Coco Coir 650gm Bricks (5-Pack) - Organic Coco Coir for Plants & Gardening - OMRI-Listed Cocopeat for Garden Soil, Seed Starter Soil, & Mulch - Organic Coconut Bricks - Coconut Fiber Potting Mix

I use coir for gardening, vermicomposting, and growing starts.These are coir blocks. There's not a lot to note in description especially if you're familiar with this wonder.I've used well over a dozen from these folks and not once found chunks of unprocessed materials - which has happened with far more pricey garden center single blocks.They enthusiastically (QUICKLY!**) and comprehensively rehydrate and it just makes me happy every time.This coir rehydrates without any greasy residue on water surface or odd smell, which I've experienced with lesser quality products.This means I felt, and continue to feel, secure using it in my vermicomposting as well.For me, this is a soil addition that's *well* worth its cost in hanging on to liquid gold - water. This helps my container plants especially - as I live in an area where triple digits are the norm through the growing season. A generous addition of this means the difference between twice or single daily watering on the small containers which has several benefits.For anybody unfamiliar with coir, I find it also makes a much better medium addition than peat for starting seedlings. In my local climate peat moss plugs dry out too fast and well, making unhappy seedlings in their water repellant cubes. For the seedlings I do purchase, a little cocoon of this all around helps the roots grow past the peat = and then they can find water.So I'm here once again to stock up for next year because this amazing, versatile, RENEWABLE product also doesn't expire or go 'bad', you just need to keep it dry. Not that getting it wet spoils it, but it might do in the container.**The rehydrating thing- if you haven't used this stuff the blocks expand a LOT and a small bucket won't do. Even a 5 gallon bucket should be watched and keep the brick upright! Rehydrating goes very fast and the brick will want to fall over and before you realize it's capsized.... It is capable of deforming the bucket into an impressive oval before it shatters. Trust me. 😉😁UPDATE: Still buying from this seller! Dependable quality, still excellent price point.

This product is well worth it. It absorbs water quickly and holds moisture very well. I would buy again.

Material is clean. Not much junk mixed with coir. Very good choice for coir user.

Great price and it really does spread out a lot when you wet it. I used half a brick and I got a whole sand box for my rats, and 4 new filled pots for my plants. I honestly didnt think there would be so much condensed into these bricks and now I have 5 1/2 brick to use for anything. It wasnt dusty at all when wetting it or when it dried, which is why its such a good material for rats to play in! It does seem like it drains water pretty well. After a day the pots soil doesn't seem wet anymore and that's something my plants have needed, as ive been dealing with soil mites from overdose soil. Highly recommend using these and mixing with potting soil to help keep those mites away. They aren't harmful to your plants at all (unless you have spider mites) and they can help with breaking down organic matter, but all the same I do not want them in my house so using these bricks have been super helpful!

This is a great product, that is simple to use and there is absolutely no odor, unless your water is stinky. The value is such that it keeps me coming back year after year . I use this product with a course vermiculite. I grow indoor annuals under lights. The Coco coir is perfect, light and holds moisture extremely well. I have started to mix in diatomaceous earth powder in the top 2 inches of my soil tops. This is an inert amendment designed to provide a physical defense against the larvae that hatched from the eggs that are in the dried Coco coir. Yes all the bricks are laden with eggs from fungus gnats. This is my only organic material. I introduced nothing else. Every time fungus gnats, hence The addition of the diatomaceous earth. I’m happy now no bugs, diatomaceous earth is just nothing more than vermiculite powder that is very sharp (on a microscopic size) and will cut the skin of the larvae killing them before they become adults that can fly in your garden and then your house, Laying more eggs, watch out. Diatomaceous earth is a safe (just don’t breathe the dust)good product also cheap. Sprinkle a good amount to make your soil white when you mix it and that it will have a white milky runoff when watered this seems to be enough to stop this nasty pest. Sorry but it’s true Plantonix, but it’s OK I wouldn’t want any insecticides in the Coco-coir, maybe just a warning. Most people hate bugs, the larvae nibble on the roots, they are a pest unwanted it in the indoor garden. Have a bottle of Neem oil spray on hand for your aerial defense, this pest can be a worthy adversary, you probably could microwave the Coco core when it’s wet before you use it or possibly bake it to kill off the eggs

I picked up the mushroom growing hobby, like everyone else, and it's really fun. It's also really confusing sometimes and the number of products out there now is just mind-boggling.I bought these coir blocks because I don't have much storage space, and some of the other products come in larger containers/boxes. This is thin tall box and the coir blocks are about the size of a brick. I can take them out of the box, put them in zip lock bags and store in a couple of different locations for ease of use and access.There are instructions on how to hydrate, but I found it easier to just run water over the coir brick and rub it with my hands over my substrate bin. When it won't come off any more, I run a bit more water over it and repeat until my bin is to the proper fill level. Works great! Then I can add a little water if it's too dry, but don't have to squeeze any water out (thumb arthritis in both hands makes squeezing really difficult and painful.) I grow in very small batches for just myself, so this method works for me.I did hydrate per instructions and that worked fine too. Make sure you have a bucket or tub large enough - the brick really expands when submerged in water.Overall it's great deal - if you always keep gardening stuff around and already have vermiculite, these bricks are perfect.

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.

GREAT quality!! Perfect for my outdoor plants!