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Exclamation Coconut water

I read lots of articles regarding coconut water as enhancing ingredients for orchid seeds sowing media. How to do it is my question wether it is mix after the medium was cooked or cook it together with other ingredients and then sterelized it. Please HELP.....Thanks..
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Add the coconut water to the media before you sterilise it. If you're pre-heating your media to dissolve it prior to sterilising it, add extracts like coconut water and banana after the media dissolves so that the water stays warm enough to dissolve the media.

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What about using coconut water to water orchids? Any good and bad points?

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