How to Use Cocopeat Grow Slabs for Hydroponics Growing
Prepare a fertilizer plan.,Catch the drain water for a water analysis., Fill the slabs.,Fill the slabs with the fertilizer plan.,Drip with an EC from 1.8 till 2.0 and pH from 5.6.,Drip till the slabs are saturated, or even a little bit overflowing...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Prepare a fertilizer plan.
Fill a couple of slabs with clean water.
Let them stand for 24-hours.
Drain the slabs.
Some hours after draining, add some clean water on the slabs. ,, Based on the numbers, you make a fertilizer plan, without potassium and 15% extra iron and manganese.
Keep in mind the need for more calcium.,,,,,,, Start off with a
0.2 higher drip EC.
Send after 2 weeks a new water sample out.
Make a new fertilizer plan based on the results.
Begin frequent water (short shots), so you prevent drying out of the blocks through the coco slabs.
When necessary to control the plant, you can stop with dripping water for a couple of days, when the plants are fully rooted in. , Always put extra (15%) iron and manganese in.
Keep an eye on the first drain of the day, coco start draining when it is 100% saturated, this means coco drains average later (rock wool drains a little gradually).
Coco has over the average a higher pH (don't worry).
The plants grow on the average more vegetative on coco; adjust the temperature to it.,, -
Step 2: Catch the drain water for a water analysis.
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Step 3: Fill the slabs.
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Step 4: Fill the slabs with the fertilizer plan.
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Step 5: Drip with an EC from 1.8 till 2.0 and pH from 5.6.
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Step 6: Drip till the slabs are saturated
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Step 7: or even a little bit overflowing out of the plant holes.
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Step 8: Drain the slabs after 12 to 24 hours.
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Step 9: Make sure that there are enough drain holes in the slabs
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Step 10: 1 between every plant
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Step 11: 1 at begin and end of the slab.
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Step 12: Drip after that
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Step 13: 1 liter (0.3 US gal) a plant / dripper
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Step 14: with an EC value (fertilizer plan)
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Step 15: which you like to start off in the crop.
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Step 16: After the planting
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Step 17: bring 35% from the potassium back in the fertilizer plan (based on a regular fertilizer plan).
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Step 18: Drip during the season with longer drip rounds.
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Step 19: Drip the double concentration of a pesticide on coco then rock wool
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Step 20: when you have to use it
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Step 21: because the organic structure of the slab
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Step 22: coco binds pesticide.
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Step 23: Stop on the average a little bit earlier with dripping at the end of the day then by rock wool.
Detailed Guide
Fill a couple of slabs with clean water.
Let them stand for 24-hours.
Drain the slabs.
Some hours after draining, add some clean water on the slabs. ,, Based on the numbers, you make a fertilizer plan, without potassium and 15% extra iron and manganese.
Keep in mind the need for more calcium.,,,,,,, Start off with a
0.2 higher drip EC.
Send after 2 weeks a new water sample out.
Make a new fertilizer plan based on the results.
Begin frequent water (short shots), so you prevent drying out of the blocks through the coco slabs.
When necessary to control the plant, you can stop with dripping water for a couple of days, when the plants are fully rooted in. , Always put extra (15%) iron and manganese in.
Keep an eye on the first drain of the day, coco start draining when it is 100% saturated, this means coco drains average later (rock wool drains a little gradually).
Coco has over the average a higher pH (don't worry).
The plants grow on the average more vegetative on coco; adjust the temperature to it.,,
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