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https://www.gkvks.com/wp-content/plugins/dmca-badge/libraries/sidecar/classes/ coco peat – GKVKs – Gardening Tips and Store https://www.gkvks.com Gardening Tips and Store Sun, 31 Mar 2019 07:42:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.gkvks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-icon-512-32x32.png coco peat – GKVKs – Gardening Tips and Store https://www.gkvks.com 32 32 GROW PLANTS FASTER USING COCONUT COIR POTS https://www.gkvks.com/grow-plants-faster-using-coconut-coir-pots/ https://www.gkvks.com/grow-plants-faster-using-coconut-coir-pots/#respond Sun, 31 Mar 2019 07:42:41 +0000 http://www.gkvks.com/?p=2874 Today we will discuss on Coco Pots or the coconut coir pots. The Pros and cons of using coco pots and how they help in faster plant growth by using automatic air pruning mechanism.

For those who want to grow their plants faster organically, shifting from plastic pots or cement pots to coco pots is the best option.  You will learn about this shortly.

What are coco pots?
Coco Pots also called as coir pots or coconut coir pots are biodegradable pots or planters made from coconut fibres. They are widely used in horticulture and home gardening because they have their own advantages which we will discuss shortly.  These coco pots are available in different sizes and shapes including seedling cups, hanging pots and other types of fancy planters. You can check a link in description to purchase these pots.

How are they manufactured?
They are made from coconut fibers which is not expensive and the same stuff is used to make coco peat which am sure almost all gardeners use in their potting mix.
These coco pots are either hand made or machine made.  We will not go into the details of how these are manufactured. In short they are made using coconut coir fibres and natural rubber latex which are 100% natural and biodegradable.

Before we look into the benefits or advantages of coir pots, we list out the two disadvantages or cons of coco pots:

  1. They are expensive than cement and plastic pots.
  2. They are not durable like plastic or cement pots.

Benefits of using Coco Coir Planters:

  1. Biodegradable: This means, if you are using seedling pots of coco coir or small planters, you can directly plant the whole container into the soil. This will degrade in the soil and the roots establish in the soil. This way you are avoiding the Transplant Shock or repotting shock which can sometimes kill your plant.
  1. Nourishment: Coco coir is rich in some nutrients like potassium,, zinc, magnesium, copper and iron, and all beneficial to a plant’s growth specially useful for seed starting.
  2. Light weight: The light weight of the pot makes it ideal for terrace gardening and also for hanging planters.

Air pruning of Roots or Aerial Root Pruning: This is the most important advantage of using coco pots. Normally what happens is when you grow in a non-porous pot like plastic or cement pot – there is congestion of roots.  You can see this root ball. This is an entangled form of roots growing  within a bound container. Whether its plastic or cement pot, this is what happens  – as the plants and the roots continue to grow, there is no space for root development. The growing roots hit the rigid wall of the container and go around and grow in the available space and get Root Bound. Yes this is called Root bounding and this is the reason why we need to repot our plants into a larger sized container once a year or so.  But if you apply the concept of Air pruning, this does not happen in air pruning pots.

Plants grown in coconut coir pots undergo air pruning which promotes healthy root distribution and avoids root coiling. So what exactly happens with this air pruning of roots. Coco pots are porous on all sides, the growing roots quickly penetrate or touch the pot walls. On coming in contact with the air, the root tip is burnt by air and that root point stop growing and hence  two new root branches start to appear leading to secondary roots that start to multiply within the pot in a similar process without coiling.  You can watch my detailed article on Air pruning.

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COCO PEAT – Uses, Benefits and How to Use Cocopeat Block https://www.gkvks.com/coco-peat-uses-benefits-and-how-to-use-cocopeat-block/ https://www.gkvks.com/coco-peat-uses-benefits-and-how-to-use-cocopeat-block/#respond Tue, 12 Sep 2017 15:16:25 +0000 http://www.gkvks.com/?p=2498 What is Cocopeat ? What are its Uses and Benefits ?
Cocopeat is a natural fibre made out of coconut husks. The extraction of the coconut fibre from husks gives us this by-product called cocopeat. Cocopeat is a 100% natural growing medium. This cocopeat dried in the natural sun, are processed to produce different items namely cocopeat block, cocopeat briquettes, cocopeat disc and so on.. This makes an excellent growing medium for hydrophonics, or container plant growing. Clean coir has natural rooting hormones and anti-fungal properties.

Now, The various Benefits of cocopeat :

The properties of Coco Peat make it resistant to bacterial and fungal growth.

Coco Peat holds water rather than shedding it like traditional peat does! It holds 8-9 times its weight in water.

Coco Peat has the ability to store and release nutrient to plants for extended periods of time. It also has great oxygenation properties which is important for healthy root development.

It has a pH of 5.2-6.8 which is neutral to slightly acidic. This makes it great for alkaline garden soils.

Easy to use! Just put your compressed Coco Peat brick in a container, add 4 quarts of warm water and let it sit until the water is absorbed, fluff it up and you are ready to use Coco Peat!

Coco Peat can even be reused for up to 4 years!

It makes a great bedding material for worm bins! It’s actually good for them and increases worm growth by 25%.

Coco Peat is very slow to disintegrate; it only begins to break down when it is 10 years old, long term benefits.

It is very light and easy to handle.

It can be combined with any of the normal ingredients and use as a mixer or a stand-alone product.

An affordable price for a quality product with an environmentally sustainable future.

Now,,
How to use a Cocopeat Block Brick?

Cocopeat is shipped in compressed form to reduce transport and handling costs. Converting cocopeat blocks to coir dust is easy. All you need to do is add water to the block and the block will puff up into moist fluffy cocopeat. Just add sufficient water to the block to make sufficient quantity of moist cocopeat. You can put away the unexpanded block for later use.

If you need to expand the whole block, immerse the block in a large tub capable of holding at least 25 litres of water. Remove the wet expanded cocopeat that floats in the water, while continuing to add water to the tub till the complete block is expanded.

If you are a large grower who needs to expand large number of cocopeat blocks, place the cocopeat blocks vertically with a distance of about 1 feet between them. Spray water from a hose on the cocopeat blocks while working on the blocks with hand to expand them into moist cocopeat. Another method is to use machinery to crush the block into powder and then use the dust.

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