How to properly prepare coco coir

I will be starting my first coco coir grow in a couple weeks. I was just wanting some opinions on how to properly prep it. Their is so many different articles that list different ways. Any help in this matter will be greatly appreciated.

Skillcraft said:

I will be starting my first coco coir grow in a couple weeks. I was just wanting some opinions on how to properly prep it. Their is so many different articles that list different ways. Any help in this matter will be greatly appreciated.

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Buy the stuff that’s already been buffered, I hear canna is good. The compressed blocks require rinsing and buffering

I already bought condensed bricks. How do I properly rinse and buffer. Thanks for the reply

Here you go

Skillcraft said:

I already bought condensed bricks. How do I properly rinse and buffer. Thanks for the reply

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Soak the block In a tote, fill up the whole tote with water and after it fully moistens swoosh it around and just scoop the stuff that float, squeeze the water out and fill another tote or bucket With it, drain the tote out that’s filled with water and the stuff left at the bottom rinse out over some sort of screen or kitchen strainer, there will be sand and dust and you want to rinse out as much as possible, after that squeeze the water out and add it to the same bucket or tote as the other coco from earlier. Fill up a tote again with water and calmag or whatever nutrients you’re going to use and soak the coco again for A day, squeeze out the water/nutrients and it’s ready to use, I like to water to heavy runoff once a day for the first several days when I transplant To help rinse out any salt that didn’t get rinsed out, check the EC of the runoff and compare it with your feed it shouldn’t be much higher by that point. For example if you’re feeding with 1.0ec you want your runoff to be 1.3 or less

Thank you for the replies and the link. You have helped me a bunch. Much appreciated

Star Dog said:

Buffering coco in layman's terms?

I've got a brick of coco to try I need to know how do I go about preparing it to use, I read coco requires buffering what is I do I do in gardening terms? I don't mean to sound ungrateful but there's no point in posting links the science is to complicated I can't get my head around it, I...

www.rollitup.org

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Apparently he didn't like the replies he got in that thread and decided to start another one.

I bought the hard brick as well. I didn't need it all so you can just take a pry bar and break some off. I just use a 5 gal bucket to soak/rinse my small batches. I buffer in the grow bag I'm going to use.