salt build up in coco

yeah...im reusing them now. i washed them out and soaked them in hydrogen peroxide and water for a day and them let them dry out. the whole combo is supposed to let the roots breath real easy even when soaking the shit out of them.

I like the idea of air-pruning roots too. How often you flood?

right now im coming to the end of the third week and i flood 4 times. 25min, 20 min, 20min, and 25min. tommorrow im going to bump up to 5x. the reason i run the first and last flood a little longer is because they are dry by the first and give a good soaking for the last before lights out. i start an hour before lights on and an hour before lights off.

i double stack the pots..this is when i peeled the first layer off. that bottom clump was a thck ass root cake

How many times do you reused them? Where's your grow journal bro? You doing it in Growroom Design?

i have white residue on the top of my compressed medium(i think its coco) in my pots. is that salt residue?

sittinherebored said:

i have white residue on the top of my compressed medium(i think its coco) in my pots. is that salt residue?

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Could be salt or beneficials... or malevolent microorganisms.

UserFriendly said:

How many times do you reused them?

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this is only the second time. but by the condition of them after i washed and soaked them i should get a third. they arent that expensive and they are biodegradable when you are finished with them. i thought about rewashing the coco but i still have a big ass bag of it so i threw it into my vegetable plot outside and turned it through.........

no journal for the hydro. i do have a half assed one in grow design of a room i just put together but that is my dirt room. ive got some more pics though of the flood cab. ill go throw them up in the grow journal section real quick so i can quit hijacking this guys thread...give me about 5 mins.

im sorry..i do have another half assed journal for the hydro in grow design...i just put some more pics in it.

Not going to do a proper journal? At least put a link your sig.

UserFriendly said:

Not going to do a proper journal? At least put a link your sig.

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ive got some shiva skunk and some church in there right now with about 5 weeks left. after that im planning on doing a scrog in the flood ill be doing a journal on that. I was going to do one this time but i droped the ball

I personally would reccomend using coco outdoors

This thread has made for some interesting reading

actually i meant that i wouldn't reccomend using coco outdoors...think i had a brain fart

cannaman2.5 said:

actually i meant that i wouldn't reccomend using coco outdoors...think i had a brain fart

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Yeah, it dries out really fast.

i had no idea you could reuse the coco pots, they look so flimsy.
im going for the smart pot, same principle, reusable.