Depends on your temperature and how course chip your coco is, and your watering method. The big tomato glasshouses here don't use fine chips, they go for a more coarse chip as I do. Gets a better irrigation flush. Remember you want 15 to 25% runoff. So if you tipped 1L in ideally you want 150 to 250mls runoff. Work with that and you know you'll on the right path. easy as.
Yes I always have a good amount of runoff etc. I use canna coco plus don’t know if that fine chip or course? And tbh the main reason I thought to add perlite was because I thought it might help with gnats? Last run the pots went bone dry plants wilted the lot on numerous occasions (due to moving out and not having constant access to property) and I still had them in plague proportions! Although I’m thinking maybe it was because there was a constant water source in the room in way of a large floor drain where water would sit stagnant?
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I use to use cyco coco with perlite never had a problem 70/30 mix
In South Aust there's a ready made bagged mix called Nicks mix that has coco perlite already mixed in.
I reckon the mix I'm talking about above is 70/30 to mate
I use canna coco aswell was gonna add perlite in over winter because in summer the pots would dry up too quick with perlite in. Ive never been able to fully get rid of gnats unless i chuck gnat mix ontop but its pre pricey and messy.. so i just give each plant a sticky trap amd 2 neem oil flushes a week apart at the start of flower.. lowers the numbers dramatically but doesnt get rid of them.. summer is deffinatly worse for gnats
That must suck not be able to get rid of em.
The canna coco plus is quite fine grade. Mix it 70/30 course grade perlite.
I liked it drys out faster to, more oxygen to roots.
Sure does but i manage them enough that theyre not doing any real damage to my crops
I had em not long back pissed me off just pulled started again.
A mate of mine i was helping start up growin a few years back had the same strain same cut in 2 diff pots one had perlite mix the other straight coco and the perlite mix was leagues better BUT only because he was over watering them to all fuck to the point they got root rot.. so the one with perlite had more oxygen in root zone had less of a root rot problem
Are you filtering your intake, at least with a bug screen if not a carbon filter?
Nah im not and thatd probs be part of the problem... be a bit tricky to setup a filter on my setup especially a servicable one.. my intake is connected to a board of mdf that is wrapped in reflective insulation with a hole cut out for the ducting and that just intakes through a window that is open to outside but has flywire on it
Are you doing passive or active intake?
I did the same once with cuts of same plant to be used as mums. The mixed pots had much better roots. The ones with bennies used even more so.
The time i got gnats was using them bennies.
Try and at least fit a bug net filter on it. Can get at most hydro shops or online.