Unlocking the Power of Ellepots: A Game-Changer in Plant Propagation

In the world of plant propagation, every grower embarks on a journey. A journey to nurture healthy plants, maximise yields and, ultimately, ensure success. However, this journey is often fraught with challenges. From optimising crop time to ensuring efficient nutrient uptake, the path to successful propagation can feel like navigating a complex maze.

Enter Ellepots, your trusty guide in this journey. Ellepots offer a revolutionary solution to these challenges, transforming the way plants are propagated. With their unique design and advanced features, they simplify the propagation process, saving time, reducing labour costs and promoting healthier, more vigorous plants. Here's how:

• Establishing Young Plants

The journey begins with the establishment of young plants. This crucial stage sets the foundation for the plant's future growth and development. Traditionally, growers use cuttings and tissue culture in a 105 or 128-cell  plug tray to establish young plants. But this method can be time-consuming and less efficient.

Ellepots offer an innovative alternative. By using a 25mm Ellepot in the same Air-Tray, you can reduce your crop time by up to 30% compared to traditional methods. The fibrous root system of young plants is prepared for stepping up into the final propagation stage, setting the stage for robust growth.

The secret lies in the TopMix used at this stage. With a starting pH of 4.5 - 5.0 and an Air Filled Porosity (AFP) suited to striking roots, it creates the perfect environment for your young plants. Plus, the Ellepot media can be adjusted to suit your specific propagation requirements, ensuring optimal conditions for your young plants.

• Stepping Up: Developing a Vigorous Root System

Once your young plants have established a fibrous root system, it's time to step up. At this stage, they're moved to a 100mm Ellepot. Here, they develop a vigorous root system that completely fills the root space, producing more feeder roots than plastic pots. This results in efficient nutrient uptake, promoting healthier and faster growth.

The TopMixes used at this stage offer another advantage. They give you the choice of adding woodfibre to reduce perlite and peat while maintaining a higher AFP and water-holding capacity. This ensures optimal growing conditions for your plants as they continue their growth journey.

• Crop Production Without Soil: A New Frontier

For those seeking to grow crops such as blueberries without soil, Ellepots offers a pioneering solution. Proptec TopMixes and Pioneer Pots are designed specifically for this purpose. They contain a foundation of coarse 10-30mm fraction blonde peat with coarse perlite, coir fibre, Zeolite, and Trichoderma beneficial pH adjusted to 4.5 – 5.5.

Proptec has been working with woodfibre for over twelve months and can recommend a suitable starting fraction to make your production more sustainable. Depending on your nutrition program, a higher proportion of woodfibre can be attained while maintaining your required pH levels.

• Containers: The Pioneer Pot Advantage

When it comes to containers for blueberry production, Pioneer Pots by Proptec stands out. These pots feature an outer "holder" and an inner "air pruning pot". As roots grow outwards between the vertical ribs, they are air-pruned through the side vents. This promotes exceptional lateral root growth and eliminates circling and girdling roots, creating an uninhibited growing environment.

• Substrates and Containers: Maximising Efficiency

With air-pruning pots, roots develop rapidly over the entire surface of the pot. One root is replaced by multiple new roots, creating a root ball teeming with young, vigorous roots. This results in lower labour costs as no manual root pruning is required.

Pioneer Pots also provide excellent aeration and drainage. The outer holder prevents the plant from drying out too quickly and protects it from extreme heat, leading to easier irrigation and temperature management. The base of the pot is elevated above the ground to aid aeration, all-around root pruning, and prevent disease spread.

The holders are very stable, preventing the product from falling over. They can also be fixed to the ground to create a permanent growing area where air-pruning pots can be easily moved, added or removed.

As your journey concludes, you'll see the rewards of using Ellepots. Long-term root architecture is excellent, leading to a very stable tree, unlike many containers with defective roots.

In the end, the hero of our story – the grower – achieves success. By adopting Ellepots, you unlock a new level of efficiency and productivity in plant propagation. You save time, reduce costs, and, most importantly, you cultivate healthier, more vigorous plants.

So, embark on your plant propagation journey with Ellepots. Experience the transformative power of this innovative tool and reap the rewards of healthier plants, improved yields, and a more efficient propagation process. Because with Ellepots, success is always within reach.