Organic soil organic powder feed...no need for pH water adjustments????!

xtsho

xtsho

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You'll be better off feeding coco with a water soluble/liquid nutrient rather that trying to add some organic powder to it and water with plain water. It can be done but if you are asking these questions you'll likely have nutrient issues later on.

You can make a coco based organic soil but you'll need to add amendments to it like compost, worm castings, guano, kelp meal, bone meal, etc. Just use coco instead of peat. But mixing some powder into coco and then using just plain water doesn't seem like a winner.

But to be honest, after reading your posts I don't really know what you're trying to do or what you're even using. Most people treat coco like hydro. It's an excellent growing medium. But you're making it complicated when it doesn't need to be.

I guess I'm no help. Good luck :blsmoke:
 
Salah82

Salah82

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OldMedUser said:
You should still reduce the pH of your tap water but getting it bang on 6 or so isn't critical if you already have the nutes in the coco. Using water with 7.5+ pH will over time raise your pH in the pots too high and problems will arise.

You will still have mineral buildup over time so make sure to get some runoff each watering. If you plan to test your runoff water's pH then water to saturation, let sit overnight then add enough water to get some runoff into a clean container and test that. It can take some time for all the chemical reactions to finish up and teh pH in the root zone to stabilize.

Don't let the runoff run into a dirty catch tray as it will have lots of dried up minerals in it that will skew the results of the test. Clean the tray first then stick it back under to catch the test runoff. Same with testing PPM in runoff. Dried up salts in the tray will make the ppm higher than what's coming out as it dissolves into the new runoff.

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i just stick with having my tap water between 5.8-6.0 at all time in coco, i guess that should be fine even though the sweet spot in soil is the 6.5-6.8.........
 
OldMedUser

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Salah82 said:
i just stick with having my tap water between 5.8-6.0 at all time in coco, i guess that should be fine even though the sweet spot in soil is the 6.5-6.8.........
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Coco likes a lower pH they say. I can't get coco here but ProMix is everywhere so I've been using it for years. I used to use Sunshine Mix #4 with a lot of added perlite but HP has more than enough perlite already in it for the same price.

Life is easier with RO water and pH Perfect nutes. I go a whole grow without any runoff or flushing unless they are starting to burn a bit then I might do a 50% runoff once just to get the levels down. Tricky with chronically low RH. If I can get that dialed in then life would be even better.

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Salah82

Salah82

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xtsho said:
You'll be better off feeding coco with a water soluble/liquid nutrient rather that trying to add some organic powder to it and water with plain water. It can be done but if you are asking these questions you'll likely have nutrient issues later on.

You can make a coco based organic soil but you'll need to add amendments to it like compost, worm castings, guano, kelp meal, bone meal, etc. Just use coco instead of peat. But mixing some powder into coco and then using just plain water doesn't seem like a winner.

But to be honest, after reading your posts I don't really know what you're trying to do or what you're even using. Most people treat coco like hydro. It's an excellent growing medium. But you're making it complicated when it doesn't need to be.

I guess I'm no help. Good luck :blsmoke:
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just trying to grow in coco canna plus with greenhouse bio grow , bio bloom bio enhancer powder.....and with that just trying to know because there is people like that dude over instagram youtube who, despite growing in coco, still just uses the same water ph range you use for soil...6.5-6.8 to water his plants....and then here i only read water ph for coco medium 5.8-6.0..... little confusing and i don't wanna screw up a run.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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Salah82 said:
just trying to grow in coco canna plus with greenhouse bio grow , bio bloom bio enhancer powder.....and with that just trying to know because there is people like that dude over instagram youtube who, despite growing in coco, still just uses the same water ph range you use for soil...6.5-6.8 to water his plants....and then here i only read water ph for coco medium 5.8-6.0..... little confusing and i don't wanna screw up a run.
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I grow in coco. I pH to 6.0.
 
CBDiva

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Salah82 said:
just trying to grow in coco canna plus with greenhouse bio grow , bio bloom bio enhancer powder.....and with that just trying to know because there is people like that dude over instagram youtube who, despite growing in coco, still just uses the same water ph range you use for soil...6.5-6.8 to water his plants....and then here i only read water ph for coco medium 5.8-6.0..... little confusing and i don't wanna screw up a run.
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Not sure you'll still reply to this, but how did your Coco/dry amendment grow turn out in the end? Currently about to go into flower using Coco & greenhouse bio range and looking for a fellow grower
 
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