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Osteospermum Production: Dummen’s Summertime Purple
By admin | December 10, 2007
We are transplanting Osteospermum this week and I am very happy with our liners at this point. Check ‘em out. This is Dummen’s Summertime Purple propagated in a 25mm ellepot. Elle’s Rule!
Topics: Propagation, Osteospermum, Day to day |
December 13th, 2007 at 1:57 am
Do you make your own Ellepots - I understand that the machine costs around $200k?
What media do you use in them?
Doug
December 15th, 2007 at 4:14 am
Doug,
We do make our own elles and the machine is very expensive.
We use Pindstrup media for our elles. Straight peat, no perlite.
December 18th, 2007 at 6:53 am
Granted if you buy the biggest machine … it will be expensive, at least upfront!
The machines start at approx usd 24000,-
Do your calculation … if you can say yes to the following points …
1. Buy in more than 2 million 105 cells of bigger
2. Plan to stay in business the next 3 years
…. then you are paying for a machine somewhere
I say it might as well be your own macine you are paying for!
Most medias will run fine in the Ellepot machines