General hydroponics Coco coir

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Weedsteve420

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Figured the 5kt brick of coco coir I bought from "general hydroponics" would have been fine to rehydrate with phed tap water with Epsom salts. Obviously my assumption was incorrect.
Today I was looking at my plants and noticed one of my seedlings first true leafs starting to brown at the tips. They only spouted about 5 days ago. Mind you I have only been watering with phed water. I immediately sanitized my bathroom tube, put my pots in and ran my sprayer in each pot for about 10 mins a piece until it came clear. Then ran 2 gallons phed tap water through each pot. Then I used a very light nutes solution/eposom salts running a gallon of that in each pot. All phed to 6.
This is more of a rant because I know my pH was correct and no way the plant should have problems like this from the beginning. So obviously Low Ec on package is misleading.
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i always flush my coco, whether it is new, or reusing from last harvest. i keep a 5 gal bucket with lots of 5/8'ths inch holes and just dump tap water through it for a while. then i do a pre-soak for a day in the nute solution i am going to be using.
 
Yarddog, do you add nutes if you are planting seeds in it?

I personally would suggest a seed starting mix for starting seeds.
 
no, but i never start seeds in coco. i should clarify, i am using chuck coco, not sure what the O.P is using. i assume coir? i start my seeds in peat pucks, then add coco around the peat puck and when i harvest, the puck is still there, with a tree trunk growing in it. haha
i do water my seeds with the same solution veg uses, before the round leaves wither.
 
Quick update. Feeding 1/4th nuts strength, Epsom salts, 1 and half quarts each pot to runoff each day. All feedings phed to 6. Probably my fault though for not precharging the coco with any nutes. week.
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too early to feed them .
wait a week.or 10 days
You can nuke them at that stage ...plus the pot is rather big to start .having a big pot increase watter logging and the surface area for bugs . plus other cons.🤔👍GFP

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too early to feed them .
wait a week.or 10 days
You can nuke them at that stage ...plus the pot is rather big to start .having a big pot increase watter logging and the surface area for bugs . plus other cons.[emoji848][emoji106]GFP

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Sorry bring back old thread. Hard to over water in coco [emoji7]. As of today.
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