Learn about Propots - the eco-friendly product - Hessian wrapped trees
Supplying trees to streets, reserves, schools, homes and other worthy projects is a cool and eco-friendly business to be in.
We, and you as customers, do our bit to help cleanse the atmosphere through carbon sequestration. Nevertheless, we have been using too many non- biodegradable woven bags.
Takana native trees is progressively embracing the best practice system by the use of biodegradable hessian wrap on as many of our trees as we can.
We undertake the extensive use of PROPOTS. (These were formerly called Side Slot Pots (SSPs) but in the interests of maintaining a simple and consistent industry reference standard we now refer to these as ProPots). ProPots are re-useable plastic pots with slotted sides to promote good fibrous root growth —which eliminates the strangling that can otherwise occur in containers. Roots stop growing when they reach the air at the slot, and more are then produced by the tree.
Once grown in the ProPot, when we receive your orders, we tap the tree out, and wrap it in hessian for shipment. The root balls have consistent size and shape, with flat bottoms to allow trees to stand upright in transit, and, if required, on site for several weeks.
We then recycle the ProPots for your next trees.
When you plant, you should leave the hessian wrap intact around the rootball. It will dissolve in the ground in weeks.
Not all our species are suited to Propots. For example, the Metrosideros species are too vigorous, so we still use 45L bags for them.
