Category: mechanical stress

Mechanical stress in plants reduces crop yields by up to 8-10%.

In horticulture we want our plants to grow and produce fruit weight at full speed and mechanical stress due to excessive handling and tutoring does exactly the opposite, it slows vegetable production as the plant will send its energies and nourishment to repair its micro tissue damages while redirecting its leaves towards the sun! HORTOMALLAS trellis netting allows the plant to grow undisturbed leaning and attaching itself to the trellis support while reducing the spreading phytopathogens of mechanically.

Hexagonal Net: Discover the Tool for Protecting Your Plants and Flocks

Install hexagonal netting in your garden or for poultry protection. The net is manufactured from carbon steel wire, hot dipped galvanised wire or plastic. A common agricultural device, this net is available at farm supply stores. Hexagonal netting is also known […]

USING SUPPORT NETTING TO PREVENT WATER STRESS IN SERRANO PEPPERS.

Water stress in Solanceae reduces profitability Horticultural support netting creates the right conditions to enable water stress to be reduced on crops of serrano pepper chilies (capisicum annuum L.). During its development stages when the plant finds water available, it […]

Tutoring vegetables in modern farming

How are vegetables tutored today? Tutoring vegetables is an important part of modern agriculture although the materials and tutoring methods have changed as time has moved on, from tutoring with traditional raffia, to using horticultural trellis netting which has become […]

Reduce mechanical stress with HORTOMALLAS: Download the pdf “How to Manual”

Mechanical stress reduces your production yield by many tons per hectare Mechanical stress appears as a physical alteration in the plant or in one of its parts and can affect the plant at any stage of its development. Wind and […]

Why use double walled of support netting or V supports.

Advantages of double walled tutoring nets on both sides of furrows. The method of using double walled tutoring nets reduces the mechanical stress on the plants and slows down the spread of plant pathogens. You might ask yourself how to save […]

Effects of climate change on agriculture: trellising net as a preventive method against crop damage.

Heavy rains due to climate change, increase crop failures due to humidity related pathogens. Today is essential to cultivate using trellising net when growing vegetables due to weather change. We are facing possibly irreversible climatic changes that have modified in […]

How to prevent wind damage and crop mechanical stress.

Mechanical stress affects crops due to wind action Wind damages may be prevented if we tutor crops like cucurbits and solanaceous giving the proper trellis support to plants decreasing mechanical stress. But what is wind? Wind is an air stream […]

Tutoring using HORTOMALLAS trellis netting as part of the desinfection process growing vegetables.

Desinfection of vegetable crops is easier with trellis netting. Microorganism that may contaminate vegetable production are due to inadequate processes of desinfection on growing fields and deficient methods of cultivation, among them the lack of a good tutoring and support […]

Tutoring your crops with net trellis: Why it is so important?

Tutoring your vegetables with net trellis Tutoring your crops with a net trellis system both in open field and greenhouses has become a fundamental practice nowadays. Crops like cucumber, zucchini, chayote, eggplant, beans and melon are crops that without tutoring […]

Chili pepper diseases and their visual identification

Chili pepper diseases and their symptoms It is the constant search for a more efficient and profitable method of elevating the productivity of our fields which drives advancements in agriculture. One method that has rapidly started to overtake the older raffia […]

The effects of a tropical storm or hurricane damage on crops

How tutoring plants helps against the hardships caused by cyclone and hurricane damage on crops. Horticulture will often suffer the after effects of hurricane damage on crops even after the storm have left, usually in the form of wounds and […]

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Mechanical stress reduces plant yield and increases deseases

Mechanical stress reduces plant yield, physical disturbance of plants or plant parts results in a response from the plant will increase the incidence of diseases. Mechanical stress applied naturally or under controlled conditions inhibits growth in mass and dimensions of […]