How to use a coco coir

Plant lovers often use a coco coir (a coco peat) for planting, seeding and even rooting their green "phyto-friends". This product of a coconut is an excellent soil for sprouting seeds and rooting cuttings. The coir is water-permeable and loose. We can buy coco bricks or coco tablets. Today I would like to tell you about how to use a coco coir.

A coco coir

1. Take your coco brick or tablet and deep it in a vessel of water. If your coco peat is a tablet you may use a small plastic glass. My coco coir is bigger than a pill:

A coco peat takes a bath :)

 "Snip, snap, snurre...":

A "coco soil"

You will get a soft soil instead of a hard brick in a few minutes. Now this coco peat is ready for usage and you may plant your lovely flower. I planted my vanilla orchid in a "coconut" yesterday:

A vanilla orchid in a coco coir

Orchid lovers say that it is a perfect soil for a vanilla vine.


Also you can mix a coco coir with an another soil (for example, to mix with a humus).