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Mufasa wrote:After running 1l of water through that 90ppm pot, it's back down to 40ppm...

Have you ever checked the water coming out of your other soils? It would be interesting to see how they compare with the same water going in.

I did peat/perlite ...and coir/perlite the same ratio....same lighting and water, etc. for 6 months and the plant in the coir just didn't seem to grow as large. I used those .60¢ flytraps and they were both the same size, from the same place.. Like I said it is an okay medium...The brick of rinsed coir I had leftover I mixed with peat to make my own special blend.... It's all good. And only you will know if your plants are liking it or not.

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In my opinion, thought coir is more substationally harvested, it's just to much work to clean it, but I found that'll sarracenia like peat better and nepenthes like coir.

HeliamphoraWalnut wrote:In my opinion, thought coir is more substationally harvested, it's just to much work to clean it, but I found that'll sarracenia like peat better and nepenthes like coir.

Seller i bought my first nepenthes from suggested coir peat + coco chunks combo, and he grows thousands of plants.

You could buy some live sphagnum from FTS for 10 bucks and start a colony. Live sphagnum works really well for most plants, and if you aren't constantly acquiring new plants, you might find yourself a little more self-sustainable.