Growing medium anyone

[thecount13]

Has anybody used bushdoctor coco loco coconut coir? Is this a good medium to use. thanks

[Toker1]

I use the fox farm bush doctor liquid feed line up. I also use their soil products too. Happy with both. Never grown in coco before. For hydro... I like to use DWC.

[oldjarhead100]

Is it buffered ? I use cana coco it comes in a block form, One block 5 gallons of water with 30 mls of cal mag add perlite and your done but if it is buffered and has perlite your good to go the only bad thing with coco is that it will leach your calmag from your plants ,so you have to replace it first the 30 ml per block does it for me

[thecount13]

What do you mean by buffered? I plan on adding some perlite.

[Toker1]

Cheap coco is gathered from coconuts floating on the ocean surface. It absorbs salts which affect the PH of the medium. If the coco is cheap, you need to soak it in ph adjusted water first to correct the PH value of the medium. If the coco is made for mj (which I believe bush doctor products are, but best to check with the manufacturer) there is no need to soak, because the PH comes pre-adjusted right out of the package.
What he is asking, is if there are PH buffers added to the medium, used to control the PH factor.

[oldjarhead100]

thecount13 what toker said and you need to replace the calmag that it will leach from the nutes so you will have a calmag deficiency. well Jimmy below settled that lol

[JimmyPapaya]

I've been using Coco Loco 4 years now and haven't had a problem. I use it to make up my supercoil also. Cheers!

[thecount13]

thanks to all for the information. this site helps me with questions regarding growing the herb .. have been smoking for over 45 years but recently growing cause it now legal in Michigan.thanks