Sounds legit. I’d subscribe to this. Haha
Im sure neither will hurt the plant. I wonder if they do the same thing or add their own benefits.
Here’s my jacks 321. I’m with you! As well as cost. I bought the like 2 pound bags from eBay for $34 and I’m just getting ready to order more almost two years later!!! Always running 3-4 plants. It’s all preference and what’s in your budget. More than one way to skin this cat. Happy growing growmie!!
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Coco is inert, so you have to add everything the plant needs from macros to micros.
If you are relying on added amendments you may not know everything you put in or if you are missing anything.
That is why most growers use a nutrient line with coco and leave amendments out. It is treated as a medium for hydroponics using high frequency fertigation practices
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I think inert was the word or terminolgy i was looking for earlier to describe coco coir.
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Yeah, thats why I was hoping someone would comment with the kind of things they amend their coco with. I know what works for my house plants but Cannabis is alot more hungry than they are. I’d like to break away from synthetic nutes and treat my coco more like a living soil. My veggies are grown in raised beds with sawdust, wood chipper mulch, cow shit, sand and compost.
Coco is a great grow medium. Its just that its a blank canvas and I’d like to be sure I’m not missing out on micronutrients with the amendments I plan on using. About the only other thing I’ve chewed on adding into play is diatomaceous earth.
Once you have it all made up with everything you need to provide the nutrients organically you will essentially be left with soil. So why not just use soil or build a living soil? Coco is not made to be soil
I disagree. Three physical attributes exist in soil. Clay, loam and sand. It sounds laughable but those are the three factors on the soil pyramid. There’s no such thing as a do all medium. That said Coco would fall under silt. Its an arid, fibrous and sometimes dusty medium.
Point is, coco can be whatever you want it to be. Its just the carrier for water, carbon and nutrition. I like the characteristics of coco but would like to break away from synthetics for a myriad of reasons.
Undoubtedly, one can amend coco into a productive soil with organics. Im just trying to find the most viable way of doing so. I’m worried I’m missing a micro nutrient in the mix I’d like to do because I dont know the ratios needed from the amendments ive brainstormed because bio chemistry imvolves alot of math and lab equipment that I dont have.
Look at coco loco. It’s mentioned on this forum and everywhere on the internet. Its an amended coco that produces great plants as long as you dont sow seeds directly into it and burning them.
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Hey I notice of most plants I look up its nearly the same. Loamy well-draining soil high in organic matter and slightly acidic. It’s like a mantra. It’s mantric 
even bagged stuff we’re trying to re-create loam.
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Soils are set to 5.5 - 6.5, 5.5 is actually not very acidic on a logarithmic scale or to plants. It is more the elements present than the acidity which is the problem as below 4.5 some become toxic and more present and acidic loving plants specialise or are able to defend against depending on species.
On a high tech farm soil pH would dictate type of fertiliser or nitrogen. That’s really the difference and not that either won’t work stupendous well which they will.
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Bagged soil use to have some loam, I don’t know why they stopped, gave better structure like the glue for it all.
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Another reason I mix soil for the garden and house plants. The bagged stuff always compacts and holds water far too long.
Back to your first reply… What youre saying is just make sure I nail down my pH when I ammend my coco and dont sweat the micro nutrients as long as I hit my macros?
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I don’t think Coco changes the pH of soil, I don’t like Coco soil mixes.
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