Coco Bliss Coco Coir - Compressed Coco Coir Bricks with Low EC and pH Balance - High Expansion Coco Fiber for Herbs, Flowers, Planting - OMRI Listed Renewable Coconut Soil (650 Grams, 5 Bricks)

I’ve been using these blocks for my soil for years now. It’s the base for nearly all of my 80 plants, along with perlite and, depending on the plant, some other soil amendments. Good drainage, not dusty, solid amount when you rehydrate (I think I do around 4 L per block), cheap compared to store bought potting solid and you get a ton of quantity once hydrated. I just keep it in a large vittle fault premixed once hydrate. Yes, it does smell a bit when hydrating, but that dissipates.

I love this coir so much. Each brick is a great size, it's easy to hydrate, easy to store and lasts a long time for me. I mix it with coarse perlite, orchiata and horticultural charcoal and it works like a charm. A huge plus is that a little goes a long way. One 5 pack of it makes ~80 quarts of my potting mix, so as someone with a decent sized plant collection and lots of soil propagations going all the time, it's a massive help. It's just under $2.25 of coir in each batch of my mix as well, far cheaper than buying 80 quarts of a mix elsewhere even with my amendments. I very much dislike peat moss, from it's environmental issues, to it staying moist for too long, to getting a lot of mold and so on. Coco coir has been a great alternative for me as it holds onto moisture, but dries at a good rate so I no longer get mold, mildew or root rot. Because it's so light and airy, I haven't had any issues with soil compacting or becoming hydrophobic like with peat moss. All my plants have been much happier since I switched in January 2021, I'm never going back. Echeveria, agave, aloe, hoya, scindapsus, codiaeum, monstera, epipremnum, philodendron, ZZ, snake plants- you name it! They all love it. The only suggestion I have is if you want to switch your plants to coir, do it slowly! It'll take time for you to learn watering for each repotted plant. May 20th, 2024 UPDATE: This coir is still the best thing I have ever found. It's been three years since I started using it and my entire collection has been thriving! Incredibly healthy roots, no smell, fantastic aeration, great for propagation, and best of all - no gnats or other pests like with peat moss. I have bought the 5 pack of bricks four times (with about just as many gifted to me from family), and have bought the 10 pack recently. Over the years, consistency has been my biggest issue with ordering things for my plants. This coco coir has been one of the very few products that has not only remained consistent, but consistently amazing! Always very clean - no sticks, thorns, plastic, metal etc. throughout any bricks. I love this coir and for as long I have plants and it stays this nice, I'll never stop using it.

Great product. I purchased galvanized raised beds. To fill them I put down cardboard first, then bark, then the coco coir. Mixed in some compost. I had great results growing tomatoes, beans, radishes, lettuce, squash, peas and carrots. I will definitely buy again.

Re-hydrated very well. I used 8 cups of boiling water and heat resistance silicone glove to re-hydrated in a oven safe bag. Scrapped off the hydrated layer every 2 cups of water. No issue with dust and oven bag handle the heat very well.

This is a great substrate and good value for using in things such as a terrarium. The coconut coir expands a ton when you add hot water to it. If I was rating this as a seed starting medium, I would give it 1 star. I keep trying to use coconut coir to start seeds to stretch the costs and planting medium, and it keeps failing. It's great for germinating the seeds, but after that, it's awful. It offers no nutritional value to the seedlings so they will yellow and dampen off. Even adding it half and half with a good seed starting mix doesn't work well. The seedlings I started with this mixed with Miracle-gro seed starting mix were weaker, yellow, and stunted. They stopped growing when seedlings started in other mediums continued to grow and thrive.