Coco peat: Is a fresh, untreated cocopeat
Characteristics: Dark yellow, light, spongy, used as a base for growing plants
Product specifications: Packing 7-8kg / bag
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* Advantages of cocopeat:
- Increasing ion exchange capacity in the soil, helping soil to be porous and airy, enabling plant roots to grow and absorb nutrients well.
- Easy to absorb water, good moisture, help drought-resistant plants in the dry season.
- Increasing soil fertility.
- Suitable for growing plants in greenhouses (high-tech agriculture), vegetables, hydroponic strawberries, fruit trees, sprouts, seedlings, ornamental plants (potted flowers, especially flowers glass).
* Disadvantages of cocopeat:
- Causing poisoning to plants if directly used fresh coco peat for planting without treatment.
Causes: Because fresh coconuts contain two important substances that greatly affect the root system of the plant: acrid (including tannin-soluble in water; Lignin - only soluble in alkaline medium) and some salts like NaCl ... Tanin and Lignin acrid substances are difficult to decompose, obstructing all the suction lines of the roots, leading to tree death.
- Therefore, it is necessary to handle cocopeat before planting trees by:
+ Soak and discharge coco peat with water to reduce the acrid and salty substances, then dry the water to use. It is possible to soak coco peat in a storage tank, soak for at least 3 days, then discharge it to a dark yellow color. If there is no storage tank, heap a height of 1.5m-2m, top the hole with a large hole to pump the water into, then periodically discharge every day until you see the water dripping from the bottom of the compost pile.
+ Soak coco peat with lime water in storage tank (can sprinkle lime and water it in) according to the rate of 5kg lime mixed with 200 liters of clean water and soak continuously for 5 - 7 days, then flush the color water black out of the tank and put clean water into treatment 2-3 times. Then it can be used.
- If you want to process coco peat into fertilizer, after it can be removed from the treatment tank (clean lime), it can be incubated with a probiotic containing Trichoderma antagonist (BIMA) to promote the digestion process. killing fungi that are harmful to plants and promoting the composting process of coco peat. The annealing process depends on the detailed instructions of each type of preparation provided by the manufacturer.
