harrychilds
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Hi guys, I want to learn more about coco, I know everything about PH and feeding until run off daily and the E.C and all that stuff. Maybe there is more I can learn?
I want to learn more
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Hook Daddy
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Try doing a search here on RIU, tons of info, you can go here as well.
https://www.cocoforcannabis.com/
https://www.cocoforcannabis.com/
harrychilds
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Thanks dude, I've learned all that stuff over on that website in the last 6 months, I'm looking for more information if it exists?
Hook Daddy
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Well you said you already know EVERYTHING about Ph, feeding schedules, EC, and all that stuff, so it’s really gonna be hard to teach you something else. You already know it apparently, but good luck to you, sounds like you’ve done your research. If you have a specific question or aspect of growing you have a question about, you might want to ask rather than just have us try to guess.
Hook Daddy
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If your looking for another related topic to look into that will help with growing in coco you could research lighting, VPD, transpiration, and how they are related to each other. Always an interesting read and good to know.
Billy the Mountain
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I'm curious what aspect of coco growing wasn't addressed with the cocoforcannabis info.
There's not too many variables to be concerned with using coco
There's not too many variables to be concerned with using coco
harrychilds
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I believe everything is covered, I'm just trying to find more information lol Maybe I am looking for something that doesn't exist
Hook Daddy
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There’s nothing wrong with wanting to learn more. Happy growing!
harrychilds
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Cheers dude, everything I have learned, I have learned on this website over the past year or two, so cheers to this website for helping me become a Professional grower
Billy the Mountain
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I've been using coco exclusively for a few years; it's a very forgiving medium.
NEVER let it dry out and fertigate with every watering is basically all that's required for coco
NEVER let it dry out and fertigate with every watering is basically all that's required for coco
xtsho
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That coco website is full of incorrect information. Lots of it is outdated cut and paste scoured from other sites.
It says perlite is critical yet we know that it isn't. Myself and many others stopped using it years ago.
It says to feed calmag every watering which isn't usually necessary.
It says you have to buffer bricked coco but you don't. Any quality bricked coco is already rinsed and buffered. Just rehydrate and plant.
There's a bunch more stuff that's outdated and wrong but those examples are just off the top of my head. Then there is this completely inaccurate snippet from that website.
"Systems that work by wicking water through capillary pressure, such as Blumats, cannot be used with anything other than plain water. They are designed to simply keep the media moist and cannot produce run-off. If you add nutrient solution to blumats it will burn your plants and clog your blumats! You cannot fertigate with wicking irrigation systems."
That's the biggest load of crap right there. I've had my best coco grows using Blumats with a nutrient solution. There are long threads on this forum of people using blumats very successfully with coco.
There may be some information on that site but there's too much bad information to use that site as any sort of guide for growing cannabis in coco.
It says perlite is critical yet we know that it isn't. Myself and many others stopped using it years ago.
It says to feed calmag every watering which isn't usually necessary.
It says you have to buffer bricked coco but you don't. Any quality bricked coco is already rinsed and buffered. Just rehydrate and plant.
There's a bunch more stuff that's outdated and wrong but those examples are just off the top of my head. Then there is this completely inaccurate snippet from that website.
"Systems that work by wicking water through capillary pressure, such as Blumats, cannot be used with anything other than plain water. They are designed to simply keep the media moist and cannot produce run-off. If you add nutrient solution to blumats it will burn your plants and clog your blumats! You cannot fertigate with wicking irrigation systems."
That's the biggest load of crap right there. I've had my best coco grows using Blumats with a nutrient solution. There are long threads on this forum of people using blumats very successfully with coco.
There may be some information on that site but there's too much bad information to use that site as any sort of guide for growing cannabis in coco.
ismann
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I prefer rice hulls as an alternative to perlite. No dust, no little pieces, no floaters.
Personally, I don't trust any coco brands to thoroughly rinse and buffer their product, but I get the cheapest stuff. I always sift my coco as well with a 1/8-inch steel mesh sifter to remove the coco peat (dust). If you remove all the coco peat and only use pith (the fibers), then you don't need perlite or anything else. After sifting and washing, I buffer it by soaking in a triple-strength cal-mag solution overnight, then dump it into fabric pots.
After the grow is completed I reuse the coco as well, just have to wash, sift and buffer again as some of the pith will break down into dust.
Personally, I don't trust any coco brands to thoroughly rinse and buffer their product, but I get the cheapest stuff. I always sift my coco as well with a 1/8-inch steel mesh sifter to remove the coco peat (dust). If you remove all the coco peat and only use pith (the fibers), then you don't need perlite or anything else. After sifting and washing, I buffer it by soaking in a triple-strength cal-mag solution overnight, then dump it into fabric pots.
After the grow is completed I reuse the coco as well, just have to wash, sift and buffer again as some of the pith will break down into dust.