Blueberry Coco Substrate Manufacturer in India

Blueberry has a shallow, fine, fibrous root system with no root hairs. It is intolerant of waterlogging, intolerant of salt, and it wants an acidity most growing media do not naturally provide. Get any one of those three wrong and the crop shows it slowly, over a season, which is exactly the kind of failure a substrate supplier should be honest about in advance.

Blueberry wants a root zone around pH 4.5 to 5.5. Our cocopeat sits naturally at pH 5.5 to 6.8, which is above that range.

This is true of coco substrate generally, not only ours, and it is why commercial blueberry growers on coco acidify their irrigation water, blend coco with an acidic component, or both. We would rather tell you this on our own product page than let you discover it in your first season.

If you are moving a blueberry programme onto coco for the first time, talk to us about it before ordering. In some cases the honest answer is that a blend, rather than straight coco, is what you need.

Because root-zone oxygen is the limiting factor for blueberry, the high-chip end of our range is where this crop belongs.

A 20:80 cocopeat-to-chip blend, at 25.06% air-filled porosity and 5.42 L/kg water holding capacity, is our usual recommendation for potted blueberry. Plenty of air through the profile with enough fine fraction to retain a working water buffer.

Straight 100% coco chips, at 30.8% air-filled porosity and 4.77 L/kg, suits high-rainfall regions, larger pots, or growers running very high irrigation frequency who want maximum drainage.

A 50:50 blend, at 21% air-filled porosity, is worth considering in drier climates or smaller pots where CS504 would need watering more often than your system allows.

Low EC is not optional for this crop. Blueberry is among the most salt-sensitive crops grown on substrate, and we supply washed low-EC material for it as standard.

Chip size, blend ratio, pot fill volume, packaging and bulk supply are all made to order — we are not limited to our standard steps, and a great deal of blueberry work ends up on a custom ratio.

Full specification for all five blends is on the coco grow bags page. How we test and report each batch is on the quality page.

Blueberry substrate questions growers ask

Other crops we supply: Tomato · Strawberry · Cucumber · Capsicum & bell pepper

Our products: Coco chips · Coco grow bags · 5 kg blocks · 600 g bricks · Open-top bags · Coir fibre

Blending and packing are done to your requirement. Ratios, chip size, pot fill volume, packaging and print are all made to order. Tell us what your crop and your handling line need and we will produce to it.

Tell us your pot volume, climate, irrigation frequency and how you manage pH, and we will suggest a specification.