Jiffy Orchid Plug & Trays
The Orchid Plug consists of a special substrate with a number of special features to create the ideal ‘pot’ environment for the plant. The Orchid Plug is airy, even right after irrigation. The Jiffy Plug absorbs water gradually, as a result the plant grows at a steady pace and will be more compact. The water buffer of the Jiffy Plug has enough capacity to enable watering to take place once every 4 days. The Jiffy Orchid Plug will never dry irreversible, avoiding unevenness in the tray as the Phalaenopsis plants will grow compact making the phenomenon of leaves growing over each other more seldom, resulting in a more uniform crop. Another very significant point is keeping the top of the plug dry in order to prevent liverwort or other stifling algae. Due to the open structure of the Orchid Plug, it is almost always dry at the top, as a result of which liverwort cannot grow.
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Easy planting
Due to the fact that Orchid Plugs are flexible, supple and soft to work with, the plant will not be damaged. The Orchid Plug has an 80% cutaway making that the Orchid Plug has a ‘solid bottom’, giving it the advantage that roots do not grow directly outwards and downwards, forming roots under the tray, making removal from the tray difficult. Should the plant material nevertheless be too big to fit the plug, the parts are easy to break apart from each other. Another benefit of the fact that the Orchid Plug has a ‘solid bottom’ is re-moistening the plugs. Water cannot run along the open sides all the way to the bottom of the cell, it must always pass through the plug.
Fertilisation
The substrates used by Jiffy always consist of a mixture of peat and coir in a specific ratio and additional ingredients such as lime and feed to obtain the correct pH and EC. In terms of feed and pH, the substrate is 100% stable and can be used for cultivation in a similar way compared to ordinary substrates. The advice to users of the Orchid Plugs is to start off using clean water and cultivate with low EC levels. For the first few weeks such a solution will contain sufficient basic nutrients and upon every feeding, the plug will easily be able to buffer the nutrients and distribute them evenly across the plug.
Rooting
Rooting in the Orchid Plug is easy and more than adequate. As more roots are developing gradually and the plug has to ‘make room’ as it were, otherwise the plant begins to sit too tightly in the tray. Preforma plugs are soft and flexible from beginning to the end. The thicker roots on the outside will simply press slightly on the exterior. The Preforma plug shrinks slightly, as it were, as the roots become thicker and thicker.
