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How to handle 5 kg coir blocks

If there is a substrate manufacturer nearby, cocopeat can be supplied in loose form and ‘ready to use’ like Dutch Plantin is doing in the Netherlands. To save on transport costs direct supply of compressed 5 kg blocks can be interesting. However, then the customer has to process the coir himself. This can be done ‘the easy way’ by adding water and loosening by hand. Large growers (who use e.g. over 2000 m3/yr) and potting soil companies can consider investing in specially designed machines to process the 5 kg blocks into loose coir.

Often there are options in these machines to add fertilizers or to mix with other raw materials like perlite. Depending on the % and type of crop you might need to apply extra calcium to stabilize the coir. Dutch Plantin supplies reliable qualities for professional use: stable, high air %, high output and low EC.



Another way of working is to spread the blocks on the beds, position underneath a sprinkler (remove the twister) and expand the blocks easily by a slow apply of water/fertilizers. The cocopeat is made loose and spread by hand:



Carnation cuttings, for example, root perfectly and very fast in cocopeat, with a minimum of breaking roots when lifting them to replant.



For more information 
Dutch Plantin
T: +91-422 25 62 501 
T: +31-492 74 75 60 

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