Coco Coir

Scuzzman

Scuzzman

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I use coco coir have done for 7 years , I hand water 4-12 plants depends if I set more than 1 room.., RTW - 3 gallon fabric max, I water once a day at the moment as really busy and dont worry about run off... each plant will get 3/4 gallon a day water/feed , passive set up
 
DoubleAtotheRON

DoubleAtotheRON

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bk78 said:
Waste of coco :D
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Gonna go back and look at your journal again... I have the opportunity to do this since my current room is being taken down at 8 am. Right now, Im about to pull babies out of the cloner, and transplant into 5 inch pots until I decide if I wanna try this.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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Capillary mats. They're easy to scale. Coco and capillary mats. I'm switching over to that for my indoor but on a much smaller scale.

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Samwell Seed Well

Samwell Seed Well

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Billy the Mountain said:
Bad in what sense?



Coco doesn't get hydrophobic like peat when dry
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I didnt say it did



Only that dry downs are bad. Mainly from ec drpps frpm lack of solution and the salts fuck up parts of the media by creating salt pathways that inhibit saturarion and increase.pass througjh drainage that never meets your roots..





Old boss at the last farm loved to dry down his pots in pure coco... he had a bad time... they are closing tbeir doors soon

....wanna buy a washington in facility
 
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Scuzzman

Scuzzman

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I dry down 1-2 times per grow- not to the point of being bone dry were the coco shrinks from side of the fabric bags( that will kill the plant) - more lazy than anything - does not seem to hurt them to much- lower branches suffer alittle but thats nothing cut them off :eyesmoke:
 
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