The Canadian Contingent (Part 2)

[Foreigner]

Looks like the perfect crib to me.

[Foreigner]

One of them no till children

[Mr.Sparkle]

i mean it would work, we did a bassinet style basket but that only lasted a month and half till she out grew it, the no till bed looks to have plenty of space till at least a 4+ months

[Foreigner]

Lots of nitrogen and easy on the top dressing.

[LzBoy]

Hey! Congrats @Loggershands and missus!
The stories you can tell of days past.
You know where we used to put this if we got pulled over by a cop?
Yes, of course we’d smoke it after.

[Gpaw]

Congratulations on your new 20+ year project!!
Don’t miss a minute.

@Leakyears

I also have enough Blackswallow soil to fill the bed stored in totes. It’s a little dry, but should be good to use with some TLC.

It rehydrates very well, I add some slow release nitrogen and fresh EWC to recolonize it.

Cheers
G

[madouesse]

Best wishes on your new growing venture !!!

[TopShelfTrees1]

Awesome news ! Congratulations my friend @Leakyears

Been wanting to try LSO, specifically black swallow, wish I could jump on this. Very cool of you

[sprinklememaynee]

Hey! Wanted to poll my fellow northern brothers on their preferred growing medium. I have been a die hard soil guy for my indoors, but am wondering with my pot sizes (3 gallon) if going the coco route is a much better way to get those healthy little roots.

Wondering who is team soil, and who is on team coco and why.

[Foreigner]

Team Promix HP. It’s cheap. It’s convenient. It holds water well. I can get it at Canadian tire for $35 a bale.

[Mr.Sparkle]

compared to say promix ive always found i need less that half that amount when running coco, so plants wise your 3gal soil grows id say you’d have similar plants in 1gal of coco, now watering comes into play as obviously bigger containers and handwatering extend out when you need to water.

[TopShelfTrees1]

Love coco, been almost a decade now since I first tried it and have always had some going since even when I have my rdwc’s up and running I still need a coco tent too . I love the similarities to a hydro medium, super vigorous, fast draining inert media. But if you want you can add all the goodies to make it chocked full of biological goodies, and some even go a coco version of living soil so it’s living soil but still given some ferts too. Over the years mine has completely evolved and I add some Bennie’s, lots of calcium and root boosters etc. I run a 70/30 mix approximately with perlite. And reuse and add new at a 50/50 rate usually but sometimes just go all new as well but I’ll. Ever using from here on out as 200$ on coco over and over is getting out of hand. Btw I swear by mo

Koko but canna is great too!

[Mr.Sparkle]

the mokoko i found had more fines compare to canna which works for water retention but can be too much your also kinda avoiding it with the perlite addition.

Canna has been solid for me

[TopShelfTrees1]

Yes, you are 100% right. They actually make a great mix together too.

[JoeCrowe]

water. It’s cheap and effective

[sprinklememaynee]

Thank you all for the responses so far.

@Foreigner

Team Promix HP. It’s cheap. It’s convenient. It holds water well. I can get it at Canadian tire for $35 a bale.

I am also a team promix guy right now, just saw Costco has the 100L of it for 29 so scooped up a couple. Have been using it for years indoor and outdoors with lots of luck.

@Mr.Sparkle

compared to say promix ive always found i need less that half that amount when running coco, so plants wise your 3gal soil grows id say you’d have similar plants in 1gal of coco, now watering comes into play as obviously bigger containers and handwatering extend out when you need to water.

Thats really interesting to know, I think I am mostly into coco to see if I can really produce some great rootmass and some bigger plants . I feel like sometimes I can compact the soil a little too much, and after scaling up considerably, I am finding more variance across the plants based on the natural material in the soil, and different levels of aeration.

@TopShelfTrees1

Love coco, been almost a decade now since I first tried it and have always had some going since even when I have my rdwc’s up and running I still need a coco tent too

Amazing to hear, when you reuse and add new, are you doing anything to the used coco, or is that somewhat unnecessary.

@TopShelfTrees1

as 200$ on coco over and over is getting out of hand.

Thats my biggest fear lol, I dont know I have it in me to throw that much down every time

@JoeCrowe

water. It’s cheap and effective

Hhaha, I have visions of a flooded room with running water. At least when I have pooling water currently I am the one flooding the room XD

Thanks for the insight, looks like a trip to the store is in order.

[Longtooth]

I, myself, was free range. No till would have been just fine…

[TopShelfTrees1]

@sprinklememaynee

when you reuse and add new, are you doing anything to the used coco, or is that somewhat unnecessary.

Pretty much unnecessary for me anyway, I try and pull out any old root matter etc but the enzymes do a great job of negating that usually, and I still flush personally, not a long, overdrawn one stressing the ish out of my plants but 4-5 days and before I taper them back to almost nothing. I’ve never had an issue arise and since the mo koko is so fine it’s super simple to break up and make it all the same consistency again .

[TopShelfTrees1]

@sprinklememaynee

Thats my biggest fear lol, I dont know I have it in me to throw that much down every time

I run a CRAP TON of plants, honestly most people could probably get away with 1/2 of that or less

[TricycleOfDoom]

I’m sticking with Coco & hempy style.