Unusual Coir Extras!

Darkstalker420 · 09-06-09, 16:56

Hi checked my WBS jar a while ago and can see small bright myc puffs making there way around the jar

(first try with WBS!!) anyway i have decided to spawn to coir but had understood coir to be lacking in nitrogen.

My first thought was coffee grounds but as im not going to case this one i thought CONTAM!. This got me thinking how i could add some N then i remembered from my last

grow i still had some BioBizz Grow which is a product (organic as well!) containing N. So i thought as i was hydrating the coir if i could dump some in the water along with the Maxicrop (seaweed extract) what do you guys/gals use to "pep" up your coir!?.

ishkaboo · 09-06-09, 16:59

I don't do anything to my coir except hydrate it and pasteurize/sterilize and I never had a problem yet.

MLBjammer · 09-06-09, 17:04

I would be careful with using too many extras. They usually lead to contams. Coir is semi-nutritious, so mycelium loves it as is.

weiliicoyote · 09-06-09, 17:28

Straight up coir works great for cubensis IME. I now add 20% composted cow poop and 10% verm, because they are easy for me to get and keep costs down.

BuckarooBanzai · 09-06-09, 23:03

Cubensis has very little interest in the nitrogen content of it's substrate.

Go for the poo. Castings, donkey, cow or horse - poo is the thing to punch up your coir.

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09-06-09, 16:56	#1 (permalink)
Darkstalker420 Mycophiliac Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 32	Unusual Coir Extras! Hi checked my WBS jar a while ago and can see small bright myc puffs making there way around the jar (first try with WBS!!) anyway i have decided to spawn to coir but had understood coir to be lacking in nitrogen. My first thought was coffee grounds but as im not going to case this one i thought CONTAM!. This got me thinking how i could add some N then i remembered from my last grow i still had some BioBizz Grow which is a product (organic as well!) containing N. So i thought as i was hydrating the coir if i could dump some in the water along with the Maxicrop (seaweed extract) what do you guys/gals use to "pep" up your coir!?.

09-06-09, 16:59	#2 (permalink)
ishkaboo Mycophage Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 813	I don't do anything to my coir except hydrate it and pasteurize/sterilize and I never had a problem yet. __________________ "Go then. There are other worlds than these"

09-06-09, 23:03	#5 (permalink)
BuckarooBanzai Prone to ranting... Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 6,050	Cubensis has very little interest in the nitrogen content of it's substrate. Go for the poo. Castings, donkey, cow or horse - poo is the thing to punch up your coir. __________________ Banzai Institute for Higher Education (a collection of growing Teks & threads)

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09-06-09, 17:04	#3 (permalink)
MLBjammer Addicted to Invitro Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,864	I would be careful with using too many extras. They usually lead to contams. Coir is semi-nutritious, so mycelium loves it as is.

09-06-09, 17:28	#4 (permalink)
weiliicoyote respect the shroom Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 91	Straight up coir works great for cubensis IME. I now add 20% composted cow poop and 10% verm, because they are easy for me to get and keep costs down.