House and Garden Coco Medium 50 Liter (1.76 cu ft) (60/Plt)

What House and Garden Coco Medium Is

The bag holds 50 L, about 1.76 cu ft, of 100 percent coconut coir from India. This is the pallet of 60 bags, 3,000 L of medium on one skid. House and Garden buffers the coir and then washes it repeatedly, for a very low starting EC and ppm. The buffer is calcium nitrate. In the wash the nitrate leaves and the calcium stays on the fibre. The coir arrives with its exchange sites already holding calcium rather than the sodium and potassium raw coir carries. It is sifted to take out sand and fine dust. What is left is the long fibre that holds water and nutrient without packing down the way short fibre does, and nothing else is added. That is the whole point of a clean, low EC coir: the grower sets the feed and the medium does not argue with it. Because the EC is so low, feed straight after planting rather than running plain water first. A coir with nothing in it has nothing to give a seedling, and the first irrigation is the first meal. The perlite blend goes up to 30 percent for added drainage. The bag is a base, and the air comes from what the grower blends in. The directions are plain. Fill the pot or the tray to the level wanted, set the plant or the seed, then fertilise and water as the schedule says. Store the pallet cool, dry and out of direct sun. The pallet ships at about 2,280 lb on a 48 by 40 in footprint standing 64 in tall.

Running Buffered Coco Coir From the First Pot to the Last Flush

Buffered coco coir behaves like a hydroponic medium that happens to hold on to calcium, and it wants to be run that way. Hydrate every bag with nutrient solution, not plain water, until it runs through. The coir is empty and plain water only moves the little it holds. Open each bag and fluff it before filling pots. A bag that travelled on a pallet is compacted at the bottom. Blend the perlite in dry, before wetting, so it spreads through the coir rather than floating to the top. Feed a cal-mag with every irrigation in the first weeks even on a buffered coir. Buffering loads the exchange sites once, and the plant will pull that calcium off within a cycle. Keep the pH of the feed between 5.8 and 6.2, since coir holds pH well but does not correct a feed that comes in wrong. Water to 10 to 20 percent run-off at every feed in a drain-to-waste room, and read the run-off EC against the feed EC. A gap that opens is salt building in the pot, and the fix is a larger drain fraction, not a weaker feed. Never let a coir pot dry out all the way. Dry coir shrinks from the pot wall and the next irrigation runs down the gap instead of through the root ball. Pot up from the same pallet through the run, because a room on one lot drifts together and reads the same on the meter. At the end of the cycle the spent coir goes to the compost or back into the beds. It is coconut husk and nothing else. A buffered coir that has been fed well for a season leaves the garden better than it found it.

Key Features

• 50 L bags, 1.76 cu ft, by the pallet of 60: 3,000 L of one lot on one skid.
• 100 percent coconut coir: Product of India; nothing added.
• Buffered and repeatedly washed: A very low starting EC and ppm.
• Sifted long fibre: Sand and fine dust removed; holds water without packing.
• Feed from day one: Fertilise straight after planting.
• Blend for drainage: Up to 30 percent perlite.
• Pallet: About 2,280 lb, 48 x 40 x 64 in.

Technical Specifications