Hi, first timer...

Decide now if you're handling this as a 'soil-less' grow or a 'coco' grow...it will make a difference. From reading what's in your coco, it sounds like it has a lot of organic material in it. If I were going to do this, I'd either get 100% coco, with nothing added and run it straight, or I'd get an organic soil / soil-less mix and run it like soil. Good luck.
 
CannaCountry said:
Decide now if you're handling this as a 'soil-less' grow or a 'coco' grow...it will make a difference. From reading what's in your coco, it sounds like it has a lot of organic material in it. If I were going to do this, I'd either get 100% coco, with nothing added and run it straight, or I'd get an organic soil / soil-less mix and run it like soil. Good luck.
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Coco, no organic fertilisers in what I bought. Got a brick that's marked - Low ec (EC < 0.6 mS/cm) and Neutral ph (between 5.5 to 6.5). Also got a kilo of perlite and half a kilo of vermiculite. Might give the vermiculite as miss after reading around a bit more.
 
Pass on the vermiculite. Your description offered by you for your Coco says it's mixed with manure, compost, etc...so there are organics in what you bought. Never the less; good luck.
 
charsi420 said:
Thank you for the suggestions.

Have access to only regular organic soil with additives, additives vary from one brand to the other. Coco blocks, perlite, vermiculite are easily available.

Description from available potting mixes -







To be honest, I'm a little confused.
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All three of your options, as you listed them, have organics included in them....that's my point. Unless you're now using something entirely different?
 
In my experience, it's best to wash the coco in water...doesn't matter if it's tap, RO, whatever. You simply need to be sure you've removed as much of the sodium out of it as possible. Once I feel the coco has been rinsed enough (when the runoff from said coco is no longer stained brown), I will then mix up a 25% feed solution which includes Ca and Mg, although not in the form of 'calmag' and fully saturate (to run off) the coco with said feed. Once this is done, my coco now has the pH of my feed (5.8) and it has the necessary nutrients for a plant to begin its life. If 'calmag' isn't available, find a way to impart additional Ca and Mg into your feed; you're most likely going to need it.
 
CannaCountry said:
In my experience, it's best to wash the coco in water...doesn't matter if it's tap, RO, whatever. You simply need to be sure you've removed as much of the sodium out of it as possible. Once I feel the coco has been rinsed enough (when the runoff from said coco is no longer stained brown), I will then mix up a 25% feed solution which includes Ca and Mg, although not in the form of 'calmag' and fully saturate (to run off) the coco with said feed. Once this is done, my coco now has the pH of my feed (5.8) and it has the necessary nutrients for a plant to begin its life. If 'calmag' isn't available, find a way to impart additional Ca and Mg into your feed; you're most likely going to need it.
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Thank you
 
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