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I bought some coir and expanded it using pre-treated water.
I used the recommended dose for seedlings on the Liquid Karm bottle. It's like 5mL per 4L. I think that's like 1lq. oz per gallon... If I got
that wrong, sorry, I'm Canadian lol
Soooo should I be adding anything to my coir or just let my plants
grow out as if it were in soil?
bumpity bump
You're going to want a nutrient made for coco coir because it has unusual interactions with potassium and calcium. It is NOT an inert medium like perlite or pre-treated hydroton.
It also contains no nutes except potassium, and even that is not necessarily a good thing because crappy brands of coir leach salts out.
you have to fertilize and water often. i dont know the answers but i mixed mine with verm and wormcastings making it almost soil. i had a little mold trouble using fish emulsions, but a small dose of peroxide seems to help that. right now doing watering and then fert alternating. it really isnt soil.
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almost like soil.
I grew in coco for about a year with good results. I used GH 3 part, but if I did it again I would use GH 2 part at 8 ML per gal. Stinky is right though, coco spacific nutes wwill be the best, but I didn't use them because in spite of the short comings of using regular nutes normal nutes were just more cost affective IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by twoguysupnorth
Adieu
same here about being cost effective and available. and mostly organic.
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Originally Posted by maspino1
4L = 1gal.
30ml of liquid is one ounce. don't give seedlings anything more than 5ml.
If you're using coco and pure blend with liquid karma you're going to need some cal-mag+
:)
actually, 5 liters is a gallon. 4 quarts is a gallon. measure from there.
oh god, empirical confuses me!!!
well my coir stinks, i don't know why, has anyone else had this problem?
it smells like dirty towels that have been scrunched up and been wet for hours
how is your drainage? it sounds like some standing water is getting funky.