Description
Eazy Plug originates from the Dutch center of cultivation technology, and is an innovated propagating and growing medium that is truly unique.
It comes with predetermined EC and pH levels and self regulates to exactly the right air-to-water ratio.
Due to its strongly bonded organic components, there is no necessity for pots or sleeves, thus offering huge hair root structures because of the air pruning effect.
With its superb water uptake and uniform moisture distribution, it can be supplied dried, offering a clean lightweight growing medium with an unlimited shelf life.
The Eazy Plug system offers a full cycle and a sustainable growing solution containing plugs, blocks and pyramids.
Self Regulating • Easy to Control • Air Pruning for Substantial Enlargement Hair Root Mass • Suitable for Gradual Drier Cultivation
Why use Eazy Plugs?
Eazy Plug: 100% success rate
The starter Eazy Plugs have, with its organic materials and our special way of bonding, a predetermined pH and EC value and a fixed air-to-water ratio. The Eazy Plug is very easy to use, ensure that the plug can drain excess water and it cannot be overwatered. Because the growing conditions are always optimal, the Eazy Plug creates very fast and powerful rooting and germination.
Germinating seeds
Fully moisten the plug and put your seed in the seed hole. Apply a thin layer of Seed starter top-layer soil on top of the plug and spray thoroughly with water. Make sure the plug can drain excess water and store it in a humid and warm environment. Then wait to see the miracle happening. It is that simple!
Strike cuttings
Fully moisten the plug and put your cutting all the way into the cutting hole. Make sure the Eazy Plug can drain excess water and store it in a humid and warm environment. No rooting gel or powder is necessary.
Benefits
Easy to transplant
The Eazy Plug will always remain firmly bonded together as a whole. This minimises the risk on root damage during sorting, transplanting or replanting, thus preventing the plant from diseases.
Improved profitability
Enhanced profitability with reductions in cycle time of up to 3 weeks, savings in fertilizing of up to 20%, bigger crops and yields, more efficiency and labor-saving.
Organic materials
All our substrates are made of organic material of only the very best quality. These organic materials are bonded and stabilized, creating an airy structure with a superb water holding capacity.
Takes water back up amazingly fast
The water uptake of the material is extremely fast. A dried Eazy Plug takes less than ten seconds to get remoistened. An Eazy Block takes less than 15 seconds and even the large Eazy Pyramid with a volume of 4,5L (1,19 gallon) remoistens within 2 minutes.
Limitless shelf life
The Eazy Plug is supplied dried, making it clean and lightweight, with limitless shelf life and no risk of molds. It takes water back up very easily and quickly, retaining all of its former characteristics.
Sustainable
The Eazy Plug products are designed to follow the cradle to cradle principle. The products themselves are dried and lightweight thus saving energy during transport. Eazy Plug does not use plastic wrapping and so saves the environment on tons of plastic waste per cultivation.
Composting
100% in normal composting conditions, no industrial composting necessary. Declared: bonding of components has no discernible effect on compostability.
The Eazy Plug itself does not need composting. What needs to be composted is the hair root mass inside the Plugs/Pyramid. Due to the airy character of the Eazy Plug material and the thin hair roots, composting is very quick and easy.
Fast and vigorous root development
Our substrates all have a predetermined pH and EC value and a fixed air-to-water ratio. This ensures that propagating and growing conditions are always optimal. Consequently, Eazy Plug provides amazingly fast and powerful germination and rooting.
Specifications
- Model : square plug
- Air-to-water ratio : 20-80 S
- Size : 3.5cm x 3.5 cm x 3.0 cm
- EC : 1.0 * pH : 5.8 *
- Volume : 0.035 L
- Weight dried : 3g
Compatibility of all known growing media, like Rock Wool, coir pith, black and white peat, garden soil, potting soil, soil-less mixes, bark fines and wood mulch, sand and grit, wood fibers, perlite, pumice, clay pebbles and vermiculite.
Employability of different hydroponic systems like eb&flow, drip-feed (recovery and non-recovery), nutrient film technique, wick systems, floating platforms, deep water culture, aquaponic systems, dry hydroponics soil (indoor and outdoor).
How To Use Eazy Plug
Cutting
Step 1: Moisten the Eazy Plug
- Allow the Eazy Plugs to fully suck up water with a pH of 5.8.
- Let it drain out excess water. Do not squeeze out or dry the plugs. Eazy Plugs are self-regulating and will only hold the water they need for an optimum moisture level and an optimum air-to-water ratio. The plug will feel much heavier than Rock-Wool, but that’s normal.
Step 2: Take cutting
- Cut diagonally at a 45 degree angle just below a node or stem swelling, making sure to keep at least 3 nodes above your intersection.
- Remove all but a couple of leaves. Scrape a little of the outer layer at the bottom of the cutting, but not all around. Cut off ⅓ of the top of remaining big leaves.
Step 3: (Optional) Root stimulator
- If you want to make use of a rooting powder (for example Root!t rooting gel), dip the base of your fresh cut cutting into the rooting powder.
Step 4: Insertion in Eazy Plug
- Insert the cutting into the Eazy Plug cutting hole. Make sure to insert it deeply enough, completely to the bottom of the cutting hole.
Step 5: Put into propagator
- Put the tray with Eazy Plug into a propagator.
- Close the lid of the propagator and shut any present air vents to keep the humidity inside the system.
Step 6: Remoistening and fresh air
- Only remoisten the Eazy Plug after 3 days and keep on doing that every 3 days until the first appearance of roots.
- Briefly open the propagator every day for a little fresh air.
- Open the air vents slightly at the earliest after 4-5 days. Humidity should remain above 80%, as too much loss of humidity can seriously effect your success rate.
Step 7: Assure drainage of excess water
- Make sure Eazy Plug is able to drain excess water at all times, so it can always self-regulate the correct amount of moisture. Never let the bottom of the Eazy Plug touch water, as the moisture absorption of Eazy Plug is exceptionally good and the Eazy Plug will quickly become too wet, which will have a negative effect on the rate of success.
Step 8: Open air vents
- After the first roots have developed, you can gradually open the air vents further in order to acclimate the cutting to a less humid environment.
Step 9: Transplant
- In 7-9 days from start your cutting should have grown its roots throughout the Eazy Plug and it is time to transplant them.
Conditions for developing roots:
- Temperature: The optimum soil temperature for striking roots is 22º Celsius. Above 23º Celsius, you must consider a rise in failure rate.
- RH (humidity): RH of 80-95% is perfect. As the cutting needs its energy for striking roots, the moisture level of leaves and stem should remain intact.
- Light: In the first few days the cutting will form callus, from which the roots will start to grow. In this phase the cutting only needs tempered light with a broad spectrum (regular assimilation light). After the development of roots the amount of light can be gradually increased.
Seedling/Sowing
Step 1: Moisten Eazy Plug- Allow the Eazy Plugs to fully suck up water with a pH of 5.8.
- Let it drain out excess water. Do not squeeze out or dry the plugs. Eazy Plugs are self-regulating and will only hold the water they need for an optimum moisture level and an optimum air-to-water ratio. The plug will feel much heavier than Rock-Wool, but that’s normal.
Step 2: Sowing
- Plugs with seed gap: Place the seed into the preformed seed gap. Cover the plug (including seed gap) with a thin layer of top soil (Seed starter) of 1-2 mm. Cautiously spray water on top of top layer soil to moisten it thoroughly to ensure a moistened seed and top layer soil.
- Plug with cutting hole: In case of a cutting hole ensure the seed is not too deep and do not press it in too deep. You can break off a small corner of the plug and put it into the top of the hole to cover the seed, but that should never be more than a layer of about 5 mm. For most seed types this covering is not a necessity. After sowing, sprinkle the plug shortly with some water, to ensure the seed is wet.
Step 3: Put into propagator
- Put the tray with sown Eazy Plugs into a propagator.
- Close the lid of the propagator and shut any present air vents to keep the humidity inside the system.
Step 4: Assure drainage of excess water
- Make sure Eazy Plug is able to drain excess water at all times, so it can always self-regulate the correct amount of moisture. Never let the bottom of the Eazy Plug touch water, as the moisture absorption of Eazy Plug is exceptionally good and the Eazy Plug will quickly become too wet, which will have a negative effect on the rate of success.
Step 5: Await germination
- Until the first appearance of a seedling, you should always keep the Eazy Plug moist enough. The Eazy Plug itself contains sufficient moisture for germination and with the use of a completely closed propagator the moisture remains into the system and the Eazy Plug and seeds are not likely to dry in those first few days. Loss of moisture caused by an open lid or air vent can cause rapid dehydration, which can seriously effect your success rate.
Step 6: Open air vents
- Once seeds have germinated and a seedling has grown, one can gradually open the air vents in order to acclimate the seedling to a less humid environment.
Step 7: Transplant
- After germination the seedling will quickly grow its roots through the Eazy Plug. When the first roots have become visible, it is time to transplant your plug with seedling.
Germination conditions:
- Temperature: The optimum soil temperature for germinating seeds is 20-25 degrees Celsius. However, make sure that the seed itself is no warmer than 25 degrees Celsius. Take into account that most lamps generate radiant heat which raises the temperature of the seed itself to a higher level than the temperature of the air or soil. To avoid any risk, a seed temperature of 22-23 degrees Celsius is advisable. Above 25 degrees Celsius, you must consider a serious failure rate for most seed varieties.
- RH (humidity): RH of min. 80% is perfect for the seeds and Eazy Plug to not dry out.
- Light: In general there are not a lot of seed varieties where light is an absolute requirement for germination. For most seed types, the application of an additional light source will only lead to a risks of excessive heat development of the seed (radiant heat) and dehydration of both seed and plug. Just daylight or even a dark room situation will be OK for most seed types to germinate. Should you decide to put in an additional light source, then realize that most seeds only need very little light of a certain color.