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Old 06-12-2010, 06:59 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Default Re: Coconut coir

I mixed up the coconut coir. Well, I filled a 5-gallon bucket with almost 2 gallons of warm water and dropped the brick in. It took about 15 minutes to swell up, but when it did there was no water left. Then I got some worm castings, peat moss, perlite and about 3-gallons of pine chips and mixed all together. You are talking about what seems to be a pretty nice potting mix. I got like 12 gallons out of the deal mixing ingredients. It had the consistency of a seed starting mix almost. Now I'm wondering if I should add horticultural sand to the mix?
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