You know what i hate?

[Bluey]

Yeah. The coco fibres and small roots look identical. Not much you can do about that. I wash the new stuff and the old till I get clean water runoff as that's an EC of 0. I should probably soak it in Calmag but I just couldn't be bothered.

[Gingerbeard]

Uhh... yeah. Totally my bad on the whole coco/cocoa mix up. Someone must have dabbed me a Sativa.
Still. Good information, wot?

[Bowhunterwoody]

Same here. Ice and wind suck.

[Rwise]

Yep the sprout was about 3" long, I hate tree rats!
BTW its a cocoa shortage not a coco shortage.

[Gator]

Winter in NY, I've had enough of the shit

[Ckbrew]

coconuts tree rat ate it seriously coco first time four pots biggest hard pass on it stoner humor wash before PITA buy more No buildup wash reuse more Reuse wash mine push binding salts messy clean everywhere mold salt build up on top root balls issue pot bound old pot wash it help I try root balls pot Cleaning OCD let me not do it. Yes

When to much time WTF?

[golfnrl]

Yeah, its the same for me. The root balls take up most of pot. Cleaning out the roots takes a little bit of effort, some of the smaller roots look like coco fibres. I wash mine in a strong cal/mag solution after everything gets a thorough wash with cleaned PH'd water. Probably don't have to PH the rinse water but my mild OCD won't let me not do it. Yes, I PH the cal/mag solution as well. I've noticed that some of the smaller coco gets washed out in the rinse.

[Bluey]

I can get that bit of salt build up on top also but the root balls are an issue for me. They pretty much fill the pot and you could say even root bound so I don't get much coco out of the old pot. I wash it, new and old till it runs clean, turn it a few times to help dry it out and give it a low dose calmag.

I try and get all the old roots out.

[golfnrl]

I have to wash mine because of the way the plants deal with feeding from the bottom. They push all the binding salts in the nutrients to the top of the medium. Gawd it's messy to clean. Perlite was everywhere. Now I have extra stored in a tote, that has condensation under the lid, and I wonder about mold.

[Gingerbeard]

Damnit. You said cocoa. Never mind all that stuff about coco.
But still. Reuse coco.

[Gingerbeard]

No washing. I pretty much went from bag-to-bag after a grow. Figured nutrient buildup has not been an issue so why wash?
I might consider adding perlite if I reuse more than a couple times.

[golfnrl]

Did you wash your coco before you reuse it? I got all tree huggy and thought I wanted to recycle my coco, you know for the environment and to save $$. Right.
It was a major PITA and I sill had to buy more.

[Gingerbeard]

Is that stoner humor? I spent too much time looking for Hershey's brand coco coir, danm you!

[Rwise]

Hershey's is a tad bit hard to reuse, I'll pass on recycling it.

[Gingerbeard]

But seriously, reuse your coco. Coincidence or not, this was the first time I used reused in one of four pots and that one grew the biggest.