Soil food web Drain to waste with amended coco

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Timtimmay

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• Oct 2, 2017

• #1

I want to know if it's possible to do a drain to waste coco grow with amendments mixed into the coco as to promote the soil food web and have all of the benefits of flavor and healthy plants that come along with it. I'm open to any fertilizer regimen and don't mind brewing teas constantly.

Has anyone tried something like this? If I wanted to do it where would I start?

I would use some tupur(or pure coco) base and mix with high quality Earthworm castings as well as some other dry amendments/innoculants? Maybe more perlite? I enjoy the flavor of organic soil and don't want to sacrifice that to get the growth of coco

 

mean mr.mustard

I Pass Satellites

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• Oct 2, 2017

• #2

Drain to waste should leach most of the additions' benefits away rather quickly if you really want to do DTW.

 

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mushroombrew

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• Oct 2, 2017

• #3

As long as you can control the runoff it will work. So a drip system on a timer.
You only want a small amount of run off daily. For me that's no more than 1/2 - 1G per day in a 4x4 tray. I just adjust how often the pump comes on. As they get bigger the time "on" has to increase too so you still get runoff.

If you hand water and are not careful you will leach away lots of goodies in a light coco mix.

But honestly you could run a mix like that and just water like soil.

Why do you want to do DTW?

 

FunkBomb

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• Oct 3, 2017

• #4

Some dolomite lime or oyster shell will provides lots of calcium and magnesium. I'm a huge fan of a product called Recharge by RealGrowers. It's the king of biological inoculations and you only need 1/4 of a teaspoon per gallon every 7-10 days.

-Funk

 

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Timtimmay

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• Oct 4, 2017

• #5

Drain to waste is nice because I can feed more times per day, but I would rather not resort to using straight bottled nutrients. Something in the middle maybe? I also really enjoy the flavor of some good soil herb that tastes as good from the first to last hit of the bowl

 

Apache123

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• Oct 8, 2017

• #6

So what I like to do is run pure Canna Coco with MaxiBloom all the way through veg and as I flip to flower I start to cycle AACT one day then organic Fert one day then PH'ed water the next day then Maxibloom the next day. As I get closer to harvest I cut out Maxibloom completely and end up with a finished product that, as many state, tastes like Organic soil grown.

Best wishes,

 

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Timtimmay

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• Oct 8, 2017

• #7

Thanks I appreciate the input. All that I'm really looking for is an improved flavor over straight hydro, and hopefully to help innoculate some bacteria and fungus into the roots every now and then if that will even help? I know tricoderma can live in High EC environments

 

Mikell

Dipshit Know-Nothing

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• Oct 9, 2017

• #8

Granger2 runs closer to organic, using EarthJuice, though I am unsure if he amends the medium.

 

FunkBomb

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• Oct 10, 2017

• #9

The Earth Juice Sugar Peak line is amazing. EJ just came out with a new line specifically made for Coco that has Grow/Bloom both have parts A&B.

-Funk