• Optimum air/water ratio throughout the growing medium
• Encourages development of many finely branched roots – improving uptake of water and nutrients
• Ensures excellent oxygen content throughout the root zone
• Good capillary action ensures water is available throughout the slab or bag
• Easy water management – almost impossible to over-wet
• Easy to re-wet
• Biodegradable and compostable - easier to dispose of
• Makes fertigation management very easy

Air / Water Ratio
Because of its structure Fytocell provides a near perfect air / water ratio at all times, encouraging the development of many finely branched roots - enabling better uptake of water and nutrients. The result is stronger, healthier plants and improved yields.

Oxygen
Oxygen is as vital to healthy root development as water and nutrients. The open cell structure of Fytocell ensures good oxygen content throughout the slab or flake bag – even when Fytocell is saturated. Before Fytocell it was easy to add water to a substrate – but far more difficult to add oxygen!

Good Capillary Action
The good capillary action of Fytocell means that water is drawn up to the top of the slab or flake bag – encouraging feeder roots to develop throughout the whole substrate.

Easy Water Management
Fytocell is grower-friendly. It is impossible to over-wet. Even when a slab or bag is saturated the Fytocell structure ensures there is sufficient air for healthy root growth so there is never a need to dry Fytocell out in order to oxygenate the substrate.

Should Fytocell dry out for any reason, re-wetting is simple and trouble-free.

Biodegradable and Compostable
Fytocell is an aminoplast. It is harmless to the environment and is biodegradable and compostable – making disposal easier and helping to meet the “green” requirements of many major buying organisations.

Perfect for Salads
Fytocell is the perfect substrate for tomato, cucumber and pepper crops grown under glass and can be supplied in either bagged slab or flake bags.

Fytocell-grown plants develop fine feeder root systems to ensure maximum nutrient uptake – unlike traditional substrates (above).

Fytocell^® + Hortifeeds Nutrition - The complete solution for salad growers from a single source

A Greenscape product

Hortifeeds 2005