At LVG Plants , the largest plant raiser in South Africa , a three - person team is busy applying Eclipse LD . This obliterable Sudlac shading factor protects plants against excessive hotness and light . " Without shading agents , it is but impossible to grow plants in South Africa , " says General Manager Geert van Geest .
" coat is a major and important job at LVG plant , " says Geert van Geest . This family business in Krugersdorp , not far from Johannesburg , compensate 11 hectares . Fifteen different potted flora metal money are grown here in picture show - covered greenhouses . The main groups are Phalaenopsis , potted roses , Anthurium , dark-green plants , and bonsai . The intersection portfolio is extensive : a 2,500 to 3,000m2 plane section is allocate to each coinage .
LVG Plants utilise Eclipse LD as its shading agent . This Sudlac coat , together with other horticultural supplies , is directly exported from the Netherlands to South Africa by the company ’s own export fellowship LVG International .
Multiple layersCoating is an essential component of the entire production process at LVG Plants . count on the plant specie , multiple layers of Eclipse LD are often applied to the greenhouse film during a growing cycle . " Less coating is applied to a potted rose wine plane section than to a Phalaenopsis section , " Geert excuse . The PAR meters suspended in every section wager a key use in deciding whether or not to apply an extra layer . However , the atmospheric condition predictions and the phone number of years that the film has cover the greenhouse are also important .
LVG Plants has been using Eclipse LD for two year and Van Geest has find out a great deal during this time . For instance , coating adhere badly to new charge plate . " New credit card comes with a thin greasy layer , " Van Geest now knows . " This causes poor adhesion of the blending agentive role and it quickly rinses off when it rains . " Before coating , the novel film must first be good cleaned and degreased .
Another piece of advice he offers is the grandness to learn the type of moving picture to which the meth bed is to be applied . Van Geest : " The further away from the equator , the more the movie move . It expatiate and flinch as the temperature change . plastic film type that shrink significantly are better treated with multiple fragile layers of Eclipse LD instead of a single thick stratum . A thick layer is more potential to show cracks and therefore wears off more promptly from the glasshouse covering . "
Van Geest recommend that you talk about the elasticity of the film eccentric with the greenhouse builder . " We ’ve put forward some samples ourselves on occasion , to come up with a answer together . A manufacturer can sometimes neuter the composition of a film to reduce the movie ’s snap and as a outcome , the coating stick better to the nursery cover . "
Shading covering is indispensableAlthough all of the greenhouses at LVG Plants are equipped with screen , a covering on the nursery cover is essential to optimise grow conditions and to reduce the plant ’ emphasis . ‘ UV radiation is in high spirits here .
hold several thin layers of coating is quite the occupation and is deport out entirely manually : that includes amalgamate the blending agent in the right symmetry , as well as spraying the app onto the nursery cover . " Prior to a fresh growing cycle , we slay the old chalk layer and at the same clock time we wash off the rubble attracted by the static glasshouse film cover . " automate this employment is a possibility . " However , at the same time , we are hesitating about this , " say Van Geest . " Unemployment in South Africa is high-pitched . We do not want to automatise for just any rationality when we can also create jobs for multitude . "
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