Painting Caladium Tubers
Our business
practice is to do all we can to make our customers successful.
When producing finished pot caladiums, a
number of factors have been identified that help assure the success of our
customers.
Uniform pot crops with full, balanced
pots is critical to maximize profitability.
To this end Classic Caladiums provides
several services.
One of the services we provide is tuber
de-eyeing.
De-eyed tubers, when planted, produce a
shorter fuller (more leaves) pot as de-eyeing causes increased tuber
branching.
Another very important factor is tuber
orientation.
Tubers need to be planted upright.
Many pot producers have mechanized
potting lines and employees are measured on the number of pots they can
plant/hour. However, once de-eyed it is somewhat difficult to tell the top
from the bottom of a tuber.
Properly orienting the tubers slows the
planting process.
To solve this problem, we offer a
painting service whereby the tops of the tubers are painted with a water
base nontoxic paint allowing for rapid accurate tuber orientation during
the potting process.
Though we charge for this service it is
rapidly gaining popularity as it is actually saving our customers money
by:
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Increased throughput on the planting line
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Better supervision with less supervisors as proper orientation can be
noted with a glance.
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Less production costs because of a consistent uniform finishing time
resulting in less consolidation and pulling.
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Less shrink at retail because of fuller more proportioned pots.
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