, never a standstill
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    Bam, There are a few things that work into each other when it comes to watering and you cannot see "watering" alone and expect a solid answer that holds true wherever you apply it, it aint that simpel. My findings when to water is when the pot is "LIGHT", but what is light ? Is it lighter than out of the pack, lighter than 3 days, 4 days... light with Perlite is another light as when without Perlite. It all differs a bit. The thing you need to touch base is what do you actually want to achieve with watering. Ask the wrong way round, Qui bono if you like. I want to achieve that there is a "complete" exchange of AIR insoide the pot. That can only be achieved if you fill a conatiner with another solid to expell all old gases. Well, you cant ram steel in there, but you can water. Now, how much water do I take to expell "old" air. I water until at least 20% of what I put in comes out again, very simpel. Do it slowly, pre-wet the surface and let it soak in if your medium wont accept the water at first and cant hold it. Again, measure by weight ! Some pots are REAL heavy pretty quick, some neve rget that HEAVY and tend to keep a kilo lighter ( 30L root pouches I refer to, 80%soil/20%perlite by volume, thats alot of perlite ! ) but in general you will be able to tell when it holds enough water and when you should maybe letit soak and drip off and pour in another 2-3L to gain some weight...that wont finally drip out but will stay in. Now that was the "normal" watering between normal weeks, when plants are in very large containers and still young..aka conquering the pot, you can stray aside and water differently to tickle the root to grow through all of your pot. Putting in other words, it can be very time consuming to put a clone into a 30L pot and water it completely and THEN be patient enough to wait until it is a light as described above. It will A: take very long and B: wont be a good start for your plant/grow due to A: In that case I tend to water the outer circle once or twice to tickle the root to cover the outer parts of the large pot ( large for the size of root you put in 5 days ago ). Usually a 30L pot under 600hps takes anywhere between 4-6 days to be light again, depending on week and strain, light and air, humidity, blower fans etc etc etc many things come into play. YOu gotta look, think, evaluate and draw the correct conclusion. For example: Let's say Joe had a nice room, Joe had great ideas and a great will too He ended up having 7x7 in a a square, 30L pots, so 49 total. Not a too big grow but certainly larger than most when it comes to ventilation issues, humidity and last but not least work in moving pots around. I have him the advice to opt for 30L pots to have a larger overall plant and yield and also to stretch the cycles a bit as he was not having too much time for this. Well, it turned out that those 49 pots JUST fitted into the room under the 600er hps's. no inch to spare and no damn space between the pots, they really touched each other. THIS turned out to be a culprit, a curse a nightmare and what not else. The pots stayed wet for 6-8 days with flowering plants and the whole root was not as developed in ANY of the pots as Joe and his friends were used to, they examined each rootball and none was a sgood as the grows before in merely same conditions, same pots and soil but not THAT CLOSE together. Joe now runs a 6x6 setup with 2 inches space between each pot any direction at least and twice the amount of cubicmeter acf and doubled the amount of blowers to fight humidity and move the plants around. The cycle is now 4 days ! FOUR ! 4 because of better roots = larger and more developed plants in same time frame = better yield expected and finally allowing enough watering cycles to follow a plan, with 6-9 days between all your watering plans and calendars are voided, believe me. You should understand watering as 1 part of breathing, the other part is letting it soak in fresh air again as water is being asbsorbed, that air is BADLY needed by your root and THUS you should never ever keep your plant moist all the time as you lock out oxygen mostly from your roots and get a really badly developed plant. #1 error with beginners, next one, #2 is too much fertilizer and #3 letting them get too dry ! Too dry is a lost day in your 63 days plan, 1 day where they wont do anything but be standing still. Watering is as simpel as carrying a can of water and can beas complex in understanding metabolism and some physics, exceptions as always granted. 36 x 7.5 liters = 270 liters runoff basin has 60L and is always FULL after watering ( 60L is more than 20% of 270L ). Thats the cross check Joe does after his work. 60L in the conatiner is proof of enough run-off to avoid salt built-up, enough to have all air expelled, enough to make you wanna have a watering slave but very good for your plants development, maybe not so good for your purse as 20+% Fertilzer is wasted...but that is part of the deal we all agreed on. I really do not go with the idea to water a soil or coco pot every day with a certain quantum. I would have to see the plant as nice and big as Joe's to believe that works as good as it runs against all I said ( what is written in books and I just found out for me it holds its truth when you apply it ). If really nothing goes, repot into a bigger pot, water it and be save for 5-7 days......hey...stay cool & easy Fim
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    So. I'm in 2 weeks into flower and just pruned them as they were getting pretty bushy. Just needed to get more light through the plant. I do though have the waste. Some may say it's not and that's wat I'd like to fund out. Can I make anything with what I've just cut off? This is my first one so I've added some pics of what their like. Do they seem okay?
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    yes coco and soil mix well together, if you do 50/50 you will save a little on the nutes yes. It's not that the coco has less nutes in it, more than that coco is suposed to be totally sterile, so 0 nute in it that's why usually you have to feed earlier and a little more than in soil. About the mineral nutes, i didn't like that too much neither i made the switch when i went to pf which is 100% mineral and got to say so far i'm far from being disapointed Also you will find quite a few journals with coco and soil mixed in the grow journals, have a look around ^^ Good luck

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