HORTOMALLAS™, Supporting your crops®
Supporting your crops®
Phyto-Pathogen reduction with HORTOMALLAS vegetable support netting.
Trellising your crops with HORTOMALLAS trellis support net increases the pathogen reduction thanks to better solar exposure, increased air flow and a decreased need for manual labor, being the later responsible for mechanical contagion during the process of pruning or tutoring with raffia (as it needs to be hand guided every week or so).
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 popular in recent years. Solanaceae (tomatoes, chili peppers and eggplants/aubergines), cucurbits (chayote, pumpkin, cantaloupe melons, watermelons […]
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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 rain are the main factors causing mechanical stress but there are other factors too such […]
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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 short term our climate worldwide, changing ecosystems, breaking balance of the environment for the species […]
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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 system. The possible inadequate sanitation processes in the growing fields are using contaminated residual water, […]
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Tutoring eggplants inside greenhouses using vegetable plant support net. In this article we will be analyzing the various advantages of using trellis netting when growing eggplants inside greenhouses or other type of protected cultivation area. With an adequate pruning the greenhouse grown eggplant can regrow and be harvested a second year as well, but the […]
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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 tend to crawl to the ground, whereby flowers and fruits will be exposed to steppage […]
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