Coconut Coir: What it is and How To Use It In The Garden
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Date: 2022-07-18
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Wolf-E
I had found some coco coir last year before i REALLY knew what it was. And it was cheap too. I used it this year for some of my plants and i loved it. My plants have been doing well in it. I wish i could have gotten more back then because now everything i see is like 7x the price that i saw. It was like $3 and now its like $20 for the same amounts it seems. So i really lucked out.
Thanks for the recommendations for finding more, i was struggling to know which ones to get since the ones i bought last year seems obsolete now.
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I had found some coco coir last year before i REALLY knew what it was. And it was cheap too. I used it this year for some of my plants and i loved it. My plants have been doing well in it. I wish i could have gotten more back then because now everything i see is like 7x the price that i saw. It was like $3 and now its like $20 for the same amounts it seems. So i really lucked out.
Thanks for the recommendations for finding more, i was struggling to know which ones to get since the ones i bought last year seems obsolete now.
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57ashdot
One thing not mentioned, but I find very important as an indoor grower: Rinse the coco with VERY hot water. A big advantage of coco is you can sterilize it before using it as a hydro medium. This gives you a giant advantage over soil in that you can greatly reduce your chance of garden pests or funguses destroying your indoor plants by steaming the coco and killing any eggs or spores that may be in the mix. It's honestly one of the reasons I prefer hydro, soil can contain so many harmful bugs, molds, and bacteria in it.
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One thing not mentioned, but I find very important as an indoor grower: Rinse the coco with VERY hot water. A big advantage of coco is you can sterilize it before using it as a hydro medium. This gives you a giant advantage over soil in that you can greatly reduce your chance of garden pests or funguses destroying your indoor plants by steaming the coco and killing any eggs or spores that may be in the mix. It's honestly one of the reasons I prefer hydro, soil can contain so many harmful bugs, molds, and bacteria in it.
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Meadow
I have a serious question for those of us who are keeping container grown trees. Do you know if coco coir, if frozen does it turn to mush? I have 5 new Japanese maples I need to slip pot into a larger container. I also made a slew of potting soil using this stuff. Have you heard anything about this? There was a posting on Bonsai Nut saying we should never pot our deciduous trees in coco coir for this reason. I thought I would check it out before running out to buy peat moss.
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I have a serious question for those of us who are keeping container grown trees. Do you know if coco coir, if frozen does it turn to mush? I have 5 new Japanese maples I need to slip pot into a larger container. I also made a slew of potting soil using this stuff. Have you heard anything about this? There was a posting on Bonsai Nut saying we should never pot our deciduous trees in coco coir for this reason. I thought I would check it out before running out to buy peat moss.
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Iveta
Very informative and nice video, but I have one question. I have bought a coco coir brick, but the brick was just too much (10l, and I used only 2l. I am now stuck with 8l of coco coir in a bag that I left out open, but even after a week it barely dried out. I want to store it for later use, but with how much the water condenses on the bag, I fear it will go bad once I seal the bag. How can I store excess coconut coir?
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Very informative and nice video, but I have one question. I have bought a coco coir brick, but the brick was just too much (10l, and I used only 2l. I am now stuck with 8l of coco coir in a bag that I left out open, but even after a week it barely dried out. I want to store it for later use, but with how much the water condenses on the bag, I fear it will go bad once I seal the bag. How can I store excess coconut coir?
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Senapsdesign
When you say peat is technically a sustainable resource you probably mean it is technically renewable. It is not sustainable to extract it by any means. I know what you mean though, it is renewable in the sens that it keeps growing but the renewal rate is thousands of years. and on any timescale anything could count as renewable. Even oil is renewable if you have millions of years.
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When you say peat is technically a sustainable resource you probably mean it is technically renewable. It is not sustainable to extract it by any means. I know what you mean though, it is renewable in the sens that it keeps growing but the renewal rate is thousands of years. and on any timescale anything could count as renewable. Even oil is renewable if you have millions of years.
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James
Any down side to 2nd hand coconut coir? There is a hydroponic store in my area offering used coco coir. My understanding is that coir does not provide any nutrients anyway. I don't know anything about hydroponics and wonder if there is a possibility of the used coir containing anything detrimental.
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Any down side to 2nd hand coconut coir? There is a hydroponic store in my area offering used coco coir. My understanding is that coir does not provide any nutrients anyway. I don't know anything about hydroponics and wonder if there is a possibility of the used coir containing anything detrimental.
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Matt
if you grow marijuana indoors in soil. STOP! plants love coco so much more. faster growth, crazy white roots. just make sure to use good beneficial microbes. get fat clones in an EZ cloner until you have giant white roots, then plant in half gallon pots of coco. they love it!
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if you grow marijuana indoors in soil. STOP! plants love coco so much more. faster growth, crazy white roots. just make sure to use good beneficial microbes. get fat clones in an EZ cloner until you have giant white roots, then plant in half gallon pots of coco. they love it!
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Trish
I tried coir once and found it impossible to rehydrate over a month in a pail of water even changing the water chipping at it even hammering at it: -( Due to the neutral pH I wanted to make a soil for propagating rock Daphne that likes an alkaline soil. It didn't happen: -(
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I tried coir once and found it impossible to rehydrate over a month in a pail of water even changing the water chipping at it even hammering at it: -( Due to the neutral pH I wanted to make a soil for propagating rock Daphne that likes an alkaline soil. It didn't happen: -(
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Kristen
Kevin, If I want to start making my own indoor container garden soil mixture can I use worm castings, coco coir, and perlite? 1: 1: 1? Or is there another way to go that you would recommend. I'm just not really wanting to keep buying more and more potting soil.
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Kevin, If I want to start making my own indoor container garden soil mixture can I use worm castings, coco coir, and perlite? 1: 1: 1? Or is there another way to go that you would recommend. I'm just not really wanting to keep buying more and more potting soil.
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seasonedtoker
One crucial thing to remember. Coco is not soil, it is a medium. Peat moss is a medium too but it is also a type of soil. Coco is inert and has absolutely no nutrients nor the retention ability, while peat moss is very rich in nutrients from the start.
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One crucial thing to remember. Coco is not soil, it is a medium. Peat moss is a medium too but it is also a type of soil. Coco is inert and has absolutely no nutrients nor the retention ability, while peat moss is very rich in nutrients from the start.
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Glen
You misspoke a little bit, the core of the coconut is coconut water. Coconut milk as you stated in the video is pressed out of coconut meat shavings. Coconut oil is cooked out of coconut shavings in water and separated from remaining pulp and discarded fluids.
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You misspoke a little bit, the core of the coconut is coconut water. Coconut milk as you stated in the video is pressed out of coconut meat shavings. Coconut oil is cooked out of coconut shavings in water and separated from remaining pulp and discarded fluids.
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Sagar
Hello,
Greetings from Shree Krishna Fiber Mill and Exporters, India.
We are prominent manufacturer and exporter of Coco peat in India. We are exporting premium quality Coco peat to various countries. Looking forward to collaborate with you.
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Hello,
Greetings from Shree Krishna Fiber Mill and Exporters, India.
We are prominent manufacturer and exporter of Coco peat in India. We are exporting premium quality Coco peat to various countries. Looking forward to collaborate with you.
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jean
I planted my tomato in a pot of left over coconut coir. I ran out of potting mix and it was becoming root bound. It thrived and now has baby tomatoes so I just left it there. Just watering it with fish emulsion once a week. Plant looks healthy.
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I planted my tomato in a pot of left over coconut coir. I ran out of potting mix and it was becoming root bound. It thrived and now has baby tomatoes so I just left it there. Just watering it with fish emulsion once a week. Plant looks healthy.
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THACOLLECTA
i know he said to flush only for some brands, but ill recommend flushing for all brands. also make sure to ph your water, so you dont raise the ph of the coco. Pearlite is also super cheap i use a 50/50 mix and it works great.
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i know he said to flush only for some brands, but ill recommend flushing for all brands. also make sure to ph your water, so you dont raise the ph of the coco. Pearlite is also super cheap i use a 50/50 mix and it works great.
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