i wish i could find cheap botanicare cocogro 5kg bricks up here for what i used to pay. now they are no where to be found and all i find lately is cocotek which for me the granule size it too small. Botanicare was chunkier and superior.
How would you grow organically using tupur ? If you do grow organically
thats weird i've been using it for years and it still works fine for me. careful what you read on this forum though.
A lot of people had the same issue. Perhaps your supplier had purchased a large amount and missed the bad batch. Sure fucked my grow off that run.
yeah. i usually buy it at home depot they had like 80-90 bales there when i picked mine up. I have noticed that late in the flowering cycle the sunshine mix seems less pH stable than pro-mix and it does drift up. thankfully it hasn't been too much of a problem. If home depot had promix hp i would buy it unfortunately they only sell it at the hydro store around here.
It's as easy or as hard as people make it. I like to do things the easy way so when I grow in coco I use 100% coco and blumats for watering. That's as easy as it gets.
I actually prefer bricked coco. It's more cost efficient and takes up less space so it's easier to store. I've used Botanicare bricked coco for years and have never had any issue. I just rehydrate it in a weak nutrient solution and it's ready for planting. It's already been rinsed and buffered. But I do remember years ago using bricked coco that was just nasty. Full of sand and pieces of trash. I used to rinse the crap out of it and the bottom of the tote I rehydrated it in always had a layer of sand on the bottom. I found a dead lizard once and another time I found a 6 inch piece of bone. Then there were all the sticks and rocks. These days any decent brand has been double washed and buffered.
My coco goes completely dry uh before every feeding. I'm not saying that you're wrong, but my plants have never suffered from the coco their in being completely dried out?
what size pot and how often do you water
In my past few grows I have been using 5 gallon fabric pots. They would be completely dry and require watering every other day (so 48 hours). That's to almost complete dryness.
Mine are in coco/perlite in a 10gallon pot, and I have to water on the same timeline. Day 2 they'll feel mostly dry, day 3 they'd be wilting. Seems to be once well rooted they just suck it out of there at that rate.
What kind of nutes and what's your ec when you feed with blumats? Also what do you use to keep lines clean? Drip Clean?
Do you ever measure ppm of runoff? What do they get up to if you're feeding 1000ppm. For me that's a really heavy feed
The only time I've checked ppm is when I've mixed the nutrient solution. There is no runoff with blumats to check. I didn't explain enough when I said I max out at 1000 ppm. That's typically only for around week 5 - 7 when the plants are uptaking the most. And not all the time. It's also strain dependent. I watch my plants and adjust nutrient strength accordingly. I typically run between 650 - 850 ppm for most strains. Although I have grown some sativa's that didn't like it above 500 - 600 ppm.
everything i use is organic except for my base nute....and i use nutrifield coco a&b...if i couldn't get that, i've used the soul base from aurora - that works well...i would also use canna coco a&b....i wouldn't be opposed to using sensi coco a&b either....and with none of those have i needed to add any extra cal-mag