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I'll definitely be watching it closely to see how fast she starts getting ready for "fall". Interesting about 8 week pulls and extracts. I have not delved very far into rosin and extracts. I wonder if it comes out cleaner or less stoney hmmmmm.Im sure you can pull it at 8 weeks, as long as you like em green! Alot of these guys pull at 8 for extracts. Let me asj, wgats your favorite coco? The botanicare bricks are ok but you really have to buffer the shit out of them or you get stunted growth for a week or two.
Every time I go to get some from my hydro store they give me some weird face like this :eyepiece: and say "....you want pure coco?"(It has me bust up laughing inside every time LOL) Then they proceed to show me what they have and it's literally been different every time which is a bit annoying. First I'll tell you what I don't like at all.
Roots Organics Coco had springtails inside of it which isn't bad if I had bought soil, but coco I'm going for clean and bug free. I think that was more of a storage issue in the hydro store than it is Roots Fault as I have gotten other company's bags with springtails from them before. Probably storing it too close to soil IMO. The deal breaker on Roots Organics was a very fine grind of pith. Basically it's already too broken down to be used effectively in a hydro setting. Here's an example pic. You can literally see the difference.
Botanicare VS Roots Organics
I do love the Botanicare bricks because of affordability they tend to have a bit more fiber mixed in which means more drainage and faster drying times. Of course like you said the botanicare needs a nice buffer with either calmag or a solid hydro base that has cal/mag in it but it's definitely a solid reliable one to go with. I messed with Atami coco pre buffered and it seemed to work out well. It wasn't as fine as roots nor as airy as botanicares. Canna coco is really nice and I've noticed they started producing it in prebuffered bricks which is awesome.
Currently on this run I'm running Char Coir Coco coir. Seems to be one of the better mixes I've had.
If i had to list my top favorites in descending order right now it would be.
Char Coir loose(have not tried bricks)
Canna loose(have not tried bricks)
Botanicare Bricks(Not a fan of the loose mixed with perlite)
Atami loose