I am specifically interested if anyone has used either the TUPUR MIX or the Planting Mix.
Both are 50% coco based, aged forest products with this one having perlite and Basalt (TUPUR).
The other RG Planting Mix is similar but no perlite and contains Worm Castings, Feather Meal, Bone Meal, Fish Bone Meal, Potassium Magnesium Sulfate, Fish Meal, Bat Guano, Wollastonite, Crustacean Meal, Gypsum, Sulfate of Potash, Kelp Meal, Basalt, Alfalfa Meal.
My goal is to mix the two, add some extra Perlite, EWC, Bio-Char, Bio-Live, Mycorrizahae, powdered egg shells and a few other additives and create a LOS using coco. Get the benfits of coco and feed microbes with organic nutes and organic teas. I figure this would feed the plants up to about week 4, before I would have to start feeding her the rest of the way.
I have only done LOS grows and want to see if my yields increase with the benefits of using coco. It will be a minimum of 60% coco based soil mix.
Any experienced responses are appreciated, success or whatever.
Are you using Tupur alone? Did you add extra cal mag in the beginning as they say it needs extra. This will be my first with a coco based product. I run autopots indoors for my grow I will start in November, so trying to plan ahead. I am going to run Gold Leaf a one part to water only mix. They have a solid feed chart for how much to mix with water for the reservoir and stage of plant. Never used it, but heard good things about the product as it is being used for several commercial growers. They did state you can add some bud boosters nearer the mid flower period, I just need to figure out what is compatable. Thanks for anymore input on the RG product!
I’ve used Tupur for years & I frickin LOVE it. I don’t re-use it for subsequent grows but I do throw the occasional harvested pot into my outdoor raised garden beds. Blends really nicely with soil too
Back to Tupur. … I use it with solo cups for seedlings and clones/cuttings, in 1gal and 2gal plastic pots for veg, and 3gal and 5gal pots for flower. I absolutely love it.
I recently switched to Royal Gold pure coco, and now I’m battling gnats probably due to water retention vs. poor watering habits, which never affected me with Tupur
@logangrowgan2020 how do you get away with no calmag?? Does your base nutrient compensate?
If I so much as forget to look at a bottle of calmag, my plants start tiger striping in Tupur lol it’s never a bother but I just include 3-5ml/gal to my regular feed just to keep things steady
I’ve used TPS ONE as the only bottle on a few grows and things come out fine, either hand watering or with octopots. I’m comfident there’s a higher potential performance envelope with some more stuff, but I’ll take an easy B- over a difficult A any day of the week.
Interesting, because even in their descriptions of the soil, it states: CalMag is needed in larger amounts when using Tupur. Well good to know, I’ll probably use some as I have it, but never used it for a living soil grow.
By any chance do you rinse the product before use in Cal Mag? Like some do with Coco?
Nah, I take tupur straight from the bag and into solo cups. from there either goes a pre-soaked seed or a cut. start with water only for seeds, then small dose of nutes in water.
from there upgrade from solo to a small fabric pot or octopot, and give the plants increasing dose of tpsONE as watering. I take a few breaks from nutes and give just water over the life of the plant. tap water, dont even check or balance ph anymore.
I have been running Tupur for about 3 years. Have tried many brands of coco, nothing else comes close for being clean and consistent.
Started after watching the Grow Sciences episode of Canna Cribs. super super clean grow, nearly sterile in places, and in the background, they were opening bags of Tupur and dropping it in to plant containers. No rinsing, no buffering, nothing, just use it. That blew me away, how could that be possible? I tried it and loved it.
Went to Lucky Leaf expo and had a long talk with Royal Gold. One of their folks spent over 20 minutes describing their cleaning process. Its amazing.
I have been using Athena Pro before I started with Tupur, and have never seen Ca def unless a plant was really Ca hungry, but never right out of the gate.
I tried their straight coco as well, really liked it but went back to Tupur. Will go grab a few pix form my phone of Tupur results in a min.
Great to hear. Thanks for the feedback and pictures. Those were some sweet grows!
I think I made the right choice. I grabbed 2 bags of Tupur and 1 bag of the Planting mix, may use mixed or just use the Tupur and do another project with the general mix. Very similar just Tupur has less additives and the RG Planting mix makes it sound like a feed only after 4 or 5 week type product. Now you have me wanting November to roll in quickly! That’s my next time for indoors!
I am using the Faven undercanopy. spectrum-wise its a bit ‘blurple’. No UV or IR.
Yields are up dramatically. Basically it turns your C bud into B bud, and your B bud into A bud. Just chopped 3 plants, taking up just over 1/3 of a light, and they dropped just under 1.5 pounds, on target for 5/light easy. Four isn’t the new 3, five is.
Still adjusting to them. The girls drink lots more. Some plants want higher EC, others are fine with the standard 3.0. For $400 per pair, ROI is met first harvest.
