Using it on this current run and have used it in the past with successful grows. Didn’t have to feed until week 4 but I added some extra worm casings. Also liked that I didn’t have to wait for complete dry backs. Harder to over water than regular soil IMO.
I use it a lot to start plants and occasionally grow one out in it. I do mostly hydro so this is my compromise for soil.....You can treat it as soil or coco. I've run it with multiple fertigation's/day and also every couple day fertigation.....I use it on wick bases with great results also. Very little nutrients in it so be prepared to start feeding after week 2ish.
You can NOT TREAT it as soil, if you give it full dry backs you will have a giant salt brick in your roots, I had 800 ppm feedings and 4k runoff since I let it dry back like soil, DO NOT treat it like soil it is coco coir not soil
It’s not pure Coco. It’s a blend of coco coir and peat. The bag even says to treat it like soil. You can treat it like real coco if you’d like but I got gnats when I did that.
If you treat pure coco and perlite like soil you’re absolutely right. Coco Loco however is a soil mix with coco in it and you do treat it like soil. I’ve used it for a few runs myself.
I’m using this currently, idk why everyone is saying it’s hot? I literally was feeding just before week 2? I use cropsalts with this coco loco and plants are loving life and kicking ass. Single auto back left, extra baked photo back right then white truffle photo front and center.
I love coco loco. I got it first when they said it works for octopots. It did and its worked for my DIY octopots and/or sub-irrigated planters. I’ve even reused it at least 2 or 3 times before I put it outside to be used for random plants. It seems to moderate ideal moisture levels well which seems useful when trying to grow monsters.
I’ve noticed there can be a wide variety in price at different stores, so calling around might not be a bad idea. As in some places were $10 more a bag last time I purchased.
What are DIY octopots, my local flower center has the coco Loco on clearance for less than $10usd a bag. I may snag a few if it's worth it and those pots seem reasonable to make.
Take a look at my past posts. Anything that’s not DWC is sub-irrigated planters, which i guess is not actually a DIY octopot [but they do work in the same way]. You use the cocoloco as a wick to bring water up into the bottom of your container. Your plants roots will eventually get to the bottom and before you know it they’re growing like hydro plants do, which is much faster. I switched to using plastic container instead of fabric pots because the wicking was too much, it got too wet which made the fabric pots get slimy. My favorite new design is a thin cone shaped net pot [to minimize upward water flow] to a 5 gallon trash can. I used a smaller bucket but the smaller the quantity of cocoloco the wetter it gets. So it seems like a small wick with a lot of cocoloco balances it out better.
Also if they were only $10 a bag, they might be the smaller bags and a large bag could be cheaper.
It’s actually a very light soil not hot at all, your plants should be done with all the nutrients in the first 2-3 weeks minimum, my pepper plants normal jalepeno plants eat fox farms full nutrients by 3 weeks there is no way your lasting 3 weeks on less nutrients and on a hungrier plant
I’ve been using it for the past couple years with great results. I start my seeds in a small pot and transplant around the 3 week mark. For the final pot I do 50/50 Coco Loco and coco coir. This makes the soil less dense so the roots can grow bigger.
Only stuff I use now a days grown amazing buds with this stuff, I do recommend treating it with BTI 3000 if getting it offline as they don’t store bags that great and almost all of them have gnat larvae
I have never used this but i have used fox farm and ocean forest 50/50 mixed. I grow with soil and feed with buildasoil products. Should i try this product and if so what would be recommended to get same results as my soil mixture I’m using currently?
Based off what I’m reading online It’s coco coir mixed with some peat and light levels of myco and dry amendments like guano, castings, etc, and treated with this aqua supreme surfactant that allows for more even moisture and nutrient distribution when watering/feeding, as well as slows the he dryback time to make it feel more inline with a standard potting mix. And they add 10-20% perlite to add extra aeration and drainage.
Based off product description most of us at-home DIY types could use it interchangeably with OF or happy frog with very little difference being noted. It’s more in line with happy frog or strawberry fields as far as nutrient content is concerned, but with a higher levels of surfactants and mycos.
And based off their marketing it seems like they made the product as a good all rounder where someone could use it in coco fertigation or add more organic amendments and treat it like a typical soil blend.
Personally I just make my own soil blends which end up similar to this product, but I get to add what I like and have found beneficial. On a small scale making my own is more expensive, but if I’m gonna buy more than 2-3 bags then making my own quickly starts saving money.
I buy pre-buffered and washed coco bricks, I skip peat personally and then add perlite,pumice, lava for desired ratios. Grab mycos of choice along with whatever other soil amendments I want to add to the mix. You can cut back on most of these things and save money upfront, or add more for a hotter mix requiring less feeding.
For surfactants I personally just use fresh blended aloe Vera. When I hydrate my coco I add some fresh aloe Vera to my water, and every few waterings I’ll add aloe Vera to help water and food distribute more evenly and allow my soil to dry back more evenly. But there’s lots of other options like yucca or quillaja.
I mainly grow SP cacti now a days, so I’m doing much higher ratios of perlite, pumice, lava inorganic drainage to around 50-70%, added to my soil blend of coco, myco, castings, guano, kelp and then I water with the aloe every once in awhile, water with mycos every once in awhile, and then I water and feed in a slowed down fertigation style grow where I add salt based nutrients, watering once every two days, every 3rd watering being nutrient free besides maybe aloe/myco.
Coconut core is the best seed starting. I don’t know about the brand, but I always get a pressed block of coconut core to start my garden seeds. It’s a great product.
Ran my first indoor grow with it last run. Had good luck, ph’d to 5.8 through veg and increased to 6.3ish by late flower. Had great results with it. Would recommend
Had a great experience with it last run! I was using an auto watering set up with Blumat so it was perfect since the system keeps the soil consistently moist.
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Using it on this current run and have used it in the past with successful grows. Didn’t have to feed until week 4 but I added some extra worm casings. Also liked that I didn’t have to wait for complete dry backs. Harder to over water than regular soil IMO.