How to Grow Plants in Coco Peat?

                                          

Processed Coconut Fibers are the by-product of the coconut industry. As a growing medium, coco peat or coir dust provides an alternative to potting soil featuring high water retention, suitable aeration and antifungal benefits. Coco Peat is not only a natural organic product but also a renewable and slightly acidic pH that many plants prefer to grow in. 

                               

To grow plants in a soilless medium such as Coco Peat follow the below points:

1.     Break apart packaged bricks of coco peat into a large bucket. Use as many bricks as needed. Each one-third cubic foot brick of coco peat makes 4 quarts of planting material. Don’t break more than four bricks per five gallon bucket to ensure you have room for mixing.

2.     Add 1 gallon of warm water to the broken coco peat. Leave the coco peat to absorb the water for two hours, or longer, depending on your brand of coco peat.

3.     Mix the material with your hands, a garden towel and a cultivator to fluff up the moist coco peat. As you mix, make sure each portion of peat has been moistened. Add more water and fluff again as needed.

4.     Fill a planter to within 2 inches from the top with the moistened and fluffed coco peat. Transplant potted seedlings into the coco peat as you would with potting soil according to the depth needed for your plant. Place the planter in the appropriate sun area for your plant.

5.     Water the plant and moistened coco peat two to three times a week in moderate to cool weather, and three to four times a week in the hot season when temperatures are soaring high.

If you wish, you can spread the Coco Peat mixture 2 to 3 inches deep as much as you want during summer months. To take advantage of the fertilizers present in the potting soil, you can mix one part of potting soil with two parts of coco peat. Reuse coco peat for up to four years. When finished, used coco peat can be added to your composter or incorporated directly into the soil of garden beds.

 

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