raise healthy , potent and uniform plant is the ultimate goal and the biggest challenge at the same time . Wick & Grow , explicate by Visser Horti Systems and Costa Farms , help growers and retailers not to interest about watering their plants in the nursery , during transport or in stores . " Using Wick & Grow solution in strong , healthy flora and less waste . "
Wick & Grow can be implemented before or powerful after the growing phase . Using Wick & Grow during the growing procedure is called ‘ Grown with WaterWick ’ .
How it worksThe top half of the wick is put in into one of the drain holes at the bottom of the crapper and is in contact with the potting mix . The bottom half of the wick dangles into a piddle man-made lake taking only as much water as the plant needs .
With Wick & Grow , watering the plant life can now be done by filling trays instead of water each plant individually , which saves clip and is well-fixed and more efficient . Plants then are healthier and leave in less shrink at retail . Scot Brunschwig , Senior Sales Director at Costa Farms : “ You get a much more consistent expression in the stores as far as the health of the plants go . Because now each industrial plant consider up the water as they need it . In the wintertime months when it ’s a little snatch dryer , the plants are going to postulate more water , or in the summertime months when it ’s tender and they drop water a little bit slower , the plant are always going to look great on the shelf . ”
Innovating the provision chainVisser Horti Systems and Costa Farms draw a bead on to make the whole supply chain for plants more efficient and successful . After growing industrial plant in the perfect urine conditions , plant can be place in special ( transportation ) tray to make certain plants stay hydrous during transport to depot . After conveyance , the trays can be used in - store as well . This do good the grower , retailer , and consumer . Wick & Grow has show itself at all the major retailer in the North American securities industry . Plants with a taper are becoming the standard in the North American retail surround with an increase in book every day .
AutomationThe Apopka adroitness of Costa Farms has been using a brand newfangled automated wicking machine which can wick 8,000 pot per hour . This new automation result enables Costa Farms to descale up the Wick & grow undertaking to meet the increasing demand in North American market for this added value ware .
The visual sense , the missionMike Rimland , Vice President of Research and Development and Company Global Ambassador at Costa Farms : “ The dream , the imagination , the goal is for it to become a criterion . Something that is used with every single plant and potted plant on the face of the earth . It will make the consumer more successful . It makes it easygoing and quicker for them to become successful . And that always has been the goal , to make it a standard . Just like the works is in a mint , the plant has soil , our destination is that the plant will always have a WaterWick . Every plant , in the entire humans . ”
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