Coco coir.....Fabric pots or plastic?

Jjgrow420

Jjgrow420

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Starting to use coco, doing a run in the 3x3 and I was wondering, what do you guys/gals prefer with coco? Fabric pots or plastic? I've used fabric pots with promix and didn't enjoy it. Pros/cons, experiences for both?
Currently using plastic pots with coco and I don't see any issues, but wondering if fabric would make a difference or not
 
rkymtnman

rkymtnman

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i had bad luck when i tried coco in fabric years ago

now i'm doing coco again and i like the plastic ones. i "felt" like the fabric held too many nutes in them. either that or i was overfeeding. or both. they had salt stains on the sides and bottoms.
 
Jjgrow420

Jjgrow420

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rkymtnman said:
i had bad luck when i tried coco in fabric years ago

now i'm doing coco again and i like the plastic ones. i "felt" like the fabric held too many nutes in them. either that or i was overfeeding. or both. they had salt stains on the sides and bottoms.
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I noticed the salt stains before but I found when watering with promix, there were dry pockets where the water would pass through the side wall and miss parts sometimes.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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I've used both and never noticed any difference other than the fabric pots drying faster. When I'm using blumats I use fabric pots. I used plastic when hand watering. These days though if I'm hand watering I just use soil in plastic pots as I don't want to bother with hand watering daily.
 
Nrk.cdn

Nrk.cdn

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Personally I prefer plastic square containers. I do coco dtw. My containers have lots of drainage holes drilled with a container under it. Bottom container has a bulkhead connected to garden hose (elevated higher than external catch tray). Screenshot_20221130-122152_Gallery.jpg
 
Jjgrow420

Jjgrow420

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xtsho said:
I've used both and never noticed any difference other than the fabric pots drying faster. When I'm using blumats I use fabric pots. I used plastic when hand watering. These days though if I'm hand watering I just use soil in plastic pots as I don't want to bother with hand watering daily.
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Is there a reason you use them with blumats? I'm assuming for the dry back so it waters more often? I was planning on running the blumats.
 
bk78

bk78

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Jjgrow420 said:
Starting to use coco, doing a run in the 3x3 and I was wondering, what do you guys/gals prefer with coco? Fabric pots or plastic? I've used fabric pots with promix and didn't enjoy it. Pros/cons, experiences for both?
Currently using plastic pots with coco and I don't see any issues, but wondering if fabric would make a difference or not
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Check out Hercules pots. My favourite I’ve used to date. Prunes roots equally as good as air pots, and 10x as sturdy as them.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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Jjgrow420 said:
Is there a reason you use them with blumats? I'm assuming for the dry back so it waters more often? I was planning on running the blumats.
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The only reason I use them with blumats is because that's what I used the first time I ran blumats and it worked so well that I see no reason to change. They do dry out faster so if I'm hand watering I like the plastic because the coco doesn't dry out as fast and require less watering.

I've never had any issues with fabric pots other than they do dry out faster than plastic.
 
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