Clear solos are koo.
Keep them inside dark light proof solos......ez to peek at root progress.
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I just rehydrate it with a nutrient solution and use it. But not all coco is the same. Many people soak and rinse others just rehydrate and use it like I do. The Botanicare 5kg blocks that I use say on the bag that it's rinsed and buffered. Just rehydrate and use.
Q: Do I need to buffer or rinse Cocogro before planting?
A: All Botanicare coco is pre-buffered and rinsed before packaging to eliminate any salts. If you do wish to rinse Cocogro, use R.O. water and a 2:1 ratio of water to coco by volume to flush the soil before planting.
Q: How is Cocogro processed? Why don’t I need to add calcium?
A: Cocogro is naturally aged, buffered with calcium nitrate, and hydrated with our proprietary fulvic acid, humic acid, and trace mineral treatment.
https://www.botanicare.com/hydro_101/grow-media-faqs/
did i mess up? should i run more buffering solution through at the higher than 6.2 ph? or will it be fine at the 5.9 mark?
Hi Diggs,
I wouldn't worry. I don't even check ph when buffering. Just tap water and calmag at whatever ph it happens to be at. Close to 7 whould be my guess...
JD
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I'd say damp rather then wet. Not hard to extract moisture. You can take a pile of the wet stuff and simply squeeze it...handful by handful. Or rig up some sort of centrifuge with a peace of rope attached to a small pot or something with holes on the bottom.
JD
Or just let it sit in the pot and drain, coco can hold only so much moisture. I do my initial flush then transplant a clone the next day, then give it more water to settle the roots. Seed is the same way, you can plant anytime, just be sure to keep it damp.
right now, the cups are still leaking water into the tray since last evening. they all still feel very wet and heavy.
Each cup has 6 holes around outter perimeter of bottom of cup for drainage
Coco holds 70% of the moisture and 30% O2. They are going to feel heavy,
Ya that makes sense.Wet soil is much heavier longer than wet coco. IMHO
Maybe thats what ill do, remove from cups, ring it out a little and add some perilite. Should be ready for the newly germinated seeds by then.
Another option, i have jiffy pellets here, according to some reading ive done this morning, you can sprout seeds in the jiffys and then transplant to coco with no issue.