Plants are looking terrible and idk why? Coco/Perl + salts

Hey everyone!

I’ve got 6 plants running in buffered coco perlite using a 3 part salt nutrient line.

we’ve been having a ton of rain recently and it’s raised our tap water ph up to 8/9, life got in the way and I didn’t notice this for about two weeks, after my plants started deteriorating I checked and adjusted my feeds.

im feeding at about 1.5ec at 6.0-6.5ph for the last 7-10 days they haven’t perked back up and continue to droop. I let them dry out over the weekend and fed them till about 20% on Monday.

1.5 probably too high, and what's your watering technique? Are you flushing out old nutrients? They r thirsty and would appreciate a nice heavy plain water feed to drink some. Plain water, flush some of that old shit away

ProPheT 216 said:

1.5 probably too high, and what's your watering technique? Are you flushing out old nutrients? They r thirsty and would appreciate a nice heavy plain water feed to drink some. Plain water, flush some of that old shit away

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Hey! I am hand watering, we're in the middle of winter so I haven't been hand watering them daily. I aim for about 10-20% run off.


Should I let them dry out before plain water flushing or should I go ahead and do that tonight?

Coco shouldn’t go dry and should be fed daily. Not a coco guy but want to try eventually. Agree Thats high ec for veg.

Flush with phd water then feed lower ec

I think your in a soil level ph also at 6-6.5 thought coco was a little lower

bam0813 said:

Coco shouldn’t go dry and should be fed daily. Not a coco guy but want to try eventually. Agree Thats high ec for veg.

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Hey! I usually feed them daily, we're in the middle of winter and the tents sitting at 21C so I haven't started feeding daily yet

Usually or haven’t yet lol but those size plants need fed daily

bam0813 said:

Usually or haven’t yet lol but those size plants need fed daily

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Haven't started yet xD

I'll plain water flush them tonight and then start with the daily feeds

Wait for coco guys but thats my best understanding of coco

Run a low EC solution from them but not plain water.

Are the pots lighter when you water them? Or are they heavy and waterlogged? These look like overwatered plants imho

budtoker221 said:

Are the pots lighter when you water them? Or are they heavy and waterlogged? These look like overwatered plants imho

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You can't overwater coco

blueberrymilkshake said:

You can't overwater coco

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The bubba kush I’ve got likes it pretty aerated and dry I’ve been using 50/50 coco perlite and there’s no way I could water this strain in coco every day till runoff without signs of overwatering some of the afghanicas I believe like it really dry.

budtoker221 said:

The bubba kush I’ve got likes it pretty aerated and dry I’ve been using 50/50 coco perlite and there’s no way I could water this strain in coco every day till runoff without signs of overwatering some of the afghanicas I believe like it really dry.

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You don't need perlite either lol

I’m using a coco brand that comes with 50% perlite yea you don’t exactly need the extra perlite but I believe it offers more aeration.

21 celsius is not enough. Raise the temperature and water multiple times a day to run off. You literally can't over water coco even if the plants are small, keep it saturated. There's no need to flush the coco, if you have run off you're already basically flushing out excess salts. After several full waterings the coco will only contain the salts that you put in there.

budtoker221 said:

I’m using a coco brand that comes with 50% perlite yea you don’t exactly need the extra perlite but I believe it offers more aeration.

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Ah, I bought some of that stuff locally when I couldn't get straight coco shipped fast enough. Can't knock convenience. What size pots do you use?

blueberrymilkshake said:

Ah, I bought some of that stuff locally when I couldn't get straight coco shipped fast enough. Can't knock convenience. What size pots do you use?

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Usually around 2-3 gal pots. I’ve only been using coco for like 6 months so I can’t say much about it yet but I’ve done an experiment keeping the pots super dry and not watering till runoff and the smaller leaves of the bk which tend to fold and droop sometimes (it seems to be a characteristic with this strain) these leaves seemed to perk up with the half-watered coco.

budtoker221 said:

I’ve only been using

Usually around 2-3 gal pots. I’ve only been using coco for like 6 months so I can’t say much about it yet but I’ve done an experiment keeping the pots super dry and not watering till runoff and the smaller leaves of the bk which tend to fold and droop sometimes (it seems to be a characteristic with this strain) these leaves seemed to perk up with the half-watered coco.

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That's cool your experimenting, I did the same thing. I have to see stuff for myself, y'know. I've only been doing coco for a year, but I've found my best work comes from watering at least twice a day during flower. When the pot dries out, your EC will spike.