Every aspect of the growing business is on the fast track these days. That extends from new technologies and production practices to the crops you grow. End consumers are demanding new standards and fresh choices, and retailers follow suit. Meanwhile, your competitors are racing to meet those requests before you do.
At Oasis Grower Solutions, we’re here to help you make the most of new opportunities — and support you in times of change. One way we achieve that is with OASIS® Fertiss® PlugTray and our customization options that let you do stabilized media your way.
The OASIS® Fertiss® Advantage
Before we get into custom options to complement your unique operation, we want to remind you why leading propagators and producers pick OASIS® Fertiss® PlugTray stabilized plug media over the competition. Your Oasis Grower Solutions Technical Sales Representative can share even more reasons, but we’ll start with five:
- These labor-saving, ready-on-demand stabilized plugs arrive at your dock or door preloaded and protected in stackable trays, not compressed or crushed. You can focus on propagation and growing instead of filling machines and plug production equipment — or, worse yet, equipment breakdowns that keep your team idle.
- Our specialized manufacturing process allows us to retain control of the media’s density and composition as soilless OASIS® Fertiss® PlugTray media feeds into its stabilizing wrap. Unlike some of our heavily compacted competitors, our stabilized plug media stays consistent, uncompacted and ready for you.
- Vegetative cuttings for annuals and perennials insert quickly and easily in our even, uncompacted plugs. You save on time and labor, with no more worries about tip damage and wasted cuttings. Incidentally, OASIS® Fertiss® excels with seed, too. Even tender Stage III tissue culture is simple, easy and damage free when you choose OASIS® Fertiss®.
- Our standard OASIS® Fertiss® plugs, composed of Canadian sphagnum peat moss and perlite, ship at ~60% moisture content with high-quality advanced wetting agents to support thorough, rapid rewetting on your end. The uncompacted media makes it easier to maintain consistent moisture levels, too.
- Our specially designed trays keep your plugs secure and promote natural air pruning the full plug length. That translates to multiple benefits, from shorter bench times and optimized production costs to superior transplant performance. And, if you’re shipping young plants, your customers will appreciate the easy extraction and intact root balls, too.
For one last word on how our stabilized media compares, we asked our Product Applications Specialist Sarah Miller, who coordinates research trials at our on-site Research, Innovation & Development facility in Kent, Ohio USA.
For Sarah, who’s stuck her share of cuttings in OASIS® Fertiss® plugs and competing stabilized plug products, the answer was simple: “From my experience, sticking in OASIS® Fertiss® is way easier and faster compared to other wrapped plugs.”
Options to Make OASIS® Fertiss® Your Own
Order our standard, peat-based OASIS® Fertiss® PlugTray and you can choose from more than a dozen cell and tray configurations right from the start. From full and split PlugTrays to convenient PlugStrips, those wide-ranging options help streamline spacing, handling and grading during propagation and production.
OASIS® Fertiss® also offers multiple plug dimensions to suit the plants you grow — or plan to grow. Whether you’re propagating the latest trending tropicals or claiming your share of the growing demand for culinary herbs or ferns, OASIS® Fertiss® offers a stabilized plug option to help ensure you succeed.
While our peat-and-perlite OASIS® Fertiss® plugs are the standard, we understand that standards are changing — and your desire or need for media blends may be changing, too.
If you’d like to talk about custom blends or custom mixes — including peat-free customizations like coco, or peat-only plugs for those low-pH crops — reach out now. We welcome the opportunity to hear about your needs and walk you through the possibilities available to you with OASIS® Fertiss® PlugTray.
As you may know, our standard pH-adjusted OASIS® Fertiss® PlugTrays ship with no starter charge. But you can customize both your pH and the fertilizer charge to meet the needs of the crops you grow.
Finally, OASIS® Fertiss® PlugTray is available in case quantities, as well as full, half and quarter pallet quantities. And if you don’t see what your operation needs, we want to hear about it. Providing solutions to help you succeed is what we’re all about.
It’s time to say goodbye to labor-intensive loose fill, limited options and tough-to-stick compacted plugs.
Move into stabilized plug media done your way with OASIS® Fertiss® PlugTray. We’re Oasis Growers Solutions. We’re here to help you grow.