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k00laid
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Re: What is the best COIR to use for monotub? [Re: k00laid]
#16195789 - 05/07/12 04:41 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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nemesis19902008
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Re: What is the best COIR to use for monotub? [Re: Doc_T]
#16199629 - 05/08/12 12:21 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Doc_T said: Off topic and smart-alecky, but,
I read the thread title, and I think "coconut coir, duh!" 
Again with the word play lol I meant what BRAND coir
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Re: What is the best COIR to use for monotub? [Re: nemesis19902008]
#16199641 - 05/08/12 12:25 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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nemesis19902008 said:
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Doc_T said: Off topic and smart-alecky, but,
I read the thread title, and I think "coconut coir, duh!" 
Again with the word play lol I meant what BRAND coir
Yeah, I know. That's why I put the disclaimer in my post. 
I've never purchased coir that didn't work. Every brand I've ever used worked fine.
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nemesis19902008
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Re: What is the best COIR to use for monotub? [Re: Doc_T]
#16199680 - 05/08/12 12:32 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Thanks for the advice. I'm buying some eco earth coir and rye grains right now. Thank you amazon! lol
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one. That is spirituality.

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Re: What is the best COIR to use for monotub? [Re: Doc_T]
#16199685 - 05/08/12 12:33 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Heres what i use
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Re: What is the best COIR to use for monotub? [Re: nemesis19902008]
#16199687 - 05/08/12 12:33 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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nemesis19902008 said: Thank you amazon! lol
Be sure to check out the 'also bought' list.
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Re: What is the best COIR to use for monotub? [Re: Doc_T]
#16199705 - 05/08/12 12:38 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one. That is spirituality.

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Re: What is the best COIR to use for monotub? [Re: nemesis19902008]
#16199742 - 05/08/12 12:47 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Buy local. Rye grain is available at every health food store in the world, and many ordinary supermarkets.
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nemesis19902008
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Re: What is the best COIR to use for monotub? [Re: Doc_T]
#16199751 - 05/08/12 12:48 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yea but I live in backwoods nowhere land. On an island that is semi secluded from the world lol.
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one. That is spirituality.

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Re: What is the best COIR to use for monotub? [Re: nemesis19902008]
#16199792 - 05/08/12 12:59 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Look around. A place like that is more likely to have whole rye grain than a big-city store.
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Re: What is the best COIR to use for monotub? [Re: Doc_T]
#16199805 - 05/08/12 01:02 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah I guess it wouldn't hurt to go for a look see. Ill update you if i find anything.
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one. That is spirituality.

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Re: What is the best COIR to use for monotub? [Re: nemesis19902008]
#16200202 - 05/08/12 03:00 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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nemesis19902008 said: Yeah I guess it wouldn't hurt to go for a look see. Ill update you if i find anything.
Don't go out of your way for rye, it's really not worth it. It's a little easier than WBS and a little more uniform, the performance is the same though.
WBS is a lot cheaper than most rye and widely available.
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Re: What is the best COIR to use for monotub? [Re: gref]
#16200935 - 05/08/12 06:02 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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^^^true, but rye really is the best, and if you find the right source it's about $15 for 50 lbs. (But I use WBS, 20lbs for $6)
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Re: What is the best COIR to use for monotub? [Re: Doc_T]
#16200969 - 05/08/12 06:09 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Doc_T said: ^^^true, but rye really is the best, and if you find the right source it's about $15 for 50 lbs. (But I use WBS, 20lbs for $6)
Doc_T 
I could never find that kind of price anywhere. I could get it at local health food stores for 1.60/pound or for the same price on the Internet including shipping. I honestly wished I had started using WBS a long time ago, it would've saved me a bunch of cash.
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Re: What is the best COIR to use for monotub? [Re: gref]
#16201010 - 05/08/12 06:17 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I haven't found it locally at that price (yet), but I did in another state. Per pound, you get more jars of spawn out of rye than you do WBS so it actually is cheaper than it might seem.
Easier to get right the first time too, so I recommend it for grain newbs even if they have to pay a lot more. Once they master using rye then wbs or other grains are easier too.
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Re: What is the best COIR to use for monotub? [Re: Doc_T]
#16201713 - 05/08/12 08:32 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I get 55 lbs of rye for 18 vs. 20 lbs. of WBS for 8...do the math. Rye is cheaper.
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Re: What is the best COIR to use for monotub? [Re: Doc_T]
#16202929 - 05/09/12 12:11 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Doc_T said: Buy local. Rye grain is available at every health food store in the world, and many ordinary supermarkets.
Rye is definitely NOT available at every health food store. Where I live I checked every single Whole Foods, and they no longer carry it. Luckily I eventually did find it at a farm around 40 miles away for only 40 cents a pound.
I originally bought Burpee coco coir, but since I haven't heard anybody say they have used it successfully, I decided to get some Eco Earth today. Better safe than sorry. I had emailed Burpee asking if there was trich in it, but they took a long time to reply. I didn't see it till after I got back from the pet store. But the reply said that there is no trich in the Burpee coir. So now I just have extra I guess.
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