Rockwool and Perlite are the commonly used growing media in soilless cultivation. Though Peat and Coir are becoming more popular as a renewability resources. In general, the choice of the growing media depends on the crop, growing system, physical, chemical, and biological properties of the substrate and not at least the cost. Growers world-wide, try to adopt locally manufactured or locally available substrates. Furthermore, the international trend for substrate development tends toward using of national resources and renewable raw materials. Therefore, searching for cheap and locally produced organic soilless growing media has been the subject of several studies either for ornamental plants or vegetable crop production.
