How do you expand your coco brick, salt buildup etc..

[weedss]

I do believe that I have shitty bricks, from China. It was only 1 dollar per bricks. I am going to use purified water. Little confuse right here, need some help. what is the best way of do this to eliminate the salt buildup. some people uses hot water and squeeze out the excess moist and last water ph'd to 5.8,?. thanks.

 

[Leeroy&Co:]

yeah mate just flush heaps atleast until your run off is clean and a good ph level. you mayhave peat bricks not coco, same thing essentially but different by product of coconut husk. peat is chunky,stringy,usually in bricks, coco is the dust usually in bags. i use a mix of both, but have to flush the peat bricks several times first and run the right ph water mix through it.

 

[weedss]

it says cocopeat on it. looks brown and stuff. So, even if i have peat bricks not coco, if i flush it enough will be fine?

 

[weedss]

if i flush with ph'd 5.8, that will adjust the ph in coco? and then pre-charge it with nutes?

 

[weedss]

first runoff came out 213ppm lol

 

[farmdalefurr]

i use the botanicare cocogro block. i put it in a 20 something gallon tote and fill up a 5 gallon bucket w/ RO water w/ 2ml cal/mag per gallon. it expands, i break it up and use it. never had a salt problem w/ the cocogro

 

[SeaMaiden]

Yeah, but he's using something else. I would use a sheet or pillowcase to put the coir in, and then flush it through, then precharge.

 

[Ichabod Crane]

Get two five gallon buckets. Take one and drill a bunch of 1/8 inch holes around the sides on the bottom and the bottom itself. Put your coco in the undrilled bucket and fill just a little above the brick. Let it swell up then drain it threw the drilled bucket. Run water over this till it comes out nearly clear. Then take the undrilled bucket and place it in the drilled bucket and push it down on the coco that is in the drilled bucket. Once most of the water is out put the coco in the undrilled bucket fill with RO water and add cal mag and nutes if you want to precharge. Then drain and you are ready to use.

 

[usda101]

Anyone using GH coco bricks ? I would be intrested in there results .

 

[weedss]

thanks alot guy

 

[Guest 88950]

i use a 5 gal bucket w/holes in the bottom and flush with water hose. i use another bucket to press out the water in the coco then wash again. then pre charge with ph'd water.

 

[weedss]

got it!! thanks

 

[IwannatokeNbone]

some ok advice above, but mine is spend 19 more dollars, open bag n pour into your containers n be done, did the brick thing and its a pain in the f king ass, its worth 20 bucks for me to skip that labour.

 

[weedss]

wow 19bucks for a brick thats exclusive. thank for your reply dude

 

[smokefrogg]

^^^ that 19 sounds like a bag of roots or something

lol i got some from armstrong nursery yesterday, these are a brand i hadn't heard of and they were 5$ less than the ones i would see at o.s.h. or lowes so i bought 2 of them....i did not even consider flushing the thing! well i used half of it to transplant a lemon tree into a 20 gallon square root brand garden bag yesterday, damn i hope it's okay and the lemon tree doesn't get jacked! lol live and learn shiiiit...

oh yeah, on expansion...i'd toss the brick into my wheelbarrow, i spray it down so there's a few inches of water it's sitting in, i then take a pick axe and bash it up, i then let it soak for awhile and return with the pick axe if i need to or with a garden hoe to break up the small pieces...i love the pick axe, really makes the process go much faster

 

[ThePizzaMan]

I used to try and flush all of my coco...but then I just started not too...and nothing really bad happened. Once I become rich...no more compressed coco for me

 

[weedss]

lol what made you rich ?! tell our ya little secret!

 

[eyes]

cocopeat is coconut coir fiber.Coco peat (cocopeat), also known as coir pith, coir fibre pith, coir dust, or simply coir, is made from coconut husks, which are byproducts of other industries that use coconuts. Coir waste from coir fiber industries is washed, heat-treated, screened and graded before being processed into coco peat products of various granularity and denseness, which are then used for horticultural and agricultural applications and as industrial absorbent.

Usually shipped in the form of compressed bales, briquettes, slabs or discs, the end user usually expands and aerates the compressed coco peat by the addition of water. A single kilogram of coco peat will expand to 15 litres of moist coco peat.

without a salinity meter,its hard to tell if there full of salt. u can check the tds run off from a small sample and see what the tds is assuming you start with 0 tds water your adding to hydrate it.

i never flushed my coco. i use canna or botanicare. for a block, 10 lb, add 5 gallons of water.

 

[weedss]

cocopeat is coconut coir fiber.Coco peat (cocopeat), also known as coir pith, coir fibre pith, coir dust, or simply coir, is made from coconut husks, which are byproducts of other industries that use coconuts. Coir waste from coir fiber industries is washed, heat-treated, screened and graded before being processed into coco peat products of various granularity and denseness, which are then used for horticultural and agricultural applications and as industrial absorbent.

Usually shipped in the form of compressed bales, briquettes, slabs or discs, the end user usually expands and aerates the compressed coco peat by the addition of water. A single kilogram of coco peat will expand to 15 litres of moist coco peat.

without a salinity meter,its hard to tell if there full of salt. u can check the tds run off from a small sample and see what the tds is assuming you start with 0 tds water your adding to hydrate it.

i never flushed my coco. i use canna or botanicare. for a block, 10 lb, add 5 gallons of water.

yeah. First time I used the tap water to flush it, ppm was 220 something. second, i used the purified water nd it was under 50 (runoff water).