Grow Mediums Preferred brand of coco?

[JAB]

I've used Coco-Pearl before & I found it to be the cheapest, (I seen it on-line available in Michigan for $14 a bag). Right now I'm using Cultivation Nation by Fox Farm, but it's $29 a bag @ an area hydro shop! I've used some others also, just can't think of em right now

I have been looking for someone who grew in the cultivation nation and just happened to come cross this! Can you give me any pros and cons? First time growing in coco this is what im about to start in.

 

[Slater]

I like to use coco for most of my growing. I do love to buy the 50ltr bags of canna or plagron when I'm at the hydro store. Predominantly I use U-Gro bricks. It easy to store and the delivery driver never questions a box of bricks.
I stopped getting bags delivered when amazon sent a bag of biobizz coco fully exposed and un wrapped.
I used get the Plagron bricks delivered before the pandemic but that avenue has dried up in the UK so I rely on the U-Gro bricks now. As a cheaper alternative from canna and plagron I think they work great. Well bufferd and never need washing. You get 70ltr in the brick, it only takes 15ltr at the most to rehydrate.
I will say this Canna, Plagron and Biobizz do have much more fiberus consistency and are lot less duster than the bricks.
The bricks do me proud but if I could I would byuy Canna or Plagron 50ltr bags any day.

 

[Tony9d9ct]

I have been looking for someone who grew in the cultivation nation and just happened to come cross this! Can you give me any pros and cons? First time growing in coco this is what im about to start in.

Same man, I can get it locally and have been looking for input on the Seventy Thirty and realized I might as well be the input. I just started a thread in the Grow Media section about it. Just starting out but I'm gonna update as I go.

https://www.autoflower.org/threads/...nation-seventy-thirty-coco-perlite-mix.88503/

 

[JAB]

Same man, I can get it locally and have been looking for input on the Seventy Thirty and realized I might as well be the input. I just started a thread in the Grow Media section about it. Just starting out but I'm gonna update as I go.

https://www.autoflower.org/threads/...nation-seventy-thirty-coco-perlite-mix.88503/

I ended up reusing my soil for this grow. But itll be done in about 4 weeks then in switching to the seventy thirty. Ima follow along on your thread!

 

[JAB]

Same man, I can get it locally and have been looking for input on the Seventy Thirty and realized I might as well be the input. I just started a thread in the Grow Media section about it. Just starting out but I'm gonna update as I go.

https://www.autoflower.org/threads/...nation-seventy-thirty-coco-perlite-mix.88503/

I did end up emailing and they said it is nothing but coco and perlite no amendments added.

 

[Tony9d9ct]

I ended up reusing my soil for this grow. But itll be done in about 4 weeks then in switching to the seventy thirty. Ima follow along on your thread!

Nice I did read that it wasn't amended at all and I plan on buffering with calmag before I transplant into them. I'm gonna be starting seed when I get back home in 13 days and I plan on updating my post regularly. It feels pretty good, not as stringy as other coco I've seen. I'm definitely excited to see if I can replicate my grows in coco with bigger yields.

 

[jdm61]

I can get the Coco Loco locally. Anyone us that? I know that it is "augmented" coco.

 

[Tony9d9ct]

I can get the Coco Loco locally. Anyone us that? I know that it is "augmented" coco.

From my understanding it's amended coco meaning it's prebuffered with nutrients for the early stages. I would think it'd work just fine as long as you're light on the nutrients for the first 2 weeks. For me, it was easier to try the Seventy Thirty because it's just coco perlite and nothing else. They did have the coco Loco in my local garden center too but I didn't want the buffer. I would look around at your local garden centers, I know the places here have either both or no Fox Farm stuff.

 

[jdm61]

From my understanding it's amended coco meaning it's prebuffered with nutrients for the early stages. I would think it'd work just fine as long as you're light on the nutrients for the first 2 weeks. For me, it was easier to try the Seventy Thirty because it's just coco perlite and nothing else. They did have the coco Loco in my local garden center too but I didn't want the buffer. I would look around at your local garden centers, I know the places here have either both or no Fox Farm stuff.

There are two places that have some Fox Farms near me, one a nursery and one a combination hydro and homebrewing/beer tasting room joint.

 

[Tony9d9ct]

There are two places that have some Fox Farms near me, one a nursery and one a combination hydro and homebrewing/beer tasting room joint.

Honestly I'd check both places and see if they have the Seventy Thirty, but you could definitely use the Coco Loco. I'd imagine the amendments in it will only last the first 2 weeks if you're watering to runoff, so just take it slow on the nutes at first. Their Ocean Forest soil really worked well for me, so I wanted to try their coco since it's local and much easier to go and grab.