I’m going coco noir this summer, first time trying it.
Hopefully better than last years crop, aphids killed me because I forgo the neem oil, relying on good microbe soil.
Never again!
I grow (indoors and greenhouse) in coco...it is by far the best growing medium out there. We've run 900 lights with it (quit, big grows suck) and reused it for 6 years before adding the spent (50% coco/50% perlite) material into vegetable garden beds and they are doing great.
I'm going to experiment (we only have 40 lights now) with this, this year I think. One test plant, just add nitrogen.
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Are you serious? 6 years on coir? Talk about cost effective! Wow.
And 900 lights. Wow, again. I am currently looking into possibly running leds on rails in my vegetable greenhouse. Honestly, just vegetables, until they make cannabis legal here, I can't grow it. Did you use rails? Or do you have any experience with that?
I've mixed coir in with soil and it does wonders for the tilth.
There's another sea mineral company called Sea Minerals from Arkansas that is supposed to be good as well. We're you using Sea Minerals in the coir?
Also, for the ollas, I would imagine that coir would work great with those as well because it wicks moisture quite readily. We have entirely too many rocks to work with ollas, but we do raised beds with deep mulch and the garden doesn't need much water with that system as long as we have good spring rains.
The thing about coir is that plant growth is not limited to bed/pot space. Growing in any other media the plant can only achieve a certain height and growth (normally determined by root restriction). Coir is kind of a hybrid of soil and hydroponics due to its ability to hold so much oxygen.
yes, 6 years is the max I have seen it reused, that was a dry-mix organic blend that only had various compost teas added during the growing season. It is best to water to achieve a 10-20% run off (if you are growing using Coco A and Coco B with Cal-Mag this gets a wee bit expensive but not so bad) I want to grow dry-mix organics.
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You will notice the 'Lancifers Plants' section...lol...I've never written there really.
I'm going to experiment with Sea-90 in the greenhouse this year for hot peppers and a few cannabis plants. I'm sure that all sea solids are pretty much created equal. I can see how a self feeding (via using solar to split water and get hydrogen) desalination plant could produce enough sea solids without using any outside power. Those plants could not only eliminate the need for aquifer draining (Nestle could buy a bunch for instance and keep selling water they made themselves), but they could remineralize the worlds soils.
How deep are your beds? Have you looked into the Len Pense method (I'm not getting younger so I'll probably build a few here soon)? [
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And since I'm off work today, I'll throw in a neat video...
For dry-land gardeners/Permies...(I have 2 degrees and a Teachers Cert in Permaculture).
I won't embed it, it clutters threads but OP is more then welcome to
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