heating pads help the sprout process too. depends where you are. but, its winter. and ive had to use mine this year.
LOL I saw someone say using tap water with chlorine in it is ok. No offense, but that is pretty bad advice because chlorine kills bacteria/fungi, or in other words, the stuff that makes nutrients available to your plant. Never use chlorinated water. Anyway, coco is just as simple as soil, just make sure you get enough cal/mag in there, I see lots of coco growers with deficiencies.
Hey Chimney, you're actually the one giving bad advice.
The amount of chlorine in tap water is minimal. Less than 5ppm. This will not sterilize your growing medium.
Chlorine is also an element, it occurs naturally. Plants actually need some chlorine.
except that most municipalities use CHLORAMINE now, not chlorine.
the effects of either type of chlorine product will build up after time, and you WILL kill bacteria/microbes/beneficial lil critters in your soil, so I wouldn't go and call that BAD advice,...maybe a little OVERKILL,...but not bad advice.
LOL, you gave me a thumbs down for that? You're an asshole.
I gave your post a thumbs down because the question was "[did I find your post helpful]", which I did not.
I don't think calling me profanities is very helpful either.
No, most municipalities use chloramine as a secondary disinfectant, in combination with chlorine.
Neither chloramine, or chlorine will build up in the media over time.
Household bleach contains 4 - 6% hypochlorite. Which is essentially 10% chlorine when mixed in solution with water.
For sterilization purposes, a 30% bleach solution requires a minimum contact time of 10 minutes to be effective.
Sterilizing solution = 3% chlorine.
Tap water = 0.000005% chlorine.
Bad advice is uninformed advice. Telling people not to use tap water because it kills the soil microbes is simply not true, therefor it's bad advise.
Was using the 3 part Gh, but was to much work and got much better results with the Floranova.