Canna coco??

Star Dog said:
apparently its loaded with pk and it needs removing?
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This is where i use it to my advantage as an organic ammendment. I just add calmag and N and it can grow a houseplant for a while before changing mixes.
So to people who want to start "clean" then yes , it would need removed. K im sure coco has a lot. P im not so sure.
 
Farmer Bean said:
You said you flood in trays im wondering if your running e&f or only for your babies? I always top/drip feed with coco.
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I used to grow in fabric pots with coco, and always top fed them. Then I switched to rockwool slabs and started flooding them. Then I switched to coco cubes to mimic the rockwool.
 
twentyeight.threefive said:
I use Canna Coco Professional. Although prebuffered I rinse a low nutrient solution through it. Around 300ppm-400ppm. This cleans the fines out and I can ensure that it's fully buffered and at the ppm I want it. My last grow I did a plant without perlite. It grew just as well as the perlite mixed coco plant if not better. I won't use perlite again. It's just not needed.
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I stopped using perlite years ago. It's not needed and I hate the stuff. I've banned it from my property. Some slips through in bagged potting soil but I'll never add it to coco again.

I also never use calmag either. Any decent nutrient should have enough which is why these coco specific nutrients are such a scam. It's coco specific but you still need to add calmag? It doesn't make sense.
 
Dreminen169 said:
Why fuck with a healthy plant?
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Gotta stick with what we are comfortable with. Personally I feel the whole point of hydro is pushing the plant to the limt for speed and yield. If your interested in health living soil is a intriging path to follow. But i feel that salt based growing. Nothings ever going to be perfect every strains different. Requires different stuff. Theres to many variable to really get tied up on this or that. I prefer to push my plants in coco to get the most i can from the explosive growth you can harness in hydro if you are careful and methodic about your increases. Thats just me.
 
Farmer Bean said:
Coco is not ideal for flooding. Because of the cec your going to get imbalance as they use minerals at different rates.
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That's the conclusion that I was coming to. A lot of people bottom feed coco and it's recommended in a lot of gnat threads, but from my experience it prefers "out with the old, in with the new."
 
I always push my canna coco through a garden sieve because ive found hard pieces and clumps

I've never pre-soaked it in anything, just used as is
 
xtsho said:
I stopped using perlite years ago. It's not needed and I hate the stuff. I've banned it from my property. Some slips through in bagged potting soil but I'll never add it to coco again.

I also never use calmag either. Any decent nutrient should have enough which is why these coco specific nutrients are such a scam. It's coco specific but you still need to add calmag? It doesn't make sense.
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What nutrient line do you use?
 
Canna coco straight from the bag. Botanicare rehydrated with a weak nutrient solution. Both of those brands are ready to go. Double washed, steamed, and pre-buffered. If people want to take the unnecessary step of rewashing what's already been washed then that's their call and their time.
Perlite is not needed. 100% coco. Plug in some blumats and you're on autopilot. Makes for a boring grow but It's so simple even a caveman can do it.

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Drewdash420 said:
What nutrient line do you use?
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I just use some dry nutrients similar to Jacks. The calcium nitrate I use as the primary nitrogen source provides all the calcium needed even with coco. Over ten years growing in coco and I've never once added additional calmag. I never used it with flood and drain hydro either. Never have any deficiencies.
 
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