before being added to any planting medium, also it does not hold nutrients very well.
We have been using coir for a few years now, most of our plants grew reasonably well, however we found that they needed to be fed constantly.
Coir is currently at the centre of the peat debate and products with coir are sometimes advertised as peat free. It has been argued, though, that shipping coir from the tropics to preserve the peat bogs is not necessarily the answer and has environmental issues of its own.
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