Coco Peat - Best Organic Growing Medium

Coconut tree which grows in the tropical region, its fruit coconut is being used for many years for different purposes, such as eating the soft coconut fruit from inside, drinking its water, which is the remedy for many diseases, coconut oil is extracted from it and also the coconut milk which is used in cooking. While the thick, dry husk layer of the coconut which is rich in fiber, it is a good source of the raw materials. But people who don’ know about its properties they consider it as the waste and throw it away.

Coco peat is the by-product of the leftover husk which is obtained from the dry outer skin of the coconut to obtain the fibers. Coconut husk which was earlier disposed of as a waste product has become a popular growing medium due to its unique features.

Apart from obtaining the coir fiber from the husk of the coconut, the husk to is cut and sliced to obtain coco peat and coco crushed materials for the plant growing purpose. The coir fiber earlier used for the other purposes other than using it in the growing procedure of the plants. But now it used as the mixed substrates as it has the capacity to make the soil porous. Coconut peat has now become the most selective growth medium once crushed coconut shell fiber from coconut shell. Milling coconut shells for yarn, brooms, brushes and mattress fibers.

Coconuts have been the main source of food preparation. Milk rich coconut kernels are ground to obtain milk or dried and ground to obtain coconut oil (edible cooking oil). The grains are sliced and dried to give dried coconuts for confectionery to produce different types of confectionery and biscuits.

Coconut shell, the hard part is burnt, which activate the carbon and coconut shell charcoal. Due to its unique nature as a user-friendly growing medium, coconut peat is treated as waste early and is in great demand. Among the many advantages of coco peat as a growth medium, the ability to absorb and retain moisture is the chief advantage. Initially, most coconut peats were used as the growth medium but were modified by knowing that different mixtures were added by adding coco detritus, coconut detritus, and coconut fiber.

Over the years, the Coco Growing press has achieved great success, gaining market share in the growing media trade and replacing many other media outlets. Currently, cocoa-growing media have become one of the most suitable media for planting and diversification and can be used for various agricultural and flower-growing plants.

The success of the coco medium can be mainly credited to its user-friendly nature. Even for the first time user of the coco peat with not much knowledge of the material can produce the best harvest without any difficulties. It need only very simple set of the knowledge instructions that should be followed in the pre-planting and watering. It is an organic matter which component of the soil has never harmed the environment and the soil.