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How to Prepare and Buffer Coco Coir

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Transform a cheap brick of coco into the best medium for growing cannabis!
Learn how to:
1. Rehydrate a brick of coco
2. Rinse coco to remove the peat
3. Buffer coco to prevent calcium and magnesium issues
4. and Mix the coco with perlite
Includes Instructions and Recipes!
There are many reasons that coco is a superior growing medium: it has excellent water retention and drainage properties, is pest resistant, offers abundant root space, and, if buffered, it will not interfere with plant nutrition.
However, if you purchase a brick of coco and you do not rinse and buffer it, you are not growing in a superior medium. Un-rinsed coco is laden with “coco peat”, which are small dust sized particles. The coco peat does not retain air like the larger coco fibers do and as a result, you can run into problems with drowning your roots if you grow in coco with a lot of coco peat.
Buffering is an even larger issue! Coco must be buffered with calcium (Ca) and Magnesium (Mg) before it becomes a superior growing media.
Finally you need to mix your coco with perlite to improve drainage and aeration!
This video walks you through the complete process and explains every step!
Produced by Dr. MJ Coco, author of “Coco for Cannabis: A Grower’s Guide”.
VISIT: CocoforCannabis.com