etymon Sustainable Agricultural Technologies has presented the floriculture output sector with a successful Root Zone Temperature Optimisation ( RZTO ) cooling pilot on Alstroemeria ( Peruvian Lily ) .
The pilot results showed growth and refinement of peak with cooled roots jump eight weeks earlier than control plants with non - cooled roots . The protracted grow season also allowed the farmer to obtain a bounty damage of more than double the received charge per unit for out of season flowers .
At 45 daytime growth the Roots RZTO - cooled Peruvian lily ( left ) were full of buds and already blossom , equate to the non - cooled plant life in the pilot control group which were still in a vegetive state ( rightfield ) .
According to the farmer , Mr Yarden Mualem , " Due to high nursery temperature during the warmer month , I antecedently had to limit flower harvest home to only 25 week a year . However , this early blooming accounted for a 20 per centum increase in yield – the equivalent of 150,000 flowers per hectare . "
In Israel , the power to harvest flower twelvemonth - round of drinks will double the husbandman ’s fruit and deliver a return on investiture in a year .
The buffer was channel on the cool climate harvest during the Israeli summer between September and October in a quarter of an Akko glasshouse . The site in central Israel holds an average of 33,000 rhizomes per hectare with each rootstalk annually bring out about 40 flowers .
During the pilot , Roots used its RZTO cooling system to keep the blossom source comparatively static at an optimal range , despite high warmer ambient melodic line temperature in the glasshouse .
Roots CEO , Dr Sharon Devir enjoin , “ The floriculture sector is very divers and includes the yield of floral crops such as swing flower and cut leafage , heyday bulbs , potted efflorescence as well as leafage plants and bedding plants . Annual global floral production of these eminent - note value crops is reckon at US$ 55 billion and is growing at a colonial annual growth charge per unit of 5 per cent due to increase use in social , political , mutant , and amusement event .
“ We see many opportunities with floriculture crops as craw yield optimization and growing cycle management is critical , as most slashed flowers do not travel well and have bound life .
“ draw on the success of RZTO on various crops , edible herbs and medicinal hemp , we wanted to demonstrate to the floriculture sphere how the etymon RZTO engineering science optimises the root zone temperatures – in this illustration by cooling Alstroemeria until the optimum temperature of the flower is reached and uphold .
“ The RZTO scheme successfully cooled the root systems of the Alstroemeria seedling , provided increased tribute from the Israeli heatwave it see , and stabilised the temperature range between night and 24-hour interval . This allowed the farmer to dramatically increase growth and get ahead higher yield quantity . This would tolerate the hypothesis of additional fertile growing menses , chair the farmer to benefit from high , premium price for longer periods for a crop that would normally be out of season . ”
“ This successful pilot earmark us to tackle detailed discourse with stakeholders in this sphere who were keen to see whether Roots ’ proprietary engineering could benefit representative crops unwashed in the floriculture industry grown under extreme conditions . ”
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