How to distinguish whether the substrate in the pot is peat soil or coconut peat from the appearance

Peat and coir are both high-quality planting substrates and are the main components in nutrient soils, and they work better when used together. The potted plants marketed from the greenhouse are basically cultivated with peat and coconut peat as mixed nutrient soil, with high fertilizer efficiency, good water retention and air permeability, good growth of potted plants, and fast market.

How can you tell the difference between peat and cocoir? Peat is the sediment of the riverbed and marshland, good peat is black, loose and delicate, rich in organic matter, is a high-quality potted flower soil, can be used alone or with coconut pea, perlite, vermiculite, etc. Peat is widely used in the field of horticulture, is the main material for seedlings and potted flowers, and its value and development prospects in the field of horticulture have been fully affirmed.

Coir is a by-product of coconut processing, which is made from crushed coconut husks and is rich in crude fiber, which can improve the soil and increase the air permeability of the soil, but it is not as nutritious as peat. The coconut peat on the market is generally sold in the form of coconut bricks, which is cheap, and can be used to mix soil with water soaking, and is used to cultivate potted plants such as pothos, pocket coconut, anthurium, and white palm that are prone to rot roots. Coir is a waste utilization, which not only solves the problem of coconut shell processing from the perspective of environmental protection, but also creates economic value.

How can you tell the difference between peat and coir from the appearance? Peat and coconut peat are the main components of nutrient soil, just how much is added, peat soil is delicate, organic matter content can reach 30%-70%, soil black, high fertilizer efficiency, crude fiber content is less; The coir soil is rough and soft, the soil is yellow or dark brown, mainly crude fiber, with less organic matter content, but good water retention and air permeability, and there are many flocculent fibers visible to the naked eye from the outside, which is the most obvious difference.

Potted plants with peat and coconut peat are much better than potted plants made with ordinary garden soil, yellow mud or half-filled foam from the bottom of a pot! And the potted plants bought from the flower market, we will basically repot, so there is no need to worry about whether it uses more peat or more coconut peat, retain part of the original soil at the root, and repot it with the nutrient soil prepared by yourself!

Coir is divided into coarse coir and fine cocoir. Coarse coconut peat is relatively large and not easy to disperse by hand. Fine coir is relatively loose, and when the coir is dry, the color is mainly brownish-yellow. The color of peat is relatively dark, black-brown, clumpy or powdery.

Coir soil is a relatively loose and soft soil, and there are some strip-like silks. The color is brownish-black. And peat soil is blackened. The texture is not as soft as coir soil.

Peat is the sediment of the riverbed and marshland, good peat color blackened, loose and delicate, rich in organic matter, is a high-quality potted flower soil, can be used alone or with coco, perlite, vermiculite, etc., peat is widely used in the field of horticulture, is the main material for seedlings and potted flowers, the value and development prospects in the field of horticulture are fully affirmed by everyone that coir is a by-product of coconut processing, is crushed from coconut shells, rich in crude fiber, can improve the soil, Increase the permeability of the soil but the nutrients are not as good as peat, the coconut peat on the market is generally sold in the form of coconut bricks, ** cheap, add water to soak it can be used to mix soil, used to cultivate pothos, pocket coconut, anthurium, white palm and other potted plants that are easy to rot roots The effect is very good, coconut peat belongs to waste utilization, from the perspective of environmental protection, it not only solves the problem of coconut shell processing of coconut processing, but also creates economic value.

In fact, the effect of peat soil flower cultivation is very good, peat soil is particularly soft, and the flowers that can be raised by air free circulation are very strong and fresh, like coconut kang coarse leaf kang block is relatively rough and not easy to use.

If you can use peat soil to grow flowers or use peat soil is better, coconut peat is actually not much different from peat soil, but coconut peat has almost no nutrition, you need to constantly increase the fertility of plants, and coconut peat water retention is better, if you water too much, or water too often is easy to rot roots.

It is better to use coarse coir cubes. Because the peat soil and coir are evenly mixed, the pores between the soils are very small, and watering will quickly harden.

I think it would be better to use coir because coir is made from coconut fiber, which is very environmentally friendly and it is a renewable resource.

Potted flowers, peat is better than coconut peat, but peat has a very big problem.

The substrate of raising flowers, in fact, is the carrier, whether it is coconut peat or peat, as long as the substrate is loose and breathable, add enough and comprehensive nutrients, planting flowers are OK, and even some flower veterans, with loess are better than the substrate carefully deployed by others, that is to say, planting flowers is a full range of maintenance, substrate is only one of the aspects, but as an industrial production of potted flowers, because of the cost, potting effect, transportation and other aspects of comprehensive consideration, or the choice of coconut peat or peat, rather than garden soil, The simplest point is that the garden soil is too heavy and it is inconvenient to mail.

Coir is the shell of coconut, the kind of waste in the coconut producing area, no one wants it at all, but in recent years, soilless cultivation has become popular, and coir has become a baby, but the benefits of coir have several points, the first corrosion resistance, that is, planting for a few years, coir will not become powder or puree, or granular is better, the second coir is renewable, more environmentally friendly, the disadvantage is that coir itself may be produced by the sea, often contains salt, Although many manufacturers claim that their coir has been fully desalination, but the actual test, few businesses can stand my test, so flower friends use coir to plant flowers, do not wash salt is more safe, the second disadvantage of coir is that it does not contain nutrients, so it is best to add some well-rotted organic fertilizer to plant flowers with coir, which can provide comprehensive basic nutrients, especially medium and trace elements.

Peat is a soilless culture substrate that is used longer than cocoir, because of good water absorption and air permeability, it is widely used in horticultural cultivation, but peat is often dug in wetlands, after a large number of digging, it has caused serious damage to the environment, you must know that wetlands have a huge impact on the earth's environment, so I personally do not recommend using peat, you see that I only recommend coir to plant flowers, but the actual try, peat is indeed slightly better than coir flowers, but this can be improved by improving your gardening skills, Peat itself actually does not contain nutrients, but because it is mined in wetlands, it still contains some nutrients than cocoir, but on the whole, coir is more cost-effective.

Whether it is coir or peat, it is a single substrate, the real horticulture is used, often premixed substrate, such as simply using peat to plant flowers, once the peat is dry, it is difficult to water thoroughly, you need to soak the pot to water through, coir does not have this problem, so gardening flowers, small pots, generally coconut peat or peat, with perlite flowers, larger potted plants, need coconut peat or peat, with pine scales or coarse coir, and then with perlite or other substrate planting effect is better. Therefore, no matter what kind of substrate, it is a better substrate to understand the advantages and disadvantages, and then learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses and make a reasonable match.