March 4, 2021 - ad8672a
Advantages of using crop support netting with flowers to improve phytosanitary conditions
Using Hortomallas flower support net and tutoring has great advantages that improve phytosanitary conditions for your crops. The netting has upgraded ventilation and allows there to be less needed contact with the hands of the workers, which are factors that result to the spread of disease and any excess mechanical stress done on the crop that causes harm. Flower support and tutoring net also results in a better financial outcome as it will allow the production of a straight stem that will be ready to be packaged, shipped, and sold simply with no issues. Customers prefer for their flowers to be supported. Hortomallas flower tutoring net allows you to precisely get the dimensions of the plant’s situation as it goes in the bed, and the mesh acts as a planting guide for all axis’ since it is meshed at a right angle. Laying your crop out in the correct way using our net will give better control for the grower as it permits an improved way to spray it evenly. Hortomallas flower support netting will protect your plants from any harmful factors like UV degradation, which will break your plants polymer chains, and other destruction. The polypropylene netting is well built for durability and sustaining the foliage under strong weather conditions. The netting is optimal for using your greenhouse space to the best of its ability. The number of layers that are installed are up to the grower, the mesh enhances the growth and dispense of the flowers. Over the years, the typical flower support structures have varied but would often do more damage than good. When the hand woven structures were put into practice, they would not be hardwearing as it would be worn out by accident by factors like chemicals or the sun, which would force a continuous reset cycle to remove and put the systems up. Another support system used in malpractice is using raffia which lets bacteria and other infections hide in the plant’s folds because of its physical characteristic of just being a small plastic thread. Hortomallas does not attain these aspects that are the source of malpractice. Hortomallas flower tutoring and flower support are near to the SCROG method which lead to an increase of sun exposure of the crop by ensuring an upright stance and enclosing the stem in a particular single square of the mesh, stopping the plant from sinking and bending below the foliage and of nearby plants.
Is this the same type of flower support net used for Scrog?
Yes, it has similar use for both types of crop. You should contemplate placing one plant for every 30cm of SCROG net used.