Pictorial...How to clean Coco, Perlite, Geolite.

[Hanky]

Coco, perlite,geolite. It's a fantastic, trouble free media.

 

Best of all, you can use it over and over again if you clean it right.

 

After harvest, let the root ball/pot dry out for a few weeks. Then you can clean the media ready for the next crop.

 

Here's the rooted media hehe.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/grizzydog/judynstuff004.jpg

 

You need some 5mm wire mesh and a catcher!

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/grizzydog/judynstuff005.jpg

 

Chuck on a good few handfuls of the rooted media and rub it around, the coco/perlite will go thru the mesh leaving the roots and geolite. Pluck the roots out (they gather into balls as you rub the media making removal easy)

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/grizzydog/judynstuff007.jpg

 

Tip off the geolite.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/grizzydog/judynstuff008.jpg

 

Which leaves the roots in the mesh.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/grizzydog/judynstuff009.jpg

 

Dump the roots on the floor.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/grizzydog/judynstuff012.jpg

 

In the catcher you'll find nice clean coco/perlite!

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/grizzydog/judynstuff013.jpg

 

 

 

This is my way, it's not the only way but I hope it helps.

[Guest Eikel]

Great stuff Hanky Thanks for that!

 

I've been trying to manually scavenge my clayballs outta the medium and I dump the perlite/coco onto the compost. Won't be doing that again thanks to your tute!

 

Now, where can one get some 5mm mesh, I'm assuming Bunnings/Home Hardware type places would stock it yes?

[Hanky]

Yes! I got that mesh from bunnings.

[Guest Eikel]

Just saw this topic for the first time in ages - and realised it wasn't pinned!

 

Thats now been corrected... great tute for CoCo growers Hanky, thanks again! :thumbsup

[Chev]

So simple! I'll be considering re-using the media, but what about pests like scarid fly etc? Do you sterilise it in some way? Cheers Hanky :thumbsup

[Tom]

So simple! I'll be considering re-using the media, but what about pests like scarid fly etc? Do you sterilise it in some way? Cheers Hanky :thumbsup

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You can soak the media in mild bleach solution and sterilise it like that, you should give it a rinse in PH corrected water afterwards too.

 

[WantDaChronic]

thats alot better than the method i was using before, thanks for saving me time and money hanky :thumbsup

[Hanky]

I forgot I even made this thread, Thanks for refreshing my memory!!!!

[nitram]

Great thread Hanky - :smoke

 

I reuse my Coco, but don't go such vigerous cleaning. I should do so tbh.

 

good info :thumbsup

[Nath]

You gotta use bleach and peroxide, otherwise pathnogens stay in the soil? I was reading that somewhere... personally id never re-use soil mixes, but each to their own.