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To all their own i guess. Most people dont have time for salt in thier coco...
I just dont like to skip steps, and this is a simple one. Why would a company write a article about washing their coco if it was perfectly clean?
You should take it you'll see it's the same shit.I go to Portland and buy it for 18 + No tax.. I could probably get it a little cheaper but i just started using it. What do you pay for NF? Someone had just offered me a bag to try and I'm tempted to see what price I can negotiate seeing that you give it a good review and the store is right down the street.
I just rip out the size of hole I need for the transplant wich is usually a half gal bag or one gallon round container and I use to do the enzyme rinse for old roots but I stopped because I was convinced the enzymes coming from bacteria and fungus are plenty good luck and have fun with it!I'm gonna reuse my coco/perlite mix after this run, so I have a question. After I cut out the root ball, should I also mix the used coco and try to take out old roots, or just flush with an enzyme, or both??
I just rip out the size of hole I need for the transplant wich is usually a half gal bag or one gallon round container and I use to do the enzyme rinse for old roots but I stopped because I was convinced the enzymes coming from bacteria and fungus are plenty good luck and have fun with it!
Thanks for the info, I've never re-used any substrate so I thought it would be a problem for the roots to grow once the substrate is already filled with old roots. But if it works for you I'll give it a try, thanks again.
the white stuff is perlite and/or vermiculite.i ran some seeds in the canna coco and they looked kinda off color right away so i went back to using some nutes,like 1/4 strength.alot of folks precharge the coco before use by rinsing it with calmag.i've dont that and cuts are good for a few weeks with just water.im using some house n garden coco now and its good right out the bag with 1/4 st grow nutes from day one,least for me anyways.glHow long can you go without using nutrients if you use the canna coco. What's the white balls I see in some people's grows.
Im on a strict organic regimine ni tap no ph adjusters and no bottled humic or no high phosphorous anythingThanks for the info, I've never re-used any substrate so I thought it would be a problem for the roots to grow once the substrate is already filled with old roots. But if it works for you I'll give it a try, thanks again.
The way I do this is to run my chowmix substrate in 8" netpot bucket lids over rdwc water. The rdwc water is pumped onto the coco as a top feed, say 20 seconds every 3 hours during the day. This both waters and charges the substrate with nutrients and holds its pH at the same value as the rdwc water.
Add your organic soilbuilders to the top of the substrate so they get watered in. Chowmix in particular is a great choice for this, as the bennies love both the crevices in hydroton and the coco in the spaces between the stones.
The benefits continue as that water drizzles down through the chowmix, down the roots and back to the rdwc below. First that water gets filtered; any solids, pythium rot, algae or whatnot gets beached and filtered out. Then, bennies and the materials they create also wash down into the rdwc, benefiting roots beneath. Those bennies also compete against any rot, stopping it in its tracks long before it gets a chance to do nasty things.
Bottom line? Growth rates as fast as any other system I've ever seen- aeroponics included- and pH stability undreamed of by pure rdwc users, plus a degree of robustness in operation I never got even from soil. Once, I ran the system all but completely dry- usually the ultimate dwc disaster, right? The plants? They didn't care!
So your coco doesnt fall out the net pot into the rdwc water flowing underneath
I was just thinking about it clogging up a pump or something somewhereIt can, but it goes through several other stages first which tend to rinse the stuff out pretty well.
I was just thinking about it clogging up a pump or something somewhere
Thanks
BG
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