You know what i hate?

[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.

[Rwise]

I tried to grow a coconut once, damn tree rat (squirrel) ate it.

[Gingerbeard]

Grow your own coconuts.

[Rwise]

Shortages, I hate shortages and its all Uncle Dons fault that I cant get cocoa at my grocery store! Next thing is the price will double, again.

[PRIMO]

Selling out means you gotta wait for your next harvest.

[dirtymike]

Selling out is leaving a brother holding the bag to get pinched for 11/29!!

[Cougar672]

I think selling out is when you give up on the ideals and/or principles that are important to you for more money, fame, or power.