Has anyone used COCO?

I'm thinking about switching to coco for my next grow...has anyone here used or still use coco? pros and cons?

......anyone?

yeah i used it for the first time time on my last grow and im never going back to soil, i find the advantage of coco is that it breaths good so the roots get lots of oxygen, i use redigrow moisture control formula, what ive had problems with in soil is that they have a lot of stuff like worm castings and chicken shit....which is good but sometimes the ratios are not good for growing like say your fast growing plants start to have nitrogen defficency so you give them more nutes and then you end up overdosing on other nutes, or say the soil has a lot of organic stuff in it so when you go to flower a month or so in the stuff in the soil is still breaking down and producing nitrogen when your trying to flower, i mean yeah you can do great things in soil but ive just found coco to be far superior in terms of the amount of control you have over the plants, i use general hydroponics nutes and had no problems on the last grow and the plants in coco outgrew the ones in soil by far so im sold on the stuff, when you use coco keep the ph a little lower than you would in soil, i used 5.5-6 and it worked killer

fat sam said:

yeah i used it for the first time time on my last grow and im never going back to soil, i find the advantage of coco is that it breaths good so the roots get lots of oxygen, i use redigrow moisture control formula, what ive had problems with in soil is that they have a lot of stuff like worm castings and chicken shit....which is good but sometimes the ratios are not good for growing like say your fast growing plants start to have nitrogen defficency so you give them more nutes and then you end up overdosing on other nutes, or say the soil has a lot of organic stuff in it so when you go to flower a month or so in the stuff in the soil is still breaking down and producing nitrogen when your trying to flower, i mean yeah you can do great things in soil but ive just found coco to be far superior in terms of the amount of control you have over the plants, i use general hydroponics nutes and had no problems on the last grow and the plants in coco outgrew the ones in soil by far so im sold on the stuff, when you use coco keep the ph a little lower than you would in soil, i used 5.5-6 and it worked killer

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What do you guys mean by "Coco"?

in nutes

fat sam said:

yeah i used it for the first time time on my last grow and im never going back to soil, i find the advantage of coco is that it breaths good so the roots get lots of oxygen, i use redigrow moisture control formula, what ive had problems with in soil is that they have a lot of stuff like worm castings and chicken shit....which is good but sometimes the ratios are not good for growing like say your fast growing plants start to have nitrogen defficency so you give them more nutes and then you end up overdosing on other nutes, or say the soil has a lot of organic stuff in it so when you go to flower a month or so in the stuff in the soil is still breaking down and producing nitrogen when your trying to flower, i mean yeah you can do great things in soil but ive just found coco to be far superior in terms of the amount of control you have over the plants, i use general hydroponics nutes and had no problems on the last grow and the plants in coco outgrew the ones in soil by far so im sold on the stuff, when you use coco keep the ph a little lower than you would in soil, i used 5.5-6 and it worked killer

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thanks for the info. the reason why im switching is first i heard a lot of good things about it and i'm having gnat problems. i heard they usually come from the soil that you buy. i also heard that you can reuse coco?

I like this kind:http://www.discount-hydro.com/productdisp.php?pid=410&navid=34,and gnats don't seem to like it either.I mixed it with perlite and lime.

1kooguy said:

I like this kind:http://www.discount-hydro.com/productdisp.php?pid=410&navid=34,and gnats don't seem to like it either.I mixed it with perlite and lime.

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do you have to mix it with perlite?

yeah i whould...u get more air to the roots if u do...50/50 is good but real lose untell u get more roots going in there....i love coco the ph is so much easyer to control..intrun u can feed more...and u get a better root system with it...

coco in australia is mainly manufactured by canna (although there is sri-lankan coco around as well), for me it's preferable to clay rocks and and soil/perlite mix because of its water and oxygen retention, and its resistence to disease.. even in ridiculously hot conditions u only need to run your pump for 1 minute every 3 hours or so, it holds most of the water but also gets plenty of oxygen to the roots..

two plants in my last grow were clayrocks and the other two canna coco, the difference in speed during the veg stage was noticeable but nothing major, the canna coco plants were a little closer between nodes as well, in flowering there was not a visible difference, although im sure it would be measurable.. but for me the disease resistance & using less nutes is better.. it's also significantly lighter than clay rocks or soil...

and you dont have to mix perlite with coco, although you can, im thinking about maybe doing on plant next time with this mix just to settle the myth.. (or better my crop in future). alot of people in australia, and plant nurseries, use coco for outdoor potted non mj plants as well, and it lives fine on a large watering (with a drip tray), per day

im converted, its cheap & i used to hate having to clean clayrocks... although i still want to do a big dwc or aero grow

regards

I was useing miracle grow potting mix now i use coco coir . love the way my roots look and plants seem to love it to.I'm happy my plants went from having problems to a jungle when I repotted

all coco grow

Masterofgenetics said:

all coco grow

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hey didnt
ur shed burned down.....just asking

Yeah these are old pics

i wonder if coco is flammable when its dried out..

sorry to hear Masterofgenetics (even though im behind the times), kind of put a damper on the conversation..

Always flush your coco before useing it.
Some coco has a very high salt content.
If possible soak it in water and test the EC of the water to be safe.

Man that takes a shit load of water..

Joesmoma said:

Always flush your coco before useing it.
Some coco has a very high salt content.
If possible soak it in water and test the EC of the water to be safe.

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Barako said:

I'm thinking about switching to coco for my next grow...has anyone here used or still use coco? pros and cons?

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I use it, I switched from rockwoll to coco. Its better.

Con? Hmm. There must be one. I guess PH is sensitive. You must have a way of measuring PH and some PH down. In soil PH is less of a problem.

Pro? Fast growth like hydro. Resistant to power outage. Can be mixed with garden soil for disposal.

pro reusable

con f*ck it takes alot of h2o