Unrooted cuttings
Unrooted Cuttings – often abbreviated to URC – are harvested from a mother plant, which is normally produced from high health status stock to ensure optimum quality and health.
Production of unrooted cuttings
URC can be harvested on a weekly basis and are produced in countries that have an especially advantageous climate for the variety concerned. For perennials, the ideal environment is cool with high light levels and neutral day length. Walter Blom Plants BV works close together with Darwin Perennials who produce our Unrooted Cuttings in their ideally located facility in Colombia, South America.
When to choose Unrooted Cuttings for your production
URC is an ideal choice for growers who have their own propagation facilities for rooting the URC into plugs and need larger quantities of a variety, delivered on a regular basis. Walter Blom Plants BV can produce unrooted cuttings on contract for you. Contact us for further details.
Benfits of growing from Unrooted Cuttings
Low cost, high quality starting material that can be delivered on a weekly basis.
Ordering timeline
Varieties in our standard production program can be supplied from stock. Orders placed by Tuesday will be delivered the following week. For customer programs, we recommend placing your order at least 6 months ahead to ensure sufficient stock to meet your requirements.
Product format
Unrooted cutting
Unrooted Cuttings – often abbreviated to URC – are harvested from a mother plant, which is normally produced from high health status stock to ensure optimum quality and health.
Tissue culture
This is where high tech meets horticulture. Plants are grown on a jelly-like substance called agar in sterile laboratory conditions.
Plugs
A Plug is a rooted young plant in a 3.5cm cell, supplied in trays of 104 cells. We offer well-established Plugs for all our URCs varieties plus many more.
Jumbo Plugs
As the name suggests, Jumbo Plugs are larger versions of regular Plugs. Available in 7cm or 9cm size cells, Jumbo Plugs are a convenient way to obtain young growing plants with better developed root systems.
Bare roots
Herbaceous perennials are defined by the fact that they die back to an underground root system to overwinter. These root systems bulk up over the years, and as they get bigger can be divided to produce new plants, which in turn can be grown on to increase their size.