After some trouble I experienced, I started surfing on the internet and decided to go and get the Plagron coco-brix and stop dragging bags of coco into the house. I chose the Plagron-brix.
First because they probably sell the cleanest coco in the market (EC guarantee < 0.3) and second the coco is pH-buffered (I promised myself 1.5 years ago never to use an unbuffered coco again). The ladies are about 2 weeks old now.
Each coco-brix equals 9 litres of coco, they are sold in a pack of 6. So that is 54 litres, a little bit more than a bag of coco, but definitely not the same size. Now I can put 6 bags of coco in one big sports bag. So nobody knows where the brix goes
I have been growing on coco for two years now, but still a virgin on the forum. I will get you a weekly update on how things are running.
Some details:
• Grow room: 11.5 ft. x 13 ft. and 6.5 ft. in height
• 2x active air intake at floor level
• 1x extraction filter 1500 m3/h
• 6x 600W HPS
• 2x wooden crates 10 ft. x 4 ft. covered with plastic foil and
drainage for water
• 200 litre barrel, ceramic pump and a normal garden hose
• 90x 11 litre pots filled for 70 White Widows and 20 Amnesia’s
• 100x Plagron Coco-brix; Plagron Coco A & B; Power Roots; Pure Enzym;
Green Sensation; Vita Start; Mighty neem and Diamond Shield.
Oke enough talk let’s go to work:
1) Filling the barrel -> no nutes; pH=5.5; filling 7 buckets of water
2) I put one brick in a bucket and it starts to pop after only a few seconds. I will leave the brix in there for about half an hour
Mixing the coco in the pot by hand to unravel the big coco-chunks in there……
3) I take the coco from the pot and squeeze remains of water back into the pot. Then I fill an empty pot with the coco fiddle about and spread it in the pot. And yes it really looks like the coco you buy in a 50 litre bag. Already very very pleased with that
4) After filling all 70 pots, I turn on 3 lights as far away from the pots as possible and wait for the pots and the coco to adapt to the temperature in the room. The temperature in the room is 24⁰ C.
5) I start planting my cuttings and water them using Coco A & B and Power Roots -> pH= 5.7 & EC= 1.7. I also foliar feed the young ladies with Vita Start.
First because they probably sell the cleanest coco in the market (EC guarantee < 0.3) and second the coco is pH-buffered (I promised myself 1.5 years ago never to use an unbuffered coco again). The ladies are about 2 weeks old now.
Each coco-brix equals 9 litres of coco, they are sold in a pack of 6. So that is 54 litres, a little bit more than a bag of coco, but definitely not the same size. Now I can put 6 bags of coco in one big sports bag. So nobody knows where the brix goes
I have been growing on coco for two years now, but still a virgin on the forum. I will get you a weekly update on how things are running.
Some details:
• Grow room: 11.5 ft. x 13 ft. and 6.5 ft. in height
• 2x active air intake at floor level
• 1x extraction filter 1500 m3/h
• 6x 600W HPS
• 2x wooden crates 10 ft. x 4 ft. covered with plastic foil and
drainage for water
• 200 litre barrel, ceramic pump and a normal garden hose
• 90x 11 litre pots filled for 70 White Widows and 20 Amnesia’s
• 100x Plagron Coco-brix; Plagron Coco A & B; Power Roots; Pure Enzym;
Green Sensation; Vita Start; Mighty neem and Diamond Shield.
Oke enough talk let’s go to work:
1) Filling the barrel -> no nutes; pH=5.5; filling 7 buckets of water
2) I put one brick in a bucket and it starts to pop after only a few seconds. I will leave the brix in there for about half an hour
Mixing the coco in the pot by hand to unravel the big coco-chunks in there……
3) I take the coco from the pot and squeeze remains of water back into the pot. Then I fill an empty pot with the coco fiddle about and spread it in the pot. And yes it really looks like the coco you buy in a 50 litre bag. Already very very pleased with that
4) After filling all 70 pots, I turn on 3 lights as far away from the pots as possible and wait for the pots and the coco to adapt to the temperature in the room. The temperature in the room is 24⁰ C.
5) I start planting my cuttings and water them using Coco A & B and Power Roots -> pH= 5.7 & EC= 1.7. I also foliar feed the young ladies with Vita Start.