Roots Organic Coco Palms?

[Guest 18340]

So my local shop gives me a free bag of Roots Organic Coco Palms to try out. Nice and silky stuff but I noticed what I thought were small pieces of Perlite. Not much, like maybe only a few small chunks per beer cup full.
But on closer inspection it seems those are tiny pieces of gray colored clay, not perlite. When you squeeze a piece between your fingers it has the consistency of almost dried clay.
Does anybody know if it is indeed clay? I'm guessing it's for the added Calcium?
Maybe I'll shoot them an email...

 

[Guest 18340]

So I emailed Aurora Innovations about those little pieces and they said it's "organic calcium". I figured it was some kind of Calcium amendment.
If I'm not mistaken most calcium labeled as organic is usually lime or crushed eggshells? Carbonates?

 

[ekomsi]

I noticed the same thing in botinicare loose bagged coco. Not so much in the gold label and cana coco. Is it good, is it bad? IDK but I thought it was weird to find these little non coco specs.

 

[TribalSeeds]

I dont know anything about the palms coco, but I tried roots organic amended coco for the first time this round and wouldnt use it again if it was given to me for free. It was 50% perlite/50% Gnat larvae! Probably just the distributor it came from, but I didnt like the stuff anyway.

 

[Guest 18340]

So far so good using the stuff. It's only been a week but so far so good.
I amend with perlite...
I don't mind the "organic calcium" but I wish they would print that on the bag.

 

[Treetroit City]

Curious if that changes the way you supplement cal/mag?

 

[Guest 18340]

Curious if that changes the way you supplement cal/mag?

My thoughts exactly.
Though, I'm still using my normal 1 tsp/gal of MagiCal and all is good and green so far.

 

[dansbuds]

My thinking is that the clay (organic calcium ) will take time to break down & become available to the plants (slow release) so watch for calcium build up later on in the grow evlme2 .maybe even cut out the calmag around the 4th week & just give them a little epsom salts instead .

 

[Arminius]

I have never heard anything good about Roots Organics... Too many "innovations" are not what I am looking for...

 

[Guest 18340]

My thinking is that the clay (organic calcium ) will take time to break down & become available to the plants (slow release) so watch for calcium build up later on in the grow evlme2 .maybe even cut out the calmag around the 4th week & just give them a little epsom salts instead .

Whats the general amount (tsp/gal) Epsom Salt to use?

 

[dansbuds]

100mg of epsom to a 1 liter bottle of water will give you a 1% solution & I used to dose that at 3 to 5ml per gallon of nutes . same as i would when adding calmag .

 

[yesucan]

Sorry not trying to argue but I am pretty sure that a 1% w/v solution is 10g per liter. The 100mg stock solution of epsom salt is 0.1g/1000ml *100 which equals a 0.01% epsom solution. By using the stock solution at 5ml per gallon (3785.41ml) comes to a final epsom solution concentration of 132.1 ppm. (0.0001 g/l * 5ml)/3785.41ml=1.321*10^-7