Brunnings COCO bricks

[Gazza2001au]

heres a plant i grew in the cheap $2.25 coco from bunnings not the "brunnings" brand funny ive never seen this brand? but looks like ill stay clear of it

[wildflower]

yeh these brunnings are sus.. huge range in every bunnings ive been to and they are cheap around $1.80 i think.

to be honest i was a bit sus before hand..about 8 months ago i planted some seeds in some of it and they werent looking well at all, but i had to pull them because of an inspection and other bullshit..so i never got to fully see the outcome..but i was a bit sus.

i got another brick from bunnings.

called "RICHGRO super compressed coco-peat brick" its got a logo of some plant dude flexing his biceps..is this the one you got gaz?

[wayno1]

i got that brunnings brand but in rose peat $2.50 my plants are doing o.k...

 

 

 

[wildflower]

well i just expanded and washed some RICHGRO coco-peat - water in 25ppm water out 25ppm. Seems like a different product to that brunnings stuff..more coarse...was easir to wash too..now to chuck in these seeds...already showing tails.

wish me luck

 

wayno1, good for you man..all their other stuff comes with nutes. did you rinse it?

 

[Gazza2001au]

yeah its Richgro brand coco i mix it with perlite water once every 3 days to run off plants love it

[Luke Skywalker]

Richgro are alright as a brand, they make an expanded version in 30l bags too....

 

I can certainly recommend adding a proportion of the fine coco-fibre chips. These provide some extra drainage.

 

In the end, it's a trial and error thing. I wouldn't get ones with added fertiliser to them if possible, and I would generally buy expanded and buffered coco for growing things. But as an amendment to soil the compressed bricks are okay IMHO.

[wildflower]

Im just using them to grow out some seedlings..in the past i only rooted in the brick stuff, its a great rooting medium.

I got no car atm so i cant lug around bags of soil or bags of coir so the bricks seem the only practical solution.

yeh the richgro seems to have less finer coir dust.

too bad the folks at www.cocopeat.com.au dont make its actually easy to purchase

[postman]

These bricks seem to do the job for me without any dramas..

[Gazza2001au]

postie how do u find the brick to the left the one with the seed on the picture? i bought 5 of those bricks about a week and a half ago worse coco i have ever seen in the 5 bricks i found large rocks, peices of string, peices of blue plastic also very corse and shit all stringy like it hasnt been mulched and mixed propperly $1.50 a block go figure i guess? not very happy with it

[postman]

I have to agree Gazza, your just as likely to find shri lankan body parts in those bricks but the plants dont seem to mind.