Has anyone tried these for thier CHC medium?
http://www.lnt.com/product//11442-513042/blue-iguana-coco-soft-coarse-chip-reptile-bedding.html
http://www.lnt.com/product//11442-503590/t-rex-coconut-bark-chips.html

The cocsoft product mentions a neutral pH while T-Rex does not. Also is the coarse or fine size better?

I wanted to take advantage of the free shipping and use it to transplant my key lime seedlings..

The coco soft seems to be processed by a different method than the production method usually used for pot mix coir. Dont know if this is better or worse ? It also seems to have enhanced biological activity to deal with reptile wastes. Not sure if these microbes would help or enhance plant roots. If reptiles pee and poo, the coir mix must be designed to consume Nitrogen as urea, which may starve your plants of fertilizer. The neutral pH is probably not good as it gives you no room to move if the pH drifts up over time due to hard water or fertilizer etc. Excess salt can be leached from other coirs, so the low salt of CS is probably not much advantage for pot mix. From the image, the coir particles seem rather large and spongy, a bit like the stuff used to line hanging baskets. If so may be too fluffy for pot mix. That said I've never seen or used it so its just my web shopping opinion.
The Trex coir seems to have a better harder particle size, not much info on the sales website. All coir, barks, sawdusts etc consume some N, and probably have some biological activity.
The $6 for 4 quarts of each seems low enough to get as a sample/trial mix before buying larger packs ?
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I used Exoterra Plantation Soil and CocoHusk but since the are no longer available in the shop on my area , I switched to JBL COCOhumus and COCOhusk , and it is definitely much much much better , the chips are more uniform and cleaner, and the plants responds better to the JBL mix

But even so I wash them 4-5 time adding at last rinse a little fertilizer as instructed.
Hope it help

Do you mix Cocohusk with other material or use it pure as potting soil for your citrus?
I have my own mixture for my trees:
1 part each,
broken quarz sand 2mm
perlite
CHC
lava 5mm
bims 5mm
loam granulate of bentonite
ground barbecue-coal
coarse peat moss
pine-bark
potting ground containing compost or compost of cow manure
horn chips

What do you think about this?
/Robert

What is 'bims'??
And what does 'loam granulate of bentonite' do?

Bims = Pumice

I use it also in my selfmade potting ground.

Growing mediums normally do not contain more then 3 ingredients. How heavy is this medium? - Millet (863-)

Robert, your mix has quite a few ingredients. The main question is how does it perform for you ? Perlite, 5mm lava and 5mm bims pumice and maybe even pine bark would be fairly similar as structural coarse particles, what else does each provide?

The bims and lava are almost similar, and slowly release minerals.
Bentonite is a clayform to purify I don't no why he used it ??