Whats your opinion of coco

[7CardBud]

I haven't used it yet, but I should probably look into adding some. I test my runoff ph, and it seems to stay pretty stable.
I did have some early mag def when I first started using the mix. I never used coco before, and the mix didn't work the same as the peat/perlite blends. I had inter-vein stripes on lower leaves early in veg. It's been rolling along pretty good the past few months now. I only run 5 plants in a perpetual, so I haven't needed to make any more mix yet.

I mixed my own for a couple years until a found a place that sells BM6 for $25 a bale.
I did a bit research and found a paper by UCBerkeley that recommends 5% pulverized dolomite by weight be added to peat for
container gardening. That was about 3 pounds per 4ft bale of peat.
With the coco in your mix that likes to hold onto calmag a bit of lime should help those early deficiencies.

 

[MeOhMyOhio]

I mixed my own for a couple years until a found a place that sells BM6 for $25 a bale.
I did a bit research and found a paper by UCBerkeley that recommends 5% pulverized dolomite by weight be added to peat for
container gardening. That was about 3 pounds per 4ft bale of peat.
With the coco in your mix that likes to hold onto calmag a bit of lime should help those early deficiencies.

That's great info. I'll do that with my next batch. These damn bales of peat blend are $40 and up, and they are smaller now too. 3-3.5 cu ft. I used to get bales for $25 also.

 

[7CardBud]

Check agricultural suppliers in your area, they won't have the weed tax on peat blends.
I was lucky to find one in my area that I didn't need to register a tax ID. I toss them cash and they drop the pallet on my truck.

 

[red1975]

Coco is simple if you have a 1/2 hour per day for feeding.
70/30 coco/perlite mix.
Start in solo cups........transplant after 2 weeks.......I use 2 gallon pots.
Start feeding to run off daily starting around day 3-4 from sprout.
Feed once daily to run off in veg and twice daily in flower.
Never give plain water.
Never let the coco dry.
Your tap water is fine.
I wouldn't grow any other way.......but's that just me.
Good luck.

I've been watering a small amount every hr with about with future harvest at about 70% strength. And they really do good i find the coco coir is alot less hassle than straight water.

I plan on growing in coco next grow and I'm just wondering whats the benefits and other stuff to growing in coco ik you have to feed nutes every watering or so but what else?
And another question is my tap water is like 250mg/L can I use that or would I have to use ro water? Don't really want to use ro bc it would cost me close to prob 100 a month or so

I found coco coir very good as far as hydroponic methods. Coco for cannabis is a good info site. I do the frequent fertigation I water every hr a small amount of run off in the day. I mix fertilizer at 70% recomeded strength. Been in thus method for about 6 years now.

 

[Wastei]

There's so many reasons to choose coco coir over peat like it's renewable and doesn't destroy native peat forests. I've always treated them very similar and I often fed my peat grown plants 2-3 times a day.

In coir I often need to feed 2 times more with almost the same volume of container with it being slightly bigger in peat. Coir releases nutrient faster than peat and if you dial it in right it will outperform a peat based grow solely by the fact you're able to feed more often.