Coco Coir

McShnutz

McShnutz

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I've had great success utilizing an organic approach with coco. Not pure but it's pretty high. Somewhere around 75%, the rest is compost, humus, ewc and drainage media like granular quarts, granite, greensand.

I'm automated using a blumat pump system with accumulator. Skipped the drip emitters and went with the blusoak line. Fabricated a 4 hose double ended manifold. 4'x8'x18" fabric bed regulated using only (2) 9" Maxi's

Bought a digital tensiometer 85- 100 mBar seems to be ideal for me. This will vary though I feel depending on drainage abilities of your chosen soil.
I've had the soil at 29 mBar and what would normally be considered way over watered, wasn't. But growth increased with a higher mBar.
 
klx

klx

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Coco is clean, reusable, basically inert, cant be overwatered, list goes on its a great medium. I like big pots of coco with multiple plants per pot. Keeps things much tidier with less spaghetti everywhere and fewer things to go wrong, get clogged etc.

Attached pic is 9 pots with 45 plants
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DoubleAtotheRON

DoubleAtotheRON

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klx said:
Coco is clean, reusable, basically inert, cant be overwatered, list goes on its a great medium. I like big pots of coco with multiple plants per pot. Keeps things much tidier with less spaghetti everywhere and fewer things to go wrong, get clogged etc.

Attached pic is 9 pots with 45 plants
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Cool... never seen that before. You got a team of midgets that get in there and larf that up?
 
xtsho

xtsho

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It's probably not a good idea to change up from what you know works right now. Especially where you're at. If you're getting results you don't want to end up with a poor harvest by trying out something new. I'm not minimizing your knowledge but switching over to coco could have some hiccups at first.

If you have things dialed in it's probably best to stay with what you're doing. Especially when the margins are so slim.

Having said all that. I would really like to see a capillary mat setup in a grow your size from the beginning to the end. I think it would be successful and may even have you scratching your head wondering why you didn't do it sooner.
 
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DoobieDoobs

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PJ Diaz said:
Honestly coco is super simple, easier than soil. Once you have it set up, it's just about topping off a res, and dealing with runoff.
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No way its easier than soil, I just water from seed to harvest. I would be doing nothing if I had an irrigation system.

edit: well maybe just topping off the res xD (I think topping off the res means filling it with water?). So maybe equally simple once you have everything set up.
 
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DoobieDoobs

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Being reusable and watering are things that are applied to soil as well, If I were to think about things only work better on coco than soil, I would think about 2 things: the faster growth, and being able to feed a plant despite having a very small container for your medium, you can't solo cup with organics, for exemple.
 
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klx

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DoobieDoobs said:
Being reusable and watering are things that are applied to soil as well, If I were to think about things only work better on coco than soil, I would think about 2 things: the faster growth, and being able to feed a plant despite having a very small container for your medium, you can't solo cup with organics, for exemple.
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Thats true. If you want to control all aspects of your plants feeding then coco is better. If you are happy to just let them do their thing and extra yield is not a big need then nothing at all wrong with some lovely organic soil thats for sure.
 
Thodoph

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I mix happy frog soil and buffered coco core 50/50.
I've noticed an increase in yield . The mix is easy to maintain minimal waste .
 
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