COLD-STORAGE OF PLANTS

From uptake to planting the plants are exposed to serious influences: Drying, frost damages, attack of fungi and decomposition of storage matter.

By using cold-storage of plants you are able to:

1. Keep the plants dormant, i.e. no decomposition of storage matter
2. prolong the time of transplanting
3. provide a longer sales season
4. lift plants during the winter when weather conditions are favourable
5. protect the plants against winter damages and drying
6. avoid the traditional time-taking and expensive storage method.

To keep the plants living from lifting time to planting out the store room must be constructed so that the plants can be kept dormant. As the plants cannot stand drying, the humidity in the store room must be maximal, and the temperature alone determines the respiration capacity.

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