Soil/amendment Mixes with coco?

[WhiteWolfman]

What are your experiences/thoughts about incorporating coco into your organic soil mixes?



I have had decent sucess using a 50 percent coco 50 percent perlite mix along with; bloodmeal, bonemeal, greensand, microhaize & lime. Anyone else use a similar mix?

here is a shot of the PP grown in above mix;




here is a shot of my strawberry cough dieselX Mighty mite grown in above mix;

 

[Relik]

I grow outdoors in a tropical area, and my base mix is 1/3 coco, 1/3 perlite and 1/3 soil + amendments. Coco helps with moisture retention (and aeration too, but I use lots of perlite), which is important down here, temperatures can get quite hot!

Seems like yours is a soilless mix (unless I read it bad), I've never tried it but I would if I started an indoor grow (been thinking about it for some time, but I have a few months to set it up). Anyway, it looks like coco works well for you, those buds look tasty!

Peace

 

[BurnOne]

LC’s Soiless Mix #1:
5 parts Coir
3 parts perlite
2 parts wormcastings or mushroom compost or home made compost
Powdered dolomite lime @ 2 tablespoons per gallon or 1 cup per cubic foot of the soiless mix.
...Check the link in my sig line below for cheap earthworm castings. Free shipping to the eastern USA.

Dry Ferts:
1 tablespoon blood meal per gallon or 1/2 cup per cubic foot of soil mix
2 tablespoons bone meal per gallon or 1 cup per cubic foot of soil mix
1-tablespoon kelp meal per gallon or 1/2 cup per cubic foot of soil mix or Maxicrop 1-0-4 powdered kelp extract as directed
1 tablespoon per gallon or 1/2 cup per cubic foot of Jersey Greensand to supplement the K (potasium) in the Kelp Meal and seaweed extract.
Mix all the dry ferts into the soiless mix well and wet it, but don't soak it with Liquid Karma and water @ 1 tbs./gal. Stir and mix it a few times a week for a week or two so the bacteria can get oxygen and break down the bone meal and make it available. And don't let the mix dry out, keep it moist and add water as needed. It'll also have time to get the humic acids in the Liquid Karma going.


Burn1

 

[WhiteWolfman]

Thanks guys,


What are the watering requirements with your mix relik?

Burn one,

You can really soak the coco with no ill effects, correct?

It doesen't "drown" the plant?

 

[vonforne]

LC’s Soiless Mix #1:
5 parts Coir
3 parts perlite
2 parts wormcastings or mushroom compost or home made compost
Powdered dolomite lime @ 2 tablespoons per gallon or 1 cup per cubic foot of the soiless mix.
...Check the link in my sig line below for cheap earthworm castings. Free shipping to the eastern USA.

Dry Ferts:
1 tablespoon blood meal per gallon or 1/2 cup per cubic foot of soil mix
2 tablespoons bone meal per gallon or 1 cup per cubic foot of soil mix
1-tablespoon kelp meal per gallon or 1/2 cup per cubic foot of soil mix or Maxicrop 1-0-4 powdered kelp extract as directed
1 tablespoon per gallon or 1/2 cup per cubic foot of Jersey Greensand to supplement the K (potasium) in the Kelp Meal and seaweed extract.
Mix all the dry ferts into the soiless mix well and wet it, but don't soak it with Liquid Karma and water @ 1 tbs./gal. Stir and mix it a few times a week for a week or two so the bacteria can get oxygen and break down the bone meal and make it available. And don't let the mix dry out, keep it moist and add water as needed. It'll also have time to get the humic acids in the Liquid Karma going.


Burn1

B1, what do you think of a conventional mix, say LC's with only 20% coir? Keeping the other 30% as peat. I like the idea of the coco coir but would not change my soil mixture that radically at first. I like to incorporate things slowly. I have a habit of over doig it some times.

 

[BurnOne]

vonforne-
That would be fine. I've mixed coir with FFOF.
Burn1

 

[vonforne]

And the only OF I have left is in the recycling bins. I have been using a basic mix once again. Cheaper.

 

[Relik]

WhiteWolfman - depending on the weather, I water every 1 to 3 days. But the plants are in the ground, I think they'd need more frequent watering if they were in containers.

Peace

 

[WhiteWolfman]

I am still confused/....


I mixed basically 33%peat,33%coir,33%perlite+castings& amendments all og. SHould I keep this mix wet constantly like a coir based mix or let it dry out more because of the peat in it?

oh and I am using bio bizz al-g mic, & bio grow as liquid ferts now in veg. I am swithcing to flower now any suggestions on flowering nutes for a mix like this?

also will a mix like this get rootbound in small pots easily or will the coir make things nice in there?

any info is greatly appreciated...

 

[Guest]

i dont see the point in putting peat moss in there if you have coir and castings/soil. but maybe that's because i think peat moss SUCKS BALLS.