What is soilless cultivation?
Soilless cultivation is a plant cultivation method that does not use compound fertilizers or similar compound fertilizers based on soil without natural soil. It is a new method of using nutrient solution only to support plant growth or various suitable cultivation substrates that can replace soil for plant growth. Soilless cultivation can be divided into fog cultivation, hydroponic cultivation, and solid substrate cultivation. UPUPER rock wool substrate belongs to solid substrate cultivation.
What materials are required for soilless cultivation?
Seedling plug: suitable for most seeds and cutting plants
Growing Cubes: easy to plant, easy to root, better distribution of water and EC
Grow Slabs: Transplant the cultivated seedlings to a fixed location
Nutrient solution: a manually prepared culture solution that meets the needs of plant mineral nutrition
What are the prospects for the application of soilless cultivation?
Soilless cultivation has broad application prospects and can be used in multiple places.
1. Medical cannabis cultivation
With the legalization of medical marijuana in more countries and regions, the demand for medical marijuana cultivation has also sharply increased. The demand for rockwool cubes used for greenhouse and household cultivation is gradually increasing, as they can solve the seasonal problem of cannabis production while improving yield and quality.
2. Planting of eggplant and fruit vegetables
Good yield and quality can be achieved through soilless cultivation. It is conducive to achieving early or late season or full season launch of products, and is conducive to improving economic benefits.
Our Seeding plug, rockwool grow cubes, and cultivation strip series products can meet the needs of root growth at different stages of plant growth, achieving a new planting mode of high yield, high-quality, and precise planting.
3. Vertical Farm
Vegetables produced by soilless cultivation can not only achieve uninterrupted production throughout the year, but also have high yield, short growth cycle, high efficiency, and less pollution. Enable people to enjoy safe, fresh, green, and pollution-free high-quality vegetables throughout the year.
The UPUPER seedling plug series can effectively stabilize the root system, promote root growth, clean the substrate, and avoid stagnation.
4. Flower planting
With the rapid development of human living standards, the demand for fresh cut flowers and potted flowers is rapidly increasing. Flower planting is also developing under the trend of intensification, standardization, standardization, and scale. Therefore, efficient production, simple management, increased yield, and shortened growth cycle are of great significance, which can directly and greatly increase profits.
The UPUPER seedling plug and rockwool grow cubes series can be used for a long time, without hardening and pathogens. Increasing oxygen can make flowers grow faster and better, and management is more efficient and simple.
5. Stereoscopic greening
The three-dimensional greening fully utilizes different land conditions, alleviates the shortage of urban land resources, enriches the facade space, and fully demonstrates the ecological function of indoor and outdoor three-dimensional greening. It combines the functions of landscape and economy. And it can also improve the outdoor environment and create an indoor microclimate.
The UPUPER grow cubes and grow slabs series products have the characteristics of light weight, high water and fertilizer retention rate, non hardening, and non bacterial growth, allowing customers to reduce maintenance and management costs.
What is rockwool cube?
Rockwool cube is a hydroponic growth medium used for planting plants in a hydroponic system. It is made of molten basalt and fragmented steel wool, which are then spun together to create a lightweight, porous glass fiber like material. Then compress the fibers into sheets and use them as a growth medium for plants.
Rock wool is considered one of the best substrates for soilless cultivation due to its unique structure and excellent physical/chemical properties. A good root environment that provides sufficient fertilizer, water, sterility, and air supply for plants.
In the return solution of water and fertilizer, there are also a large amount of ionized mineral elements that are not absorbed by plants. These elements are discharged into the natural environment and become important pollution sources that affect soil and water bodies. Long ago, developed countries had already attached great importance to the pollution impact of water and fertilizer emissions on the environment and regarded it as the main problem to solve. Therefore, rock wool was used as the main substrate because it had less cyclic irrigation and less water consumption.
Our Rockwool Cubes Advantages
The rockwool cubes produced by our company does not carry, absorb or consume any moisture or nutrients. At the same time, it does not hinder the absorption of nutrients by crops. The elements provided by water and fertilizers can be fully supplied to plants. Growers do not need to consider the various effects of the substrate itself on crops. People can accurately prepare the nutrient solution required for crops at various growth stages. Beneficial for data collection, analysis, and management, optimizing planting strategies. UUper ® The EC and pH values of rockwool cubes are stable, making it easy to develop a unified irrigation plan, facilitate management, and maintain the sustained growth of crop roots
UPUPER rock wool is made of natural rock and melts at 1500 ℃. No pathogenic bacteria, toxic or harmful substances. It provides a pollution-free root environment for the growth of green crops. Rockwool cubes matrix can also be recycled, making it a green, safe, stable, and reliable soilless cultivation medium.
Our company's advantages
Our main products include rockwool cubes,grow slabs,seeding plug, grow cubes, and cultivation strip, etc. Provide high-quality rockwool substrate for modern agricultural facilities for soilless cultivation.
We have two world-class production lines, achieving zero emissions of solid waste and wastewater, and ultra-low emissions of exhaust gas. It is a green rockwool production base with the largest investment scale and leading technological equipment in the entire Asia Pacific region. We will be committed to providing pollution-free, high-performance, sustainable, and safe substrates for agricultural facilities, leading the future of modern smart agriculture with excellent quality, first-class services, and efficient and precise planting methods.
Soil provides human beings with Lebensraum and important ecosystems, which can store and filter water and intercept pollutants from seeping into groundwater; But more importantly, soil is a non renewable resource, and once polluted, it is difficult to repair. Our rock wool matrix is a representative of the new soilless cultivation mode. There is no need to worry about soil salinization, compaction, disease transmission, and other issues, to solve continuous cropping obstacles from the source and protect soil resources. If soilless cultivation technology is applied to plant cultivation, it can not only reduce its burden on the soil, but also give it an effective period of self recovery.
Pesticides, harmful substances, and heavy metals that remain in plants can enter the food chain and pose a threat to human health. UPUPER rock wool substrate comes from natural rocks. The production process is subjected to a high temperature of 1500 ℃, free of pathogenic bacteria, and the substrate is cleaner. There is no need to disinfect or sterilize the substrate before use. UPUPER rockwool cubes has been tested to be free of toxic and harmful heavy metals such as mercury, arsenic, lead, and cadmium. During the entire planting process, there were no harmful substances. UPUPER provides a pollution-free root environment for the production of pollution-free green plants, ensuring food safety.
UPUPER rockwool cubes can be recycled. The used UPUPUPER rockwool cubes can be recycled back to the production line. After separation and melting with other raw materials. These used products can be made into new rock wool. Products made from recycled materials have no quality difference from new products and can be reapplied in insulation, fire prevention, noise reduction, and other fields such as construction, industry, and shipbuilding.
UPUPER has developed different products for agricultural facilities, three-dimensional greening, potted plants, etc. suitable for different application fields based on the actual needs of growers, covering more industries.
It can be made into different specifications according to needs, suitable for automatic sowing, factory seedling cultivation, mechanized transplanting, etc. UPUPER rockwool cube is lightweight and non dispersing, which can reduce labor costs and intensity. Helps improve the labor environment and production efficiency. UPUPER rock wool substrate is produced on a fully automated production line, so customers will receive products with accurate dimensions and fast delivery times. UPUPER can meet the needs of different growers at different times.
