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Coco Coir is not soil. Now this is pretty obvious to all of us but it's a point I apparently missed. Coco is not soil, it's a substrate medium for hydroponic growing.
The reason I'm posting this is to keep you from making the mistakes that I've made. Twice about a year apart I've mixed up a batch of coco and added all sorts of amendments and promptly failed miserably. The most recent go round I thought I'd jazz up my coco with kelp meal, azomite, barely meal, and mycos. I mean if coco is good surely super coco is better right? Right??
Coco doesn't have the same structure and constitutes as soil, it's not alive and it's not made to be a soil replacement. All I ended up with was a rotten stinky pH disaster that was probably hot as hell. Basically I turned the coco into raw compost. It took fucking up twice for me to grasp this because I am slow and missed the short bus.
My best coco grows, and I've had some good ones were when I kept it simple and let the liquid nutes do their job with coco as simply a medium. Don't be like Archaic, adding dry amendments to coco is like putting gravy on a plate and trying to eat the plate. Coco supports roots and holds water and gives nutes a place to work, but it will never be the meal - just the plate.
This PSA has been brought to you by the society to prevent cruelty to canna.
The reason I'm posting this is to keep you from making the mistakes that I've made. Twice about a year apart I've mixed up a batch of coco and added all sorts of amendments and promptly failed miserably. The most recent go round I thought I'd jazz up my coco with kelp meal, azomite, barely meal, and mycos. I mean if coco is good surely super coco is better right? Right??
Coco doesn't have the same structure and constitutes as soil, it's not alive and it's not made to be a soil replacement. All I ended up with was a rotten stinky pH disaster that was probably hot as hell. Basically I turned the coco into raw compost. It took fucking up twice for me to grasp this because I am slow and missed the short bus.
My best coco grows, and I've had some good ones were when I kept it simple and let the liquid nutes do their job with coco as simply a medium. Don't be like Archaic, adding dry amendments to coco is like putting gravy on a plate and trying to eat the plate. Coco supports roots and holds water and gives nutes a place to work, but it will never be the meal - just the plate.
This PSA has been brought to you by the society to prevent cruelty to canna.