Coco Coir vs Soil

[Sparkee2017]

Q: Which is the best for first time growers Coco coir vs Soil? Indoor grow.

[Sammy]

Really depends on how much time and effort you're willing to put into it. Soil is easy Coco is also easy just requires you mixing nutrients at specific amounts as there is no nutrients in the coco.

[Weed Pharma]

I use both in a grow- soil for germinating seed placed into coco/perlite 1 gal container and then final transplant into 3 gal soil.

https://forum.growweedeasy.com/forum/growing-community/121577-attempting-to-transplant-an-auto-flower-intentional

[D.A.A.S.69]

Morning sparkee, if you like mixing up nutrients an hope you have all the nutrients mixed right, coco is fine. If you want to make sure your first grow turns out great, KindSoil is your answer I would suggest, easy as it gets, just add plain water with a PH between 6.0-7.0 , . How hard is that ? Look up KindSoil an you will see what I mean. Good Luck with what ever you decide Sparkee..

[Beach_Town_Brit]

Hi Sparkee, I haven't done a kind/super soil grow as DAAS suggests but I like coco for indoor grows.
I grow in a small area of my apartment rather than a dedicated room and I just find coco more practical. Coco bricks are easy to store, coco doesn't smell really, and it's much easier to clean up a coco/perlite spill than a soil spill.

[St.buds]

I would say go coco unless ur gana go full organic I wouldn't even mess with the soil less chance of bugs

[oldjarhead100]

all above are correct lol it gets confusing right, I grow in coco for my photos , and kind soil for my autos, they grow so fast I wouldn't know how to use nutes on them . for a first time grower I would say start with soil (kind) , How big is your grow space if you can fit more than one plant then do a grow and compare what you like

[St.buds]

Do u use coco on top of the kindsoil or some hott soil?

[grandpasmith]

I am a fairly new grower too, flowering 5th plant now. I would suggest, as I did, doing a lot of research. A whole lot. I am assuming by posting here, that's exactly what you're doing so good for you! Keep in mind, its your grow, so only you know exactly what your situation is and which direction that will lead you.
After all I had to think about, I went with coco/perlite for my small grow. I am retired so I have lots of time. But I have found that it only takes me about 5 - 10 minutes each day to check/maintain my plant. Sometimes less. I mix my nutrients and ph water a gallon at a time and I'm good for 7 - 10 days. The biggest selling point for me was the bug issue. Most bugs are not attracted to the coco and definitely not my cats! I have a cat that loves to dig into our house plants, the coco she doesn't touch.
Again, its a very personal issue but which ever way you choose, I'm sure it will come out fine....No worries!

[BillyKidd]

My very first grow was with coco coir. I learned alot on that grow and I think it is the best for a first timer to use. It will let you gauge the way your plants react to different situations, and (in most cases), is easy enough to correct, pretty forgiving in other words. When I say act on it, I mean find out what the problem is and adjust your nutes or ph according to the situation, or flush it if need be. And if your have aspirations of doing a hydro grow later on, you'll already have the basics of ph'ing water, adding nutes at different levels at different stages of the plant's life cycle. When I done my first hydro grow, I still had to do some research on the things I didn't know about with hydro, but I already knew the basics just from using the coir. I'm using soil for 2 grows that I just dropped beans on today. So I'll probably be studying the guides for soil growers now, but like I mentioned before, doing coir gave me heads up on 2 types of grows, and with soil I have a little bit of a heads up on, but not enough to be real confident of a nice grow. Coir is easy to correct problems with, hydro is really easy to fix most problems with, but soil is a different matter. With soil you have to consider all the nutes that are in it to start with. If you build a "super-soil" it'll have all the nutes you need, but that could also lead toward nute burn pretty quick, and it's tough to flush out if that's the case. It's really not rocket science with coir, and it gets your feet wet (no pun intended) when it comes time to try a hydro.