Yes I do use coconut coir as seed starting mix, potting mix and mulch(sometimes) after properly washing it off with the water. This makes pots quite lightweight to carry around. I do enjoy your video, its quite helpful. 😊... I am a beginner, growing tomato, peppers, herbs, flowers, picked up toms and herbs from my little garden as well, but I failed to grow cilantro in whatever season it is, those always germinate, grow one inch tall with very thin stem unable to stand up and die (used coco coir, vermicompost, moist soil not soggy and moderate sunlight). Any advice from yours regarding growing cilantro, this summer also (I have placed it under shade with morning sunlight) would be highly appreciated. Thanks and regards 😊
Yes definitely, I do use cocopeat in my garden because it very cheap here compare with the peatmoss one. But use cocopeat in mediate quantities in pot or as seeds starting mix because here lot of rain and using cocopeat to much will harm my vegetables. But in my opinion about cocopeat and peatmoss, I love use peatmoss in my garden.
Thank you for sharing your information. I started using it this week and I have had no problem with plant drooping from the heat here in Albuquerque NM.
Also, have you tried Ligna Peat as an alternative to coconut coir. It's made from redwood and is apparently just as water retentive as peat moss. The cheapest brick or coconut coir I can find is about $20 for a 11 lb brick, which yields a shade less than 3 cu ft. Ligna peat is local, sustainably harvested and cheaper (Lyngso sells it for $2.75 per bag, which is about 1 cu ft).
Thank you for this (and your other videos too!)… got the ingredients and will use this year. Just found out we are growing in similar climate too. Best health and happiness to you and your family, from another vegetarian (Buddhist) inDavis, CA
Jag first off u are awesome😎great vid as always!! Just started with coco and loving it. With the price of soil that I use, coco really helps keep the cost down. My mix for indoor flower: 50%coco 25%soil 25%castings... greats results so far
for indoor planting ...can i put regular soil at he bottom of my pot ...then add coconut coir on top to prevent bugs and gnats ??? does that works ??? thanks 🙏
Good luck! I found because it is pest free and is incapable of rotting it is a good idea to be put as topsoil and prevent gnats. Be careful when watering though, coco coir floats!
Mix for indoor flower: 50% coconut coir 25% soil 25% castings I see this recipe in one of the comments hope it helps you. Also this one in another channel: For potting mix and raised beds: 1/3 potting soil mix 1/3 coconut coir 1/3 sand or top soil to improve drainage.
Love your videos, especially on sprouts/microgreens. Can you please update on some good sources for quality coco coir to use small scale? I am having trouble finding a good quality product suitable for microgreens and see many issues with inconsistent products, too much salt content, etc. Would you have any current recommendations? Your link to Amazon for Magjo Naturals is no longer available and the Kempf product seems to now have an excess salt content.
Yeah! Totally I love that, if I had a garden channel I think I will use this kind of music it's so relaxing and expectant too but not distracting. Just lead you in the learning-gardening mood!
Hello! I recently have been seeing videos and articles using Orbeez in gardening. It is biodegradable and retains water the way you are describing coconut coir. You mix it with dirt. What do you think of this and would you try it for an experiment? Thank you!
coco does NOT reduce watering times. in fact, you water and feed MORE... i grow mmj in coco, you gotta keep the coco wet, if it dries out your plants wilt and hate it. keep the coco wet and get 10-20% runoff when you water. water a little every day or 2, really depends on pot and plant size.
You can do both. You can do coco+peat+organic fert and water once in a week or coco+perlite+hydro nutrients and water more than once per day, needs auto irrigation though. Main difference is growth speed.
Its is because maybe you are trying to use just plain coco noir as growing medium BUT coconut noir by itself is a inert material it has no nutrients and you must add it from a mix of soil, castings, top soil, and river sand to improve drainage. There are many recipes outthere on gardeners RUclips channels, all of the professionals say the same info I am giving to you. People that just use plain coconut coir is was a germination medium to not waste soil, because seeds don't need to be feed in order to germinate, in fact they just need to be feed after 2 or 4 sets of TRUE leaves. Not cotiledon, because inside of the seed they have all the nutrients they need, they just need a top wet medium it order to stimulate germination. Other use with almost plain coconut coir is a mix of coconut coir and sand river for cuttings, that the same, they do no need any feed till they show new growth, new leaves that means they are developing or almost to start developing roots, so after they have root system is way you need to start to feed, any feed before is a waste and also can cause burns . I'm telling all this because I have full sun all they long in my garden and I use coconut coir mixed with my potting mix, castings and so in order to not watering all morning and evenings because I'm busy. So that way my plants can thrive till I am able to go gardening once a week or so. Now some recipes I found out: Mix for indoor flower: 50% coconut coir 25% soil 25% castings For pots and raised beds: 1/3 potting soil mix 1/3 coconut coir 1/3 sand or top soil to improve drainage.
Absolutely. It is what I root almost all of my plant cuttings in. It retains moisture while having excellent drainage and being light and fluffy. It's also weed, pest, and free and doesn't come with any soil borne plant diseases.
@@sixmillionsilencedaccounts3517 yeah, …… I did that. But the instructions make no sense to me. I’m not stupid but evidently I’m not smart enough to translate the poor English and technical calibration instructions.
You can grow a sand plant like statice sinuata (they love salt and have a leave all stem long in order to keep thriving beside salt and poor watering) I guess if it develops huge stems leaves (not the basal ones) is because there are a lot of salt. They are no fussy to grow and give you lots and lots of dry or fresh flowers for vase or bouquets, you don't need to feed then and they are pest free and good for pollinators. All win
They use to call compost all vegetables peels and parts of vegetables we don't eat or cook in our kitchen mixed with all dry leaves and end season healthy plants from our garden that will be pulled (annuals) or pruning materials that we mix altogether in a compost bin or in a pile somewhere in our garden and let It to decompose till it gets like a very black no smelling soil like. (We call it in some countries of Europe vegetable compost) manure just from animals material. Also you can take all dries dried leaves from you garden and trees make a pile and wet them with the water you rinse your rice and it will do a great compost after 3 weeks or so.
To prevent your hands from splinters. Not all products have this recommendation and in my experience it is not really needed since the coir is very soft.
Hi! I can’t find a way to contact you other than this way. Sorry. But I found that my local PetSmart sells “Zoo Med Eco Earth Compressed Coconut Fiber.” The “blocks” look the same as in your video, but I wasn’t 100% sure if I could use this for growing microgreens. It intended to make a living environment for I guess small reptile pets? Is this the same thing? If anyone knows, please comment / reply. Thank you!
Hi..thank you for a good video..I'm new to gardening so if I understand you correctly you say it holds water.can it then be used in a situation where good soil drainage is prescribed. Sorry if it's a dumb question. Thanks in advance for any replies.
Coir is much like compost minus the nutrients. It has good aeration encouraging root formation. But it is a water retention medium hence will hold onto water for longer periods of time. In my experience coco coir is loose and provides air to your mixture hence good drainage much like perlite and sand, however, unlike them, they are able to retain water for a long time similar to vermiculite. The only thing I can think coco coir is of use is that it is a soil filler :/
I usually have to add 5 gallons, or sometimes 6, of water to an 11lb brick of coconut coir like the one Jag is showing. A gallon of water weighs 8.3 pounds, so that would be 41.5 pounds to 49.8 pounds of water. That means the ratio is approximately 1:4 to a little less than 1:5. I'd call it 1:4 for planning purposes.
I found that the package said you the litres or volume you get from that. I found different qualities of coconut coir and volume from brand to brand in gardens shops. But the best coconut coir I get by now was from IKEA and LIDL supermarket the texture and time to expand was so much better than the gardeners shops I got, almost get expanded immediately. The ones i by in a garden center was like too dry and like passed their prime. take me more than 3 hours to expand all and I have to break down the block in between with much effort.
I use this same coconut product (sometimes the slightly less fine versions) with my snakes. There’s 4 50 gallon tanks which makes for a lot of used coco bedding. Does anyone know if it can be tossed in with my gardening? I have ball pythons. I would LOVE to know bc I have a pretty decent garden and would hate to be missing a potentially good resource for them! Thank you!!
Mining? Coir is a waste product left over when coconuts are harvested and used for food. I doubt that it costs very much to shred the leftover coconut husks.
For hydroponics I found out this recipe from a professional garden on RUclips 70% coconut coir and 30% perlite and after that the feed you need for hydroponic plants that you will grow in that medium.
Worth a try just don't use just coir. Just be sure it is mixed well with some nice compost and some nutritious sources of fertility like composted chicken manure, kelp meal, bone meal.. Coco loco is one of my favorite container garden products and it is coco coir mixed with stuff like bat poop, blood meal, bone meal, lime, perlite
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. Thanks.
Your oscillating fake accent (with natural accent), the distracting and over bearing music and the video not having even default Closed Captioning... resulting in.. many key terms getting missed.
Expensive? I suppose it depends where you live, because in my country is cheap than a bag of potting mix. I can fill a 30 litres pot for less that 1,50€ here we find coconut coir in every supermarket, IKEA etc. You don't need to go to a garden centre to get it.
Do you use Coconut Coir? Share your experience!
Yes I do use coconut coir as seed starting mix, potting mix and mulch(sometimes) after properly washing it off with the water. This makes pots quite lightweight to carry around. I do enjoy your video, its quite helpful. 😊... I am a beginner, growing tomato, peppers, herbs, flowers, picked up toms and herbs from my little garden as well, but I failed to grow cilantro in whatever season it is, those always germinate, grow one inch tall with very thin stem unable to stand up and die (used coco coir, vermicompost, moist soil not soggy and moderate sunlight). Any advice from yours regarding growing cilantro, this summer also (I have placed it under shade with morning sunlight) would be highly appreciated. Thanks and regards 😊
Yes definitely, I do use cocopeat in my garden because it very cheap here compare with the peatmoss one. But use cocopeat in mediate quantities in pot or as seeds starting mix because here lot of rain and using cocopeat to much will harm my vegetables.
But in my opinion about cocopeat and peatmoss, I love use peatmoss in my garden.
how quickly does it decompose / need to be added again? Annually?
Interested in Coco coir...visit us @www.procoirs.com
Which product can replace the coconut coir ??
1:25 #1 Water retention.
1:45 #2 Seed starter.
2:09 #3 Potting mix.
2:26 #4 Pest resistance.
2:35 #5 Earthworm composting.
#6 I make it for free lol
Thx video time stamp hero I was looking for you
Clear presention and informative. What a nice bloke.
Thanks for being candid and sharing info.
What a well-made video. My compliments, Jag.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for sharing your information. I started using it this week and I have had no problem with plant drooping from the heat here in Albuquerque NM.
I like to mix bone meal and lime with my coco since coco has to buffer and stuff. I enjoy it
Thank you for sharing this is great information for my gardening project, definitely two thumbs up!!!!
Also, have you tried Ligna Peat as an alternative to coconut coir. It's made from redwood and is apparently just as water retentive as peat moss. The cheapest brick or coconut coir I can find is about $20 for a 11 lb brick, which yields a shade less than 3 cu ft. Ligna peat is local, sustainably harvested and cheaper (Lyngso sells it for $2.75 per bag, which is about 1 cu ft).
Some very helpful information in this, thank you so much.
We ate grateful for your knowledge. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for this (and your other videos too!)… got the ingredients and will use this year. Just found out we are growing in similar climate too. Best health and happiness to you and your family, from another vegetarian (Buddhist) inDavis, CA
Davis, wow, you are close by!
Jag first off u are awesome😎great vid as always!! Just started with coco and loving it. With the price of soil that I use, coco really helps keep the cost down. My mix for indoor flower:
50%coco 25%soil 25%castings... greats results so far
Ps don’t forget the calmag
Yep and go ahead and buffer that brick 150% solution and you’re gold
This is the most informative video about coco coir. Thank you.
I use it in with my potting soil for my houseplants, enjoying your videos!
Glad you like the videos :)
Thank you Jag, very useful tip, I learn something new from you every time. God bless you and your family 🙏😊
best way to grow ganja. im trying to grow vegetables in it now! coco plus advanced nutrients is the sheeeiit.
I love how starting of his video have da dannnn da dannnnn
Thank you for this! Just got some and didn’t know where and how to use it x
I love it an mix with soil
Love it I mix it into my copist an add to my plants
Now i know what that soil is from those little seedling starter pots that u get from lidl! (I live in ireland btw)
🙃👍
🤣👍
Good video, well done 👍
Lovely video
Very useful! Thank you!
for indoor planting ...can i put regular soil at he bottom of my pot ...then add coconut coir on top to prevent bugs and gnats ??? does that works ??? thanks 🙏
Good luck! I found because it is pest free and is incapable of rotting it is a good idea to be put as topsoil and prevent gnats. Be careful when watering though, coco coir floats!
@@jsephhd Incapable of rotting? I believe that in the soil coconut coir will break down over the course of about 4 - 5 years.
Mix for indoor flower:
50% coconut coir
25% soil
25% castings
I see this recipe in one of the comments hope it helps you.
Also this one in another channel:
For potting mix and raised beds:
1/3 potting soil mix 1/3 coconut coir 1/3 sand or top soil to improve drainage.
Thanks 👍👍
TY Jack, U are teaching me good things
Love your videos, especially on sprouts/microgreens. Can you please update on some good sources for quality coco coir to use small scale? I am having trouble finding a good quality product suitable for microgreens and see many issues with inconsistent products, too much salt content, etc. Would you have any current recommendations? Your link to Amazon for Magjo Naturals is no longer available and the Kempf product seems to now have an excess salt content.
Helpful information thanks
Your intro music is next level.
what was the previous level?
Yeah! Totally I love that, if I had a garden channel I think I will use this kind of music it's so relaxing and expectant too but not distracting. Just lead you in the learning-gardening mood!
Can I use it mixed in with my Top Soil also.? Thanks for sharing etc
Yes you can
Hello! I recently have been seeing videos and articles using Orbeez in gardening. It is biodegradable and retains water the way you are describing coconut coir. You mix it with dirt. What do you think of this and would you try it for an experiment? Thank you!
Excellent substrate for animals
coco does NOT reduce watering times. in fact, you water and feed MORE... i grow mmj in coco, you gotta keep the coco wet, if it dries out your plants wilt and hate it. keep the coco wet and get 10-20% runoff when you water. water a little every day or 2, really depends on pot and plant size.
You can do both. You can do coco+peat+organic fert and water once in a week or coco+perlite+hydro nutrients and water more than once per day, needs auto irrigation though. Main difference is growth speed.
Its is because maybe you are trying to use just plain coco noir as growing medium BUT coconut noir by itself is a inert material it has no nutrients and you must add it from a mix of soil, castings, top soil, and river sand to improve drainage. There are many recipes outthere on gardeners RUclips channels, all of the professionals say the same info I am giving to you.
People that just use plain coconut coir is was a germination medium to not waste soil, because seeds don't need to be feed in order to germinate, in fact they just need to be feed after 2 or 4 sets of TRUE leaves. Not cotiledon, because inside of the seed they have all the nutrients they need, they just need a top wet medium it order to stimulate germination.
Other use with almost plain coconut coir is a mix of coconut coir and sand river for cuttings, that the same, they do no need any feed till they show new growth, new leaves that means they are developing or almost to start developing roots, so after they have root system is way you need to start to feed, any feed before is a waste and also can cause burns .
I'm telling all this because I have full sun all they long in my garden and I use coconut coir mixed with my potting mix, castings and so in order to not watering all morning and evenings because I'm busy. So that way my plants can thrive till I am able to go gardening once a week or so.
Now some recipes I found out:
Mix for indoor flower:
50% coconut coir
25% soil
25% castings
For pots and raised beds:
1/3 potting soil mix 1/3 coconut coir 1/3 sand or top soil to improve drainage.
great vid man!
Does this medium suits all kind of plants - like bogonia or mostera?
Nice video and nicer hair 🏆
Some people grinds whole cocohusk in a grinder producing ground cocohusk. Can this be used in a stem cutting propagating medium?
Absolutely. It is what I root almost all of my plant cuttings in. It retains moisture while having excellent drainage and being light and fluffy. It's also weed, pest, and free and doesn't come with any soil borne plant diseases.
Best
How do you test the coir for salt, jut to make sure the coir really has been rinsed like the label says
Buy EC meter.
@@sixmillionsilencedaccounts3517 yeah, …… I did that. But the instructions make no sense to me. I’m not stupid but evidently I’m not smart enough to translate the poor English and technical calibration instructions.
You can grow a sand plant like statice sinuata (they love salt and have a leave all stem long in order to keep thriving beside salt and poor watering) I guess if it develops huge stems leaves (not the basal ones) is because there are a lot of salt.
They are no fussy to grow and give you lots and lots of dry or fresh flowers for vase or bouquets, you don't need to feed then and they are pest free and good for pollinators. All win
Your channel is very interesting
Thank you! :)
Daisy Creek Farms No problem
Excellent thank you
Thank you
When you say compost
Do you mean manure? Or you mean the all purpose compost which is mixed with peat moss?
They use to call compost all vegetables peels and parts of vegetables we don't eat or cook in our kitchen mixed with all dry leaves and end season healthy plants from our garden that will be pulled (annuals) or pruning materials that we mix altogether in a compost bin or in a pile somewhere in our garden and let It to decompose till it gets like a very black no smelling soil like. (We call it in some countries of Europe vegetable compost) manure just from animals material.
Also you can take all dries dried leaves from you garden and trees make a pile and wet them with the water you rinse your rice and it will do a great compost after 3 weeks or so.
For Microgreens can I use coconut coir only? Do I need to add anything else? Your video is excellent,,,, thank you!
A little soluble npk is beneficial or worm castings... coir binds cations so May cause deficiencies in some vigorous cultivars.
You forgot it is almost anti weeds
GT information and update thanks for your time 🐞🐦👍👍
Sir if produce a coconut coir wer can I sell it pls give me a idea
I EXPECTED a UNDERWATER SHOT after adding that coco brick , ;D
Jack, why does the package state 'wear gloves when handling this product'...?
To prevent your hands from splinters. Not all products have this recommendation and in my experience it is not really needed since the coir is very soft.
Hi! I can’t find a way to contact you other than this way. Sorry. But I found that my local PetSmart sells “Zoo Med Eco Earth Compressed Coconut Fiber.” The “blocks” look the same as in your video, but I wasn’t 100% sure if I could use this for growing microgreens. It intended to make a living environment for I guess small reptile pets? Is this the same thing? If anyone knows, please comment / reply. Thank you!
It sounds like exactly the same thing. Thanks for the tip. I'll check my local Petsmart next time I need to buy some.
Hi..thank you for a good video..I'm new to gardening so if I understand you correctly you say it holds water.can it then be used in a situation where good soil drainage is prescribed. Sorry if it's a dumb question. Thanks in advance for any replies.
No, it you want more draining, use cactus soil, stuff that contains, mulch, sand, perlite.
Coir is much like compost minus the nutrients. It has good aeration encouraging root formation. But it is a water retention medium hence will hold onto water for longer periods of time. In my experience coco coir is loose and provides air to your mixture hence good drainage much like perlite and sand, however, unlike them, they are able to retain water for a long time similar to vermiculite. The only thing I can think coco coir is of use is that it is a soil filler :/
Mix for indoor flower:
50% coconut coir
25% soil
25% castings
For pots and raised beds:
1/3 potting soil mix 1/3 coconut coir 1/3 sand or top soil to improve drainage.
AMAZING!!
Did you like the underwater shots from the container? :)
OMY YES!!
What is the typical expansion ratio? That looks like 1:10.
I usually have to add 5 gallons, or sometimes 6, of water to an 11lb brick of coconut coir like the one Jag is showing. A gallon of water weighs 8.3 pounds, so that would be 41.5 pounds to 49.8 pounds of water. That means the ratio is approximately 1:4 to a little less than 1:5. I'd call it 1:4 for planning purposes.
1kg of dry coco fills 12-15L pot after soaked.
I found that the package said you the litres or volume you get from that. I found different qualities of coconut coir and volume from brand to brand in gardens shops. But the best coconut coir I get by now was from IKEA and LIDL supermarket the texture and time to expand was so much better than the gardeners shops I got, almost get expanded immediately. The ones i by in a garden center was like too dry and like passed their prime. take me more than 3 hours to expand all and I have to break down the block in between with much effort.
I use this same coconut product (sometimes the slightly less fine versions) with my snakes. There’s 4 50 gallon tanks which makes for a lot of used coco bedding. Does anyone know if it can be tossed in with my gardening? I have ball pythons. I would LOVE to know bc I have a pretty decent garden and would hate to be missing a potentially good resource for them! Thank you!!
Yes you can do that.
the percentage is it by waight or volume
Volume
No perlite in the coco?
How do you store rehydrated coco coir
I rehydrate mine in a plastic garbage bag, and just scoop it out of the bag as needed. When the bag is empty I use it to rehydrate another block.
From where to get it?
Pevey Mart has it!
We are import world wide..
I order it from Ebay or Walmart. You can also get it from Amazon
In garden centre, IKEA, LIDL, Amazon
Sir what is mining costing
Mining? Coir is a waste product left over when coconuts are harvested and used for food.
I doubt that it costs very much to shred the leftover coconut husks.
What's the price of coco bricks..
In my country is cheap almost 3€ to 10-15 litres if you compare with the bag of potting mix.
I have a really dumb.idea.. to expand that mix tote with proper level of hydroponic mix like the dynagro or master blend and use that?
For hydroponics I found out this recipe from a professional garden on RUclips 70% coconut coir and 30% perlite and after that the feed you need for hydroponic plants that you will grow in that medium.
volume levels changing a lot
Is it good for my strawberry patch I was hoping just to cover the top so the strawberries don't lay on the dirt
mick simon guernsey c.i can you grow potatoes in coir peat in big container
Worth a try just don't use just coir. Just be sure it is mixed well with some nice compost and some nutritious sources of fertility like composted chicken manure, kelp meal, bone meal.. Coco loco is one of my favorite container garden products and it is coco coir mixed with stuff like bat poop, blood meal, bone meal, lime, perlite
Same question. Im planning to plant my sweet. Potatoes
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.
Thanks.
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Your oscillating fake accent (with natural accent), the distracting and over bearing music and the video not having even default Closed Captioning... resulting in.. many key terms getting missed.
Very expensive and is not a nutrition for plants
You save money on watering
Expensive? I suppose it depends where you live, because in my country is cheap than a bag of potting mix. I can fill a 30 litres pot for less that 1,50€ here we find coconut coir in every supermarket, IKEA etc. You don't need to go to a garden centre to get it.
That is some nasty coconut coir.
I thik you can speak in hindi 🇮🇳
Try a hindi channel
Mentale
Use leaves instead. Unless you want to contribute to slave labor?
Please speak in hindi 🇮🇳
Or make a hindi channel
MK World or you have to learn english😉