" If you want to show your customers what they can have in their stores in the spring , you have to fetch them here now . " Ard Ammerlaan , Prudac , rents a test greenhouse in the Demokwekerij on the Zwethlaan in the Westland , and is now conducting year round psychometric test with pot tomato and pot Melville Bell Madagascar pepper . Breeding company Prudac also has some varieties in high conducting wire finish now . Prudac hopes to make steps in the potted herb market with pick tomato and bell capsicum .
Ard & company see a futurity in this grocery store , in which nature , health and ( specially for the humble ones ) fun come together . " But you have to work in a dissimilar means , because this market operate in a different elbow room than for eminent telegram cultivation . From March to June the output is mellow , in the wintertime months it is almost zero . Major retailers would care to offer the plant year around , but this naturally requires supplying guarantees . On the one mitt this is not so easy , but on the other hand opportunities abound . "
Potted plant breeder , according to Ard , think differently than the year - round tomato grower . " The latter count pros and inmate , takes 2 - 3 old age to test , and then decides on a variety . Potted works breeders would sooner say : unusual , let ’s plant some . But this is not always possible with commode - patio vegetables . Say if you had violet , and you curbed them , then food output on the same cultivation mat can not be done . That is , logically , very strict . "
But the possibility are there , and that is more than a flavor . " I was late at a conference in Madrid , and was talking to a heavy grower over there . We talked about year - round pot cultivation for potted vegetables , and he notice that he would like to take on the winter month . If this follows through , it is an example of cooperation in which we as breeders and producer really have to offer something to the supermarket and consumer . But they should not come in those plants next to the pot plants , but with the vegetables / potted herbs . Strangely , this often does not happen , while you do find other potted herbaceous plant works there . "
The 140 m2 trial run greenhouse is modern . The tests are subject to everything . The disease insistence is in high spirits , the greenhouse is literally fence by growers of everything , and something can blow in from every street corner all the clip . " We can use this to our advantage in these growths . you may say and show everything about impedance and sensitiveness . "
Besides this , Prudac can show that the mode of cultivation - pot size , time , EC - ascertain ' what it ’s going to be ' . The bar is set low in the Westland for trade , which is concentrated here , and in practice often does not have prison term to move around up north to the test greenhouses of Prudac in West - Friesland .
Prudac is known in the market by varieties such as the Heartbreakers , tomatoes in the bod of a nerve , and the Ponchi , the most sold potomato . But characteristic for their own breeding is the growing comfort and visibility of the fruit , which is above the farewell in most case . Besides , Prudac also has sweet bell black pepper , and red-hot pepper , among which a variety that starts black , and then gradually turns red .
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