Dear Dr. Kalaivanan,

Cocopeat is a waste product of the industrial utilization of cocos fibers.

These products differ in particle size and density (precise physical and chemical are not available). The main uses are for potting mix suppliers, greenhouses, hydroponic growers, nursery and garden center professionals, horticulture and floriculture applications.

Cocopeat is offered, among others, in the form of potting soil, dark cocopeat, raw and buffered cocopeat. Cocos peat has the advantage of a renewable resource.

Mined peat is an organic sediment formed in moors, bogs.

Mined peat is a natural transformation product of herbal substances which are converted by the coalification process into various types of coal. The carbon is increasingly relatively enriched compared to the original quantities of hydrogen and oxygen. The degree of coalification is defined as follows:

degree of coalification             % C              % H             % O + N

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Mined peat  (> 75 % H2O)     55 - 64           5 - 7             35 - 39

Brown coal, lignite                 60 - 75           4 - 8             17 - 34

Black coal, hard coal             78 - 90           4 - 6               4 - 19

Anthracite                              94 - 98            1 - 3               1 -  3

Graphite                                    100 

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The biological characteristic of mined peat varies considerably and depends on the respective places of origin, the climatic conditions and the original plant species.

Mined peat is of limited availability (fossil fuel) and must be processed in the immediate vicinity of the open pit.

Peat use:

Fuel, combustible, natural substrate, medical purposes such as mud bath, mud sauna, production of activated carbon.

Best regards,

Guenter Grundmann

Dear Dr. Kalaivanan,

The above answer provides a good explanation to your question. This comment is especially about cocopeat. 

Properties of cocopeat (commonly called as ‘coconut coir dust’) can vary with its age and country of origin, mainly due to differences in the method of processing coconut husk for extracting the fibre.  The paper in the link below has a Table with useful chemical and physical properties of ‘coir dust’ from Sri Lanka as influenced by its age.

http://cri.nsf.ac.lk/bitstream/handle/1/3632/COCOS-12-54.pdf?sequence=2

Additional details on the production and uses of ‘coir dust’ and a comparison between coir dust and peat can be found here:

http://www.cocopeat.com.au/technical/productAnalysis/pdf/Cresswelldoc.pdf

Hope this is useful.

Susantha.

The above answers provides a good explanation to your question, given to you.