How to Use Coco Coir Bricks | Seed Starting, Plants, & Houseplants
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- Coconut coir bricks can be a fantastic organic soil amendment to add to your potting mix. However, it can be intimidating to figure out how to use these rectangles as actual soil... so here is how to use coco coir bricks for your soil!
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- Coco Coir Bricks: amzn.to/3YLG32k
- Seed Starter Tray Kit: amzn.to/3SfdVlG
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Thanks! I just purchased four bricks of Coconut coir yesterday. Can’t wait to use it..
thank you, this is going to help me set up my reptile tank with coconut fiber (similar enough to help
I’m gonna use it for my weed plants….I’ll keep you guys posted 😅
we had great success with it and our cannabis plants
No you won't. You'll be too high to remember to keep us posted. 🥴😵😵💫
I was wondering if I should add coconut coir to my seed starting mix, and I will. I love how my house plants have taken to it. I like the lava rocks in my peace lily too its definitely a game changer as I have been using coir in my house plants for a year now and they are doing great!
Thank you going to follow up with perlite mixed in for orchid cactus
Hi I have questions…How many pounds is that whole brick? How do you store it between uses? Wet or dry? Does it have a nice scent?
As far as weight? I don't remember but it's incredibly light. Probably like a pound or two. I store it dehydrated then when I hydrate it whatever is left over I usually store in a tub without the lid on so it can dry first. You don't want to let any soil store wet or it can mold. The scent was fine. Like soil. I didn't notice anything particularly nice or bad about it. ❤️
Hello! thank you for the videos! Do you have a specific ratio of water to coir you adhere to or just mix it sensibly and slowly so it isn't to dry or watery?
I just mix it to a good moisture. If it's too wet you can let it dry out before using it and if it's too dry you can add more water. It's pretty easy to play with the moisture levels here. 👍
How do you feel about coir being used for succulents? I bought some Bonsai Jack succulent mix but found out it doesn't hold any moisture so I mixed it with 2 parts bonsai jack to 1 part worm castings and 1 part coco coir thinking the absorbancy of the coir would help off set the airy-ness of the gritty mix.
That sounds like a good mix as long as your succulents are getting good light. You mainly get into trouble when they are in low light, and then your soil is holding too much water. But with enough light coco coir would be great!
You can store it in a container & let it dry until you need it again. Then just crumble it in with more potting mix. I wouldn’t add more water when mixing it unless it’s hard to break up.
Coconut Coir is an Un Ending resource, It helps Major and small red world farmers get money for waste that they could not use. About 20 yrs ago, someone came up the the idea to recapture the waste. Small farmers living didn't allow them to purchase the machines to break the husks down. This sucked up their land and created rat and mosquito infestations making life even harder. Eventually as marketing and shipping the Coir became successful, Companies expanded collection from the small farmers and eventually paying small payments.
Environmentally Using Peat Moss should be considered the same as Mining the Coral Reef. Period ! Peat Moss Companies are using Rhetoric,Lobbing ,and Green Washing.
The Peat Bogs take millions of years, and once they are gone that is it. Our modern day land use doesn't really allow for them to regenerate, and don't forget that the climate was very different 1,000s of years ago. Using peat should be considered the same as mining the coral reefs.....Environmentally Using Peat Moss should be considered the same as Mining the Coral Reef. Period ! Peat Moss Companies are using Rhetoric,Lobbing ,and Green Washing.
I think people are just afraid of changing to coco coir because it's unfamiliar to them l. Let's keep up the great work of helping people learn how to use this amazing sustainable material. 😊
Do you find that it has a strong smell? The kind I got does not smell good (not like rotton, just almost chemical-y?) so I'm trying to find out if that is normal or if I should toss it!
Mine usually has an earthy smell but nothing bad! I would maybe get a second one from a different brand and see if it's just your nose doesn't like it, or if it's the particular brand you bought... 🤔
@@thegirlwithashovel Thank you! I figured out I DID have a bad batch so luckily I hadn't given it to any plants yet.
why did i buy fox farm ocean soil then? im confused
?? What does fox farm ocean soil have in it? Any reputable soil mix will have the ingredients listed...
I will use it for my tomato, bell peppers, cajun peppers, and eggplants.
Soft, spongy (not dense) soil is what I am looking for. Will coconut coir make my seed starting mix softer to the touch. ...All soil amendments that I tried so far end up compacting the starting mix.
Yes, coconut coir will be spongy. 😊
Hi thanks for the video ive just finished the process with the coco coir brick its really great stuff i ask should i wait for it to completely dry before adding my seed or start it with some moisture? 😄👍 thanks for video
Definitely start your seeds with some moisture! 👍
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Yes it's been hard competing with that viral video lol 😆
Imma started my seedlings with Coconut coir and beautiful results. I’m now going to move them to 3 inch pots, to let them grow some more and get ready to transplant them at the end of March into the ground. Do you think I could use just coconut coir with worm castings, in the 3 inch pots?
You could, but I would start a fertilizer habit as well at this time, since coco coir doesn't have any nutrients. Maybe a garden fertilizer at 1/4 strength would probably be okay. We also don't want to cause chemical burn...
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Could I use this for orchids instead of wood bark?
I wouldn't. You could use this as a base material, but the wood bark is mainly to add lots of aeration to the soil. Coco coir holds on to moisture, so it wouldn't work as an aeration element to the soil. Sorry.
All I kept thinking is how pretty you are. Pretty much missed most of the video.