Three days ago I fed her a 50% increase of noots, next will be full-strength. They’s officially in veg. Pics from today, day 20…
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Looks really nice
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Im kinda interested in those blocks though! Never used one…you doin ok…safe?
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Yeah thanks. 
Gonna post some shots of the fire after dinner.
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Im sad that I just found your grow 
what an amazing grow. You got me tuned in now… grate details and log.
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Rockwool. I’m writing an article on it for the community.
I’ve been consistently using 4" cubes in most of my grows since the late 80s, irrigating 4-6 times per day. In the last two years, I’ve been putting those same cubes on slabs and watering once a day. In effort to remove the support slabs, I’ve just moved to 6" Hugo cubes on this grow, and they’ll get irrigated 2-3x a day.
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Have you ever tried high frequency fertigation in Coco? I know a lot of facilities have switched over to that now, wondering if you stayed with RW for a reason or just preference
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Why yes, I have! Damn fabric pots get their own kind of frosty too, lol!
And they also contribute to humidity, which I’ve managed to control in most grows without additional hardware. The last two I did in Florida were HF in coco/fabric, and hard to judge because Florida environment starts with a humidity problem, but it was tough to control.
The auto in my veg tent is in coco/fabric, but it hardly needs watering daily thus far. Eventually it will go on wicks. It contributes the bulk of humidity which is welcome in that tent.
RW ha ha! Not gonna get on too much about it, as I’m working on an article to post here, but the pros outweigh the cons for how I like to grow. The biggest drawback for me has always been that it can’t be regenerated and reused.
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Awesome, looking forward to absorbing some of your RW knowledge! I’ve only used the tiny rooting cubes. Big slabs harder to get and dispose of discreetly than coco was 
Reusing soil is a big reason I switched from coco, got fed up of buying/disposing bags of it.
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Yeah…
Before legalization and before cameras everywhere, we used to drive miles to find a dumpster to toss it in.
Pros and cons to every medium choice.
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Day 23 pics posted above. I think the middle one will end up being the keeper mom. All depends on the final product. Hoping the tall one is a male!
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Day 26 pics in original post up top. Explosive growth!
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Super nice and healthy
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Day 28 and 32 posted. They got moved twice. Now under SF2000 in veg tent and feeding at 3/4 strength. Next feed full strength.
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Day 38 posted.
They’re feeding at full strength general use formula, roughly 750ppm/1.5ec. It looks like they want more. I’m good with that.
Next feed we’ll adjust to grow formula, bump strength up to 1000ppm/2ec, and see how they do.
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Question, I thought you could reuse coco? Can you not take the root ball out and re amend and reuse.?
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You can, definitely with organic amendments. With salts you need to use an enzyme to break down the remaining old roots and possible to have salt or pathogen build-up. I always preferred to just start again fresh, it’s not that expensive
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Yes u can weather salts or organic just get something like cannazyme from canna it turns dead root matter into food 7.2ml/gal. Flush threw used coco few times then while growing drop it to normal instructions or mammoth has one labeled as oil based and highly popular too
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Awesome info, thank you. I didnt know there was a process. How long would it take for the roots to start braking down? Also how long would the entire process be until I can use the cocoa again?
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I just put 3 and 5gal pots in bathtub and ran phd 5.8 h20 threw around 6-7gal. Then took 1gal with cannazyme poured in let sit and for 5gal I ran gallon threw with cannazyme…then when finally plant seeds again ill run phd calmag water threw to saturated let drain a few then burry beans and normal does of cannazyme threw out @2.5ml/liter
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