I ran a 2 gallon, 3 gallon and 17 gallon, in the same tent. The smaller pots required a more frequent fertigation schedule with a higher concentration of fertilizer. Less fertigation as the only benefit, but that goes against the soilless efficacy.
Maybe but my 3 DWC buckets are drinking about 2 gallons A-day each so like 6 gallons A-day in water is pretty annoying.
I never run larger than 3 gallon pots using 100% coco. I just plug a blumat in and walk away. 20 gallons inside in a tent is overkill.
It definitely was overkill it was my first coco grow.
You should be able to reuse much of the coco.
Most people make them work flawlessly but some have issues and stop using them. I just regret not getting them sooner than I did. Would have saved me a lot of time. Hand watering coco sucks.
This is a very open ended question. It's going to depend on a variety of factors.
Coco is cheap and reusing it properly is rarely worth the couple bucks saved in my opinion
I reuse coco over and over. Saves me around $100 a year. Not a lot of money, but hey $100 is $100.
With the 5 gallon it's basically a 3 gallon bottom size with a few inches more on space. They don't make them in the larger sizes for that reason.
I don't have fungus gnat issues. I also don't buy a new car every year. Does that make me cheap? I've reused coco for over a decade. I do buy new bags from time to time, because I can't reclaim all of it, but new coco bags are rarely purchased. There is no reason to.
Can't compare a $100 yearly savings to a new car. Reclaiming coco takes time. If you spend 10 hours a year (lol how long do you really think u spend?) That would be $10 saved per hour worked. $100 savings? I say it best be about a half hour of work otherwise it's penny wise pound foolish.
Yeah, I spend maybe an hour a year in labor tops to reclaim my coco. It really takes very little effort. I don't like to throw away perfectly useful stuff. Also every new bag I buy is more plastic waste in the landfill, and more carbon burned to move that bag across the globe. There is really no reason to not reuse your coco, unless you just like buying stuff.
I dunno, nor do I care. He seems like another noob who thinks he knows it all, and wants me to spend more time driving to the store to buy new coco than I would spend to just simply reclaim it for reuse.
Yup noob here. I wasn't even talking trash. I legit have seen you talking shop and was just surprised to hear you cheap assing about something so cheap as coco. Carry on. I know I seen you talking about how u handle fungus gnats. This explains it
