A Beginner's Guide to Coco

Growing high grade weed is a simple matter of growing healthy plants, not over feeding them, flushing them, and harvesting them properly. No more.


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Which is not only a waste of your life, but why I said what I said in the last post.

Listen mate, cannabis is a beginner level plant. It's not difficult to germinate, grow, clone, train... the only difficulties arise when things are complicated. This next bit is a good example:

This is why your plants look so hungry; If the names are anything to go by, neither of those is a base feed. One is a carb booster (or treacle/molasses as it's called in the store.. yes it's the same stuff and yes, unfortunately everyone who pays hydro prices for it are being ripped off) and the other is vitamin b, which is said to be a root stimulant. Neither give your plant the basic meal it needs, hence the yellowing and stunted growth.

And this is what I'm talking about. I'm sorry if this comes across as a bit of a rant, but I'll keep repeating this for as long as it takes.... if these two products were not available to you, the beginner, and if that list of scmc's wasn't there, then all you'd have is a plant... in a pot..... and a bottle of plant food... and you know what fella? you'd have a fuckin healthy little shrub on your hands.

The very best professional gardeners in the world -people growing hundreds of types of flowers and fruit and veg- couldn't possibly use such a complex array of snake oil products and hope to get anywhere in their occupation. It'd be literally impossible to keep any track of what they do. So instead they know and understand the basics, ie whether the plant likes acidic or lime soil, free draining or waterlogged, is a heavy or light feeder etc... these are the things they need to know.

Because of the nature of what we're growing, and the value of the crop, we've become a target for people who know full well that half these people talking as experts, are anything but, and have no general knowledge of gardening whatsoever. Back when indoor growing first took off in the states the most basic of all general gardening principles were unknown to most growers. Only years later would gardeners from outside impart principles such as potting up etc, which made their job a whole lot easier and more successful.

But some things remain.

Now the nutrient companies are playing on our desire to achieve that holy grail. The biggest yield... the tastiest buds... the stinkiest flowers... so they're selling a thousand products and making a million bucks. Then you get the "experts" who'll pop up on various forums with some pseudo scientific bullshit -usually straight from the producer's blurb- telling you how each product works... casually disregarding the fact that it has not been scientifically proven whether hardly any of them work at all.

And that's where we are now. Vitamins for this, boosters, acids... all bullshit products based on bits of info garnered by scientists studying many things other than cannabis, in an environment not at all related to the indoor grow room, yielding results which bear absolutely zero relation or relevance to the cannabis plant grow in compost or hydroponically. But who gives a shit, as long as it makes money.




Like I say: Get a bottle of plant food. Feed it that alone. Watch your plant. Understand when it is hungry, and when it is overfed. That is your be all and end all when it comes to growing high grade weed. Believe me. Believe growers a lot older and a lot better than me.

 

I'll try to find the equivalent product for you over there in the US.

Formulex is just a first feed. It's high in micros and is just a basic feed which I can give you a per mil guide on. It will easily get you through this stage, through veg, and into flower.

 

You'll find those warnings on virtually every single chemical nutrient... and some organic ones too.

The real health precautions you should be taking are doing your best to make sure your spliff lights easily, stays lit when not being toked, and burns to a clean white ash. If it doesn't, and the joint goes out easily, burns unevenly, and when the ash first burns it is black or dark in the middle, then even if you used kelp, worm shit and fishmix to grow the bud, you're smoking a substance much more damaging to your lungs.

The assumption that weed grown organically is automatically a better quality product regardless of how it's grown, is so far from the truth it's unreal.

 

If you google "formulex in the US?" you'll see there were other people trying to get hold of it a while back. Apparently it's not available over there.

If you can't find any baby/first feeds, just use your veg nutes at a low strength, but make sure it's that which makes up the whole EC of your feed. Any additives such as seaweed etc should be put in on top at the end.

 

That's true. I don't think I made myself clear.

Having a bottle of epsoms or cal mag product at hand is always good in the rare instance people see a legit mag deficiency (A massive number of alleged mag deficiencies are misdiagnosed)

But issues arise when new growers who are not confident with feeding, replace base feeds with so many products that the main food makes up such a little portion of the feed. Or see paleness and misdiagnose some element def and instead of simply upping the feed, throw extra cal&mag it's way.

Things like root stimulants and other beneficials are merely additions and it's important that beginners know this. Even though I use them myself as a fancy little touch, It's debatable how much if any difference things like fulvic etc will make.

In other words, if you've got a good base food, you could leave out every fulvic/humic/kelp/vitamin/every other beneficial product and have a healthy grow. Whereas you could use every beneficial under the sun, but leaving out the base feed would give you problems.

Make the base feed your priority is my point basically.

 

I'm not sure whether it's superior to any similar products out there. I'm recommending it because I can give an exact guide based on the plants in the pictures. If there's a similar product then a guide for that should be easy too.

Bioroot is not the same. It's not a base feed as such, more of a general tonic or addition. It's 1-1-1 composition makes it a very weak base feed and probably not that viable to use on it's own. A base veg feed such as canna would be a better bet.

 

I think you mean the difference between well and poorly grown weed actually.
And you don't need a lab to test it.

Excess phosphorus and metallic elements in the final product is a bad thing whether they're derived from chemical or organic nutes.