Subterranean Plant Supply System SPSS

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Subterranean Plant Supply System (SPSS)

• Subterranean irrigation and plant supply with
  elastic hoses (the material has been optimized to
  a large extent within the last 15 years)
• Simple and rapid installation with conventional
  agricultural vehicles
• Nearly maintenance-free and automated long-term
  operation
• Implementation of high-tech plant-physiology
  measuring techniques
• Increase of efficiency, respectively earnings and
  cost reduction
• Short payback period (usually lt 5 years)
• Locality-specific planning and optimization (soil
  conditions, terrain, )

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Subterranean Plant Supply System (SPSS)
Schematic of a subterranean plant feeding system
(SPSS) in the foreground branch connections,
throttle valves and magnetic valves
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Subterranean Plant Supply System (SPSS)
Cutter-plow with elastic hose just before
installation
Rapid installation with a tractor
Trenchless installation hoses laying directly in
the ground with a hose guide
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Subterranean Plant Supply System (SPSS)
Moisture profile with the SPSS under real
conditions (behind a glass front)
Roots are extending homogeniously around a water
tube
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Subterranean Plant Supply System (SPSS)
First results of the SPSS Greece, 1987 In the
foreground Dr. Ständer with his world-record of
C4-plant growth. The plants reached up to a
height of 7 meters!
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Subterranean Plant Supply System (SPSS)

• Benefits
• Extremly water saving irrigation system (no
  evaporation!)
• Optimum growth through homogenious water
  distribution in the soil leading to higher yields
• Nearly maintenance-free and automated operation
  over years
• biologic-dynamic products with a quality level
  never reached before
• Effective fight against soil parasites
• Reduction of fertilizers by means of a highly
  controlled supply
• Groundwater will not be chemically effected in a
  harmful way (no over-supply of the plants, no
  soil-erosions)