Coconut Coir: What it is and How To Use It In The Garden
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ธ.ค. 2018
- Also known as coco coir, coco peat, coconut fiber, or many other branded names, this soil amendment and hydroponic medium is a fantastic addition to most gardens. In this video, we're going to talk about:
- How coco coir is made
- What to watch out for when buying from the store
- The difference between coco coir, coconut fiber, and coco chips
- The coco vs. soil debate
- The upsides and downsides of growing in coco coir
- My favorite brands
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0:00 - Intro
0:52 - How Coco Coir is Made
2:39 - Benefits and Downsides of Coconut Coir
5:02 - Types of Coir Products
5:47 - Rehydrating Coir Bricks and Final Thoughts
Nice
Thank you!
In comparing coco coir to peat moss is the peat acidic pH and the coir neutral? Thanks
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My education/degree includes majors in both Sociology and Journalism. This explains my having recognized these points and my associated interests.
Gardening has always been an enjoyable creative interest of mine,(geographically in the Southeast USA, aka Dixie and Southwest, So Nevada for about 20 years - I miss Nevada). However, I in no manner have developed the area of greater knowledge in Horticulture comparitatively.
You manage a Professional Level Production here on your Channel.
Best Regards and Wellbeing.
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in my home country a lot of coconut trees
Actually, I'm Pacific Islander and we always use the entire outer part of the coconut that is not eaten. You see this all over the Pacific Islands. We line growing coconut trees, papaya trees, hibiscus trees, etc. with the uneaten parts of the coconut. Companies from all over the world took the concept from our islands, and we've been doing this since the beginning of time.
Thank you for your gift to the world
@@MegaJimbob125 Thank you for sharing your love of growing with the world. You're very inspirational! :)
We Malays in Southeast Asia have always done it too cos Pacific Islanders and Malays share common ancestry thousands of years ago.
I am from Kerala, representing THe Kerala State Coir Machinery Manufacturing Company. we are exporting various coir machines like defibering machine, spinning machine, pith briquetting machines and so on. If you are interested in machines please whatsapp to 9496070717
Krishna
Organic matter to feed the trees?
Ok off topic a bit. How to you store all of your gardening stuff? Soil, coconut, Pete, vermiculite, worm castings, soil, tools, additives, pots erc... my back yard looks like a mad house
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.
Thank you for not gibber jabbering about other topics like most youtubers do sir.
@mlgardener.... Bruh....
Always right to the point
But he never opened the damn box.
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.
Good to know.
Hey! This is really helping me out in class. I’m glad I am able to share your videos and knowledge to others
Actually coconut coir has been used for centuries in Kerala, India to make really strong ropes. The word "coir" actually comes from the indian word for "rope".
Fax
I find coir fibres (which is very common here in Malaysia) very helpful for lining the bottom of the pot instead of mixing in between as some people do (or as found in some pre-mixed soil).
Somehow, the fibre at the bottom of the pot at least helps to prevent most soil from flowing out through the drainage holes during first “flush(and subsequent waterings) and at the same time hold reserved moisture while providing a bit of air at the bottom of the pot. Hence, any repot I do, even when involving peat as a medium, there’s always a thin layer of fibre to line the pot bottom.
I've been using Coconut coir for seedlings, and now I will be looking for some fibre for mulch. Its been great, as I have a hard time getting straw.
Thanks for the helpful video. I am tired of expensive potting mix, so this will help me make my own.
Used to sell it in Jamaica in the eighties. It also called coir dust, got it for free at the mattress company
Do you still stay there ?
Thank you so much, I just end doing cuttings in a mix of coconut and sand media and I was looking how to use the leftover in gardening without roots rot due to deficient drainage. Thanks you a lot. Your video was a lot informative, helpful and clear.
Excellent video. Very informative and well presented. Thank you!
I'm from the Caribbean and coconut coir its been use in agriculture for centuries
Nice
Thank you so much for this info & the sustainability tips💕
I love your videos! 🌺 You've made a gardener of me.
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.
Good information, clear presentation. What a nice bloke.
Great info ...helped me to understand with my studies.
Thank you for the concise, informative video......no frills, straight useable information. Much appreciated!!
Glad you enjoyed!
Thanks again for being clear without annoying background music
Great video Kevin -- I didn't know anything about how coir was made before. I wonder if the small salt amount really matters though? I use fresh, unwashed sea weed in the garden regularly without any issues. It's a traditional mulch in places like Ireland, Cornwall, and the British Isles.
Thanks! Yeah I would say it's much more of an issue due to how fibrous and retentive it is compared to seaweed. Most of the salt buildup stuff is a bigger issue when growing hydroponically only in coir though...if you add some to a soil mix it's less of a big deal.
Many thanks. As you mentioned, I'm going for this for the environmental factors over using good old peat
This was super helpful!! Thanks man
Good info explained well!
Giant red mustard greens in the background?! I'm growing those too :)
I wish this contained direct website affiliate links I hate to support amazon but I do want to support you
Hi Kevin. I am waiting for my 10 lb. Pantronix brick to arrive so that I can get it Hydrated for my raised bed. Thanks for covering this topic!
New sub here. Love the videos. Extremely helpful for a new grower here.
Wonderful information. Looking forward to your worm bin set-up. 😃 Thanks
Thanks for watching Melinda!
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.
Awesome product to use in the garden
Thanks for information
Thank you so much for sharing this info. What’s your take on the “Expert” brand?
Hi thank you for all your knowledge and great videos. What nutrients would be best to add to the coir for veggie plants please.
Im a 21 year old i just got into the hobby so for me this is very helpful..thanks bruh
How it’s going just started myself
@@briandupar6406 its going well, already grew sunflowes, cornflowers and now i have some himalayan balsam..but still learning how to properly start seeds with a higher success rate
What type of soil are you using
@@briandupar6406 a mix of potting soil, regular soil from my yard and little coconut coir (i just eye ball the proportions according to the pot size im using)
The liquid is actually coconut juice or the coconut water...the milk comes from grating the meat then squeezing/straining the meat out
Wow, thanks for explaining. It was a question I had wondered about but never bothered to look up.
you have a beautiful clear accent
Thank for the info
Great video. Thanks for the lesson.
You're welcome!
PROTIP: your local hydroponics/cannabis grow store will have high quality coir! (And higher quality soil)
Great tip there Pam 😎
And sadly 90 percent of pest problems come from your local hydro stores. Growers go there for gear plus preventives and remedies for pest. They carry in the funk and you take it home to your garden. On a side note..most Coco coir is loaded with salts. I have tested several brands. Mother Earth coco contains less salt than most brands. First rule of Coco is too rinse thoroughly with non chlorinated water. I inoculate mine with fulvic acid and mix with my soil.
@@jeremiahnatte9249 I use mother Earth brand coco period. Tested the cleanest in salt content. I am a Korean natural farmer. I have zero pest issues. I make my own nutrients. I use rain water from my barrels. Nothing beats using indigenous micro organisms found in your own backyard.
@@jeremiahnatte9249 Most tap water contains chlorine.. Fluoride.. Cloramine...which kills microbes. I use a microscope my soil microbes are very active. When I observed tap water run off on my plants there was a 90 percent drop off in microbes and beneficial fungi. So tap water is a no go in a natural farming environment. If using bottle synthetic salts and petroleum based products is your thing than tap water may work for you.
I like this product and use the smaller bricks. Coir bricks last longer than bagged soil, too.
I actually use coconut coir for my carnivorous plants. Usually people use peat moss or spaghnum moss, but i wasn't able to find either of those here in Lithuania, so I had to use coco coir for my venus flytrap and Nepenthes. It works wonders and they're both growing happily :)
Thank uuu
I don’t see the list of recommended brands.
I’d like to start using this instead of peat moss. Thank you!
Agree with you great root development
Thank you 😊
Happy holidays,, thanks for the info
You too Rajish!
👍
Thanks!
I grow cactus and succulents as a hobby (mostly in containers). One of the reasons I never use peat in my soil for these pants is that with their infrequent watering schedule, the peat, if added in soil, dries out and is very difficult to rehydrate, resulting in uneven (and thus hazardous) watering of the plant. Does coco fiber in any form (granules, chips, fiber) also dry out and then become difficult to rehydrate?
No, coco coir does not have that same property so I also tend to prefer it over peep
Those are everywhere here in the Philippines, along with Carbonized Rice Hull. Great for improving poor potting soil.
Using 9L Coco Coir in 20L Growbags for growing dwarf/bush tomatoes, what other materials would you recommend to mix it with for good results?
Hey great video. What is that white thing behind you called? That is exactly what I need for my yard.
Like you mentioned, those bricks yield a pretty gnarly amount of expanded coir and can be pretty daunting to hydrate in one fell swoop. To make it a bit more manageable, I’ll take a hammer and large chisel and knock off chunks of coir as needed and hydrate it in a 5-gallon bucket or large tote. That method will also help to get the moisture into the interior of the brick if you are hydrating the whole thing at once.
Yeah that works really well. I also use a hand tiller and scrape away as I hydrate outer layers!
Noah Brown Thank you, that's helpful to know! My very first try at using it and I should have ordered smaller pods or something, rather than a brick!
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Great content. Just fyi amazon links to coconut coir should be updated. Thank you.
I go co co for co co puf... wrong video for That. Great info Kevin!
Hahaha cereal reviews on another channel 😉
Your very good 👍!!
Can coconut coir become super compact from watering to often ? or does it stay very lose just like cacti soil for example ?
It stays loose
Hello. So can I mix this mycorrhizae, manure compost, worm castings, and soil in my garden bed and then my seeds? I’m new and I’m gathering all my materials for a good soil to get started planting
one correction, the liquid in the middle isnt Milk, its coconut water. coconut milk is made by extracting the juice from the coconut flesh. coconut milk is a processed coconut product, it doesnt come out of the coco that way.
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.
This may sound silly but for compressed peat and coir can i just scoop some out and expand as needed too or is it just a mess? Really getting into plants and veggies this year! Thank to anyone in advance for answering! 😎
This is a compressed brick, so it would be very hard to just scoop out what your need. I had to take a hammer and chisel and knock off a small piece for my plant's needs. Experiment with a small amount like a cup of coco and add a cup of water to get a feel of how much is needed after expansion. And as the coco absorbs the water, add more water until the coco is fully saturated. If you have too much water, just squeeze it out with your hands. I have my house plants in coco/worming castings/perlite 1:1:1 and they're doing great.
@@stepbackjack4194 alright, thanks! :)
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.
I have built a garden planter box (raised bed) that doesn’t retain water. I used soil for an in ground garden not a container. Will coco coir help with retaining water in the bed? Right now the water just runs right through.
I like ur hydroponics beside u can u tell where did u get it ?
Najwa Abdeen He got it from the company called Aponics, they have they’re own website if you just search it up. He made a whole video on how the hydroponics system works. It was really helpful so check it out😁😁
I love coconut coir!
Me too
i do too now, but in the first 6 months i thought it to be way to much work...jesus what a learning curve
@@Bishop0178 the obstacle is the way 😀
If I use it as the medium doe growing sunflower sprouts, should I still mix it with the other mediums you mentioned (1/3 each ratio)?
Just got some coconut coir but I didn’t know you had to mix it with other soils. What do you recommend I mix it with for some cherry blossoms
I'm not sure if coir is necessary to grow cherry trees
Instead of the coco coir/perlite/compost mix..could you substitute coco chips in place of the perlite?
Can you update your list of 'Top Choices"? Links either don't work or product is not available. I'm interested in the expanding blocks of coco coir. Thanks!
Does this help deter gnats? My kitchen plants are infested, and somebody said coconut fibre would help, but I'm struggling to get coconut fibre and wondered if this stuff would be good to use.
The carnivorous plant Sundew is fantastic for this. Farm stand tomatoes seem to come infested with gnats as do bananas from the store. Used to leave bowls of apple cider vinegar with a bit of dish soap in them to help but that got to be a drag. The Sundew plants are perfect for this.
Hello.. Is it true you cannot overwater in coco? I read to water every day but for cannabis. Does this apply to my calathea dottie in coco? Moisture meter says wet+ but pot is super light... Thx
Well, I guess I am not in dire need of coir since it's a water retention product. I need something to soften and improve drainage.
2/3 Volcanic rock/pumice and 1/3 rice hulls works for everything and the rice hulls will give the microbes in the soil something to munch on while also providing aeration. The porous nature of pumice/volcanic rock creates micro air pockets where microbes can hang out. Pumice will not break down over time like perlite. Stay away from perlite and hydroton unless you are doing hydroponics.
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.
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?
Just leave it outside to freeze, it can be melted after winter and use.
Mahalo!!!
Aaaaye~fox farms!
Would you recommend coconut coir for starting seeds indoors? If so, should it be mixed with perlite?
That's a good mix, yes! You'll need to supplement with fertilizer as the plant matures past germination though
the brand I see most in my area is basically a blend of coco peat, coco fiber, and coco chips.
Enough coco to make you go loco.
I don't see Coco Bliss on the list, but you have several in the garage?
Will add!
Can I use it as a mulch?
Could I mulch my container garden with coco coir
Is bushdoctor coco loco considered coco coir?
I want to ask if it’s ok if I mix to my potting mix for my indoor plant
Yup, you're good
I live and Garden in Cabot Arkansas area 7B I have been interested in coconut Coir but it is much more expensive in my area then Peat moss
Only problem is it cost about three times as much as compost here in the UK
Good thing you don't have to buy or use it.
Using coco fiber add water slowly it will absorb faster
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 :-(
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.
What are you using it for plants or veggies?
@@praysing77 for vegies and house plants i use a soil mix of 1 part coco/pearlite 1 part ff ocean forest and 1 part ff happy frog.
did not open package to get a good sense of what its texture was like.
Are you able to mix coco peat with potting mix that has peat moss?
Yup
I converted to coco coir and chips for all my aroids. It is better than peat moss.
😍😍
#Greatjob #ILovedit
I actually use coco peat for my plants and coco husk for my reptiles enclosures 😂
Peat Moss is renewable but not sustainable. Sustainable is a relationship between the speed at which we use it and the speed at which its renewed
Is this the same as coco peat?
Coconut milk is a man made concoction. The liquid inside is coconut water.