Grow Medium Help.

Hey RIU, let me start by saying I’m sorry, I know this topic has been beaten to death, I’m just looking for input for my specific set-up.

Im currently running a 2x2x4 tent with a single qb288 running 100 Watts 3000k spectrum. I have a few auto seeds coming from fastbuds, so I think I’m going to start with the blackberry auto. I plan to grow in 3 gallon containers, but I can’t decide the method I want to use.

I’m torn between

1. Full organic grow using kind soil and a root trapper 2 pot or
2. Coco coir with cocotek nutes from GH.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. I might add that quality is more important to me than quantity (to an extent of course).

My last experience consist of 2 grows, 1 white widow in 2 gal smart pot with ffof and GH go box. Fungus gnats ruined her. My 2nd grow was same strain, soil, but ff nutes. She got rootbound towards the end and it definitely effected the overall quality.

If there is any other questions I can answer that would help you make a suggestion please let me know. Thanks again!

I'm a coco grower and wouldn't use anything else - it's your decision. Just remember that if you go coco - it's not soil - it's hydroponics. Good luck.

MickFoster said:

I'm a coco grower and wouldn't use anything else - it's your decision. Just remember that if you go coco - it's not soil - it's hydroponics. Good luck.

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Thank you for the response. I’ve been doing research on coco and coco grows for at least the last 6 months. I know it would be a great stepping stone into hydroponics. I plan on completing my first journal with this grow as well.

I'm doing a coco crop now, literally just starting it. I'm far from new to growing but this will be my first coco grow. I've down straight "traditional" hydro with grow cubes and slabs and I've done straight soil outdoors.
A Coco mix should be be like coco and perlite or something similar. Its really a hydro/soil type grow. It needs all the nutes like hydro but doesn't have to be watered as often, however it does need more watering than soil. I'm learning the coco grow as I go but remember to keep your PH lower to hydro type levels, input nutes and check runoff. Watch for salt build up.
I like organic as well but the biggest draw to coco is that it doesn't have bugs and won't, of course watch for fungus and fungus gnats.

hydro had no learning curves for me in hydroton rocks, but huge lessons in that hormone soaked calcium leaching salt filled fiber mess...thats just me though...I ended up loving peat moss, poop and hand watering for the win