CalGonJim 8/26 11:23AM Darkness..Halloween..PRE-Diary SETUP!!!! The penalty for choosing the wrong tree..is DEATH...Charlie Brown will not be missed!
9/4 3PM. The Butler told me whats been holding me back.
9/5 12PM ""Great White after an H2O2 rinse is a good idea. You just knocked the coco back to nearly sterile. Coco has no biology of its own, so putting mycorrhizae and bacteria back in is the useful part. Skipping nutes at this stage is also right β you burn seedlings in coco by feeding, not by leaving it empty for a week.
How to use it without wasting it or shocking a seed:
- Donβt dump a full scoop into the whole mix and hope. Great White wants to touch roots.
- Mix coco + perlite first (clean, wet, fluffy).
- When you pot up: a pinch in the hole where the seed or seedling goes, or a light dust on the rootball if youβre transplanting.
- After that, one weak Great White watering (half or quarter label) once the seedling is up and has a couple true leaves. Not every watering.
H2O2 and Great White fight each other if theyβre in the same water. Youβre past that if the coco is already rinsed and drained. Donβt add more peroxide to the mix after you inoculate.
Your sequence is fine:
1. Coco cleaned and wet
2. Perlite rinsed so the dust is gone
3. Mix in the blue bucket β donβt pack it
4. Then into the final pots
Aim for about **70/30 coco to perlite** by volume. In a 2-gallon pot thatβs enough air for an auto. 1-gallon only if you stay on a tight water schedule.
Seed or seedling goes into that mix with **no base nutes**. First feed is later: light cal-mag + a weak coco formula once you see real growth, pH 5.8β6.2. Great White is not fertilizer. It doesnβt replace that.
If the perlite is the dusty bag kind, rinse it in a colander or the extra pot so youβre not blowing silica around the kitchen. Mix while both are damp so it doesnβt separate.
Thatβs a clean start. Donβt overthink the inoculant β a little at the root zone is enough.""ππππ