Yan420answered grow question 7mo ago Hey growmie, it depends what you mean by âorganic in coco,â because people use that word around for all kinds of things. Some âorganicsâ behave fine in coco, some donât, and some are basically just light salts with a green label.
Those liquid extracts you have Alg¡A and Bloom are the easy ones, kelp, amino stuff, fish hydrolysate, molasses blends, humic/fulvic mixes, all of that works very well in coco. The plant absorbs them the same way it absorbs mineral salts, because theyâre already broken down. Theyâre just low strength, so you normally use them as supplements instead of your main feed. Good for stress and terps, but not enough NPK to run a whole grow.
Microbes also work fine in coco. They help early on with roots and uptake. Once you start feeding heavier salts they slow down, but thatâs normal and not an issue.
Where coco struggles is with the real organic stuff that actually needs soil biology to break down â dry amendments, BioTabs, guano, compost-heavy mixes, Gaia Green, that type of thing. In coco they release too slowly and unpredictably, pH jumps around, and correcting deficiencies becomes a headache. Coco just isnât built like soil, so it canât process those the same way.
And then of course you have the âorganicâ bottles that arenât really organic (a lot of brands do this). Basically weak mineral nutrients mixed with humics, but advertised as bio. Those also work fine in coco, theyâre just not what people think they are.
So yeah, your bottles are totally usable. Just donât expect them to carry the whole grow, think of them as nice extras. With hard water youâre probably okay on calcium, just keep an eye on magnesium.
Have a good one bro âď¸âĽď¸