Grow Mediums Why organic nutrients do not work in coco

[MesaBoogie]

Still working on the Mr.Canucks style of growing in COCO. It's not perfect but I think a guy could probably smoke some of it. I hate all the fuss of messing around with bottled nutes, I can't see me ever going back. Top dress once a month and that's it.

 

[Death The Cultivator]

Still working on the Mr.Canucks style of growing in COCO. It's not perfect but I think a guy could probably smoke some of it. I hate all the fuss of messing around with bottled nutes, I can't see me ever going back. Top dress once a month and that's it.

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How would you compare it multiple drip fertigation in terms of growth, terps, and yield? Easy for you to manage?

I've been following this for months curious to see what would happen. This sounds possibly biotab simple but interesting.

 

[Overboard]

Ouch. My electricity cost is WAY lower, as well as overall cost for four plants. Maybe $200-250 all-in, including electricity (4 seeds $60; coco $20/ 10lb brick; nutes $20; CalMag/pH/water $10; electricity $35/month: $100-ish total) . I also need less flower, so that is definitely a concern, but I'm really really hopeful the next couple of weeks will see my conservative guesstimate crushed.

Just a quick update: 6 plants; coco + worm castings + Dr Earth organic amendments + bone meal at flower time = just over a pound of solid, frosty dried buds in jars. No CalMag, just water at a pH of 6.0-6.3. One runty plant that I stressed too much only yielded 26g, but all of the others were just fine.

 

[MesaBoogie]

How would you compare it multiple drip fertigation in terms of growth, terps, and yield? Easy for you to manage?

I've been following this for months curious to see what would happen. This sounds possibly biotab simple but interesting.

I couldn't say, I've never done any sort of drip systems.

 

[dankstyle J]

I've been growing this way for years I called it living coco I even put a thread up years ago I use specific products mostly from the local down to earth company that isn't far from my house an is 100 percent organic. I use there professional growing medium which is coco with microbes an peat moss.

 

[Brownthumbs]

@dankstyle J @MesaBoogie @Overboard Fellas, noob here, always looking for advice & ways to improve.
Why coco & dry amendments over soil & dry amendment? What is the advantage of coco over soil w/Dr Earth products? Thanks in advance.

 

[Overboard]

I've only ever used coco + dry amendments so my expertise in soil (or any of this TBH: fellow noob) is limited. I was attracted to coco initially because I was following another grower's method. I'm sticking with it for now because it works, and I still feel like I have more to learn as a grower first, before I'm ready to move on to different methods.

I am planning to try a couple of plants in soil next time, just to see a side-by side comparison.

 

[dankstyle J]

The advantage with the coco is the roots breath better an the soil drains faster .The plants can get big as well an the growth rate might be a lil faster but I got no proof just a hunch .I don't use that company an for my living coco I pretty much use locally sourced products from my area .I use the down to earth line of products I use sea coast compost also a product that is close by .my coco comes with microbes an bacteria it's also got added peat moss ,its the down to earth pro organic heres some of the products I use

 

[MesaBoogie]

Hi, I want to try growing cannabis myself. So that you can advise me as a beginner?

My best advice to beginners learning from the internet is always make sure your research online is comparing apples to apples. You are going to notice you are going to get a lot of conflicting advice from what seem to be knowledgeable people. So the advice given by people growing in coco isn't going to match up with people growing in soil/peat, nutrients, auto flowers, Photo period and so on. So if Bob says to use 6.5 ph and Sally says 5.8 ph they are both correct depending on their medium. When Joe comes along and says you don't even need to PH, you might want to consider if your water source is the same as his. Decide how you want to grow and try to find journals that match up with your grow style and materials.

So if we look at the above post by @dankstyle J there are a lot of things to consider when following his grow. He's not just doing a Coco grow so you can't follow his advice and apply it to a strait coco type grow. I had to research the soil he's using. He's using a mix of Coco, peat and worm castings. I would consider this more of a regular peat/soil type of grow even though there is coco in it. Is he growing auto's or photo's ? Each may require different feeds. How many hours of light per day does he give them could mean different light distances and power. Humidity and temps could mean different watering schedules. All these variables you have to match up.

 

[dankstyle J]

My best advice to beginners learning from the internet is always make sure your research online is comparing apples to apples. You are going to notice you are going to get a lot of conflicting advice from what seem to be knowledgeable people. So the advice given by people growing in coco isn't going to match up with people growing in soil/peat, nutrients, auto flowers, Photo period and so on. So if Bob says to use 6.5 ph and Sally says 5.8 ph they are both correct depending on their medium. When Joe comes along and says you don't even need to PH, you might want to consider if your water source is the same as his. Decide how you want to grow and try to find journals that match up with your grow style and materials.

So if we look at the above post by @dankstyle J there are a lot of things to consider when following his grow. He's not just doing a Coco grow so you can't follow his advice and apply it to a strait coco type grow. I had to research the soil he's using. He's using a mix of Coco, peat and worm castings. I would consider this more of a regular peat/soil type of grow even though there is coco in it. Is he growing auto's or photo's ? Each may require different feeds. How many hours of light per day does he give them could means different light distances and power. Humidity and temps could mean different watering schedules. All these variables you have to match up.

Yes very true my grow is not a pure coco grow but the added peat an perlite with worm castings wouldn't make it soil either. The majority of the mix is coco an right on the bag it says soiless mix yes I add things as well an have tried a more coco approach but found this method to have more benefits an to be a more viable option for my particular organic style .I also grow with the philosophy that microbes an fungi are extremely important factors for cannabis nutrition an this brand as well as being local also has added microbes an fungi providing the perfect combo for my living coco mix