Roots vs Coco Loco?

[MountainBudz]

Fixing to run my first auto flower grow and would like to know, which would be the best choice of soil? Roots Organic or Fox Farms Coco Loco? I have used Roots before and it seemed to give me the exact same results as FFOF mixed with Sunshine mix.

Anyone used both? What do you recommend?

 

[amanda88]

Either way you choose, consider adding a volume of perlite 30%(imo) much of those soils are to 'hot' even for autos, I'd go the Fox Farm, bit only cause I'm familiar with it
good luck

 

[RonSmooth]

I recommend coco.

After a few grows with FFOF soil, I switched to coco and never looked back.

 

[MountainBudz]

Well I have never used straight coco. I don't know anything about it really other than you are suppose to supplement more calmag pretty much from what I gather. I'd hate to have to switch nutes out and everything.

I try to keep my runs consistent, to help my patients I need constant production. I'm more worried about switching and screwing something up and then getting behind on things.

 

[MountainBudz]

But however, i'd love to switch and increase production and quality at the same time as well. If i'm used to pulling 18 oz's in a 4x4 tent with soil, what kind of weight could I pull with coco?

 

[MountainBudz]

I've come to my own conclusion. What I'm going to do is run a mixture of things. I will use 3 gallon smart pots for the entire grow. The top will consist of FF coco loco mixed with pro mix HP which has ALOT of perlite. Then in the bottom of the containers I will do either pure FFOF or coco loco which will kind of be like super soil. The roots will have a light mix on top both in texture and nutrients and once about 3 or 4 weeks in they will be loving the heavier mix in the bottom of the pots. Might add a bit of supplemental bone meal in the bottom as well, but not much. Hope this works well!

 

[HPS400]

intersted in your grow!