Grow Mediums How Long Have you Been Growing with Coco?

[Son of Hobbes]

Simply put, just wanting to get a quick count on how long everyone here has been growing with coco. Calling all coco masters!

 

[flynfish]

Hey Hobbes I been in coco for about 14 months now

the only time I will be easy is when I'm killed by death

 

[Corgy]

About 6 months....

 

[talkative]

Starting a seed today in [HASHTAG]#10[/HASHTAG] airpot. Two 650g bricks pure unammended no perlite no nothing on the bottom and ewc and composted old soil on the top no mix. Got interested in coco when I saw what my worms could do with it. So, just an experiment. Coco on top is a fungus gnat factory. And I already know my seeds start great and grow really well for the first month in my home made organic soil. But it takes forever to break down after the grow, and I want to reuse the old soil, so I figured pure coco on the bottom about maybe 5 gallons and then 2 gallons of ewc and compost on top where I will plant the seed. ????? Just another one of those ideas of mine. aw shucks, started early this Sunday morning, want to talk but that's about it. I'll see how it goes. It all started on AFN when another poster linked me to a discussion on 24/0 vs 20/4, which I disagreed with, but then he started talking about spoon feeding and after watching all the Harley Smith NPK utubes I got the idea.
Then end idea is to use the old used coco after just one time of growing in it and use that for worm bedding. So the bottom will be virgin coco and the top will be the old coco after the worms get done with it.

 

[Exotic Flower]

Hey @Son of Hobbes -- not a coco master, just one outdoor guerilla grow with partial coco + soil + other.
Unless you count my (legal) herb garden, which has a bunch of different basils and mints (see sig).
Want to learn more though. Thinking of going to maybe 70% coco + 15% soil + 15% perlite / vermiculite.
Indoors I think adding more perlite / vermiculite would be amazing, but outdoors I want more water retention.
Keen to learn more, esp about how to feed a mix like that for outdoor guerilla grow.
May start a new thread... can't wait for SPRING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Habitual]

Since the days when overgrow was still online with canadian servers. Straight coco 15 years, used to clone right into ziplock bags full with coco. .


Edit ; why the query?

 

[BigD1128]

7 weeks ago was my first coco grow

 

[Groff]

4 years!!

Except that time I tried RDWC for a few months, and that time I tried mapito a few runs …
But I simply cannot match with those what I can do with coco, health, yield and taste
And... life is sooo much simpler with coco!

 

[Groff]

Since the days when overgrow was still online with canadian servers. Straight coco 15 years, used to clone right into ziplock bags full with coco. .


Edit ; why the query?

Respect brother!

How much to you reuse your coco? what is your method come harvest? I'm looking deep into this, and as usual getting extreme contradictions

 

[Habitual]

@Groff I use new 5 kg bricks good earth coir $10 (its emri certified what ever that is) it has chunks and lots of string fibers in it. I feed water only the last 5-10 days depending on how fast it ambers and the foliage gets consumed. I recycle coco coir with composted horse shit to the flower beds. Only pulling the big stuff then tilling it all up. Sunflowers love it, Tomatos too. Having finished my first cob grows and fighting minor cal-mag def all the way, I learned I cant just rinse with nutes any more. I am doing a 24 hour soak full nutes and full calmag after the wash and running boiling water through. I flush with 1/2 strength before planting in it, all cations maxi charged! huge difference