Does Anyone use CoCo Coir?

Wondering if anyone had information on Organic CoCo COir planting mix and chips? Personal Experience Hopefully


"For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life."

 

I actually just switched over to coco from promix... I like it so far, but it is a bit more complecated... I do have friends who use it and they have been very helpful. From what I understand the main problem with coco is it hangs on to K very easily, but not so much with Calcium (something to do with the cation/anion exchange rate)... so you have 2 choices: either flush the hell out of the coco before you use it (as the EC will be high), or hydrate the coco with a product like calmag (what I chose to do) to fortify it with calcium and magnesium, and put those elements in harmony with K (potassium)...

Although I'm not doing this, I'd reccomend buying coco-specific nutes, as they will make growing in coco much simpler...

Coco is great in that it is an ideal medium for roots to grow in, and is flushed extremely easily (no salt build up)... If you see a problem arising, you can (if you know what's happening) fix it pretty much immediately... you can pretty much treat it like soil and have all the advantaged of hydro (although if handwatering, you should water the coco once a dayor so, from what I've been told)....

Good luck, with I was more help but I don't have much experience in this medium yet so it's sort of like the blind leading the blind...

 

Wow thank you very helpful! Im just doing alil experimenting with it now to see if I like it. Not many people are using it yet, so that was very helpful!


"For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life. "

 

http://icmag.com/ic/forumdisplay.php?f=65577

That should help you a great deal more... moreso than I... I'm actually switching back over to soilless, much more confident in that medium...

 

HMMM? Looks like Lune is a spy for ICMAG, what'r'ya slummin' it here or there?>P

 

O! bye the bye Sweet Sativa We moved away from the triangle a couple months ago!>D

Needed sunshine, and dry out, brrrrrrr:>)

 

I slum it EVERYWHERE!

 

Don't we all!>D

But seriously, we been using coco for over a year, I like to 2/3 coco chunks to 1/3 fiber, works wonders IMHO!

How the heck are you Lune I been kinda busy settin up my new digs in the Sierras, so haven't been around much!>)

 

Doin great... thanks for asking :sifone: Cool to hear about the new setup, the sierras gotta be cool!... I gotta make that coco switch eventually, it really is good stuff when you know what your doing, results speak for themselves.... want to stick to what I know well now though...Been building a little bit aswell, new place with 2 600s for flower, maybe more... got some new n old flavors... ecsd, kksc, LA purekush, amnesia kush and lemon thai... might do a thread over on the "island" site, not sure if your there... later bro... :sifone:

 

Yes, I'm currently into a grow using a 50 percent mix of Perlite and Coco. I'm very happy with the results.

CD

 

I love coco coir, I have been growing in 3.5 litre pots and the stem on my clones have been over an inch thick,I'm still dialing in but I can't see myself growing any other way it combines the ease/laidbackness of soil with the growth rates of hydro.

Also I have been reusing the coco up to 3 times, just sieving the roots out and thats it no flushing, I only feed up to EC1.4 and 10 day flush with run off at harvest coming in at less than 140ppm. starting on formulex and then swapping to ionic coco bloom(which has added humic acid)have been using pk as additive but swapping over to headmaster next time.