Botanicare ReadyGro Moisture Formula 1.75 cu ft | 80/20 Coir, Perlite

What Is in ReadyGro Moisture Formula The blend is 80/20 coir and perlite with amendments worked through it. Botanicare buffers the coir before it goes in the bag. That matters because unbuffered coir holds onto calcium and magnesium and gives them up slowly, which surfaces as a deficiency a fortnight after transplant. Buffered coir has had that exchange done for it already. Perlite is the other fifth of the volume, and it is what keeps air in a mix built to hold water. Montmorillonite goes in for structure, water retention and drainage. Yucca extract goes in as a wetting agent. That is what gets water moving evenly through coir rather than channelling down one side of a pot. Nothing in the bag is pre-charged with nutrient. Botanicare is explicit that the mix needs fertilising from transplant, so the whole feed curve stays yours from the first watering. A bag holds 1.75 cu ft and weighs 34.47 lb. The fill is roughly twelve 1 gal pots, four 3 gal pots, two 5 gal pots, or one 7 gal pot. The coir fraction is what makes this a slow dry-back medium. Water goes in, the coir holds it, and the pot comes down over a day rather than over a few hours. Watering a Coco Coir Soilless Mix That Holds On A coco coir soilless mix with this much water-holding in it rewards a slower schedule. One or two irrigations a day is the shape it was drawn for. Check weight rather than the surface. Coir looks dry on top long before the root zone is, and watering on appearance is how a slow mix becomes a wet one. Lift a pot, or put one on a scale, and learn what a watered pot and a ready pot feel like. Feed from the first watering, because there is nothing in the bag to carry a plant through the first fortnight. Start the feed light and build it up from there. A buffered coir mix with no charge in it shows a deficiency quickly and takes it back just as quickly. Keep an honest eye on the run-off. Measure what leaves the pot against what went in, and the EC reading says whether the feed is accumulating or stripping. Wet the bag through before filling pots if it has sat in a dry warehouse. Dry coir repels the first water it meets, which is the thing the yucca extract is in there to prevent. Fill without packing it down. Coir compresses, and a pot tamped firm loses the air the perlite was put there to provide. Store an opened bag closed and off a concrete floor, since coir draws moisture from the air and from the slab underneath it. Key Features 80/20 coir and perlite: Coir for the water, perlite for the air that goes with it. Buffered coir: The calcium and magnesium exchange is already done. Montmorillonite: Worked in for structure, water retention and drainage. Yucca extract: A wetting agent, so water spreads instead of channelling. No nutrient pre-charge: Feeding starts at transplant and the curve stays yours. 1.75 cu ft per bag: Weighing 34.47 lb. Fills one 7 gal pot: Or two 5 gal, four 3 gal, or about twelve 1 gal pots. Slow dry-back: Drawn around one or two irrigations a day. Technical Specifications Specification Value Brand Botanicare SKU 714805 Manufacturer part number HGC715001 UPC 757900300357 Type Coir-based soilless mix Blend 80/20 coir and perlite with amendments Coir Buffered Amendments Montmorillonite, yucca extract Nutrient charge None; fertilise from transplant Bag volume 1.75 cu ft Bag weight 34.47 lb Fill per bag About 12 x 1 gal, 4 x 3 gal, 2 x 5 gal, or 1 x 7 gal pots Bags per pallet 65 Watering frequency 1 to 2 per day