50/50 Coco/Peat mix for base super soil

Biggest issue for me is after one wants to recycle their mix, peat is completely broken down, doesn’t change consistency over time. Where coco after a few runs turns to mud. And becomes hard to work with.

_EQ said:

Yeah so my idea is gonna be a mix of peat/coco, rice hulls + perlite, and EWC. Plus an assortment of dry meals, and rock dusts.

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My only advise is that you consider running strains that are not finicky for your initial soil experiment.

green_machine_two9er said:

Biggest issue for me is after one wants to recycle their mix, peat is completely broken down, doesn’t change consistency over time. Where coco after a few runs turns to mud. And becomes hard to work with.

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Re-cycling is one of the reasons I've used coco in recent years instead of rockwool.
You can eliminate most of the fine "silt" by rinsing it through a pasta strainer. Afterward, it's consistency looks just like fresh coco to my untrained eye.
On average, I'm able to recycle about half of the used coco. I mix new with the old for the next round of growing.
I've been doing so for the past few years without incident, it's saved me a few bricks of coco. It's not really about the cost savings, rather the principle of not discarding otherwise useful material.

* One thing I've found is that it's much easier to separate the coco from the roots if allowed to completely dry out first.