Someone who knows plants AND reptiles, yay!

I use coconut coir and worm castings. 3/1 mixture. I have had great results.

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Very educational, informative and enjoyable as well. Thank you fellow Canadian (I live in Northern Ontario).

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Hey Ashley! Garry here watching you from Gander Newfoundland and Labrador Canada!

Onions + coir sounds really fun. Looking forward to seeing that :)

The choir I've used (just some cheap brick I found online) was much finer than this and did not contain any of those long fibers. I don't have a lot experience with seed sowing in it, but I really like that it doesn't get as hydrophobic as peat. Even the finer choir is much faster draining than the peat, so not adding anything for drainage probably still makes sense.

I love the compressed bricks that we get here in the Philippines. The ones I get has a mix of peat ( fine coco ) and coir ( stringy fiber ). I still add perlite and/or rice hulls and compost (because I love living dangerously) on my starters, my plants love it and they grow pretty healthy roots

I've heard that coconut core from Malaysia has a fungi that is excellent called trichoderma that is very beneficial

I just tried germinting seeds in pure coconut peat (fine particles + fiber) last month in Singapore. The seeds did germinate quickly but didn't grow well after that, because the peat seem to have compacted a lot which inhibited root growth. I'm not really sure as I'm very new to gardening. Now I'm trying mixing it with compost, rice husks and sand, given it rains frequently here, hope I can get better result this time.

Does using hot or boiling water kill beneficial bacteria etc? Are you doing this just to kill fungus gnat eggs? Thanks.

I had been seed starting in potting soil for a few years, mainly because I had left overs from the year before. I never had a problem starting seeds. I would go through it and take out the big pieces (sticks, etc) and crumble any clumps. Last year, after looking at multiple gardening channels, I splurged and bought a bag of Burpee seed starting mix. It wasCoir based, and infested with fungus gnats. Never again, I will use whatever potting soil I have left from last year.

There is a ground up version of this product, which is what you were expecting to see. I have the ground up one, this shreddy one, and a chunky one that I like for hoyas.

I bought a "brick" called coco peat. It was the consistency of peat moss. The coco coir they were selling was fibrous like the slab you are using. ( I live in Canada too)

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Canna Coco Coir is finner and rinsed and buffered. It is really the best to use for growing in.

If I plan to grow tomatoes indoors over winter, what proportion of worm castings would you add to the coco coir?

I've used coconut coir for many years now to start seeds and it works wonderfully. The only issue i came across is the seed hulls getting stuck on the collodion leaves. I think its because coco is soo light . Coco works best for me . 👍🍻

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Seems every one near the coast trying to sale coconut Most people in Canada and Central USA sale peat. Before seeing this I've got peat. Thanks

Watch out if you buy something like this at the dollar store, I got it and it had like….pine fibres or something like that in it as filler?