The effects of worm castings in coco

I have always wondered and looking to try (with maybe some guidance) adding worm castings to a Coco/perlite mix.

I usually run 70% Coco to 30% Perlite. Work well for many years but now I'm bored and wanna try something different. Given the obvious Cal/Mag related issues with Coco and it's "neutral" nutrition values. I was wondering by making a mixture of 60% Coco 30% perlite and 10% worm castings and I couldn't answer the following questions. Nor was there much information specific to my related questions.


My first question would be would I receive better Calcium/Magnesium buffers due to the presence of casting mean I could reduce adding calmag to my resivour.

And my second question is given the fact I like to use liquid microbial solutions would the addition of 10% worm castings give a better environment for these to establish this benefiting the end product?

My third question is, if it worth doing what would you be looking at in terms of PH would I still treat this the same as a straight Coco grow? For reference I usually run 5.8 ph and an EC of 1.5-2.0 depending on where I am.in the flowering stage (lower than 1.5 during earlier veg).

Any help, pictures advice or ideas would be great.

Inverted_converted said:

I have always wondered and looking to try (with maybe some guidance) adding worm castings to a Coco/perlite mix.

I usually run 70% Coco to 30% Perlite. Work well for many years but now I'm bored and wanna try something different. Given the obvious Cal/Mag related issues with Coco and it's "neutral" nutrition values. I was wondering by making a mixture of 60% Coco 30% perlite and 10% worm castings and I couldn't answer the following questions. Nor was there much information specific to my related questions.


My first question would be would I receive better Magnesium buffers due to the presence of casting mean I could reduce adding calmag to my resivour.

And my second question is given the fact I like to use liquid microbial solutions would the addition of 10% worm castings give a better environment for these to establish this benefiting the end product?

My third question is, if it worth doing what would you be looking at in terms of PH would I still treat this the same as a straight Coco grow? For reference I usually run 5.8 ph and an EC of 1.5-2.0 depending on where I am.in the flowering stage (lower than 1.5 during earlier veg).

Any help, pictures advice or ideas would be great.

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Appreciate the reply to the post. However I'm looking for a bit of a in-depth discussion with people that are actually reachable and give answer closer to real time plus can elaborate more on particular areas as of when they arrive rather than sifting 20 min you tube videos for what hopefully someone here can answer more efficiently.