Wholesale nursery supplier | Shrubs, trees, hardy plants | A Hill & Sons Ltd
Wholesale growers of hardy nursery stock
Air Pot
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Introduction How it works The benefits
About Air-Pot
Innovative, revolutionary and advanced - the Air-Pot growing technique used at A. Hill and Sons has allowed our nursery to offer superb quality products with fantastic root structures which results in high success rates for our customers and their planting schemes.
How it works
The Air-Pot is specially designed to enhance the quality of plants’ root systems by guiding the growing roots through the open-ended cones in the wall of the pot. These roots are pruned as they dehydrate causing many more new roots to grow from behind, dramatically increasing the amount of fibrous roots.
Proven success
Nottingham Trent University conducted a study into the effect of root stock type on the survival rate, stem circumference and lateral extension of trees and the technique used by A. Hill and Sons Ltd came out top on all three.
Critically the survival rate of trees using a ‘superoot’ (such as Air-Pot) system have a
100% survival rate, this means your project is much more likely to succeed and costs can be reduced as you no longer need to remove or replant failed bare root trees.
Benefits of Air-Pot grown products
Superb root structures Continuous pruning due to the design of the Air-Pot prevents root circling Can be planted at any time of the year The fibrous roots are not shocked allowing growth to take place almost immediately. The shock resistance means that plants are considerably less vulnerable to extreme weather conditions and therefore planting can take place all year round Environmentally friendly The pot is made from 100% recycled plastic | Higher success rates Once planted on customer sites, our Air-Pot products rapidly establish a vibrant root system achieving a higher success rate Light and easy to handle Environmentally-friendly reduced peat compost is used for the growing medium resulting in exceptionally light trees which are easier to handle on site and during transit |
