From soil to soilless cultivation

After years of growing in soil, wear and tear inevitably set in. Soils lose their properties, nutrients and ability to produce as before, which means unavoidable losses for farmers as well.

This is the first step in a process that is sometimes impossible to avoid. At that moment the farmer must ask himself how to propose a solution to his serious problem, how to skip soil degradation and continue producing in an adequate way.

Even better.

This is when substrate cultivation comes into play. Producing tomato, strawberry, cucumber, blueberry or even #MedicinalCannabis is possible without soil using bags. But these have a problem: they accumulate moisture under them, and the irrigation drains and produces puddles and dirt that the roots, when they grow and come out of the bags, absorb, getting sick and, again causing losses.

Therefore, here is the definitive solution: use substrate crops to avoid the loss of soil quality but add SPACERS and drainage collection channels to prevent the roots from touching where they should not touch.

This guarantees a stable, easily controllable and scalable production, without unexpected scares or economic losses. In this photo, you can see an example of how they look after being installed in a greenhouse.

Success story

Khasan runs Buxara Bilal LLC, in #Uzbekistan, and he had a problem: the roots of his tomato plants were coming out of the bags of substrate and absorbing moisture and dirty water from the drains. Thus, they became ill and infected their neighbours. How to avoid this?

The answer was clear: he installed our Spacer and gutter system on a metal lattice.

At one point, the roots that continued to grow no longer touched moisture or puddles or absorbed dirty water, so they maintained their optimal growth, thus giving more #tomatoes.

“Thanks to the Spacer, the drainage and ventilation of the plants improved. The roots stopped coming out of the drainage holes and no longer touched the water. This has prevented us from the eternal headache of root rot and crop failure,” says Khasan.

Buxara Bilal grows tomatoes in a five-hectare greenhouse. "We soon observed that the roots were in very good condition and began to produce higher-quality fruits."

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