The same cocopeat can be compressed into a 5 kg block, a 600 g brick, a flat slab, a planter bag or a seed starter disc. The material inside is the same. What changes is how much handling you do at your end, and how much air you pay to ship.
Compression is the whole point. Cocopeat expands to roughly fifteen times its compressed volume, so shipping it compressed means shipping substrate rather than water and air. Every format below is a different answer to the question of where that expansion happens: in your yard, in your potting shed, or in the growing position itself.
One thing that does not change between formats: our low-EC grade is washed with water alone. More than six rinse stages across roughly a week bring EC below 0.5 mS/cm, with no chemical treatment involved. Every format below is available in that grade.
| Format | Typical size | Expands to | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 kg block | 300 x 300 x 120 mm | 70–80 litres | Bulk supply, filling your own pots and beds |
| 5 kg chip block | 300 x 300 x 120 mm | 50–60 litres | High-drainage mixes, orchids, berries |
| 600 g brick | 200 x 100 x 50 mm | 8–10 litres | Retail, garden centres, private label |
| 600 g chip brick | 200 x 100 x 50 mm | 6–8 litres | Retail orchid and houseplant mixes |
| Grow bag / slab | Made to order | To specification | Gutter systems, protected vegetables, berries |
| Open top planter bag | Made to order | To specification | Deep root crops, berries, trials |
| Seed starter discs and plugs | Made to order | To specification | Propagation, nursery, transplant production |
| Loose bulk | Baled or bagged | Not compressed | Growers with hydration and filling equipment |
Dimensions and expansion are our standard reference points. Compressed size, expanded volume and packaging are all made to order.
The workhorse format of the coir trade. A 5 kg block expands to 70 to 80 litres with roughly 25 litres of water, which means one container carries an enormous volume of finished substrate.
Order blocks when you have space and labour to hydrate at your end, when you are filling your own pots, beds or trays, or when you are blending coir with other components in your own facility. Substrate companies buy blocks almost exclusively, because they want to control what happens next.
The trade-off: you handle the expansion. That means water, space, time and labour at your end, in a window that is often short.
Full specification on the 5 kg cocopeat blocks page.
A 600 g brick expands to 8 to 10 litres, which is about one household planting session. The size exists because of retail, not because of horticulture.
Bricks are what garden centres, hardware chains and online retailers sell. They fit a shelf, they carry printed branding, and a consumer can lift one. If you are a distributor or a brand rather than a grower, this is usually your format.
Nearly all brick production is private label. We print your artwork, pack to your unit count, and label each brick with its batch reference so a retail complaint can be traced to a production lot.
The trade-off: more packaging and more handling per litre of substrate, so cost per litre is higher than a block.
Full specification on the 600 g cocopeat bricks page.
A slab is compressed substrate sealed inside a film sleeve, sized to sit in a gutter or on a bed. The grower cuts drainage slits, hydrates it in position and plants through pre-cut holes. No pot, no filling, no loose material.
This is the standard format for protected vegetables and berries at commercial scale, because it removes almost all substrate handling from the planting operation. It is also the format where specification matters most: slab length has to suit gutter spacing, and hole layout has to suit plant density.
Nothing about a slab is a catalogue item. Blend ratio, compressed and expanded dimensions, planting holes, drainage holes, film and print are all made to order.
The trade-off: committed. Once a slab is made to a layout, it suits that layout. Changing plant density means changing the specification.
Full specification on the coco grow bags page.
A planter bag is a slab standing up. Same principle, deeper root volume, opened at the top rather than planted through a hole.
Choose it over a slab when the crop needs more root volume per plant than a flat slab provides: blueberry, raspberry, blackberry, large tomato or pepper plants, or any crop where you want more buffer against an irrigation failure.
It is also the format growers use to trial coir before committing a whole house to gutters and slabs, because the bag is self-contained and needs no infrastructure.
The trade-off: deeper containers collect water at the base, so blend choice matters more. Higher chip content is usually right.
Full specification on the open top planter bags page.
Small compressed discs or plugs that expand with water into a ready propagation unit. One seed or cutting per unit, no tray filling, no loose media.
Used by propagators, nurseries and transplant producers, and increasingly by retail brands selling seed starting kits. Fine grade cocopeat is normally the right material, because propagation wants water retention and fine root contact rather than drainage.
Low EC matters more here than anywhere else. A germinating seed and a new root have no reserves and no tolerance for salt. Our low-EC grade is washed with water alone to below 0.5 mS/cm, which is the appropriate starting point for propagation.
Produced to order. Disc diameter, height, expanded volume, netting or no netting, and tray configuration are all made to your specification. Tell us your tray format and cell count and we will work to it.
Uncompressed material, baled or bagged. Only worth shipping over short distances or where the buyer has hydration and filling equipment and wants material ready to use on arrival.
For export over any distance, compression almost always wins on freight economics. If someone is offering you loose coir across an ocean, ask what you are paying to ship.
Three questions settle it.
Who does the hydrating? If you have space, water and labour, blocks are cheapest per litre. If you want the substrate to arrive ready to plant into, slabs and planter bags move that work to us.
Who is the end user? A commercial grower takes slabs, bags or blocks. A consumer takes a brick off a shelf. If you are selling into retail, the format decision is a packaging decision.
How much root volume per plant? Shallow and frequent, such as tabletop strawberry, points to slabs. Deep and perennial, such as blueberry or cane fruit, points to planter bags. Propagation points to seed starters.
If you are unsure, tell us the crop, the growing system and the volume, and we will suggest a format rather than ask you to choose from a list. There is no minimum order — we will take a single container, so trying a format is not an expensive decision.
70 to 80 litres with approximately 25 litres of water. A 5 kg coco chip block gives 50 to 60 litres, because chips occupy more space at lower density.
8 to 10 litres for a pith brick, 6 to 8 litres for a chip brick. Roughly one household planting session, which is why the size exists.
Yes. Compressed dimensions, weight, expanded volume, packaging and print are all made to order. Tell us the litreage your customers plan around and we compress to hit it.
Yes, to order. Disc diameter, height, expanded volume, netting and tray configuration are all made to your specification. Tell us your tray format and cell count.
No. The same washed material goes into every format. What changes is compression, packaging and where the expansion happens.
No. Our low-EC grade is achieved by washing with water alone — more than six rinse stages across roughly a week, no chemical treatment. Calcium buffering is a separate process we offer only when a customer specifically requests it.
There is no minimum. We will take a single container. Many suppliers will not quote below three or five containers, which makes trying a new format or a new source expensive.
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Tell us your crop, growing system and volume, and we will propose a specification rather than send a brochure.
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