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⏰ Is 12/12 in Veg OPTIMAL, or BUNK?! Plus, Caring for Mothers, with Dr. Coco

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4.7599 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

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(00:00) Intro and Dr. Coco's consulting work
(04:37) 12/12 during veg: Dr. Coco's take
(16:28) Tips for caring for mother plants
(21:39) Shortening veg for more harvests per year?
(30:49) Diagnosing intersex plant causes

Dr. Coco returns to discuss the idea behind "the end of the veg light cycle," as proposed in a very interesting High Times article. This begs the question: when does 12/12 from seed or clone make reasonable sense, and when is it a waste of time? Dr. Coco also shares his best tips on keeping mothers alive and happy for long periods of time.

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0:00.0

Today's episode features Dr. Coco, great friend of the show, back on the air, to talk about

0:04.7

1212 from seed and from clone. It's a really great episode. We get into that, we get into

0:09.5

how to take care of mothers properly. Some really great info in this episode before we jump in,

0:14.0

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0:20.4

a kits, pots, pots whatever you need it's

0:22.3

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0:29.1

let's get into the show thank you for listening and enjoy the program hello podcast listeners you

0:33.5

are now listening to and watching growcast i'm your host horton river and i want to thank you for

0:37.4

tuning in today go to growcast.com and find everything we're about. The beginner's guide is up there, membership, seeds. It's all waiting for you, growcast.com. Special thank you to the Growcast members. Today we've got a fan favorite back on the line, longtime friend of the show, and an expert in cultivation of all scales. We're talking about so much today with you know him, Dr. Coco is back on the line. What's up, Dr. Coco? Hey, Jordan. It's nice to be back with you. It's been a minute, but we've gotten to stay in touch in other ways. But yeah, I'm happy to be back on Growcast with you. I know. Isn't that funny? We talk off air, and then it's like, man, you got to come back on the show.

1:13.4

Yeah, exactly.

1:14.4

But for the first time, listeners, of course, coco for cannabis.com, go and check out everything Dr.

1:18.6

Coco is about from light science to growing in cocoa, high frequency fertilization.

1:22.9

You've been working on some consulting gigs recently, Coco.

1:26.1

You want to talk on what you can up to?

1:28.0

I have a new website specifically for my consulting business as well. It's Dr.MJ.Coco.com.

1:34.1

You can see sort of the work that I do with commercial growers. But I do a lot of

1:40.8

optimization work, a lot of setting up and helping new growers in commercial

1:46.7

cultivation, figure out a good cultivation plan, work out their SOPs for them, think about

1:52.9

how to set up a cultivation plan, including how many plants, how long is the veg, how are we

1:58.7

going to do this, rotation between rooms, thinking about sizing the different rooms, forecasting yield,

2:06.5

a lot of stuff like that.

2:07.5

And then, of course, solving problems and dealing with things as they come up when grows

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