Achieving Proper Fill Rates
How to fill your pots and small cell containers with HydraFiber, including how to set your compactor to the ultimate fill level, adjusting the flow from the hopper, and acheiving proper plow depth.
How to fill your pots and small cell containers with HydraFiber, including how to set your compactor to the ultimate fill level, adjusting the flow from the hopper, and acheiving proper plow depth.
"After 30-plus years in the greenhouse industry, I’ve made the biggest changes in my substrate mixers with HydraFiber. After lots of trialing and tweaking, we’re at 55% peat, 25% coir, 25% HydraFiber and it’s working very well. We’re really getting a great, great root system that is going through that substrate, all the way down to the bottom of the pot. In all the years that I’ve mixed soil, I’ve never seen the root systems just permeate the soil ball like they are now. Get a good root system and the plant will come."
“From what we’ve seen, the pH of poinsettias stays more stable because of the length of the crop. Also the shelf life is better because the HydraFiber retains the moisture and when it’s sitting on the shelf longer at the store, it’s pulling that moisture out of that wood. We’re seeing several more days at retail which is a huge benefit.”
"Previously when we would move some of our dormant grass liners to heat, we would see tremendous top growth, but rooting would lag behind and there’s not much you can do to enhance plant quality without good roots. When we moved these liners to a HydraFiber blend, we had a very successful crop – plants grew uniformly and we had good root quality throughout the crop across various varieties.”
"I like the root system I get from HydraFiber due to the high porosity in the mix."
“Since raising our inclusion rates, we’ve had no issues with the quality of our plants.”
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