Grow Mediums Reusing your coco?

[carl brutananadilewski]

So can you reuse your old coco as long as you flush it?

 

[budelee]

I am reusing my coco this round but did not do a separate flush,during the flushing of the plants is when that was done ,after the plants were chopped,the coco was cleaned of as much roots as I could get out,mixed with some new coco,rinsed and then recharged/pre loaded with 1/4 strength nutes and a mycorrhizae /bacteria ..

 

[budelee]

it is my understanding that coco can be washed or flushed ( with straight water)if new or being reused but not while plants are growing in it,it messes up the cation rates that the nutes are absorbed at,just my 2 cents tho

 

[carl brutananadilewski]

That makes sense. It doesnt break down like soil

 

[budelee]

No,being what's called an inert media is does not hold nutes like soil does,this is another reason why it should not be "straight" watered,coco is a soiless media and falls into the hydro care/feed family,, it can be treated like soil or hydro depending on how often you feed/water,the more often( like a drip/automated system) will require the ppm to be lower that a once a day feed or every other day feed like soil...peace

 

[carl brutananadilewski]

And it doesn't break down haha

 

[JAYAR]

Carl I've reused my coco up to three times but it's important that you add enzymes after harvest to eat away the decomposed roots. The coir is fine I flush it a few times with water only plus drip clean which strips out excess salt buildup from the coco itself. The third time I only used water and zymes for one week and it worked fine so either way you're good as long as the zymes are there. I keep using them for the first few weeks on the seedlings

 

[budelee]

Hey @JAYAR ,do you recommend a brand of enzymes to decompose the roots,I think I read another thread where the person didn't "clean out "the roots or stem but used ( prolly) something similar for the decomposition ,I cant find the thread so I don't have a name of the enzyme..also,if a person ( me) cleaned the coco of as much roots as possible would this be okay( cause I could not get 100% out) ,my plants seem to be okay with the coco but it was a pain( I'd rather try the enzyme)...Peace bro

 

[briman]

any zyme product will do, but I'd go with the best...Cannazyme

 

[Roark]

Cool.