Being in the business of growing plants has never been easy.
It took determination, commitment and passion to build the floriculture and horticulture businesses that make the world a better, more beautiful place. But thanks to climate change, rising input costs and unstable labor markets, growers today face a whole new set of problems. Problems that demand a new approach.
As you should know by now, here at Oasis Grower Solutions, we’re in the problem-solving business. We exist to support breeders, propagators and growers like you. We listen to your problems, take them back to our Research, Innovation & Development team, and respond with new products to help you succeed. That’s why we developed the Ultimate Propagation Experience: OASIS® RhizoPlug™ Tray for precision vegetative propagation.
Whether you’re running a manual hoop house operation or automated young plant production on indoor vertical racks, we believe this substrate can help overcome the challenges you face. We invite you to dive into the future of substrates. Step up to OASIS® RhizoPlug™ Tray.
Combat Labor Costs and Shortages
Skim through any “State of the Industry” survey in floriculture or horticulture, and labor issues top the list of grower concerns. Labor costs continue to rise, qualified labor is in short supply, and in some regions, even unqualified labor is tough to find. For more and more growers, automation is one answer to the labor challenges you face.
With automation-ready OASIS® RhizoPlug™ Tray, your vegetative propagation substrate comes preloaded in trays and ready on demand. You can stop worrying about time and labor spent filling trays, inconsistent tray-filling techniques, and downtime when your filling machine breaks down. The savings in time, labor and peace of mind applies across the board, to automated and manual operations.
Whether you’re sticking cuttings by machine or the hands of your trusted team, you’ll enjoy faster, damage-free sticking with OASIS® RhizoPlug™ Tray’s ultra-low density and resistance — even with fragile-stemmed varieties. Cutting insertion is faster, labor is less, and you run cleaner and leaner from start to finish.
Tackle Weather and Water Management
Ever since people started growing plants, weather has been a factor in their success. That’s multiplied today. Weather patterns are changing dramatically. Extreme weather events are becoming common. Climates are warming, and plants bear the brunt of higher temperatures and transpiration rates. Add in shipping delays, whether you’re talking offshore unrooted cuttings (URC) or homegrown liners, and young plants have a lot to overcome.
With OASIS® RhizoPlug™ Tray and our advanced surfactant technology, your cuttings rehydrate rapidly and water stays readily available for uptake. Faster cutting recovery means an earlier reduction in misting frequency, which in turn translates to lower pest and disease pressures, more efficient water use, and reduced labor, too.
In this next-generation substrate, designed for the problems vegetative propagators face now and in the future, your cuttings don’t have to fight for a drink. At the same time, the optimized air-to-water ratio of this substrate eliminates the risk of overwatering when used properly. Even with inexperienced staff, efficient and effective water management is easier than ever when you step up to OASIS® RhizoPlug™ Tray.
Overcome Rising Operational Costs
With expenses for even the simplest inputs on the rise, every day on the bench makes a difference in how competitive you can be and hold healthy profit margins intact. Energy, water, nutrient efficiency and pest management, from scouting to chemicals or beneficials, all impact your bottom line.
OASIS® RhizoPlug™ Tray ships dry, saving on shipping costs and prolonging shelf life. But it also ships inert and clean and free of pests and pathogens. You have maximum flexibility for precision nutrient delivery to make the most of new technologies like lighting and crop steering recipes that push plants stronger and faster than ever before. We don’t have to tell you what up to 20% faster to root, extract and transplant could do for your bottom line.
Input-responsive, low-density OASIS® RhizoPlug™ Tray allows cuttings to push roots faster, while nutrient solutions stay readily available. The result is rapid cutting establishment, profuse root and shoot development, and extreme uniformity and consistency. That’s followed by super-clean, easy extraction — manual or automated — and vigorous transplant growth. When we say clean, that’s not just clean propagation. That’s cleaner everything, including floors, benches and walls.
True to our roots as propagation media pioneers, newly designed OASIS® RhizoPlug™ Tray substrate isn’t just relevant to modern-day propagation, it’s the substrate of the future — and it’s time to dive in with us.
If you’re a large-scale grower with state-of-the-art technology or medium- to small-scale without fancy equipment, OASIS® RhizoPlug™ Tray can help you excel.
Step Up to the Ultimate Propagation Experience and experience OASIS® RhizoPlug™ Tray for yourself.